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by ch_123 1y ago
This feels like Intel's researchers explored an idea, and decided to patent it as a matter of routine. The limits of ILP in typical applications are well documented, and I can't imagine that issuing dozens of instructions at once
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by ch_123 1y ago
I hope this is a short term solution, pending the various OS vendors modifying their native tools to handle the formatting correctly.
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by ch_123 1y ago
> For background to sibling comments - AS/400 aka "System i" was historically a separate line of processors, but is now POWER running a software translation layer. The software translation layer has been a feature of the p
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by ch_123 1y ago
This (and variations) is commonly believed but not the case - IBM's Z hardware has always used processors which natively implement the Z instruction set. I think part of the source of the confusion is a presentation from years ago whi
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by ch_123 1y ago
They have an overlay for both: http://www.tribblix.org/overlay-cde.html http://www.tribblix.org/overlay-openlook.html
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by ch_123 1y ago
I feel slightly ashamed that I spent enough time using Windows XP that was able to spot that this was a clone based on the fonts and shadow effects alone. Nice effort though.
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by ch_123 1y ago
Even the neutered uBlock Origin Lite on Chrome is enough to make the ads go away.
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by ch_123 1y ago
Most of the security guarantees are made about the base install of the OS, which is mostly code which the OpenBSD team maintains and develops. The code in ports is mostly subject to the same security issues that exist elsewhere, except wher
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by ch_123 1y ago
> E.g., if you opened an account at a major bank, and your transactions started failing, would you keep banking there? A lot of people who land in that situation do continue banking there since they are either tied into that bank through
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by ch_123 1y ago
> But then it does beg the question, why have the distinction in the first place if they are going to use the chips in other hardware. Originally I thought the distinction was that the M series was meant to not give the impression that t
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by ch_123 1y ago
64k is the largest page size that the ARM architecture supports. The large page size provides advantages for applications which allocate large amounts of memory.
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by ch_123 1y ago
X originally was created on/ran on a graphics terminal - the DEC VAXstation 100. The VS100 was quite different to the later X thin client terminals: it required an adapter card to be installed in a host system, and the software which r
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by ch_123 1y ago
There are many types of security problems beyond memory safety issues.
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by ch_123 1y ago
You are probably thinking of the unrelated GnuCOBOL project. https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/
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by ch_123 1y ago
> Some problems come from the huge amount of features(ldap, easter eggs, ...). sudo-rs reduces the problems by not implementing those features. This makes me wonder: 1) Would a hypothetical "sudo-lite" with these features remov
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by ch_123 2y ago
Windows 11 Home will force you to connect to a network in order to complete the setup process.
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by ch_123 2y ago
Often there's a chicken and egg problem in which there is no incentive to update/replace the systems in question until the rest of the world loses the ability to talk to them. I'm glad that OpenSSH keeps pushing the needle fo
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by ch_123 2y ago
There are advantages of Rust over C, but I'm not convinced that they are enough to outweigh ~35 years of development, testing and production use of some of the GNU coreutils. I also do not think that there are any problems with the GNU
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by ch_123 2y ago
There are at least two problems with this article: 1) If you can hack a current version of macOS to run on non Apple hardware, you can probably also hack a current version of macOS to run on older Apple hardware (see OpenCore Legacy Patcher
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by ch_123 2y ago
I'm aware of at least one card which did this, which was a custom OEM design (specifically from Asus) which put two Geforce 7000-series GPUs on a single card: https://pcper.com/2005/10/asus-n7800gt-dual-review
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by ch_123 2y ago
DEC Alpha systems solved this problem by using an x86 emulator during system boot to run the initialization code, thus allowing for standard PC cards to be used on a non x86 processor. (Reference to this in some early RedHat documentation,
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by ch_123 2y ago
I suspect this is because servers have a more predictable refresh cycle than consumer PCs/desktops. While some places run their servers to death, many places (particularly big corps who are generating the most revenue for MS anyway) wi
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by ch_123 2y ago
What is Microsoft hoping to accomplish here? Given the rate of adoption of Windows 11, it seems unlikely that a majority of Windows 10 users will replace their hardware between now and October. It also seems to me that the scenario where a
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by ch_123 2y ago
I have a system with a Xeon 8173M (Skylake-generation, 28 cores + HT) with 256GB in a desktop ATX case. I bought the CPU and RAM second hand, and I would guess I spent €600 between them. I bought a new Supermicro X11SPL-F motherboard which
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by ch_123 2y ago
It's about as wide as my 14" MBP
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by ch_123 2y ago
> TL;DR Well, the Steam Deck didn’t fit in my backpack… I'm not sure if this is meant to be taken literally, but I would have just bought a bigger backpack. In some ways, I think this makes me respect the author more.
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by ch_123 2y ago
If you are interviewing for a job - the "answer the teacher expects" can tell you a lot about the company you are potentially going to work for, as can the exam which you are given to prove your worth.
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by ch_123 2y ago
If this coding test was what they used to assess the quality of candidates, I would say that the author of this article dodged a very large bullet by not getting hired.
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by ch_123 2y ago
Unless I have missed something - there does not appear to be an M.2 interface to fit an SSD... This feels like an unfortunate omission given the form factor.
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by ch_123 2y ago
Under Apple Silicon, you are forced to use the hypervisor which is inbuilt in macOS. Both VirtualBox and VMware use said hypervisor, and do not have the original backends for macOS on Apple Silicon.

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