✉️ #NaData de hoje, mas em 2004, a Google surpreendeu o mundo com o anúncio dos serviços do Gmail - inicialmente disponíveis apenas a quem recebesse convite.
A oferta de 1 giga de armazenamento grátis de e-mail era tão superior a qualquer alternativa disponível nos maiores concorrentes internacionais (como o Hotmail e o Yahoo Mail), que muita gente pensou que era pegadinha de 1º de abril.
Na época, o armazenamento gratuito típico ficava entre 5MB e 50MB.
Never looked at the specs of the original SGI RealityEngine, and holy shit https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/166117.166131
this is completely bonkers for 1993. Just look at these boards!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealityEngine#/media/File:SGI-re2-ge10v.jpg (this is actually a RealityEngine 2 Geometry Engine)
and a Raster Manager board https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealityEngine#/media/File:SGI-re2-rm4.jpg
no wonder these things cost $infinity
DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH is now available on PC https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/death-stranding-2-on-the-beach-is-now-available-on-pc/
How do I know this?
I was the project lead, although the best parts of it were written by my smarter collaborator Michael O’Brien (eventually SVP of R&D at Technicolor).
This story is *not* the 32 to 64 bit transition.
This is just us trying to get another GB of address space, where we leveraged the ongoing Linux port work w/alot of our own.
Now that I think about it, all the impactful work I’ve done in my career happened in 32 bits of address space.
4GB always seemed like a lot to me.
During production of Finding Nemo, we started using Linux boxes in addition to SGIs.
Why?
3D painting software we wrote for laying out coral was written in C++ using templates, and the debug info was too large for IRIX, but was debuggable on Linux.
Was this a 32 bit vs. 64 bit issue?
No.
IRIX reserved half the address space for the kernel, while Linux only did a quarter.
So on Linux, we had 3GB, and the symbols fit.
It was a 32 bit show, both machines had 4GB max.
Plenty for Finding Nemo.
Following a decision by the Codeberg e. V.'s Presidium, Codeberg e. V. has joined the ranks of many organizations as a co-signatory of the draft letter of the "Keep Android Open" initiative: https://keepandroidopen.org/draft-letter/
Apart from the impact on the many independent developers hosting their source code on https://codeberg.org, we are concerned by the greater societal implications the Android ecosystem's current trajectory will cause. For more information, see: https://keepandroidopen.org
TIL that Intel allocates AVX-512 mask registers from the x87/MMX register file. neat trick!
Industrial #ArtDeco, at its finest! This abandoned powerplant plant control room in Hungary was powered down decades ago.
The oval room is lit by an immense skylight, which casts dramatic light across the original green metal control panels. These walls remain lined with levers, valves, and dials.
Without a doubt, one of my favourite adventures. I have visited three times now!
#Hungary #ArtDeco #UrbanExploration #Photography #Explore #Abandoned
VISITE O DECORADO
Fabian Giesen
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
Michael B. Johnson
Ars Technica
Codeberg
8941dc91-867e-4412-afd5-4698d32477be:t_blink:
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
Obsidian Urbex Photography