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by ece 8y ago
You're not free until you're libre.
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by ece 8y ago
Sure, apart from their attempt to control the Java ecosystem being that old, it doesn't leave me with confidence that they are as committed to open source as Redhat. This sounds harsh, and I don't mean to be, but only time will te
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by ece 8y ago
Google is pushing Swift with a Tensorflow port, and if they were even remotely interested in doing a Java port for training, it would've happened already. I will say, no Apple or MS for me thanks. I hope Scala with Scala native continu
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by ece 8y ago
There's really only one, possibly two saviors of Java. Redhat with JBoss/Icedtea, and OpenJDK, which has IBM, Redhat, Oracle and Doug Lea at the top level. I don't see any great examples of building successful open source com
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by ece 8y ago
Nothing for FRED https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch/search?query=site%3... hmm...
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by ece 8y ago
Wine's DirectX 6-9 compatibility has been good since ~5 years or so. SC2 has been running well on Wine for about that long. I do wish Wine vs Wine-staging vs Proton forks didn't exist, but as long as they're merging from each
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by ece 8y ago
Looking at other game publishers, Doom Eternal/Fallout 76 might not be on Steam and the newest CoD: Black Ops 4 will only be on Battle.net. GoG is DRM free and getting a lot of indie dev games. Valve needs to sell more games, and this
728.
by ece 8y ago
Samba was reverse engineered, MS somewhat tried to make it an open standard, now are agnostic to it and are still developing closed extensions. Mono became big enough, and they opensourced their own CLR, and it runs on Linux. DirectX was im
729.
by ece 8y ago
As a long time Gentoo user, switching to even a Ryzen 7 1700 was a big difference, @world recompiles in ~8 hrs instead of 24+ hrs on 4C/8T CPUs.
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by ece 8y ago
It's been better than anything else for a while, at least 2 years or so.
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by ece 8y ago
People are usually careful to not use too many services from the same provider to not give the provider too much data. This used to be true at least, and was the argument heard when Google+ launched.
732.
by ece 8y ago
I was talking more about large file storage like HDFS, and the MapReduce model of bringing computation to data. HBase does the latter, and it's strongly consistent like FoundationDB, though FoundationDB provides better guarantees. As a
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by ece 8y ago
The NXP chips have the other only open source GPU drivers, with the first being the RPi. If you want to do multi-media and need USB3, this is probably what you want. The upboards are interesting, some have an FPGA, and some NN processing so
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by ece 8y ago
Apple also uses HBase for Siri I believe, what are some of the cluster sizes that FoundationDB scales to? Could it be used to replace HBase or Hadoop? I was in attendance at your talk, and thought it was one of the best at the conference. A
735.
by ece 9y ago
Somebody needs to take the risks of designing, making, and selling a RISC-V processor/chipset and associated peripherals. Frankly, someone like a Broadcom, who has the expertise, and wants a royalty free rpi, might just work fine. I ca
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by ece 9y ago
Anyone have experience with hyperboria? Looks like there is a node in SF, I'd be interested in setting up a node in the south bay.
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by ece 9y ago
Global ordering is key, as briefly mentioned. To me, the proven distributed hash table systems like Bigtable, Spanner, HBase, RocksDB have it, and those that don't have it, aren't as strongly consistent (Riak, Cassandra, Mongo, et
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by ece 9y ago
2nd this Eufy robovac. I looked at the others, and since Eufy is Anker, went with them because of better service and battery life. I don't think any of the others, including the 4x priced Roomba are any better at navigating my house. T
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by ece 9y ago
A "security model" like a memory model should be able to tell you the guarantees available to shield a process from another process upon execution of an instruction. I think a memory model already does this to some extent, just no
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by ece 9y ago
Any set of dual-band routers with repeater functionality on all but the main node will give you very good wifi coverage. I picked up some dirt cheap (like $20) ASUS AC1200 and N53/56 routers, with the latter being repeaters on separate
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by ece 9y ago
More likely, this is a shift back to in-order processors, if the solutions aren't workable. If you're in an embedded scenario, sure you can make more trade-offs and have more control, but it's not going to look great when it
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by ece 9y ago
This is what KPTI does, wipe caches, and if you did this often in user code, performance degradation would be all over the place. Also, heavy AVX routines that use encryption keys... would be great to attack.
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by ece 9y ago
@lern_too_spel The AMD engineer could be right if talking about Ryzen, and/or he isn't mentioning user-user and user-kernel boundaries. AMD isn't affected in nearly the same way as Intel/ARM are: https://twitt
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by ece 9y ago
The register has the tweet with actual code for spectre, and more details from the manufacturers and potential fixes. Seriosuly? They're both worth a read.
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by ece 9y ago
The register has more details. Worth a read.
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by ece 9y ago
Another good article: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_fl... "AMD processors are not subject to the types of attacks that the kernel page table isolation feature protects agains
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by ece 9y ago
I do believe in a balance between public domain, copyleft and copyright, but playing devil's advocate is helpful here. We are supposed to live in a knowledge economy, and inevitably it's copyright and IP that ends up setting the r
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by ece 9y ago
no
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by ece 9y ago
Thanks for the link. Happy to hear they're maintaining Linux-hardened themselves.
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by ece 9y ago
Copperhead uses Grsecurity, and I used to use Grsecurity, when it was widely available, now that it's not and the developer has decided to act in hostile ways to the Linux community(1), it's made me rethink using his work and&#x2F

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