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by ATsch 6y ago
The bigger problem with these is usually not the vendor of the router, but the vendor of the SoC the device is built on. SoC vendors will usually provide you with a linux kernel that has an incredible amount of frequently shoddy out of tree
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by ATsch 6y ago
This was supposed to be a joke but it's actually how people here talk about racism.
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by ATsch 6y ago
Every single one of them. But if we are to make a ranking, I think spreading climate denial to protect your oil empire does do a lot make you uniquely loathe worthy.
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by ATsch 6y ago
Good thing events can only ever be blamed on one single individuals actions.
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by ATsch 6y ago
I/We are using the latest 7.3.0 with Prometheus, however most of the issues are more general. I think they'd be hard to prioritize as they are so minor (outside of perhaps a "minor bugs only" sprint or similar, as some p
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by ATsch 6y ago
I disagree with the idea that they can't work on both, but I have to agree that this is my #1 wish for Grafana. The frontend is filled with an incredible amount of ux papercuts, performance issues and silent breakage that make me resen
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by ATsch 6y ago
While it's true that originally X was network transparent, this hasn't truly been the case for a long time now. All modern applications (including the ones you've listed) render the whole window locally for performance reason
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by ATsch 6y ago
This makes no sense. The community of people working on Xorg aren't gone, they're just working on wayland now. Wayland was designed by long time Xorg maintainers. This "hostile takeover" narrative is complete FUD.
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by ATsch 6y ago
This has been working by default in all compositors for a while now, it is not a new feature or project.
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by ATsch 6y ago
There's been a recent trend to increasingly move more compute capabilities into NICs. This has been going on for a while, but has gained a new dimension with cloud providers. For example, with their "Nitro" system, AWS can mo
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by ATsch 6y ago
Likely just simple glue logic. Things like converting one protocol into another, doing some multiplexing or some simple pre-processing or filtering on some sensor data. They're incredibly tiny (2x2mm) and use little power, so they pop
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by ATsch 6y ago
It is very likely that the packets of this comment traveled through several FPGAs to get from your computer to my screen. Yes, they are definitely more niche than CPUs. But niche products have really high margins and people willing to pay f
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by ATsch 6y ago
Unrealiability can often be a feature to police, as it is with field test kits and drug dogs. The false positive rate makes them a good tool to provide plausible cover for further police action. By simply running enough unreliable tests or
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by ATsch 6y ago
Ah, that's interesting, I assume this is the link: https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/lossless-compression-wit... Shows a significant improvement in compression code and some examples of checks that can't be
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by ATsch 6y ago
I think rust has indirectly shown that the performance impact of bounds checking mostly neglegible in practice. Even in very high performance code, I've never seen anyone turn them off for performance. This makes a lot of sense conside
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by ATsch 6y ago
Ah, that's good, despite being six years late. However, I do not think there is any good reason for code written like this to exist in the first place. Bounds checking is easy and fast (even if less so in C) and things you consider &qu
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by ATsch 6y ago
I remember fuzzing stb_truetype and it finding hundreds of trivial segfaults instantly. Perhaps they fixed some but I can't advise using these with any untrusted data, it's obvious security is usually not a priority.
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by ATsch 6y ago
> And X.Org's driver architecture could be replaced completely (in fact, it could be made to run on the same stack as Wayland) Many distros do this already. Both for graphics drivers (xf86-video-modesetting) and input drivers (xorg-
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by ATsch 6y ago
It's not that developers don't need these CPUs, it's just that there's a lot more gamers than developers, and most of them will buy laptops or be provided workstations with Ryzen PRO or Threadripper processors.
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by ATsch 6y ago
No, this is exactly the common coding mistake removeprefix/suffix is here to adress. The strip() family removes all characters in the string you pass, so it removes not just "prefix" but also "efix", "prefixix&
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by ATsch 6y ago
It is overly broad, but not because of this. AFAIK there is precedent for arguing cryptographic keys and even code implementing drm algorithms are such a "device". This is extra great because as soon as you slap any encryption or
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by ATsch 6y ago
I think it will take more time to say that for certain. Warp is an exception, but most of the recent improvements to Firefox were initially prototyped and developed in the experimental Servo engine which was to my knowledge intended to even
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by ATsch 6y ago
For context, when Alyssa Rosenzweig initially started this reverse engineering effort, she published releases via TOR out of fear of retribution from ARM. This was in response to the mysterious firing of the main person driving earlier reve
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by ATsch 6y ago
All of this hackery with hundreds of registers just to continue to make a massively parallel computer look like an 80s processor is what something like Itanium would have prevented. Modern processors ended up becoming basically VLIW anyway,
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by ATsch 6y ago
If they do it that directly, sure. But on a large enough (time)scale, incentives are the only thing that matters. And they'll certainly think hard about putting their fancy new research that would help a competitor into their openly li
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by ATsch 6y ago
Both the US and USSR knew about neural networks for decades before fast massively parallel hardware made them feasible long after the end of the USSR, so I'm not sure that's a useful comparison. The development of the internet was
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by ATsch 6y ago
Could you give any examples
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by ATsch 6y ago
Especially interesting with all of the talk about the unique levels of innovation that capitalism brings that supposedly justify all of the other stuff.
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by ATsch 6y ago
The concern is more that nvidias culture has historically been being overall hostile to parterships. Which works great for what Nvidia is doing right now, but is probably bad for a company that depends heavily on partnerships.
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by ATsch 6y ago
This is already legally required by GDPR but I guess it's good for apple to check for it.

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