josefx

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by josefx 3y ago
Maybe they shouldn't release garbage onto the market? I have collected roughly a dozen systems over the years, they all run Debian 12 and with one exception everything works fine. That one exception being a special purpose Vista Ready
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by josefx 3y ago
> from within the app itself Where in the App does it download the extensions? I know it will download the Guest Additions for you, but those are something completely different.
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by josefx 3y ago
I have been using Virtual Box for years without needing any of those. When it finally came down to PCIe pass through to get better 3D support I moved to qemu/kvm, no one forced me to pirate Oracles software for that. Of course qemu&#x2
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by josefx 3y ago
How? It doesn't add any functionality relevant to most users and you have to download it separately from Virtual Box itself.
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by josefx 3y ago
The query explicitly asks it to add no other text to the code. > it's improved performance from a human perspective. Ignoring explicit requirements is the kind of thing that makes modern day search engines a pain to use.
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by josefx 3y ago
wouldn't it be less time to just type one yourself? Like open notepad, hit the keys like a deranged monkey, select the first 64 characters, done?
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by josefx 3y ago
Ah, winget. Another proof that Microsoft never stopped being abusive as fuck. Inviting over open source developers under false pretenses, milking them for all the knowledge of their projects and then proceeding to ghost them for months bef
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by josefx 3y ago
AI models can get quite memory intensive while running. I have seen a primitive image improvement AI eat up over 80 GB of RAM on high res images. The data of the model itself "only" used up 4 GB.
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by josefx 3y ago
That is what firewalls and isolated networks are for. No need to make everything accessible to the world wide web unless you are out to be pwned.
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by josefx 3y ago
> r.release(); // oops; null pointer some times Quite sure Java would prevent that if r was never assigned. Also most languages provide cleaner try-with-resources or RAII style lifetime management so you don't actually end
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by josefx 3y ago
so that throwaway suggesting that add is barely longer than + wasn't you?
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by josefx 3y ago
Given that your example uses neither namespacing nor explicit typing you seem to preach do as I say, not as I do.
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by josefx 3y ago
> The code isn't readable (you can't even reliably tell at a glance what the operator does) and it takes negligibly longer to write "add()" rather than "+" in your program (yes, 'add()' is more key
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by josefx 3y ago
Games have a long history of being buggy messes and video card drivers have a long history of patching around those issues. Even Windows does, Microsoft actively checked if SimCity 2000 was running because without special treatment it would
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by josefx 3y ago
> If a line of code doesn't look like a function call, it's not calling anything. except maybe allocating dynamic arrays, floating point ops if those don't exist in hardware. Then you have signal handlers that can be calle
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by josefx 3y ago
> And that is because nobody would choose Python for its performance. Python the runtime may not be the most performant by itself, but python the ecosystem only took of because of performance hacks like those popular modules, pypi, cyth
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by josefx 3y ago
> Nobody has ever chosen Python for its runtime performance. How many people do you think would complain if the python devs. replaced numpy and pythorch with pure pyhton implementations for an April fools joke?
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by josefx 3y ago
From what I understand that was about them not cooperating with the kernel devs. and that their driver was a black box that had to interact with half the kernel didn't help. Driver wise my worst experiences where all solidly in the ATI
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by josefx 3y ago
So we are no longer running arbitrary code against arbitrary buffers of random access data?
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by josefx 3y ago
> If Google can't cache the whole article, they can't provide search for the article. Google can index the articles independently of serving their entirety to visitors. Might as well claim that wikipedia can't have article
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by josefx 3y ago
As far as I understand the distributor licensing for Googles apps and services outright prohibits manufacturers from selling any unapproved or Google free Android devices in countries where that isn't considered anti competitive.
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by josefx 3y ago
> [0] https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/ ... Nice v1 at the end. We can assume that this list is final and will not be changed? > nor (by policy) other kinds of sensitive P
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by josefx 3y ago
> Are you saying that IEEE754 does exactly represent 14.7 ? Pedantic: You are aware that 754 also specifies a decimal model?
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by josefx 3y ago
> There are people with authoritative knowledge, and you ask them the questions, and they give a "yes or no". Given that there have been many cases of lawmakers not understanding the impact of their own laws. Contracts unravele
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by josefx 3y ago
> and obviously police and ambulances (and fire trucks) doing their jobs don't have to follow the sign. Cue ambulance crashing through a wooden bridge over a river because it was never intended to carry the weight, or getting stuck
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by josefx 3y ago
What is your definition of need? If I need to meet friends in the park in five minutes I clearly need a car to get there in time. So the car would not be a vehicle in that case?
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by josefx 3y ago
> The memory model is a flat space provided by the OS that can be addressed by pointers From what I understand this is not true. Pointers cease to be valid the moment you try to leave a single allocation. You get to play around within a
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by josefx 3y ago
And if that is the first GDPR related offense you get away with a slap on the wrist.
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by josefx 3y ago
> IBM contributions to Linux kernel in 2000 That was quarter a century ago.
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by josefx 3y ago
> alternate functions through a single handle with additional and somewhat scary methods like ioctl. Plan9 manages this with servers, directories, and more than one path available for a single resource depending on what you're tryi

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