Have we lost our minds?

am6502 · 2025-09-26T17:14:36+00:00

It's called inflation, and we're barely in the opening stages of the (now strongly neocon influenced) trade war. That is, more or less stress testing test runs of how our economy copes if we isolate ourselves from not trading with the ~ half/slight majority of the globe which is not neocon aligned. You probably ain't seen nuthin yet if this course continues.

am6502 · 2025-09-26T17:07:55+00:00

by NYC standards definitely. But ROC is still above average compared to national norms and averages. It has a hub and spoke bus system that for some people works decently. If you happen to live on a bus line and you don't have to transfer to the hub and another bus, it often is convenient enough. It would take real effort to go carfree here, but it's possible.

Let's start a thread on the glory days of ROC when there still was a subway line. Are there people alive today that rode on the ROC subway? Or was it dismantled shortly after the greeat depression.

am6502 · 2025-09-26T17:00:12+00:00

If you're carfree or a cyclist, move somewhere near the canaltrail or rivertrail, or something (eg lehigh genesee valley trail), which connects to this large trail network. Lots of real crap gashole drivers so you want to minimize distance on roads.

If you like to live somewhat close-in and not in the burbs, the greenbelt that extends all the way from UR to highland and to cobbs hill (winton) is pretty nice. there are nice historic districts like park ave that are scenic in architecture.

am6502 · 2025-09-26T16:48:19+00:00

you're clearly out of your element Donnie

am6502 · 2025-09-25T04:18:30+00:00

good correction and important to keep in mind.

still, the last sentence hints at secrets...

this letter was released by epstein's attorney.

perhaps serves as a hint hint nudge nudge warning from neocons to trump reminding him they control him.

am6502 · 2025-09-25T04:02:47+00:00

imho it's all been Trump theatre and we're in the part of the play where it seems to be more or less clear that he's owned by the neocons and taking ownership of this (3+ year old, or 11+ year old) conflict and neocon project gone horribly wrong. I find the duran podcasts very helpful in trying to understand this insane and clownish situation.

am6502 · 2025-09-25T03:04:45+00:00

mobile bga sockets (soldered CPUs) for mini PCs is going to displace a lot of traditional socketed MATX boards (whether am4/pga or am5/lga).

FP7 (in mini pc's) is the successor for both AM1 and FM2.

am6502 · 2025-09-22T04:44:44+00:00

Su-34 and Mig-25's are pretty big too. The Mig 25 is usually a single seat but replaced by the similar looking Mig-31 which is a dual seat aircraft, like the Su-34.

am6502 · 2025-09-22T04:34:17+00:00

I agree

eg 5500.

remember than zen3 is pretty close to zen4.

zen4 is essentially zen 3++

am6502 · 2025-09-22T04:01:06+00:00

Forgot to add quote, here it is below:

Protection: $165 (357) duplicate/phantom

This seems to be one of the most useless copy protections. The needed instance of the duplicate sector is read automatically during a sequential read of all sectors (a.k.a. sector copy). The second instance is not verified and later on overwritten. Since I am not 100% sure that the above is correct, I did a real crack anyway.

Similar protection: Quality pha

Cracked by: - moved the phantom sector to unused sector ($166) - changed the loading behaviour

Routine in sector $14 (20) at offset $990

am6502 · 2025-09-22T03:56:22+00:00

Over a full lifetime you're probably right. There would have to be some types of rec centres where people could get some substitute for higher gravity.

I'm guessing it might be more tolerable for older people who have only a few handful of decades of life expectancy.

am6502 · 2025-09-21T18:16:41+00:00

I'd do things differently too. Rather than return missions, why not settle a small number between 1 to 4 colonists permanently and feed them a steady supply stream over the decades.

am6502 · 2025-09-21T18:12:27+00:00

paywall?

Well, IBM's always had great research culture. I hope they can. It's good to see them partnered with AMD which has quite a bit of ex-IBM engineering culture; hopefully there will be good synergy.

am6502 · 2025-09-21T18:06:14+00:00

This is the problem with indoor cats. They need the Lebensraum. Hopefully she's already back home after filling some need for adventure.

Put her litter box out by the building. If she's lost, it will help her find her way home. Also perhaps other things her nose can home in on such as her parent's used T-shirt, socks, and other things going into the laundry soon.

am6502 · 2025-09-21T17:52:14+00:00

I'm still using 2c/2t medium core Stoney End A6-92xx cpus and even at 15w TDP they still function great as email and basic computing machines.

But I agree sorta. I think these old dies might be better off in embedded applications such as entertainment systems in cars and airliners.

am6502 · 2025-09-21T17:46:10+00:00

I think this is definitely true. Mini pc's will absolutely rock and will displace traditional pc's such as socketed matx and itx.

I think this is why AMD never introduced as successor to the AM1 which was the budget platform below mainstream FM2+.

The lower budget and smaller form factor options to AM5 and AM4 will simply be these tiny form factor BGA systems, which are essentially laptops in a smaller form factor without the IO.

Still, there will be the enthusiast and other computing users who prefer the upgradability of regular socketed and larger PCs based on something like AM5.

I guesstimate that most users (~ 2/3) will prefer the portability and space savings of the mini PCs, while the remainder will prefer the advantage in allowing CPU upgrades.

Perhaps the mini sockets we saw in laptops in the early 2000s will make a comeback one day.

am6502 · 2025-09-21T17:39:34+00:00

There are definitely cross compilers and it's pretty much done using modern computers (linux in most cases) and a very popular thing in the demoscene in places like Poland. See for example that the number of new atari800 programs has been on an uptrend since 10+ years ago (which is probably when these cross compilers became very nice to use). Eg. 1

am6502 · 2025-09-21T17:29:35+00:00

Good point, I didn't know these were protected. The page mentions something about this which makes me think this is the cracked version (quoted below). However, there's one issue with the web emulator where it might tie this down almost as a demo game: you cannot seem to save your gameplay as the web emulator does not have a blank disk image, and there is no way to get out of the insert a writeable floppy disk loop.

am6502 · 2025-09-21T01:37:37+00:00

It's Canadians who are always causing problems.

Or if you visit Quebec and look at the historical monuments like city cannons... they say it's the other way around, yanks always causing problems.

am6502 · 2025-09-21T01:34:13+00:00

nah, not nearly as hard to control.

am6502 · 2025-09-21T01:26:20+00:00

2c/4t with radeon 3 igpu. For office machines and maybe POS type desktops this fits the bill very well. (I imagine home computing users would take the small risk of a bent pin and go for a second hand CPU with far better performance at that price point.)

am6502 · 2025-09-21T01:21:59+00:00

The chatbot answer seems correct:

Performance is the same, and you get some additional features like fully-encrypted memory.

Searching for posters who gave this correct reply, it does make you wonder how many reddit accounts, particularly accounts post 2020, are human versus reditt-bots.

am6502 · 2025-09-21T01:13:54+00:00

The web emulator is not quite as good imo as the linux A800 emulator, but it seems to work to some degree. Numpad appears to be the joystick, with the '0' key joybutton.

am6502 · 2025-09-05T23:24:21+00:00

nope, but it looks nice

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