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by mappu 6y ago
Patents have a 20-year lifespan so the common x86_32 patents must have already expired. As for x86_64, the patents would expire in either 2020 or 2023 depending on if you count from the first published documentation or from the first shippi
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by mappu 6y ago
"Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, claims x86 emulation is a patent minefield" (2017) https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel...
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by mappu 6y ago
The two libraries out there that I found seem to be hand-rolled - Box.net have an official OpenAPI descriptor at https://github.com/box/box-openapi , that you can one-time feed into an OpenAPI-to-PHP codegenerator such
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by mappu 6y ago
The Maestro is a musician, not a painter.
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by mappu 6y ago
The go2 proposal (as currently implemented) is a source-to-source translator back to go1, so neither in that case. As for the existing implementation of generic map[K]V, generic []T, chan(T), etc., it's a best-of-both-worlds mix - a ki
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by mappu 6y ago
> Who is Qualcomms competition ? given that all android phones are running just their chips Mediatek, Samsung, HiSilicon (Huawei) are the high-end competition that produce competitive smartphone SoCs with the latest ARM cores. Rockchip a
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by mappu 6y ago
> Windows for ARM can't emulate Intel x64 software. This was confirmed coming soon, and will almost certainly be available by the time the new Apple Silicon devices are released. > Nor will games using OpenGL versions above 1.
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by mappu 6y ago
- The bad optics would tank their share price - TSMC have limited capacity - Intel's designs are tightly coupled to their own foundry (hence the Skylake rehashes instead of porting the improved Ice Lake architecture back to the 14nm pr
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by mappu 6y ago
> Geekbench is super misleading because they do things like include benchmarks which are hardware-accelerated on the CPU in the iPhone but not the Intel ones. This was a problem in Geekbench 4 (especially so on Android) and was resolved
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by mappu 6y ago
>Newer Thinkpads are the only laptops I've seen which bring their own camera shutters. The Huawei Matebook has the camera as a hidden popup under one of the F-keys. The Xiaomi Redmibook goes one step further and omits the camera+m
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by mappu 6y ago
They do have some presence (large investments in Rivian and Aurora.tech).
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by mappu 6y ago
I took some similar benchmarks recently: https://code.ivysaur.me/interpreter-binary-perf Perl5 won the dec2bin benchmark. The other thing I learned was that PHP's binary/decimal functions are two orders of magnitu
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Microsoft Posts Initial DRM Driver for Hyper-V Synthetic Video Device(phoronix.com)
2 points by mappu 6y ago|0 comments
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by mappu 6y ago
Kostya (long time ffmpeg contributor from e.g. RV40 reverse engineering) moved on to writing a greenfield ffmpeg alternative purely in Rust, with all new codecs, named NihAV. Follow the blog: https://codecs.multimedia.cx/ b
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Global Data Compression Competition(globalcompetition.compression.ru)
3 points by mappu 6y ago|0 comments
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by mappu 6y ago
So do all AMD Ryzen CPUs in the form of TrustZone/PSP, usually a Cortex-A5. It's equally as user-inaccessible as the T2.
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by mappu 6y ago
My impression is that Microsoft are taking a very conservative interpretation of the x86 ISA patents (compared to e.g. qemu-user which has made this available for years now). Patents have a 20 year lifespan, most of the x86_32 ones have exp
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by mappu 6y ago
What's the maintainable way of doing this, that can survive chrome package updates and also handle http URIs opened from other applications?
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by mappu 6y ago
> Linux doesn't help this by overcommitting memory that it doesn't actually have. As long as the POSIX fork/exec pattern is implemented with a CoW address space, you can just write all over memory to cause new physical a
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by mappu 6y ago
> They save money on things they don’t control like batteries because the faster CPU uses less power, etc. Everyone else is stuck with whatever garbage Qualcomm is dishing out. I don't think the battery/CPU relation you posit
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by mappu 6y ago
This is an important angle. There is currently a serious supply limitation of Intel CPUs at volume, Amazon simply cannot get enough to meet demand.
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by mappu 6y ago
> Totally violates the spirit of the GPL. In the specific, I think the relevant part is whether the kernel component and the userspace component are an Aggregate or not for the purposes of GPL virality. From the gnu.org GPL FAQ: >
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by mappu 6y ago
Stackoverflow doesn't have a Chinese version - what domestic site is popular there? (And how many questions does it have?) I looked at Segmentfault (CN) but I can't see any total number of questions - but if I refresh StackOverflo
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by mappu 6y ago
I'm star-struck every time I see the Georgian alphabet, those letters are beautiful.
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by mappu 6y ago
I spent easily 10 000 hours using Mercurial over nearly 10 years. I was, and still am, a huge Hg fan. I switched to Git quite late (some time in 2018) and converted all projects, both home+work, cold turkey. I recently revisited an old Hg p
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by mappu 6y ago
The command-line C# compiler csc.exe is also pre-installed as part of the .NET Framework. There's also all the WSH languages (VBScript and JScript).
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by mappu 6y ago
If you're monitoring traffic you can see the SNI header in plaintext. ESNI is not deployed yet (and is only as secure as DNS; that is maybe why browsers are implementing DoH themselves instead of waiting for the OS).
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by mappu 6y ago
There is a new, closed-source Microsoft DirectX 12 library for Linux apps that speaks WDDM to /dev/dxg. There is a pre-existing closed-source NVIDIA Vulkan+OpenGL+CUDA library for Linux apps that speaks EGLStreams to /dev&#x2
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by mappu 6y ago
Presumably the NVIDIA Linux driver can be replaced with a shim over this, and we can all forget about EGLStreams.
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by mappu 6y ago
In 2020, most people's only device is a cellphone. They can't easily run ghostscript directly, and making a web service is easier than making an app (recompiling ghostscript for all CPU architectures, ...) despite the ongoing host

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