kimixa

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by kimixa 10mo ago
As a Brit, I'm not quite sure this article is right in it's declaration it's a universal "English" thing and not more "American English".
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by kimixa 10mo ago
I think you're thinking of british-style "en-dashes" – which is often used for something that could have been separated by brackets but do have a space either side – rather than "em" dashes. They can also be used
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by kimixa 10mo ago
I don't think they were "intended" for anything - it's just that was the state of the control lines after it decoded that instruction byte, and combination might do something somewhat sane. Wiring all the "illegal
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by kimixa 11mo ago
If the round trip time is dominated by the time taken to encrypt and decrypt packets locally, as seems here, then the speed at which it can complete that is absolutely important for measuring "latency".
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by kimixa 11mo ago
My belief was that many analysts at the time considered that the justification rather than the cause, as alluded to by the Ukraine counter claims in the guardian article. Similarly, Trump isn't saying he wants to invade Venezuela to di
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by kimixa 11mo ago
I think it's very sector dependent. Working on drivers, a relatively recent example is when we started looking at a "small" image corruption issue in some really specific cases, that slowly spidered out to what was fundamenta
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by kimixa 11mo ago
Depends on how you define "war", but the initial invasion of Crimea by Russia in 2014 and Israel's strikes on Iran this year may count - both were closely aligned to rising domestic pressure on the leaders at the time.
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by kimixa 11mo ago
Apple did that to push people towards their own walled garden of APIs rather than some deficiency of the OpenGL API. There is no "technical" solution to this, no Even better API that would make them support it, as it's a bu
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by kimixa 11mo ago
I kinda disagree with #2, even ignoring the adversarial wording - at most it's an extension of "HN isn't All Of Tech" From people I've spoken to personally, I've seen it as primarily #3 - "Why do we need c
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by kimixa 1y ago
During "light" browsing pretty much any laptop's power use is massively dominated by things that aren't the CPU, assuming there's been any attempt at enabling that use case (which doesn't always seem to be
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by kimixa 1y ago
Any "given" name/ID (IE anything but the full hash) in a distributed VCS has to be mutable - without some single central arbiter of truth it's simply impossible. I'm honestly a little surprised people seem to think
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by kimixa 1y ago
They still use "overlays" - just they're a lot more featureful in modern implementations than "Replace all of one colour with another surface" - so they tend not to have the same limitations and quirks. MS started e
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by kimixa 1y ago
That's just means you're effectively acting as a moderator yourself, only with a whitelist. It's just your own direct curation of sources. And how did you discover those feeds in the first place? Or find new ones? I know peop
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by kimixa 1y ago
In some power constrained scenarios that sort of thing is often petty reproducible. Especially if the different SKUs have different power budgets. Laptop GPU naming and performance is a bit of a mess, as in the example shown (the 4060 on th
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by kimixa 1y ago
... Do you not see a toddler dialing random numbers as anything but a nuisance to the people whose numbers they happened to dial? Or waste emergency services' time? (their numbers are intentionally easy to dial, and likely more recogni
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by kimixa 1y ago
"successful" boycotts always have a weird decision afterwards, as you want them to be "rewarded" in reversing course, but still cost them enough to not be worth trying things again next time. And it feels like for most o
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by kimixa 1y ago
No, a representative democracy allows the majority to choose their representatives. And the majority chose one party in those states. That is what democracy is . What you're asking for is rule by minority. At an extreme, an autocracy.
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by kimixa 1y ago
It's also a failure state of real discussion to discount someone's voice simply because of perceived incivility. Or conversely, weigh someone's opinion higher simply because of phrasing rather than content.
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by kimixa 1y ago
After process start and it's initial state, the stack is just another virtual address and the just sp another register. It can be mapped, remapped, changed to point to whatever. With overcommit even the initial state may not be entirel
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by kimixa 1y ago
One limitation of the stack is that it needs to be contiguous virtual addresses, so it was often limited when devices just didn't have the virtual address space to "waste" on a large stack for every thread in a process. But 6
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by kimixa 1y ago
But if the "private API" was the only way of fixing an issue with rendering corner smoothing, was it "misuse"?
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by kimixa 1y ago
It really depends on details. If intentionally slowing non CUTLASS shaders, sure pitchfork time. If it's an option that /technically/ breaks the CUDA shader compatibility contract, then enabling it in specific "known g
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by kimixa 1y ago
Sure, but they're already paying that cost for every non-static function anyway. Any DSO, or executable that allows function interposition, already pays. Ideally you should just multiversion the topmost exported symbol, everything belo
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by kimixa 1y ago
On linux it uses IFUNC resolved at load/dynamic relocation time, so at runtime it's the same cost as any other (relocatable) function call. But they're "static" in that it's not a calculated address so pretty e
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by kimixa 1y ago
I wonder why they use multiple executables instead of something like function multiversioning [0] [0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Multiversioning....
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by kimixa 1y ago
Imgur offers services to UK-based customers, allowing them to view and host images in return for viewing ads. You used to be able to optionally pay for a pro account, though the vast majority of users use the free ad-supported option, and
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by kimixa 1y ago
As a brit growing up at a similar time I assumed that was an American thing - you saw it all the time on TV and adverts, but seems crazy to actually serve it like that. It was always served by my parents already coated in sauce. Looking bac
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by kimixa 1y ago
The US has always claimed jurisdiction on foreign-hosted but US-accessible content. Do people forget the owner of Megaupload being extradited? In many ways this is just catching up to the current US state. And there's a lot of confusio
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by kimixa 1y ago
I feel there will be a $30-40 bottle that will match your preferences, you just need to find it. Taste and availability can change on locality - California absolutely loves it's Cabernet Sauvignon, for example. Often to the detrime
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by kimixa 1y ago
If a single design of automated lawnmower cut off 50 toes it should absolutely be investigated. Perhaps the result of that investigation is there is no fault on the machine, but you don't know that until you've looked.

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