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by gary_0 1y ago
If all you're interested in is which extensions have been infected: Compromised OpenVSX Extensions: codejoy.codejoy-vscode-extension@1.8.3 codejoy.codejoy-vscode-extension@1.8.4 l-igh-t.vscode-theme-seti-folder@1.2.3
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by gary_0 1y ago
Some of SSE is required as part of the x86_64 ABI, and also new versions of Windows (infamously, now) add required CPU extensions so software will often base its requirements on that. And SSE4x is ubiquitous enough (99% of PCs) that some so
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by gary_0 1y ago
Oh man, I forgot about doing vector math using OpenGL textures as "hardware acceleration". And it would be many more years before it was reasonable to require a GPU with programmable shaders; having to support fixed-function was a
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by gary_0 1y ago
Yes. The earliest consumer PC 3D graphics cards just rasterized pre-transformed triangles and that's it; the CPU had to do pretty much all the math (but drawing the pixels was considered the hard part). Later, "Hardware Transform
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by gary_0 1y ago
A good explanation of branch prediction: https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/
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by gary_0 1y ago
The article is talking about OoO which is why I mentioned it. My point is that branch prediction and speculative execution are different things. You can do speculative execution without a branch predictor (run both branches and throw out th
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by gary_0 1y ago
> This is called branch prediction, it has been the source of many fun security issues... No, that's speculative execution you just described. Branch prediction was implemented long before out-of-order CPUs were a thing, as you need
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by gary_0 1y ago
OpenGL doesn't really have "2D stuff" (at least not in any version from the last 20 years). It's all a programmable 3D pipeline, which you can do 2D in by just not using the Z coordinate in the shader. However, doing 2D
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by gary_0 1y ago
Oh yeah, the "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these" Slashdot meme! I miss those days. At least the "can it run Doom?" meme is still alive and kicking.
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by gary_0 1y ago
Not even "do good"; even just honest business where you exchange a good or service with a customer for a fair market price. Technology allowed companies to expand and centralize on a national scale, and capital pushed that to the
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by gary_0 1y ago
The problem is that the standard library function is specified to be blocking (and it's in userspace, so io_uring is not relevant). It's quite possible to do a non-blocking DNS lookup but you have to use a separate non-standard li
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by gary_0 1y ago
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by gary_0 1y ago
A better headline might be "OpenAI research suggests reducing hallucinations is possible but may not be economical".
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by gary_0 1y ago
`apt search libgtk` on Linux Mint 21.2 doesn't show it. Only versions 2, 3 and 4. Searching https://pkgs.org says that most distros don't have a gtk 1 package... except for Slackware!
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by gary_0 1y ago
Of course not, expert systems were abandoned decades ago for good reason. But LLMs are only one kind of ANN. Unfortunately, when all you have is a hammer...
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by gary_0 1y ago
Determining a statement's truth (or if it's outside the system's knowledge) is an old problem in machine intelligence, with whole subfields like knowledge graphs and such, and it's NOT a problem LLMs were originally mean
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by gary_0 1y ago
The existence of SIMD has knock-on effects on the design of the execution unit and the FPUs, though, since it's usually the only way to fully utilize them for float/arithmetic workloads. And newer SIMD features like AVX/AVX2
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by gary_0 1y ago
> device physics for cheaper, smaller And lower power usage. Datacenters and mobile devices will always want that.
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by gary_0 1y ago
> Only a small portion of software is going to be able to be properly annotated to take advantage of this The same could be said for, say, SIMD/vectorization, which 99% of ordinary application code has no use for, but it quietly pro
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by gary_0 1y ago
I can't think of a C++ project I've worked on that didn't rely on being able to include C headers and have things usually just work. Are there ways of banning C macros from "modular" C++ without breaking that? (Many
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by gary_0 1y ago
It was a pretty huge disruption, though, even though the damage wasn't fatal.
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by gary_0 1y ago
I meant "quick buck" like flooding the place with ads, tracking, dark patterns, closing the API/protocol, or doing some sort of crypto scam, with no regard for the platform's long-term health. It's been funded for a
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by gary_0 1y ago
Off the top of my head: Paid hosting/services on top of the protocol, reddit-gold style tipping and gamification, being a transactional middleman (there are a lot of artists selling things, famous people promoting things, and so on), p
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by gary_0 1y ago
There are lots of ways they could make a sustainable income without disrupting Bluesky's current status quo and be comfortably rich for the rest of their lives... but that's completely out of character for them and will never happ
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by gary_0 1y ago
It can't access most Microsoft online services including Copilot, which happens to disable most of the features I don't want. (I understand this is both by design, as well as because Microsoft forbids unofficial forks from doing s
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by gary_0 1y ago
I couldn't get it to properly syntax highlight and autosuggest even after spending over an hour hunting through all sorts of terrible documentation for kate, clangd, etc. It also completely hides all project files that aren't in s
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by gary_0 1y ago
I would love more keyboard options! If I could have a laptop with a keyboard more like a standard tenkeyless, I would be over the moon. In the meantime, I'll have to see about hacking the standard keyboard somehow, although there'
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by gary_0 1y ago
Unmatched by Intel, who have been failing for a decade, so there was no competition? They mostly won by default. And Apple's chips are giving them a run for their money. If Apple sold plain CPUs that weren't locked to their softwa
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by gary_0 1y ago
It's my guess that they don't want to. A decade ago when AMD's CPUs had trouble competing at the high end, they ceded that market segment almost entirely, and now they're doing the same with nVidia. And Intel is basicall
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by gary_0 1y ago
Underrated in proprietary and non-software tech, too. It's horrible when infrequent tasks turn into bespoke shitshows every time they crop up because nobody wrote down how to solve the problem. Having to figure things out from scratch

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