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by gcp 9y ago
Does this mean that if you OC a single core to the limit to get the best single threaded performance, you will see drops in performance when your other cores start getting utilized? This is how all CPUs with some form of "Boost"
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by gcp 9y ago
Computerbase concluded that the R7 1700 and the R5 1600(X) beat (respectively) the 8700K and 8600K in price/performance for non-gaming uses. Pretty graphs: https://pics.computerbase.de/8/0/0/8/6&#x2F
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by gcp 9y ago
You can RMA affected chips (I've done so), which were from early batches (apparently). It's inconvenient but it's not the first and won't be the last piece of hardware that has to be RMA-ed. At least you can RMA them! In
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by gcp 9y ago
Don't you need the vendor-specific backend for the physical P&R?
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by gcp 9y ago
The applications are the same, but an FPGA allows extremely narrow optimization. Got something that doesn't parallelize all that well, but can be pipelined, or benefits from a wide datapath? Design that. Got something that parallelizes
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by gcp 9y ago
Sounds about right. I guess the market economics don't work out for a simple design (i.e. with not much IP revealed by open sourcing the spec) that can be programmed with OS tools. I mean, there's these ICE chips, which is a huge
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by gcp 9y ago
You know, we would all like faster synthesize and P&R cycles, but when people complain about the tooling being shit, that's not what they're complaining about. (Mostly)
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by gcp 9y ago
The sore point of FPGA development is that not only the tooling is beyond terrible, it's also effectively a strong lock in. Changing designs is all but easy, even IF your design is not tied to specific hard fabric on the FPGA. So you g
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by gcp 9y ago
I got a Xilinx Spartan DEV board sitting in a drawer too. The board is great but Xilinx's tooling has negative value for me, so it'll stay there. Tooling is 100% the thing keeping FPGAs back.
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by gcp 9y ago
Taking control over dnsmasq seems potentially very useful even if it is running sandboxed. They're not a complete solution.
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by gcp 9y ago
To be honest, a compromised dnsmasq can do quite a lot of harm even if it is running in a sandbox. The rest of the system expects to trust the output.
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by gcp 9y ago
It's the feature I hate the most. It made sense for them because having all your history reside with Google fuels their engines. It makes no sense for the user and gives worse results when trying to find something back.
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by gcp 9y ago
Because the Pixel was the previous best device.
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by gcp 9y ago
They re-reviewed the Pixel with an updated, improved test protocol and the iPhone 8 is being compared to that. DXO makes the equivalent of Lightroom, they're not a bunch of hipsters.
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by gcp 9y ago
They re-reviewed the Pixel with a new test protocol, and the iPhone 8 is being compared to the results from that new test, whereas you're quoting the old values: https://www.dxomark.com/google-pixel-camera-review-retest
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by gcp 9y ago
Voice calls are pretty much the least used feature in smartphones for me. Certainly way, waaay below taking photos.
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by gcp 9y ago
I think the actual dxomark tests are, but the pics in the article are prettier custom takes for the audience?
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by gcp 9y ago
Like MMAudio, DirectSound, Kernel Streaming, WASAPI? AudioTrack, OpenSL, whatever-the-Android-8-thing-is-called?
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by gcp 9y ago
The issue with the volume is one of your desktop environment, not of PulseAudio.
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by gcp 9y ago
./mach bootstrap && ./mach build
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by gcp 9y ago
This is the better option (aside from fixing your PA config in the first place, which I'd heavily recommend instead). apulse can get into issues with Firefox's sandboxing. It supports PulseAudio and works with ALSA too, but ALSA-p
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by gcp 9y ago
I have no idea what you mean.
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by gcp 9y ago
Microsoft hasn't demanded royalties for things covered under their patent license (duh). That article is just another reminder why one cannot afford to give Facebook a pass on this.
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by gcp 9y ago
Given that Firefox is shipping this, are we looking at a reversal of the "Opera had it first" meme? :-)
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by gcp 9y ago
Yes, but those companies don't use toxic patent licenses like Facebook does. No false equivalence should be made here. Facebook needs and deserves to be called out over it as much as possible.
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by gcp 9y ago
That's the direct consequence of Facebook's patent license.
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by gcp 9y ago
I don't get what you are saying entirely, but companies like Microsoft and Broadcom, of all places, have given patent licenses with their open source work that were not as one-sided as Facebook's was. If Microsoft and Broadcom are
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by gcp 9y ago
Mozilla still gets money from Google for search. No.
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by gcp 9y ago
Bad press can kill a primitive even if it's incorrect. The Keccak guys had this happen to them with Noekeon. They're still sore over it, presenting this about 10 years later: https://www.cryptolux.org/mediawiki-esc
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by gcp 9y ago
The nuance that's being made here is that the public cryptanalytic results we have are from researchers that need to publish. However blackhats (be it government or private) have no such need. Thus, they do not care if the analysis is

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