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I love his work. I bought one of his books recently :)

I love how Palantir is comically evil. Their logo being the Palantir from LoTR (duh) and all. It's wild to me lol. They don't even try to pretend anymore.

I love this sort of content! My favorite things I find on HN :D

He said "offline" not "no power".

Also, fuel station can probably successfully run it's own backup power;)

Oh this is cool! I have a couple of 386/486 machines that would be fun to test on.

Are you planning on cardbus/pcmcia support and wifi?

Yes.

It is easily in my top 5 series of all time. I adore it.

They need to be heavily penalized

I miss my NeXTs so much. I really need to get another one.

Love the UX/UI design and styling. The cases. The logo. Everything.

I cant use disposable multi-blade razors for this exact reason.

And replaced it with utter bullshit.

I HATE the "Settings" crap. It's horrible. Fucking mess find anything. Half the functionality of the control panel applets are still not implemented. You essentially can't do more than one settings task at a time.

I seriously want to stab whoever thought this was a good idea on the face.

This is so awesome! I cannot wait for it to be finished. The DC is still my all time favorite console and having all these projects pop up the past few years has been great.

Now we need someone to cross compile all the N64 games for the DC :D

Man you weren't kidding. EVERYTHING stops in 2014. And I've dug through London and UK death records etc. can't find anything.

Everything is 2014 or earlier

https://mightyframe.blogspot.com/p/history.html?m=1

The parent poster isn't trying to subvert the entire governmental make up of this country.

Oh, a Texas judge. I'm shocked. Fucking shithole

And you can tell based off all the other comments on here that you and I are in the minority on liking that it's stable. Even with all its faults.

I, too, have 20 year old perl scripts that still run fine.

I randomly have to bang my head on my desk over bs with python and php incompatibilities between versions.

Pets perl

Thanks for the tidbits! I'm a huge fan of electronics and computer and related history. Id be interested in any stories you have about your time there :)

I still have a system running a modded xeon in a 775 board lol

This arguably has more functioning neurons than he does.

Sadly I'm in that position. I have hundreds of PLCs and legacy controllers on my network that are IPv4 only and will never be replaced. At least not in a reasonable time frame. I'm talking 20+ year life expectancies.

It's a pretty simple question.

Delivering what in what industries? I see SOME usefulness in SOME areas like, specifically, machine vision. But a lot of things? Medical? yeah, no. Lots of issues there. Text generation? Hallucinations out the ass and extremely iffy results often.

Most of the 'wins' in the text gen side still require a TON of work on the human's part to make it usable. People like to mention Pro's in Math and coding talking about it helping them with stuff but they are experts already.

It has potential in a lot of places but this rapid paced forcing of it everywhere is idiotic and foolhardy.

I adored my Psions. I used a Sienna for years and a 5mx for much longer than is probably reasonable. I used an original psion netbook (not an upgrade series 7) until a lightning storm fried it :( probably still be using that thing. I miss the UI/UX.

Exactly. The Pi is useful for some stuff if.you need a lot of GPIO or legacy hat support etc. or just hate x86 for some bizarre reason. Otherwise I can see literally no benefit to a Pi over an N95 or Nx00 box. I using them all over the place and have been rock solid. And you can get them with multiple nvme sockets, sata, etc.

The Pi obsession truly boggles my mind. I can see it with the RP2040 etc but a regular Pi? Why?

The year is... He posted it yesterday lol.

Ditto to this. I have fallen in love with the N series chips. I use N100 mini PCs all over the factory floor as client machines for workers that manage job control and I am typing this on an N200 power PC that I have slapped a 48GB DDR5 SODIMM in. Working great.

Btw, ALL N95/N100/N200/N305 systems I have used have worked fine with 32GB DDR4 SODIMMs or 48GB DDR5 SODIMMs. Even tho Intel claims 16GB max for DDR4 and DDR5.

Also, the N305 chip is great. Basically two N200 slapped together. They didnt double the L3 tho which is annoying. But the 8 cores is fantastic.

I am currently running a 4 box Proxmox HA setup with with 3 N200 systems directly connected to each other with 2.5gbit links. Working great. I am hoping someone puts out larger DDR5 SODIMMs. these with 64/72/96GB would be fantastic :)

Oh, and I am using 118GB optane nvme drives as swap location and l2arc for the systems. regular NVMe drives for storage/OS

Yeah but that is the extreme minority. Claiming it isnt is absurd.

Uh no? Most not-corporate networks are gigabit to 2.5gbit at best. Higher end home users may be doing 5gbit and 10gbit+.

Even top end wifi tends to only be around 1.2gbit.

Link to a past post of mine with flickr links to my old NeXT stuff for people interested.

I reeeeeaallly want to get another one again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35865933

Oh, here is a screenshot of my NeXT loading gmail:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/helfer/3947037084/in/photolist...

Dated 2009. So I think I was actually using it till 2010.

Im currently putting kids to bed and dead tired. So I will dig up stuff and post a better response tomorrow.

But tl,dr: most everything I did was SSH based for network. Otherwise document editing, pdf viewing etc worked fine. I had a turbo color 33mhz with 128mb of ram.

I also had a ton of custom compiled replacement libraries friends and I worked on and we managed to get newer openSSL working with omniweb etc. I was able to use html mode gmail even! :)

god I miss my NeXT hardware. I used one as a daily driver till ~2008ish. sniff Shouldn't have sold it.