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by katastic 9y ago
... unless they suffer from the same problem as Intel CPU's Meltdown fiasco. Where the branch prediction runs concurrently with the security checking. The branch predictor hits and speculates, firing the bug, while the security chec
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by katastic 9y ago
I love diagnosing Microsoft enterprise frameworks. Half the time in CRM or NAV, it's either an error code with zero google results, or, "general error." And yes, I know about tracing.
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by katastic 9y ago
>* If you get an initial opioid script from a doctor for more than 10 days, you have a 20% chance of being on opioids a year after. Again not a moral failing. [0] It should be noted that people who are bad enough off to need opiods, may
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by katastic 9y ago
South Park did an episode on this. Where everyone was so afraid of "reality" they elected someone to censor it all and keep their tweets only positive. Butters had to see every depraved thing. And he ended up trying to kill himsel
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by katastic 9y ago
While I agree, it should be noted ROM is actually incredibly slow by today's standards.
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by katastic 9y ago
> the freshly installed system boots up in about 30 seconds, including the BIOS doing its thing. Honest question/clarification, is that... considered fast? My DOS system used to boot that fast. A C64 is almost instant. And my old ~2
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by katastic 9y ago
WHAT?! Then shoot those people, or, less hyperbolicly, throw them in prison. If your cops or military have to live in fear of being murdered for merely wearing their clothes, then your/their country has incredibly serious problems and
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by katastic 9y ago
Dear downvoter: I dare you to provide logic or a source that rebukes my point.
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by katastic 9y ago
As usual, the only thing that corporations listen to... is the threat of the dollar. They didn't give two craps about their policy until this week.
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by katastic 9y ago
I've created dev environment VM's with classic operating systems (XP, etc) because my job involves updating lots of really old code (most clients only update when they have to, every 5-10 years). I could definitely see someone doi
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by katastic 9y ago
There are various treatments (like Chrome plating) vendors one of my metalworking clients use--all available in the USA. They compete by being extremely efficient with their use of labor hours and cutting waste. Just-in-time everything. I&#
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by katastic 9y ago
The bad guys might wear military clothes... How does that stop terrorism? The bad guys could just say they're doing official duties.
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by katastic 9y ago
That's really pathetic that a "consumer ready" embedded piece of software whose whole job is remote-management... needs to be remotely managed because it crashes all the time.
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by katastic 9y ago
>And you almost certainly can't compile some of them with a modern compiler, I wonder how long and difficult it must be to get all the required dependencies to compile a modern web browser... [two hours of obscure error messages lat
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by katastic 9y ago
And then the duplicate doesn't even have the answers you need.
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by katastic 9y ago
Assembly never stopped anti-virus suites. Where there's a will, there will always be a way. Without adblock, the majority of web users would be FURIOUS with websites and they'd demand legislative action. Advertisers should shut up
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by katastic 9y ago
Does it work for usernames? Here, check mine: 8ftpenissurvivor What does that show up as?
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by katastic 9y ago
In D, I just call super.this(var, var) to ensure I'm calling the correct base constructor. And fire off an assert if super(void) gets called because I didn't explicitly write a specialized one. But I think C++ has what... paramete
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by katastic 9y ago
I've heard PS/2 was faster (because it's a direct ISA/PCI device / hardware interrupt?), whereas USB can introduce more latency because it has no real-time guarantee and it's packet-based. https://su
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by katastic 9y ago
>Hopefully Apple will lead the pack again. Like when they made a calculator that fails to calculate correctly if you push buttons too fast? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15538666 Definitely applicable because it&#
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by katastic 9y ago
60's.
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by katastic 9y ago
Wow, people are butthurt. It's a wildly known fact in the industry. A simple google search for benchmarks or a PDF like this would have satisfied them. But they didn't want the truth they wanted to be butthurt. https://
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by katastic 9y ago
I've actually heard a lot of people say this. At least a couple Ph.Ds, though I can't recall the links. How many failures in journalism are attributed to "lazy journalism" where nobody will even leave the building these
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by katastic 9y ago
OpenCL is slower than CUDA, but it's not the end of the world.
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by katastic 9y ago
There are plenty of Apple failures. https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/apple/11-worst-apple-prod... The truth is, in hindsight, you can make history and success/failure stories look like the result of anythin
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by katastic 9y ago
> That requires much higher throughput, which causes much of the added latency on the display end. That's not all the reason. More pixels pushed would only increase latency if the CPU/memory/etc wasn't faster than the
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by katastic 9y ago
John Carmack said years ago, "I can send a packet across the world in less time than it takes to put a pixel on the screen."
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by katastic 9y ago
That was an incredible read. I had no idea about it. Hilariously dangerous.
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by katastic 9y ago
Well, people smart enough to be the kind of contestant they want, are still fulfilling what the producers want.
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by katastic 9y ago
Congrats on the work though!

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