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Much better to stick to 1 bit per pixel. :-)

Like in Sun SPARCStation ELC. No confusing colors or shades.


1bpp (at low resolution) is still relevant today on epaper screens, though some of them now allow for shades of grey or even color.

Most aren't all that low res either... 300dpi is standard.

But what if it's a UTF8 bit? Then it'd be 2 bits.

Which proves time travel exists, all those "two bits" references in old Westerns.


Windows 95 on a 386 CPU with enough RAM was alright. Not fast but very useable.

https://youtu.be/Pw2610paPYM?t=72

But most 386 didn't have 8+ megabytes, and some 386 had a 286 like data bus, making it even slower. (386SX)


On paper a 386sx is slower than a 386dx, and certainly is in terms of RAM access. But in practice you'd need some expensive hardware to fully take advantage of that speed, like EISA cards and a motherboard that supported them (or, MCA cards on one of the higher end IBM PS/2 models). The typical ISA cards of the era were limited to 8 MHz and 16 bits no matter what processor or motherboard you used.

The 386dx could also use a full 32-bit address space, whereas the 386sx had 24 address lines like the 286. But again, having more than 16 MB would have been expensive at the time.


I think you should rather assume that when you mention crypto taking over fiat, it's just too outlandish to even comment.

Except governments around the world have been talking about a digital dollar / digital currencies for years now. I'm not sure exactly what is so outlandish about it. The fiat system is collapsing, and the signs are quite plain to see. Can't print fake money forever...

Usually, what they mean is fiat tokens, minted much like paper currency.

There's a large difference between fiat currency and what you're calling fiat tokens. One is extremely difficult to trace - the other is extremely easy and allows the nation states that are "minting" them to track every transaction being made with them.

They are nothing like paper currency outside of being another abstraction of actual value and being issued / controlled by the banking cartel.


Russia is stoking

Or Democracy

Burma Shave moment on the last line.

How about CPU?

dots.ocr requires requires a considerable amount of computational resources. If you have Mac device with ARM CPU(M series), you can try my dots.ocr.runner(https://github.com/jason-ni/app.dots.ocr.runner).

There is a pipeline solution with multiple small specific models that can run only with CPU: https://github.com/RapidAI/RapidOCR


Jason, your runner looks interesting. I am using debian linux on my laptop with an intel cpu and nvidia gpu (proprietary nvidia cuda drivers). Should I be able to get it working? What is your speed per page at this point? Thank you

The argument made like that is an original argument bent backwards. The argument was that the US Navy guaranteed open shipping lanes and kept Pax Americana. Now we get closed shipping lanes and Bellum Americanum.



I suspect that Greenland won't be used for agriculture unless climate change makes it a LOT warmer. Surely Alaska farming would be a lot cheaper and easier

Greenland is a great way to test internal American resistance to Lebensraum politics. If that works, Canada is next.

The US must liberate Saskatchewan from the tyranny of Ottawa!

(do I really need to mention the gloves, here? Remember "Remember the Maine")


The most charitable take I can come up with is that D-Man is "exploring" alternatives to

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/19/in-iran-the-us-...


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