I had one in college, a parallel port one. I’d bring it to college to download stuff on the fast internet connection there.

Unfortunately it only worked on the Windows machines so you had to use one of the crappy PCs instead of the much nicer Sun SparcStstions

You kids don’t know how good you have it. Modern mobile development is a dream compared to the early days.

Try developing for BlackBerry.

As a Dutch person I would assume everyone already owns at least one bicycle.

Bloody vikings!

Even if a small ship rotates fast that would ‘t work. If you have a small diameter then there would a huge difference between the perceived ‘gravity’ at your head vs at your feet.

Not based on Konqueror (the browser) but on khtml (the render engine Konqueror was built around).

Because people misunderstand what ‘essential worker’ meant. The work being done was essential, not the specific person doing the work. It wasn’t so much ‘essential worker’ as much as ‘(essential work)er’.

I would use something like this to measure water usage in combination with an presence sensor in the shower stall. Water flowing + someone present in shower stall = someone taking a shower.

There were a lot of cults in that region in that time period. Jesus may well be an amalgamation of multiple cult leaders.

No constant traffic near your house (cleaner air, safer streets).

Over here in 2026 we have satnav in our cars and on our bikes. We also have a system of road types that actually makes sense and that keeps traffic out of housed areas as much as possible.

Ugh that grid pattern. Imagine living somewhere so uninspired.

No. Brainstorming is when you’re with a group and everyone is throwing out ideas unfiltered.

Rubber duck debugging is when you are trying to solve an issue by describing your problem to another person (or a rubber duck) and through the act of describing the problem you gain a better understanding of the issue and often this causes you to get a ‘eureka moment’ where the solution is suddenly clear to you.

The “first warm day of spring and all the terraces on the old market square are packed but you managed to snag a table” beer.

ReBAR may make things bit more efficient, but you still need to move data back and forth to VRAM over the slow PCIe bus.

This is not a huge problem for games, as it’s mostly sending data to VRAM that stays there for a long time, but it is a major bottleneck for many GPGPU tasks.

Since even Nvidia doesn’t seem to care about games anymore (and consoles have always used unified memory) I expect the discrete GPU to go the way of the dodo.

Why do children have to ruin everything?

Unified memory is awesome. It lets you do things like handing over tasks to the GPU with zero overhead.

That means you can choose whether to do something on CPU or GPU based on which is more suitable for the task. With a traditional discrete GPU with it’s own VRAM you sometimes do things on the CPU even though the GPU would be better suited as the overhead of copying data to and from VRAM would negate any performance benefits of letting the GPU do it.

User replaceable components come at a performance costs. Everything in tech is a trade-off.

Because you can’t reduce a human to a single scalar.

It’s a bullshit preference that makes no sense.

Also can’t help being autistic, I was born that way.