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by gmueckl 4mo ago
Apple could have worked with other companies to make RCS secure by default instead of building their own little thing that openly and intentionally discriminates non-members of their club.
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by gmueckl 4mo ago
It's not a backdoor. It's a front door that can only be opened from the inside when done correctly.
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by gmueckl 4mo ago
That's even worse, then. They are not responsible for other companies' products. So this is just another piece of anti-DMA propaganda then. They have been fighting it loudly and with toddler-level arguments since they became subje
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by gmueckl 4mo ago
A lot of regulation is legally defined in terms of outcomes. That in itself isn't unusual. Checklists of technical requirements are almowt always a derivative and a suggestion about a safe path to meet the regulated outcome. This is ho
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by gmueckl 4mo ago
Throwing infinite money at engineering problems doesn't move deadlines arbitrarily. But Apple's position here is actually really wild: Apple claims to protect user privacy all the time. But they can't offer a product in a maj
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by gmueckl 4mo ago
But Visa applications need to prove English proficiency already. So it's somehow neither here nor there.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Quite likely, but the transfer throughput is required in bursts, not necessarily continously. Let me put it this way: what I care about is how quickly data arrives after a bunch of shader threads request it. Throughput is one way for hardw
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
I'm being very, very conservative with my estimates here. Based on the renderers I know, I could have easily tweaked the numbers to go up to 8000 full screen texture reads per second. That doesn't include texture or geometry or BV
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
A variant of exec could take an initial table of file descriptors in the current process that get cloned into the new child. Pipe creation could also get rolled into this mechanism. That should take care of the most obvious leaky bit of for
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
That sounds like a lot, but: modern renderers do between 20 to 40 passes, many of them in screen space. And each screen space pass typically reads from at least two input images, sometimes 3 or 4 even with optimally packed inputs. At 60fps
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
I read it as an inability to measure the leak rate immediately after the repair. If the rate is slow, measuring it takes time.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Alt+LMB drag is impossible to do properly, at least on Windows, because too many applications use that for their own inputs. There are some X11 applications that also use that (Blender?), so while it's cool when it works, it comes with
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Sorry, I was unclear. I was referring to wholesale text to image/text to vudeo generation as sloppy generators. That is not what Black Magic or Adobe is building.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
These tools are very specific and keep the artist in control. Slop generators aren't reallly controlable.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
This is valid for sequential scanning of the data. The CPU will fill whole cache lines at once with the arrays that do get used and the algorithm touches all the field instances in the array. Now think about random access to single struct i
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Array resizing is avoidable with an embedded free list if ordering is of no concern.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
No, I wouldn't. I'm not your enemy. Please don't antagonize people like that. It's rude and I considered not replying because of your tone. I have a pretty strong oppinion that GUI basics must be simple but more advance
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Try to move a browser window when you have 20+ tabs open. This is an incredibly bad UX.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
What about the automatic scanning for politically inconvenient keywords then? How do you figure that this isn't bad?
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
I also don't get it with the wayland people. It feels like they want to revert everything to a UX design that was getting old in the 90s.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
How many buttons do you want on a window frame then? The typical 4 buttons already take a lot of space in the title bar. Not everything that seems like a good idea at first glance is actually good design.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
That expectation is really an immediate major UX defect. Most really good GUIs rely on tons and tons of subtle behaviors to work right (that is, to assist the user). That means - counterintuitively - that they need a lot of leeway in how th
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
If its any consolation: once we've burnt the last crumb of coal, the last drop of oil and last bit of natural gas to fuel the AI overlords, that particular problem will take care of itself.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Email only is not a good option for them. They need candidates that aren't at least a total embarrassment when presented to their clients, so the phone call really is a first screening interview.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
I guess that this may be the day when I give up on the Linux desktop :/. I really love KDE, but I'm not ready to transition to wayland.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Insufficient information. Each option will address a different part of the market with a different size. Unless the potential revenue is estimated for each option, an informed decision is not possible.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Places like HN don't necessarily become political of their own choice. Policy is forced on them, so they can no longer avoid it.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
The PHD level domai experts that will enter the labor market about ten years from now are the generation that enters college now. Some of the best teachers and advisors will no longer be at US institutuons by then. So this expert pool will
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Wr are already there, in a sense: the amount of basic software in a box that is required to produce more software is already huge. And so is the supply chains behind it.
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by gmueckl 5mo ago
Welcone to Management - AI Edition: everything bad about technical management except for the people problems.

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