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by kimixa 1y ago
When my account had a fraud alert they called me just to say I should call them back immediately on the number on the back of my card. I assumed this was normal.
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by kimixa 1y ago
Yes, I can see that stalling development as (at best) it turns into a pile of private forks rather than a cohesive project, but from what I remember that was already after Linux had "won" the "Open Source Kernel" race. C
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by kimixa 1y ago
I agree - there's a number of kernels that were "open source" and released at a similar time enough time to linux (e.g. 386BSD in '92) that I could see any of those winning the "community battle" and taking tha
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by kimixa 1y ago
So many times I've seen people complain about situations that would have been solved by choosing the license that actually matches how they intend others to use their work. Some engineers seem stuck to the idea that if they choose a pe
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by kimixa 1y ago
I can't find anywhere on that site that lists the 6 month waiting period or 50 hour requirements for adults, only for minors.
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by kimixa 1y ago
It also doesn't match what I experienced in 2015, though having a foreign driver's license may have skipped some of the requirements (though they never actually asked for for it when getting my provisional license, they might ha
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by kimixa 1y ago
Also the op cache - if it hits that the decoder is completely skipped.
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by kimixa 1y ago
And what driver wouldn't want extra senses, if they could actually meaningfully be used? The goal is to drive well on public roads, not some "Hands Tied Behind My Back" competition.
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by kimixa 1y ago
And does so by being larger, with the only real difference being more area (and gates, and often then critical path length and thus speed) being spent on getting the signaling to the level where it can do word instead of page addressing. Th
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by kimixa 1y ago
But much of the latency in cache is getting the signal to and from the cell, not the actual store threshold. And I can't see much difference in that unless you can actually eliminate gates (and so make it smaller, making it physically
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by kimixa 1y ago
No, I definitely remember it behaving differently if I pressed "return" (right of "#" on the keyboard) vs "enter" (on the numpad). EDIT: In the US I guess that's right of "'"? Below backspac
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by kimixa 1y ago
I remember back in the day I had a demo disc where one of the installers (I think it was Theme Park?) had a prompt of "Press return to quit, press enter to continue". And that confused single-digit-years me for a surprising amount
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by kimixa 1y ago
I assume you mean "pointer width" - ala the x32 ABI and similar, and more about cache use than "Switching Transistor Count". But really that's a software/OS level thing, and though the benefits have definitely
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by kimixa 1y ago
On anything but the smallest implementations, the 32 vs 64bit alu cost difference is pretty tiny compared to everything else going on in the core to get performance. And assumes the core doesn't support 32-bit ops, leaving the rest of
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by kimixa 1y ago
NetBSD doesn't support any devices without an mmu. I think people here are misunderstanding just how "weird" and hacky trying to run an OS like linux on those devices really is.
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by kimixa 1y ago
I feel it's more they're not actually playing for the scoreline. They want to be the team #1, even if that causes the team to lose in the end.
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by kimixa 1y ago
I had a Crucial drive fail to read-only. I got the data off, but most of the data wasn't really that important so there might have been dead regions. I feel that many consumers won't really know if it's still readable, I&#x27
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by kimixa 1y ago
So they'll just block any constant rate stream that isn't containing AV data or a whilelisted streaming service.
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by kimixa 1y ago
I worked for an IP vendor that was in some Atom SoCs (over a decade ago now though) - from what I remember the perf/w was actually pretty competitive for contemporary ARM devices when we supplied the IP, but then took so long to actual
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by kimixa 1y ago
I generally like text even if it might take slightly longer to communicate, as it can then be referred back to later easily, and often the mental effort and time required to put it into words in the first place often means you have a cleare
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by kimixa 1y ago
But they're often not a "random stranger" though - there's plenty of people who many would trust to do exactly that due to expectations of reputation etc. "The Government" is arguably just another. I suspect th
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by kimixa 1y ago
...What if we called it a "Machine Spirit"?
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by kimixa 1y ago
> It's still mind boggling to me that governments didn't say "Don't wear a mask for yourself -- wear one to save your neighbor." I mean... they did? Like in the UK's guidance literally the second sentence is
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by kimixa 1y ago
In addition to the other reasons listed below, Apple employee's provided the initial ARM porting patches in the first place. It sounds like Microsoft was involved in this project (though the text seems to imply Qualcomm might have been
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by kimixa 1y ago
I think I see the opposite - a Game of Life logic gate is way harder to understand than just a symbol representing the logic itself. And I see most logic gate transistor implementations as much simpler and so easier.
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by kimixa 1y ago
I don't fear AI, I fear Juniors using AI. It feels like it completely messes up my current experience and heuristics to judge a junior's skills from their output, and what expectations I have for their skills and growth from that
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by kimixa 1y ago
I feel then people would then complain that they're shipping "incomplete" or "obfuscated" code. These headers are likely generated from their internal RTL, and somewhat part of the documentation to allow other OSS u
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by kimixa 1y ago
From my experience working on GPU drivers, the ISA is one of the least important parts of porting. 99% of the time, it's just changing a compiler flag. Thankfully, the era of "Ancient Quirky Proprietary Toolchain" is a thin
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by kimixa 1y ago
As GPUs are already asynchronous devices with their own command queue, and the IOCTLS generally just abstracting a relatively cheap write into that command queue, I suspect there's limited utility in making another asynchronous command
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by kimixa 1y ago
Not as much crumple zone as you might think in a "traditional" truck if most of the space is full of a solid metal block

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