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by bonzini 11mo ago
There haven't been layoffs at Red Hat after 2023, whereas according to your statement there should have been two more rounds. The layoffs from your articles are at IBM, and did not affect Red Hat.
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by bonzini 11mo ago
They could still preserve it for backwards compatibility in microcode. They didn't do that because the 386 made it possible to get out of protected mode, and in fact allowed a more efficient implementation (big real mode) without undoc
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by bonzini 11mo ago
Well I am not sure what other commercial distros you consider to be alive, but Red Hat makes Canonical's yearly revenue in a couple weeks. Outside IBM land, Meta runs on a CentOS Stream fork.
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by bonzini 11mo ago
> FWIW I have heard that IBM used to force their management style on acquisitions in years past Definitely wasn't like that for Red Hat. We had a CFO with an IBM past which was a really nice guy and never ever felt like he was parac
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by bonzini 11mo ago
Not always. LOADALL was used heavily by Microsoft's HIMEM.SYS on the 286, but was not preserved on subsequent models.
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by bonzini 11mo ago
> why wouldn't author names on open source licenses count as PII? They are but you can keep PII if it is relevant to the purpose of your activity. In this case the author needs you to share his PII, in order to exercise his moral an
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by bonzini 11mo ago
It should be fine, but fractions (or both fractions and decimals) would be preferable in order to express triplets (3 over 2, effectively a duration of 0.3333...)
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by bonzini 11mo ago
Lilypond, too. Though it needs a full scheme interpreter to evaluate macros (provided by both the system and the user), it can emit midi files.
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by bonzini 11mo ago
The unexpectedly hard bit is switch statements, which are the main case in which compiled code has two back to back jumps... therefore the input flags come from a different basic block and you don't know which instruction generated it.
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by bonzini 11mo ago
SETP is used rarely to compute parity, though it doesn't really save anything if you can use POPCNT. PF is also used by floating point comparisons with a different meaning though that is not useful for the Arm extension from Apple. AF
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by bonzini 11mo ago
Yes, I didn't say that sigils went away. But for example in Perl 6 lists are @ whether you declare or access them, instead of the sigil changing depending on what you want to get out of the expressions. It says it in one of the first a
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by bonzini 11mo ago
You can read more about the organization of the work and how it's split between kernel and user space at https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/08/06/writ... .
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by bonzini 11mo ago
You can learn Python, PHP and (a bit less) Ruby without ever touching a book, and definitely you can skip over the first chapter if you're an experienced programmer. There must be a reason why they made sigils more "traditional&qu
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by bonzini 11mo ago
It's just a completely different model. Scalar context vs list context. @x returning length vs $x[0] accessing the list. It has a logic but it's its own logic. Not unlike Rust's borrow checker but at least with Rust you know
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by bonzini 1y ago
Even assuming this does have a measurable performance effect for the kind of processors you run Linux on (as opposed to something like a Cortex-M), you only need to have load-big-endian and store-big-endian instructions.
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by bonzini 1y ago
I think the kernel remains big endian. Only userspace has a brand new little-endian ABI.
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by bonzini 1y ago
YES! I have no idea if we're related, but imagine the surprise when you "first get internet at home", and my father and I decided to search our surname on Altavista, and we found foosball tables and tournaments!
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by bonzini 1y ago
I have myname.wifename@gmail.com (we use it for bills, children activities, and other family stuff where you can't register more than one email address). Neither of our names can be confused with a last name and yet I had multiple peop
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by bonzini 1y ago
At least WASM can be added incrementally. Fil-C is all or nothing and it cannot be used without rebuilding everything. In that respect a sandbox ranks lower in comprehensiveness but higher in practicality and that's the main issue with
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by bonzini 1y ago
> Uno Q has me thinking we can eliminate the PC along with our custom PCB If you know how to eliminate the PC, why not replace it already with a Pi?
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by bonzini 1y ago
Probably because 120 (*) have been added in the intervening 4 years. (*) random number
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by bonzini 1y ago
> What's the intuition here? Law of large numbers? For unit vectors the cosine of the angle between them is a1*b1+a2*b2+...+an*bn. Each of the terms has mean 0 and when you sum many of them the sum concentrates closer and closer to
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by bonzini 1y ago
It's quite likely that the app was bleeding money before. Whether they're wringing money or being responsible with their finances I can't tell, but consider that the alternative could have been no app at all.
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by bonzini 1y ago
Tomorrow is going to be the first snowy day in Reykjavik this year.
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by bonzini 1y ago
> Accordingly, this means that "function-sections" is identical to generating a static bundle object per original object file, and bundling them all together inside a .a archive. Ah, how are local symbols resolved within the w
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by bonzini 1y ago
If I didn't misread your proposal, file-sections would handle visibilities and resolve symbols across the entire sbo, not per-file.
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by bonzini 1y ago
Would you consider adding something like "file-sections" support to -r, preserving file boundaries as separate subsections? I have no idea how hard it would be.
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by bonzini 1y ago
Regarding --whole-archive, is it correct that it would be the default and you could opt-out of it with the function-sections/gc-sections combination? Are there cases in which function-sections doesn't work (GCs too much) but a hyp
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by bonzini 1y ago
IBM uses GitHub Enterprise.
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by bonzini 1y ago
That's fetching from Gmail via IMAP. With IMAP there's no particular need for fetching from third party accounts. The article itself says that IMAP is supported in the app ("You can still read and send emails from your other

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