There have been several C compilers for 8 bit CPUs but the language was just so ill suited you’d be better advised to use Pascal if you needed a high level language with good performance. Just found github.com/drmortalw… which claims to …

    Apple just don’t seem capable of writing an IPv6 stack that isn’t buggy. My 20 year old iMac recently started crashing every 30 seconds. What changed? It picked up a v6 address.

    AppleTV has no option to disable IPv6. It has the usual options to configure IPv4 addresses, but nothing for 6. Why does it matter? Because if the thing gets allocated a v6 address by the router it uses so much CPU that it can’t decide h265 video in …

    A lot of software - perhaps the majority of software - is written in the wrong language because “what language is the developer most familiar with” was a more important consideration than “what language is best for this project”.

    I was quite excited to see Settlers 2 is getting an Amiga port. Then I saw the minimum specs required are higher than any Amiga that ever shipped! So who is this for, running only on Franken-Amigas, FPGAs and emulators? A500/A1200 port please. …

    You should never buy from John Lewis. Their behaviour is so egregiously bad no amount of 1 star reviews would cover it, yet it doesn’t get reported in the press so most are unaware. old.reddit.com/r/LegalAd…

    Apparently the Steam Frame VR headset will have perfect x86 emulation on ARM. That’s cool; it means the next Steam Deck could be ARM and so be cheaper/faster/lighter. But what about if a dev wants to avoid the emulation, can they ship native …

    Has anyone managed to get a subscription to Cerebras? They keep announcing but seem to be permanently “sold out”. www.cerebras.ai/blog/glm The theory seems to be it isn’t as good as Claude but makes up for it by being faster?

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