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1. 601.▲
   by bpye 4y ago

   On RISC-V it doesn't have to be true microcode. You could trap and emulate in M mode, transparently to the running OS.
2. 602.▲
   by bpye 4y ago

   I work at Microsoft on the hypervisor. The hypervisor and the NT kernel are mostly C - as are many other kernel mode components.
3. 603.▲
   by bpye 4y ago

   > As much as it pains me, I have to avoid Hyper-V generally for anti-cheat client compatibility Which anti cheat clients still have trouble with Hyper-V?
4. 604.▲
   by bpye 4y ago

   I know (from experience) that HireRight use it for background checks.
5. 605.▲
   by bpye 4y ago

   At least that required hardware access. If you had an exploitable bug in say some GPU firmware, then you'd realistically need to disable accelerated graphics everywhere no?
6. 606.▲
   by bpye 4y ago

   I suspect part of the issue was that until Visual Studio 2015 MSVC did not have a stable C++ ABI [0]. [0] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/porting/binary-compat-...
7. 607.▲
   by bpye 4y ago

   LLVM/Clang does mostly support the MSVC C++ ABI today - https://clang.llvm.org/docs/MSVCCompatibility.html . I've not used it for anything major but in my limited experience it does work. Native PDB generatio
8. 608.▲
   by bpye 4y ago

   They’ve also allowed Rosetta 2 in Linux VMs - if they are serious about supporting those use cases then I think it’ll stay.
9. 609.▲
   by bpye 4y ago

   > Frankly getting your knickers in a knot is emotional - the people using C are doing so for pragmatic reasons, not emotion. I think a lot of us using C would like to move away, but for whatever reason can’t. One example is that we hotpa
10. 610.▲
    by bpye 4y ago

    Well any one of those three sound absolutely horrendous.
11. 611.▲
    by bpye 4y ago

    I went down this path. Yes, Windows includes an inbox USB audio class driver, but it lacks support for implicit feedback. The MOTU interface does not have a feedback endpoint, and relies on implicit feedback, so the inbox driver doesn'
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    by bpye 4y ago

    You can configure Fastmail to do that, but I guess it would be in reverse. I have some old Google accounts (old student email and pre-custom domain gmail) configured to forward mail to Fastmail, and then Fastmail configured to send email vi
13. 613.▲
    by bpye 4y ago

    If you're looking for a new provider I'd vouch for Fastmail. I switched from Google's free plan back when they killed Inbox, and I've been pretty happy with it.
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    by bpye 4y ago

    The only ARM64 option with ECC that I know of is Ampere's rather expensive development workstation [0]. [0] - https://solutions.amperecomputing.com/systems/altra/kraken-c...
15. 615.▲
    by bpye 4y ago

    I work for MSFT and have been using an SPX as my primary device for a little over a year. I haven’t had an issue with user space applications, but I do have an audio interface that doesn’t work because the vendor (MOTU) doesn’t ship ARM64 d
16. 616.▲
    by bpye 4y ago

    In my experience on Windows NVDA is worth testing with as well.
17. 617.▲
    by bpye 4y ago

    You say hand written but actually, it wasn’t exactly. The original version was apparently in LISP and then translated to C++ [0]. [0] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/patrick_duss...
18. 618.▲
    by bpye 4y ago

    Yep. I tried for a while to use dark themes but eventually realised they were making it worse, not better. Even if Solarized isn't the best light theme in existence, it's also available either built in or an extension for practi
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    by bpye 4y ago

    > Another way of doing it is if you're already posting your notes, pictures, etc. on your own website, you can make it ActivityPub aware and use your website instead of Mastodon. I quite like the sound of this, do you have any refer
20. 620.▲
    by bpye 4y ago

    To add, LPG stations are pretty much everywhere in both Canada and the UK as well.
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    by bpye 4y ago

    I wonder about that too… Xcode Cloud runs on Intel server hardware [0] - is Apple going to want to build their own ARM server platform or will they just keep x86 alive enough for their internal server workloads? [0] - https://twi
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    by bpye 4y ago

    I wonder if that is true. I hope so as I have a first gen M1 MacBook Pro and honestly it’s the best laptop I’ve ever had. I do wonder if either we’re going to see the ARM MacBooks have about the same lifetime as iPhones, or if iPhones will
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    by bpye 4y ago

    UEFI
24. 624.▲
    by bpye 4y ago

    I initially had the same reaction but the 900$ Mac Mini has only 8GB of memory, 256GB of storage and can only drive two displays, vs this which has 32GB of memory, 512GB of storage and can drive three displays.
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    by bpye 4y ago

    Windows 11 can run AMD64 applications on ARM64 through a JIT, similar to how Rosetta operates [0]. I don't know if anyone has tried to compare them in benchmarks though. [0] - https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider&#
26. 626.▲
    by bpye 4y ago

    There's a reference on WikiLeaks [0] which has always intrigued me: > ... plugins that allow for additional functionality (Cryptanalysis, interaction with OllyDbg, the Ghidra Debugger). We've got the debugger, but I don't
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    by bpye 4y ago

    It's also really quite easy to add at least basic support to Ghidra for extra targets. I for example got quite far writing a TMS7000 [0] target for Ghidra [1] to reverse engineer the firmware for a TI teletype... though I still haven&#
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    by bpye 4y ago

    Boris "Fuck Business" Johnson was only recently PM - https://www.ft.com/content/8075e68c-7857-11e8-8e67-1e1a0846c...
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    by bpye 4y ago

    How does the iPad version of Photoshop compare to the full desktop application?
30. 630.▲
    by bpye 4y ago

    It’s still glued but they are at least using stretch release adhesive now - https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+14-Inch+2021+Batter...