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by aneutron 9y ago
I'm not a chip designer either, but IIRC, the current architectures are actually something similar, whereas the CISC is broken down into custom RISC-ish instructions by a HW layer, which is then executed by the RISC-ish cores. And whil
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Show HN: Google Has a Word Coach in Search
4 points by aneutron 9y ago|3 comments
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Edge Chakra JIT Security Bypass, fix won't be available before March(bugs.chromium.org)
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by aneutron 9y ago
If you're in nation-wide healthcare, that strategy quickly becomes unacceptable.
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by aneutron 9y ago
But if this shows anything, it shows that the company has people who are on stand-by and who constantly monitor and optimize their product. Also, the fact that "the product" they are developing is not a consumable (think processor
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by aneutron 9y ago
Also, I was very surprised to see that it was really QT based in the sense that there was no glue to an attached Chromium or something, just pure QT in C++. The effort that went into that thing is amazing. It's fast on my 5 years old P
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by aneutron 9y ago
I saw that by applying some diffs you could get HW acceleration, but I doubt you'd be able to use other things such as Google Sync (my passwords are stored there and in a Keepass but it's more useful)
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Chrome had no support for HW video decoding on Linux since 2012(bugs.chromium.org)
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by aneutron 9y ago
This is extremely witty. You're the MVP.
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by aneutron 9y ago
One thing to keep in mind: Disabling UAC is a VERY BAD IDEA. No matter how you look at it. Look at it this way, if you do that, then any moderately smart ransomware will be able to do wonders on your PC. That's reminiscent of a 4chan p
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by aneutron 9y ago
If you run a 700M$ exchange, you should probably have a cold backup of your database every other hour. I think.
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by aneutron 9y ago
> Reading from kernel memory is something of a flaw, no? Fair point about not being Intel specific though. Well the concept is not, but the company who's processors run most of the worlds' databases was PoC'ed, so ....
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by aneutron 9y ago
If you search for travel, and the SE brings up all your reservations from flights, ferries, bus, etc. It requires some sort of ML. Stupid example but you get the point.
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by aneutron 9y ago
Had the same idea when I read the comment. However, training your ML models in the browser is probably not the best thing you could do. Granted, it could potentially offer a more personalized service.
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by aneutron 9y ago
Ah, the Omelette de fromage effect.
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by aneutron 9y ago
Not to mention that file locking would make it literally impossible to concurrently edit the file.
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by aneutron 9y ago
I think there are two points to consider: 1) From a security point of view, put yourself in the shoes of the other states. The NSA and its friends have a well proven history of backdoors and state-sponsored malware. From the Stuxnet/Fl
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by aneutron 9y ago
While I understand the concern about security, I think it is beside the point. The surface attack is effectively the GPU and its driver, not the web renderer. The technique that are put in place by the web renderer are and were used by game
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by aneutron 9y ago
There is a comment in this thread that explains this very well. 1) So the average CPU can do arroung several GFLOPS, the GPU however, even the integrated, can do some TFLOPS. S 2) CPUs have syncronization primitives, re-ordering, execution
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by aneutron 9y ago
Not an expert, but I feel that that was more of an analogy/image to give what they were aiming for. The real objective is not 60fps, the real objective is to use the GPU to do tasks that it was designed for. Plain and simple. This howe
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by aneutron 9y ago
On nightly, the flag is available in about:config and I alreay enabled it.
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by aneutron 9y ago
Actually, virtually every device the average grade consumer uses, has a GPU. For instance, even Atom processors have GPUs. Granted, they don't have as much cores as a full-fledged nVidia GPU, nor as much dedicated memory, but they are
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by aneutron 9y ago
Not really no. Security wise, they remain one of the most badass actors on the field. I am very sure that my data and passwords are safeguarded. Same can't be said about Yahoo, Bing, or other companies/products.
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by aneutron 9y ago
They have to deal with thousands of patent trolls. I'm assuming that they have to do this, otherwise they'd set a precedent, not strictly in the court room, that they have been subdued. IANAL, but I think that any firm of this siz
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by aneutron 9y ago
That's incredibly witty. Props to you.
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by aneutron 9y ago
Correct. It still isn't tbh.
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by aneutron 9y ago
I wonder if public-key crypto enabled ID-cards for example would be a good idea to solve this problem.
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by aneutron 9y ago
I honestly wonder why did Google cite "SAP HANA" as the _reference_ workload for such setups. I never heard of that product. Noobie asking here, is it the _reference_ workload for such setups ? And are there more demanding workloa
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by aneutron 9y ago
As a kid who actually used to boot from linux, delete the "internet security product" from program files, and then happily access the internet, I think it's a great idea, to train your kids to always find solutions.
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by aneutron 9y ago
If it serves the purpose, it is worth the price of changing the way one thinks. You do realise than functional, imperative and procedural programming all coexist in this world. But using functional programming with trees for example makes y

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