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by anyfoo 1y ago
My feeling is that this would make bin packing on a silicon wafer less optimal?
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by anyfoo 1y ago
> If everything constantly depends on the prior action you will never get any uplift. I mean... that's kind of a pathological case, no?
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by anyfoo 1y ago
I use it to test connectivity in general . That it also checks whether my IPv6 stacks works correctly is basically a bonus.
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Yeah, I mentioned x18 on arm64 as an example for the latter one. Didn't know about the register reserved for assembly use, apparently MIPS indeed had that: $1, also known as $at, is the "assembler temporary".
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Oh yeah. S/360 assembly almost looks like a high level language sometimes. In MVS, functions of the OS and standard libraries (or its equivalent) were implemented as elaborate macros , with their own invocation syntax, whereas nowaday
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Not really, or at least not that I know if in the case of arm64. What you have is calling conventions that specify what one function/procedure/whatever can expect both from the caller and the callee's side.n I.e. some regist
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by anyfoo 1y ago
> I'm sure it was a relief to find a thorough solution that addressed the root cause. But it doesn't seem plausible that it was fun while it was unexplained. When I have this kind of bug it eats my whole attention. Yeah, and th
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by anyfoo 1y ago
I just opened both pictures in separate tabs, the browser says that both are 640x480. But that's a good point nonetheless: That 640x480 picture is certainly upscaled somehow, otherwise it would be absolutely tiny on a retina display. T
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Isn't it crazy how the image where every other pixel is black (labeled "Without interpolating, we can clearly see we only have half the pixels") sort of looks to have higher fidelity than the one after it, where the black pix
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Yeah, analog memory fits so incredibly well. Who cares if it's not "exact" and fuzzes around a bit if it's only used for weights and has massive efficiency advantages. Weights are never "exact" themselves, and
161.
by anyfoo 1y ago
What a coincidence. I just stumbled over a network analysis program ("network" as in linear AC electronics network; the program is similar to SPICE, but much less capable) on the C64, of all things! The article and the program are
162.
by anyfoo 1y ago
Nothing is ever "proven" in non-theoretical physics including cosmology, if your definition of proven is "cannot be falsified". I can trivially replace any cosmology statement with "well, it all just popped into exi
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by anyfoo 1y ago
One of my favorite science stories. Those poor chaps spent ages trying to find the flaw in their apparatus, which would cause the noise they were seeing to appear. Only to eventually figure out that they've discovered the previously pr
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Processes aren’t scheduled by the OS, threads are. But many processes only consist of one thread, so there’s only one thing to schedule. Processes are commonly a collection of threads with a single shared address space among them.
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Well, you've asked me to quote in another subthread, I did. Since I don't fully get what you're referring to now, can you please quote?
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by anyfoo 1y ago
First comment: > So you're saying i can now have a fully remote mac mini server with auto-reboot on power outage without the need to physically log ... Reply: > You can also do this: [...] -delayminutes -1 [...] which will make t
167.
by anyfoo 1y ago
Right, but my point was, if the idea is to do this to have an automatic unlock on power outages (and if this persists across power outages), it’s not just a few minutes, it’s indefinitely.
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Oh yeah, I get it. Just pointing out what this is doing, and why you should probably not always do this, for example.
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by anyfoo 1y ago
The stated problem was power outages. I did not verify the syntax of the proposed solution, but -1 looks like it disables the delay. So, indefinitely until the next reboot? Which, if the key is indeed saved in NVRAM (I don’t know), means so
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by anyfoo 1y ago
If that was the case (maybe it is, I don’t know), then how does the proposed solution help against power outages, which was asked for?
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by anyfoo 1y ago
No, the scenario was power outage at an unknown time in the future, not immediate reboot.
172.
by anyfoo 1y ago
It's still a little bit like putting your jewelry in a safe, and leaving the key on top of the safe.
173.
by anyfoo 1y ago
I love this, great work. Might have more to say once I'm through reading it.
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Why do you call what the author did shit? It is resurrecting an old tape driver for archival purposes. It may not have much commercial use, but anyone having those old tapes will appreciate it.
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by anyfoo 1y ago
I find of all languages, Haskell often allows me to get by with the least boilerplate. Packages like lenses/optics (and yes, scrap your boilerplate/Generics) help. Funny package, though!
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by anyfoo 1y ago
Because people think learning Haskell is too hard.
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by anyfoo 1y ago
> I said nobody will use the driver. But I am terrible wrong because one person will? Yes? The person who needs it is using it. Other people who need it (anyone who wants to archive tapes of that kind) now can, too. > Second, another
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by anyfoo 1y ago
I don't think the author is in the camp of unconditionally hyping AI: https://dmitrybrant.com/2023/03/25/artificial-stupidity Even without that other article, this really reads like the author tried it f
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by anyfoo 1y ago
While I personally would have used a dedicated development target, the workflow he had at least allowed him to have a good look at any and all code changes, before approving with the root password. That is a bit different than allowing unco
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by anyfoo 1y ago
... which would allow you to load arbitrary code into the kernel, pretty much bypassing any and all security. You might as well not have a password at all. Which, incidentally, can be a valid strategy for isolated external dev boards, or QE

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