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by chithanh 2y ago
Really? It's one thing to understand that whatever pathogen you were infected with is (also) foodborne. But tracking the infection to something particular which you ate is generally quite hard, and it is even harder to track accidental
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by chithanh 2y ago
> installing Windows will still make your Linux system unbootable until you fix it with a rescue disk This is no longer true. On UEFI systems the only thing you have to do normally is fix the boot order. In fact installing Linux first an
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by chithanh 2y ago
> If you’re not in the US and not a US citizen, then I have no idea what laws apply to you or how they are interpreted. I live in the EU, where consumers are authorized by Directive 2009/24/EC to reproduce and translate compute
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by chithanh 2y ago
> I don't understand how you consider the Nintendo Switch to be abandonware. I don't? My comment was on the primary use of emulation. And Nintendo Switch is not the predominant console that is emulated. In fact Switch emulati
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by chithanh 2y ago
More precisely, the unstable parts of the systems were ejected, leaving only the (relatively) stable parts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwood_gap
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by chithanh 2y ago
> EMULATORS ARE PRIMARILY USED FOR PIRACY. Even if that is true (and I guess for that you'd have to classify downloading abandonware as piracy): Valve founder Gabe Newell famously said that piracy is a "service issue". So
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by chithanh 2y ago
> Qualcomm itself also wouldn't be able to emulate or sell x86 without the cross-licensing agreement As far as I am aware, the AMD-Intel cross licensing agreement allows to continue to sell existing products after termination, just
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by chithanh 2y ago
Could also go the other way. Some of you may be old enough to remember the 1993 fire in the Sumitomo epoxy resin factory. Following that, DRAM chips became drastically more expensive (prices increased from $30 to $80 per megabyte) for much
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by chithanh 2y ago
Arguably, the problem of underrepresentation became already unsustainable during Affirmative Action by the classification of African immigrants as black. Because the latter displace African-Americans who do worse in test scores than African
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by chithanh 2y ago
In the scenario that I describe, Qualcomm is disinterested in x86, it just wants maximum profit off the purchase. Very much like Oracle basically shitcanned all of Sun Microsystems' products and squeezed Sun customers hard. Keep in min
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by chithanh 2y ago
China is busy replacing imported CPUs with domestically produced ones on a massive scale. Qualcomm's China business is at risk of collapse anyway. I don't think the Chinese will be interested nor able to buy Intel and AMD x86 chip
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by chithanh 2y ago
In the scenario that I am envisioning, Qualcomm will be indifferent to Intel products, the only focus being to extract the maximum money out of their purchase. Oracle did the same, and nearly all Sun products are now dead or a shadow of the
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by chithanh 2y ago
MacBooks certainly have volume, but Wine/Proton on macOS is facing serious technical challenges which they only started to address (Wine 9.0 with WoW64 was only released in January). Chromebooks are much lower hanging fruit.
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by chithanh 2y ago
You would need the FTC to intervene to stop the acquisition. And currently there is a massive lobbying push by US technology companies to replace Lina Khan with someone who is more merger friendly. https://www.bloomberg.com/
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by chithanh 2y ago
Yes, you could emulate an x86-64 CPU with SSE2 (aka x86-64-v1), but that is no longer sufficient for lots of modern x86 code. Windows 11 wants SSE4.2 at least or else it won't even boot. As Arstechnica wrote, Intel specifically warned
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by chithanh 2y ago
But unlike ARM Chromebooks, an ARM Steam Deck does not exist today, and will not exist until at least November 2025 per Valve statements. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-09/new-steam... (archi
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by chithanh 2y ago
You don't need Proton for that, and the article talks about Valve testing proton-arm64.
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by chithanh 2y ago
Intel certainly would not. Qualcomm as the new owner of Intel, trying to extract maximum profit out of their IP, possibly. Think of when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems.
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by chithanh 2y ago
It seems pretty clear to me that the main target of this is ARM Chromebooks, at least for now. As these are the only products currently shipping in any relevant numbers where this makes sense.
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by chithanh 2y ago
After buying Intel, Qualcomm could sink x86 by simply not renewing the cross-licensing agreement with AMD. With Intel's patents on emulating x86 on other CPU architectures, Qualcomm could then ensure that going forward, the only econom
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by chithanh 2y ago
I don't think that is an issue. Yes, companies which insist on RTO have to pay more, but as extra compensation in order to make up for the difference in time and money spent commuting. But I'd argue what could be outsourced profit
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by chithanh 2y ago
> things changed since February 2020 Certainly nobody will blame managers for real estate decisions which were made prior to 2020. But a large number of companies revised expectations that workers would return to office as late as Q1 202
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by chithanh 2y ago
It is not bullshit, though it does not apply universally either. In many cases it may just be managers who need to justify having spent all that money on their office spaces. That being said: Deflating a real estate bubble is painful, just
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by chithanh 2y ago
I don't think Apple (or Google, Microsoft, …) sells your data. Or can you point me to the website where I can buy user data from them? What I would admit is that Apple is maybe not as motivated to protect your data from unintentional l
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by chithanh 2y ago
Seems not a good idea to roll your own. What if your software encounters U+2212 "MINUS SIGN" next? Probably best to just transliterate to ASCII using gettext or unidecode or similar.
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by chithanh 2y ago
Very nice. Also recommended reading is Eugenie Cheng, The Joy of Abstraction[1] which emphasizes diagram chasing to visualize abstract relationships. [1] https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108769389
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by chithanh 2y ago
Firefox on Android is not amazing, it is on the contrary quite annoying and has gotten more so over the years * Tabs get stuck frequently, and can only be revived by closing, then undoing close. * Can no longer access about:config in releas
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by chithanh 3y ago
With the established science thing many counterexamples exist, also recent ones. We are now seeing bad outbreaks of preventable disease in undervaccinated communities, because parents increasingly subscribe to unscientific antivax theories.
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by chithanh 3y ago
The comment which I linked was just an illustration. And I was talking about porting mobile games from iOS/Android to Windows Phone. Besides that, porting wasn't easy even for apps which worked on Windows already. The API was quit
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by chithanh 3y ago
Microsoft had a Windows CE based smartphone OS at the time, namely Windows Mobile 6.5. Releasing WP7 as a short-lived and compatibility-breaking product with show-stopping deficiencies hurt them in a major way. And it is not that the WP8 re

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