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New comment by unit149 in "Rats Play DOOM"

unit149 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:35:02 +0000

After I drowned old T-14 HDD, I expected old DOS emulation on a local disk. Take Operation Neptune in single-player mode.

[1]: https://archive.ph/tCAGu

[2]: Live Run ISO: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Super_Solvers_Operation_Ne...

New comment by unit149 in "macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt"

unit149 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:02:34 +0000

Garageband DAW + MacOS 14.4 Roland Juno-D7 synthsizer, for 8-bit audio complementary compact disk format as AIFF, WAV, or MIDI appliance, in which under SLA-royalties licenses, binary 44.1 Khz sample rate sets the reproducer for reference level.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/GarageBand.pdf

Nvidia can sell H200 AI chips to China, Donald Trump says

unit149 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:28:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/ac63139d-5143-4aed-a1e4-980a06551b51

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202596

Points: 1

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New comment by unit149 in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

unit149 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:32:51 +0000

Criterion licenses Turner Classic Movies (TCM) after launching their streaming service in 2019. According to the Wall Street Journal, the offer was $27.75 per Warner Discovery, which owns TCM accounting for a $82.7 bn value. Paramount's bid was $30 for Warner Brothers's cable network M&A, seeking lateralise the monopoly.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20251205081209/https://www.wsj.c...

New comment by unit149 in "Robert Hooke's "Cyberpunk” Letter to Gottfried Leibniz"

unit149 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:36:19 +0000

if we could find characters or signs appropriate for expressing all our thoughts

Precursor to De Quincy's Confessions of an English Opium Eater as axiomatic Euclidean geometry.

[1]:https://archive.org/details/confessionsofeng01dequ/page/n2/m...

New comment by unit149 in "Root System Drawings"

unit149 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:48:04 +0000

Bonatical plant systems that are lateral or burrow as this vertical way, which as the cross section for water collection is organic rorschach print.

New comment by unit149 in "xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure"

unit149 — Mon, 19 May 2025 21:17:02 +0000

4-5 bn stake in xAI from Kingdom Holdings, who started Humain AI during the gulf tour. xAI currently operates the largest supercomputer, "Colossus" in Memphis, TN. Also, 5bn GB-200 NVIDIA server deal w/ Dell. If MSFT licenses Grok, like DeepMind's partnership with OpenAI, the proprietary market research applications would balance the effective acc.

New comment by unit149 in "GPD Pocket 4 Speaker DSP: Configuring PipeWire so laptop speakers sound better"

unit149 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:58:38 +0000

MBV recorded Loveless w/ two tube amps, face to face to mimic Spector's wall of sound. No effect or pedals. When recording BT over DAW, like in Reverb,.wav/REW audio delay files correct external post-installation drivers.

New comment by unit149 in "The narrowest escalator in New York City"

unit149 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:29:51 +0000

7th St/Metro Ctr. in LA has two escalators, one leading towards commercial district on the West end, the other unveils 1940-crutched Art Deco Design.

New comment by unit149 in "I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car"

unit149 — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:56:09 +0000

Cadillac and Tesla emulate panopticonic cells, which resolve the presence of an external observer. CCTV footage is confined to local area networks that is pulled from LRP time-stamp headers. Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) on a narrow-band, Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) protocol can identify vehicle fragments, meta-data, from dynamic time-stamp servers, like "that is a red Tesla."

New comment by unit149 in "The Vatican's Latinist (2017)"

unit149 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:39:37 +0000

"You don't study Liszt, you don't study Wagner, and come out hating music." [17:21]

Foster's work is based in the classical and English schooling tradition. When a boy was sent to school he would typically be introduced to the paradigms of Latin. Only having mastered it would Greek forms be introduced.

New comment by unit149 in "1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected"

unit149 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:25:06 +0000

Recovering RF tapes, even a simple text file demonstrates buffer space that is not being used by the dos, or .iso file. Even in a 2.11 BSD distro, a default tiling and window manager has to be installed on the native OS. So yes, going with KDE or the X11 wm.

New comment by unit149 in "Little Snitch: Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS"

unit149 — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 03:10:06 +0000

This kind of work, collecting meta-data, mediating queries, altering a relational database processing language, on a DNS server through a Matching Code ID on Little Snitch is freakishly effective at times.

New comment by unit149 in "Ghostty 1.0"

unit149 — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 04:13:40 +0000

> support native GUIs for configuration in line with our native UI philosophy

As a terminal emulator, running and building it from source in Wayland as a passive process that exists in the shell, while being a method of input-output system call management.

New comment by unit149 in "German watchdog orders Sam Altman's biometric ID project World to delete data"

unit149 — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:15:12 +0000

Store everything on a decentralized P2P server for privacy enhancing technologists (PETs) to deconstruct.

New comment by unit149 in "Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential"

unit149 — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:07:50 +0000

Querying overhead nadir satellite imagery - captured at a vertical angle relative to its spatial position - and feeding it into Geo Deepmind's ML program gives us roof-segmentation data. Ostensibly, annual flux prediction imagery in the global south, after being ran in Google's Solar API gives us some enhanced DSM-RGB imagery.

New comment by unit149 in "Droste’s Lair"

unit149 — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 07:09:13 +0000

Look at Loveless: two amps, facing one another with a microphone embedded in between. Shields did not use any pedals for the album. Audio is recursively transformed in a synthesis of feedback loops.

New comment by unit149 in "Moon"

unit149 — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:25:47 +0000

An order of magnitude above and below the speed of a falling object - exporting the JSON file that has its unadulterated gravitational force data. Dark matter and Newtonian mechanics are epiphenomenal modes of interlocking processes.

New comment by unit149 in "IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts"

unit149 — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 07:51:10 +0000

ioctl man page lists a non-negative value that is floored as a return value indicating user error. given that it is written in standard libc, all the PLATO-based note-taking archival systems that regress in a linear fashion depending on how much bandwidth one is working on.

New comment by unit149 in "Ilya Sutskever Test of Time Talk "Pre-training as we know it will end""

unit149 — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 08:15:14 +0000

"What is behind a dynamic super-intelligent tiling manager implemented in auto-regressive LSTM pre-training models?"

Suggestive pathways, he replied.