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by p_l 1y ago
Actively trying to take it down would be in legal gray area, but you'd be probably in the clear if in court it was proven it was there intentionally and not in distress. If it fell in "aircraft in distress" case you're f
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by p_l 1y ago
Early Alpha CPUs (no idea about laters) essentially had a single special register that asserted a mutex lock on a word-sized (64bit) location for any read/write operation on the Sysbus.
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by p_l 1y ago
My understanding is that C++ memory model essentially pulled the concurrency bit from their own imagination, and as a result the only architecture that actually maps to it is RISC-V which explicitly decided to support it.
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by p_l 1y ago
yay, somehow I missed the repo and was confusedly waiting for plugin catalog :D
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by p_l 1y ago
If I wasn't virulently anti-helm I'd probably help maintain it, as it is I treat Helm as necessary evil but never write any charts ^^; Another idea I just had yesterday, and which I've seen partially executed by others, was s
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by p_l 1y ago
Yep, I have been just reading that for unrelated reasons before happening on the HN post :) At $DAYJOB I am currently dealing with rather huge Vault Enterprise install with lots and lots of namespaces. Honestly my biggest question is how co
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by p_l 1y ago
From reading, it's explicit choice to add more flexibility to namespace controls.
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by p_l 1y ago
Funnily enough, my first "personal" machine was a 486DX2, with a 15" "multimedia" monitor (meaning it had crappy speakers built-in and pretty much useless microphone). I don't really count it as "first PC&
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by p_l 1y ago
DVI is an interface, with multiple variants of connectors defined - and the digital portion was essentially the analog portion (which was VGA signals) streamed in digital form
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by p_l 1y ago
I remember when I got my first computer for myself, instead of sharing with others, it was "obvious requirement" that the screen runs at least 72Hz, preferably higher. Which was why 15" CRT had to run at 800x600. Later on, an
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by p_l 1y ago
Alto had its entire display control in microcode, IIRC. Out of similar tricks, Symbolics 3600 (at least first model) had major portions of disk driver implemented as one of the tasks in microcode (yes, the microcode was a multi-tasking syst
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by p_l 1y ago
It started out as 16bit enhancement to previous product, and evolved into being a 32bit architecture over development time. The separation of Data and Address registers are also result of how it evolved over time, AFAIK, ultimately because
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by p_l 1y ago
Motorola 68000 used had 16 data lines and 24 address lines, so it took at least two cycles to just transfer a CPU full word (disregarding timings on address latches etc). Some of the code AFAIK used fancy multi-register copies to increase c
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by p_l 1y ago
except DVI is essentially VGA without Digital-to-Analog part, and original HDMI is DVI with encryption, some predefined "must have" timings, and extra data stuffed into empty spaces of blasting a signal designed for CRT. I think p
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by p_l 1y ago
Lots of digital signage with small touchscreen LCDs that people interact with.
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by p_l 1y ago
You can make a shared library without PIC, however most *nix systems no longer allow that and try to prevent it in various ways. Windows in 16 and 32bit code defaults to non-PIC code and thus considerable work has been done to ensure system
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by p_l 1y ago
No - essentially a modern CPU is composed of multiple blocks, not just the actual CPU core. Some of those IP blocks will be closed source, often from third party vendors, and sometimes that means proprietary software blobs to interact with
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by p_l 1y ago
The part that story always stays silent is that Boeing then-CEO was big fan of Welch-ism apparently and oversaw major changes that caused long-term issues ... while new people (albeit not execs) from McDonnell-Douglas were publishing intern
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by p_l 1y ago
JWT can be used to store permission bits, but didn't it properly is very complex topic and usually works well only as "subsetting of claimed userid permission set" or "short lived token to be passed to third party to per
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by p_l 1y ago
> The one I linked to? Yep. I have to say that it differs - it happened over half of the times I opened it, but never when I tried to figure things out with DevTools. Originally I noticed when I had it open in background and entire syste
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by p_l 1y ago
I have simple question: WHY that page results, in recent chrome with all sorts of hw acceleration, on powerful laptop, to suck over 6 cores of cpu. As in, Chrome's internal task manager shows over 600% cpu use. I have less cpu use play
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by p_l 1y ago
ICBMs early on applied star tracking to increase precision, starting with pretty simple analog systems (I recall something about shifting a tape with simulated tracker signal to a position matching the launch time) to modern digital map sys
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by p_l 1y ago
I think I actually have that in production somewhere, going through DERP always
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by p_l 1y ago
Using your analogy one should lube the brake pads, after all friction is bad, isn't it? The friction here is on the "unwanted" path, and in a way provides "lube" (less thinking and care) for the correct security pos
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by p_l 1y ago
It was the common complaint about writing VCL apps in Delphi - that single message box app would be 0.5MB binary. But that was the static overhead of VCL core library and the benefits were considerable compared to writing raw WinAPI. And un
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by p_l 1y ago
It should work with tiled output, so long as a) it reports tiled geometry in DisplayID b) the driver handles it right. Then it should show up as single display. It's also how Apple XDR display presents itself to MacOS (two DisplayPort
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by p_l 1y ago
GNOME and systemd teams were in many ways joined at the hip, and GNOME unilaterally decided that from 3.6 to 3.8 they would switch certain APIs from one already deployed widely (polkit and related) to one that was documented like north kore
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by p_l 1y ago
It didn't win on being superior [1] but because it was either systemd or you don't get to to use GNOME 3.8. On more than one distro it was the reason for switching towards systemd. I will fully admit though that upstart was worse
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by p_l 1y ago
N.b. recently we had a bit of a small scandal in Poland which, among details, had the question of why perfectly fine radios had to be replaced on a bunch of new machines. The official answer is that the new (L3Harris) radios are for better
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by p_l 1y ago
From my (limited) exposure, CORBA might have been the least problematic decision in the whole project

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