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ruslan commented on 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop   vermaden.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/vermaden
ruslan · 22 days ago
When I was watching that Lunduke's video a couple of days ago initially I was thinking he's just making a joke of that Vendefoul Wolf distro on 200MB box. I recalled using FreeBSD as access server with lots of modems (PPP/SLIP), Apache, Samba and QuakeWorld server running on a box with just 32MB of RAM. That was also my daily working machine with XF86 and Enlightenment desktop manager, circa 2000. So, 200MB is a whole lot of memory!
ruslan commented on What is Plan 9?   fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#... · Posted by u/AlexeyBrin
ori_b · 25 days ago
There's a 9legacy port, and an in-progress 9front port.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EOg6UzSss2A

ruslan · 25 days ago
That's interesting, thanks. I feel a need for simple multitasking/networking OS for synthesizable RV32I core (not RTOS like, but more like Unix or CP/M). Would be nice to try Plan9 on it once port is out.
ruslan commented on What is Plan 9?   fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#... · Posted by u/AlexeyBrin
chrsw · 25 days ago
Probably not. And there aren't many 32-bit RISC-V cores with an MMU. I guess you can use a simulator if you found one.
ruslan · 25 days ago
I use one written in SpinalHDL. :-)

Next question is how much RAM it needs to boot and can it be used without rio ?

ruslan commented on What is Plan 9?   fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#... · Posted by u/AlexeyBrin
ruslan · 25 days ago
Is there Plan9 port for RISC-V (RV32I) ?
ruslan commented on Google is dead. Where do we go now?   circusscientist.com/2025/... · Posted by u/tomjuggler
SunshineTheCat · a month ago
I recently took someone to go and watch a hockey game. Been a little while but I personally played as a goalie myself.

The person kept making the comment that she couldn't see/find the puck and it made it frustrating to watch.

As a goalie, not being able to see the puck is pretty normal (especially with big bodies trying to screen you).

What I told her was that what matters a lot more than where the puck is, is where it's going to be in about two seconds. But the next best thing is to know where the puck is now.

If you can't see the puck then look at the players and as a last resort, look at the ref. 99% of the time they will be looking at the puck. Look where they're looking and soon enough it will appear.

I think this applies very much to this whole Google question.

The puck is gone (or on the way to the other side of the rink) and everyone is confused where it is or where it's going.

Look where everyone is looking and you'll find your answer there. It may not be in the same form as Google adwords, but the game is the same. Leveraging attention.

The tactics were different during the phonebook days (it was having your business start with the letter "A") as opposed to Google and will be different for the next thing as well.

From what I can tell, everyone seems to be looking at chatbots and vertical, shortform video. Not sure how that plays out in terms of advertising, but in terms of the answer to this article's question, that seems like a good place to start.

ruslan · a month ago
Ice hockey player also here. Defence. Pretty neat analogy with Google. :)
ruslan commented on RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes   phys.org/news/2025-12-rob... · Posted by u/smurda
ramy_d · 2 months ago
I'm looking at something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Dc6QNWiIs and I feel like they are doing totally different things. Both harvest tomatoes, but these are totally different approaches.
ruslan · 2 months ago
Did you see tamatoes harvested that way ? They are suitable only for producing sauce.
ruslan commented on Control Structures in Programming Languages   xavierleroy.org/control-s... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
ruslan · 3 months ago
Exceptionally good reading!
ruslan commented on Ask HN: Advice for creating a USB device linking 2 computers    · Posted by u/WorldDev
ruslan · 4 months ago
Get two FTDI FT232RL chips, connect them together on serial side (RXD->TXD, TXD->RXD, GND<->GND). Plug into USB ports of your computers, run terminals (or any other software that supports serial I/O), send/receive data. Can use XYZModem to send files, PPP for TCP/IP networking, etc. No programming involved. Cheap as hell.
ruslan commented on The Titania Programming Language   github.com/gingerBill/tit... · Posted by u/MaximilianEmel
ruslan · 5 months ago
No pointers ?
ruslan commented on Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode   github.com/tanrax/org-soc... · Posted by u/andros
OhMeadhbh · 6 months ago
Why not just sign the social.org file and publish it as social.asc or something?
ruslan · 6 months ago
Right. But I would still prefer markdown file format, so I could simply open it in web browser. :)

u/ruslan

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