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This counter was used by the Virtual Device Driver (VMM) to manage system timers.

VMM stands for Virtual Machine Manager. AI slop strikes again.


Very interesting. I've always thought that there was something a bit "off" about LED torches and car headlamps; the brightness is there, but something about the light just doesn't seem to illuminate as well as an old dim incandescent or even fluorescent tube.

They're saying that the visual performance is indirectly affected by invisible wavelengths somehow. Not that you can see the difference between two types.

I get that they're more efficient in some sense, but man the LED streetlights and other big lamps are so irritating and make things like like such ass compared to mercury vapor or even sodium lights.

Japan has a culture of perfection.

I've heard Canada described as a "more moderate, and somewhat colder US".

Canada has its problems, and many of them tend to resemble the US's problems. But they are like 10-20 years behind on the same path. So, if you think things were maybe a bit less bad back then: Canada.

Also Canada has far better yogurt.


That's even more dystopian.

I'm not sure if this is the case anymore, but many unbranded/generic Androids used to be completely unlocked by default (especially Mediatek SoCs) and nearly unbrickable, and that's what let the modding scene flourish. I believe they had efuses too, but software never used them.

In other words the same old boogeyman they always use to justify this crap.

While that seems like a convincing explanation, 750Hz is a rather odd value to use for a timer, and more importantly the overflow would be at 66d6h43m43s instead of the reported ~66d12h.


66 days 12 hours would put it at 747.5 Hz. A different report had 66 days 10 hours 16 minutes which works out to 748 Hz.

Maybe the clock was just feeling a little sluggish? /s


You mean number of seconds, but yes, I think everyone looking at this would be converting units to see if there was a particular boundary being met.

There's a HUGE difference between "you can use HTML" and "JS all the things, because we can".

Windows 98 used webpages as core components for Explorer. Literally browsing your files involved J(ava)Script… in 1998.

"Active desktop"? Most people turned that off, and the explorer was pure native code otherwise.


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