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by duskwuff 1y ago
> on nommu, you don't have any application isolation That isn't necessarily the case. You can have memory protection without a MMU - for instance, most ARM Cortex-M parts have a MPU which can be used to restrict a thread's
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by duskwuff 1y ago
nommu is a neat concept, but basically nobody uses it, and I don't see that as likely to change. There's no real use case for using it in production environments. RTOSes are much better suited for use on nommu hardware, and parts
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> That would not help in the slightest, any more than a "surgeon general's warning" helps stop smokers. Particularly given some documented instances where a user has asked the language model about similar warnings, and the
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by duskwuff 1y ago
It doesn't have to be. Some PHP runtimes allow an application to run in a mode where a single script execution processes multiple HTTP requests: https://frankenphp.dev/docs/worker/
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by duskwuff 1y ago
If I'm reading this correctly, the author hasn't actually interacted with any of this "debug logic" (and doesn't even describe what it is), but is inferring that it must be active based on some log messages which me
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> My recollection is that even the Atmega 8-bit microcontrollers have tons of special register groups around timers and interrupts. Not precisely. AVR, like most embedded architectures, has a bunch of I/O registers which control CPU
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by duskwuff 1y ago
... was it Canonical? :)
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Support for the "Stereo Mix" audio source is a relatively recent thing - and my understanding is that, even now, it's driver-dependent. It most certainly wasn't available in Windows 3.1.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Precursor is neat, but it isn't a phone.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Dota Underlords wasn't exactly a success either.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
pilot-link was removed from Debian in 2019, as some components of the project depended on Python 2, and the upstream web site disappeared. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=937292 It looks like there&#x
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by duskwuff 1y ago
There's a fair number of active projects on SourceForge - a couple of names you might recognize are DOSBox, GParted, and qBittorrent - but what pretty much all of them have in common is that they're old. To a first approximation,
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by duskwuff 1y ago
The last release was in 2019. For all intents and purposes, they'd already stopped.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
From the looks of that FAQ, macOS support for the project was effectively abandoned long ago. The most recent looking FAQ entries reference Mac OS 10.5, which was released in 2007. Declaring it "formally deprecated" now is - well,
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by duskwuff 1y ago
IA has always been a little haphazard with regards to copyright. Console ROMs aren't the half of it; they have an absolutely massive collection of old movies and TV shows.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Silicone Valley is in Southern California. (The San Fernando Valley was central to the porn industry in the late 20th century.)
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> [crackpots] were concentrated in certain areas that really would have been overrun with them Let me guess: theoretical particle physics, relativity, gravity, and magnetism?
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> That is indeed tiny... Even RP2040 is fairly large as far as microcontrollers go. The widely used STM32F103 is a single 72 MHz Cortex-M3 core with 20 KB SRAM and 64 KB flash, for example. Even smaller parts aren't uncommon.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> but then [Keybase] took VC money and imploded My understanding is that they were acqui-hired by Zoom - probably for optics reasons, since Zoom was having a series of high-profile security incidents around then. Keybase development basi
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by duskwuff 1y ago
To a first approximation, the only architectures where people really care about ffmpeg performance (anymore) are x86_64 and arm64. Everything else is of minimal importance - the few assembly routines for other architectures were probably wr
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Running OpenSSH in a container is highly atypical; doing it for anything other than a workload which specifically requires SSH (like, say, running a ssh+git server) is an indication that you may not be using containers appropriately.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Don't forget that a lot of old PC graphics modes weren't 1:1. 640x200 was a thing, for example - the pixel ratio is 3.2:1, but it gets vertically stretched to a standard 4:3. An 8x8 font wouldn't look square in that graphics
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> Pilots lose manual flying proficiency with autopilot Depends on the type of plane. On small aircraft, all the autopilot does is keep the aircraft level; it's not doing anything which requires significant proficiency. (It's ro
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by duskwuff 1y ago
"Most of them aren't applicable" - what, you mean you don't keep brimstone, cinnabar, and powdered silver in your spice cabinet?
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Even if the image generation isn't handled by GPT-5 itself, GPT-5 is still in the driver's seat. It's responsible for the choice to generate an image, and for writing the prompt which drives the image model. As an aside, Chat
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> This guarantees that your traffic isn't being linked to you, and is mixed up with others in a way that makes it difficult for someone to attribute it to you What would prevent you (or someone who has gained access to your infrastr
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by duskwuff 1y ago
This is addressed in the article - see the section titled "Estimating comparable national distributions". (In short: income is being scaled relative to purchasing power parity.)
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Users don't care about the technical details of what model is being used for what type of output. What matters to them is that they asked ChatGPT to draw a map, and it spat out nonsense. The same issue exists with a bunch of other type
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> They're all on a subscription model, you're spending who-knows-how-much per year on a new sensor every few days/weeks. Which - to be clear - is because the sensor chemically degrades over time. It's not just rent-se
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> I don't think there are any startups out there promoting their LLM-based chatbot as a replacement for a therapist Unfortunately, there are already a bunch.

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