justsid

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by justsid 7y ago
> The 9980XE is just a really large/fast Skylake CPU. Skylake is years old. Unfortunately larger and slightly refined Skylakes is all that Intel ships these days on Desktop. If it’s unfair to compare Ryzen CPUs to that, then I’m afr
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by justsid 7y ago
I love how it’s clear that KitSplit had no plans of re-imbursing or doing anything for the OP, until it blew up. This is super shady damage control.
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by justsid 9y ago
The NSA is part of the executive branch. They don‘t make any laws.
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by justsid 9y ago
Plus you can upgrade parts of your PC during its lifetime, without having to replace the whole thing at once.
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by justsid 9y ago
This is why I love macOS so much! With the command key, there is no overlap for things like copy and paste and ctrl + c/v. Also Cocoa implements things like ctrl + a/e etc for every native textfield and textview, so I‘ve gotten re
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by justsid 9y ago
That‘s true, but it‘s also important to note that most of the BSD subsystem is actually a shim over Mach. So once your BSD syscall has made it to the kernel, chances are you‘ll get a mach IPC call from the BSD shim.
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by justsid 9y ago
In German we have „dabei sein ist alles“: „taking part is everything“
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by justsid 9y ago
Very fair point. In fact, my wife actually knows my phones passcode for the exact same reason. „Open book“ was definitely the wrong phrasing here, I wasn‘t trying to say that you have to keep everything secret from your spouse. Just that th
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by justsid 9y ago
Not trying to tell you how to live your life, but being an open book to the other isn‘t very trusting. If your trust is build around being able to spy on the other, maybe you aren‘t trusting each other that much. My wife and I both have our
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by justsid 9y ago
Similarly: Kernel bugs! Once upon a time I spend a good week trying to reproduce a rare crash one of our users saw ever so often (just enough to get our attention, but not enough to get a repro case). Stack traces made no sense and just in
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by justsid 9y ago
It’s not a fork of Java, it’s a language that uses the JVM like Scala. It’s not at all like Java, it’s a modern language more akin to Swift with lots of syntactic sugar.
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by justsid 10y ago
iOS allows dynamic libraries these days. Granted, it didn’t allow for them for a long time, but since iOS 8 you can use dynamic libraries just fine.
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by justsid 10y ago
Hard to say if something like this would be patchable via a microcode update. But regardless, back then your CPU didn’t run software to run your software, so a new hardware revision was in order.
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by justsid 10y ago
I was thinking of the HSBC app the whole time while reading this. In my opinion Apple should reject that piece of shit and force HSBC to write a native app that works properly.
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by justsid 10y ago
I would like to one up you, I find it to be quite a sexy plane! I can’t even put my finger on why it does, but I just find it way better looking than regular figher jets.
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by justsid 10y ago
I’m similarly displeased with the disappearance of the pthread subsystem in 10.9! I had to debug quite a nasty kernel bug, and was absolutely surprised when I discovered that all pthread syscalls are now stubs into a private kext.
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by justsid 10y ago
But you _do_ void the warranty if you break your phone when sitting on it. It's a specific action that does that, and it's not as simple as "only rooting your phone voids the warranty"
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by justsid 10y ago
I noticed the same thing. I was actually very agains the Apple Watch, but received one for free from my workplace so I just gave it a shot. And I actually fell in love with it, mostly because I don’t use it as an extension of my phone (got
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by justsid 10y ago
I have the memorable phrase and have to use the HSBC app for my password. Now, the fun thing is that my actual HSBC password is 40 characters randomness, so pretty secure. The mobile password that is used to derive the 2FA key must not be l
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by justsid 10y ago
Which to me appears to be the better way around, since it generates static JS instead of having to compile Java every time, as well as having to set up a JVM and whatnot.
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by justsid 10y ago
It litereally means two completely different architectures, on two physically disconnected computers. Here is a diagram: https://i.imgur.com/Tj0GKbQ.png Also visible in the diagram is that each side has its own watchdog, bo
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by justsid 10y ago
No idea about Boeing, but yes for Airbus. Every “computer" is actually two computers, one is the active computer (COM, command) and one is the inactive computer (MON, monitoring). Both still perform the same calculations based on the s
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by justsid 10y ago
Every Airbus since the A320 uses the same system in their fly by wire design as well. Plus several fallback mechanisms where other computers can take over failed computers work or augument their work. For example the ELAC controls the ailer
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by justsid 11y ago
That’s simply not true! Airplanes are developed over decades and then stays in service over decades, current low fuel prices won’t change decisions that are being made years into the future. All current in development airplanes (and I’m tal
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by justsid 11y ago
I’ve talked about this with one of the guys at Apple who writes graphics drivers. Basically vendors give them their Windows drivers and they change them to work against IOKit. No idea what my point is, besides, “it’s probably not that easy”
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by justsid 11y ago
Of course not. Flying cars, however, obviously would since we would need some means of transportation.
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by justsid 11y ago
Safari makes use of a kernel feature that allows giving some leeway for when the process should be woken up again (eg. from a timer source). That way the kernel can put the CPU to sleep until it can schedule as many processes as possible at
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by justsid 11y ago
Doesn’t that already make it deterministic though? It’s always the same sequence of “random” numbers, even before replacing the lookup table it should’ve been deterministic.
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by justsid 12y ago
Depending on how much insight you could get into the system, you could probably find out when it is doing “random” work and when it does actual work, since they will most likely look different in terms of eg. heat output, power consumption
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by justsid 12y ago
Not to excuse or justify the design decision, but you can in fact re-enable highlighting for buttons. It’s in the accesibility settings. Edit: Just realized we are talking about websites here. Sorry, forget what I said!

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