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by error503 4y ago
> The only pre-RISC legacy ISA in use is x86, and it is only losing market share. And for many generations now, x86 machines are basically RISC processors with a CISC frontend. Empirically it seems that CISC has 'failed' as a w
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by error503 4y ago
> Couldn't I just as well make the argument it's pretty annoying that Firefox doesn't implement the API features required for background blurring? Maybe, if that were the case, though even the opacity of the messaging is a
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by error503 4y ago
I don't think Meet has ever supported background effects on Firefox, has it? It certainly hasn't for at least a couple years. There is a Bugzilla on it that suggests Google disabled it on Firefox due to performance issues that the
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by error503 4y ago
It's pretty annoying if you're a Firefox-primary user to have to manually copy Calendar/Slack links and start up Chrome to paste them in. It is also pretty annoying and sad to see the Web heading back to the siloed features a
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by error503 4y ago
Trademarks are allowed to be 'generic' English words, they just can't be purely descriptive of the product/service/company. You can't trademark a name like 'Computer Store' for your computer store,
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by error503 4y ago
Many games support cross-platform play these days, so yes you certainly can collaborate between PS5 and Xbox X, if you choose the correct 'applications'.
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by error503 4y ago
For me it wasn't so much the per-app/stream mixer but per-stream dynamic routing that was the important feature of Pulse (though I've moved on to PW now). I'm not too sure how this is handled on other platforms, but pr
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by error503 4y ago
"Plan continuation bias", or as the (powered) aviation community colloquially refers to it, "get-there-itis". It's definitely a common factor in commercial aviation incidents too (though more often 'should we l
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by error503 4y ago
Apple has an ad network, which has special privileges on iOS. Are you saying they don't provision ads on their ad network based on all the special access they have? They'd be kind of crazy not to, they've secured themselves a
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by error503 4y ago
> You can say a lot of negative things about Apple, but their incentives lined up with the end users more often than companies like Meta and Google. I would say this is one, and by far the most important case, where Apple's incentiv
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by error503 4y ago
Nothing's stopping Sony (or more likely, retailers) from offering a payment plan for your hypothetical $1200 PlayStation, just like the phone carriers do for handsets. The difference is that they extract the money directly from the con
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by error503 4y ago
This seems possibly worse than useless for dealing with pathogens, however in places with abysmal air quality due to pollution, I can see a possible value prop.
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by error503 4y ago
Usually playback will be locked to a hardware clock, typically the audio clock. This does mean that the audio clock and frame clock will drift over time, as they're not locked to each other; it doesn't matter how accurate the cloc
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by error503 4y ago
Originally (2002) a /48 per site was recommended in RFC3177. More recently (2011) RFC6177 took a more pragmatic / softened approach, but it does say: - it should be easy for an end site to obtain address space to n
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by error503 4y ago
Clients will usually request their previous IP in the request, and servers will often prefer to give clients their previous IP even if they don't request it. It's also pretty common that the client still has a valid lease (as far
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by error503 4y ago
> Because the ISPs at the same time do provide tools to configure them for IPv4, and they're the ones boasting about connecting « everyone » to IPv6..? My point was more "The tools they provide for IPv4 are crap, so wouldn&#x2
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by error503 4y ago
I don't think so? Maybe a bug of this form was found, but I'm sure nothing like that was involved in the crashes. The flight control software performed as it was designed to, it wasn't software that sent the trim wheels spinn
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by error503 4y ago
> Is the general model of public/private subnet still valid? Or are you saying in a ipv6-only world, there's no need for separate subnets? This is one thing that's actually been vastly improved in IPv6 (IMO), though I gues
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by error503 4y ago
> I still don't understand why they shifted from 0:: to ffff:: I think the most reasonable explanation is probably because they thought ::1 being loopback (otherwise it would have to go above 255.255.255.255) was more important (si
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by error503 4y ago
Why can't you use it as a firewall? It's weird, and against RFCs for your ISP to only give you a /64, but that should still be routed address space is routed through your router/firewall box, and therefore trivial to fir
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by error503 4y ago
Amazon is really not a great example, I don't think. The giant cloud providers are outliers with respect to DFZ announcements, as they have many, many POPs and also allow their customers to announce address space. They're more lik
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by error503 4y ago
There are viable transition mechanisms other than dual stack, that put some kind of translation layer between protocols, rather than expect native IPv4 connectivity on all hosts. This is perfectly viable, and is how many mobile networks han
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by error503 4y ago
The main paper seems to be behind a paywall ( rolleyes ), but I did find this synopsis that covers the basic approach and hardware: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4... It sounds like this te
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by error503 4y ago
Consumers, who don't have to know the ins and outs of local tax policies and exemptions to understand what the product they want to buy will cost them.
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by error503 4y ago
Are you sure? Because these boxes typically don't provide any (good) tools for configuring their IPv4 NATs/firewalls, why would you expect them to provide tools for managing the newfangled IPv6? IPv6 support in a lot of routers is
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by error503 4y ago
The software on the MAX worked as designed/specified; unlike Therac-25 there was no bug in the critical path, it was a series of design and oversight failures pushed by business and cost cutting interests, and the actual accidents were
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by error503 4y ago
I don't know if their stack allows for it, but the number of concurrent connections is limited by unique 5-tuples (which is what the host uses to identify the sockets), not just source ports. There is presumably quite a lot of entropy
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by error503 4y ago
> That's my whole point. You're thinking of it from an IP perspective where there are individual devices in some chain and they all need to autonomously figure out a path from my laptop to AWS. The reality is every device betwe
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by error503 4y ago
> So when I want my services to connect to each-other within AWS why am I still dealing with these complex routing algorithms and obtuse numbering schemes? > AWS knows exactly which physical hosts my processes are running on and could
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by error503 4y ago
In addition to what others have said about route stability, there is possibly a more relevant point to make: for 'ingress' traffic, the anycast IP is the destination , and for 'egress' traffic it is the source . This d

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