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by p_l 2y ago
And the defaults system is just registry by another name
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by p_l 2y ago
Office 2013, last non Click2Run version, worked wonderfully on Wine few years ago
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by p_l 2y ago
On laptops it's usually not SuperIO, but EC (Embedded Controller), the same chip that handles battery, power, etc. and is usually connected over LPC to "present" the keyboard as PS/2 compatible input (some new ones are p
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by p_l 2y ago
Also some classic CISC features (that escaped x86 by virtue of it being a cheap micro ISA originally) can explore into ridiculous stalls in execution. The prime example is probably VAX, whose super orthogonal ISA (another "full CISC&qu
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by p_l 2y ago
The surviving "CISC" chips are the ones that where, paradoxically, closer to "RISC" in behaviour due to being less capable early on. Compared to motorla 68k, let alone monsters like VAX or PDP-10, x86 is very RISC-y, and
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by p_l 2y ago
MIT Kerberos can authenticate using OIDC created token, but in my case I essentially authenticated to Keycloak with HTTP Negotiate with Kerberos, then based on data from LDAP (that was also used by Kerberos) I generated appropriate OIDC tok
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by p_l 2y ago
One time I actually implemented that on OIDC... by having the OIDC login page do a kerberos login :D this meant that at most you had a short flash on screen for web apps... which is a bit like OIDC/SAML login on windows domains (but I
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by p_l 2y ago
I see it as a case of forced decentralisation leading to bad incentives. When you had few NHS trusts covering entire UK, you could easily handle common issues because their scale matched close enough to cover entire vertical slice. Now you
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by p_l 2y ago
"Local" parties (tories) split NHS trusts into smaller pieces which heavily impacted efficiency (Scotland IIRC escaped it)
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by p_l 2y ago
> Backing this one up with my own experience of ADD (I was never hyperactive): I'd like to add also that a lot of people without ADD/ADHD think "hyperactivity" must be stereotypical "hyperactive annoying brat tha
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by p_l 2y ago
Mind you, I haven't used Macs since last intel ones, but my current workhorse of Zephyrus 14 2023 has at least comparable mics to last intel 15" and 16", and better speakers. T14g5 AMD I have from one contract has slightly wo
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by p_l 2y ago
Generally, unquantized - double the number and that's the amount of VRAM in GB you need + some extra, because most models use fp16 weights so it's 2 bytes per parameter -> 32B parameters = 64GB typical quantization to 4bit will
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by p_l 2y ago
No idea - audio just happens to be something I once looked into because claims about superiority of apple software solution on M-chip macbooks to the speaker quality made me look more in depth.
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by p_l 2y ago
One of the bigger uses of Llama I found for myself is throwing a description of email to write, having them generate a skeleton for me, this kickstart enough that I can do a rewrite even when I totally lack the energy to start one. Sometime
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by p_l 2y ago
As another AuDHD I wish it was so. Then I could just blink them and get benefits. Instead I sometimes can't follow a book that is both engaging and interesting to read because 3 pages in my brain will throw at me at least one novel st
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by p_l 2y ago
Is it? I mean, compared to some laptops where I explicitly was not interested in paying extra for audio, sure. Especially with them being older than "standard" presence of audio coprocessor on board. Compared to the two new-ish AM
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by p_l 2y ago
Avoiding extra coprocessor and/or avoiding patent dispute like they did with speakers (which differ from a H-K patent by not having a discrete chip implementing it)
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by p_l 2y ago
Honestly, with speakers it was mainly a patent avoidance thing (patent on essentially the same thing but done with dedicated hardware, doing it with software on "application processor" bypassed the patent claims) A lot of similar
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by p_l 2y ago
The entire "unix" part was updated with OSF/1 source code, with patches here and there of Free and NetBSD codebase. But especially when compiling code that was written in C for "modern BSD" (Net/Free/Open)
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by p_l 2y ago
From talking with some people who were witnesses to earliest days of Hurd (but not involved in the project), the real problems of Hurd were social not technical - if anything, OSF/1 & NeXTSTEP succeeding from similar code base (f
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by p_l 2y ago
There was this little thing called World Wars that decimated a lot of capital of all kinds (demographic, financial, materiel, infrastructure) which USA exited in completely different position - one of oversupply of all the above to the poin
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by p_l 2y ago
Depends on smartphone (and smartwatches). Not all have it, at times it disappeared from brands that had it earlier. The smartwatch series I use explicitly include it because it's essentially the "all in one" version in a seri
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by p_l 2y ago
The last surviving OSF/1 based OS is macOS, not AIX
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by p_l 2y ago
And "just add a byte(s) to address field" manages to be all of those at the same time
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by p_l 2y ago
Yes, multiple ways, including implemented ways. For the examples I am going to use the typical "HTTP to example.com" case. Some OSI-focused stacks provided high level abstraction that gave you a socket already set for listening
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by p_l 2y ago
Major reason for that is BSD Sockets and their leaky abstraction that results in hardcoding protocol details in application code. For a good decade a lot of software had to be slowly patched in every place that made a socket to add v6 suppo
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by p_l 2y ago
And it would have failed for exactly the same reasons, because just changing the address field size is enough to have everyone who uses BSD Sockets to rewrite all parts of code that create sockets. Especially since getaddrinfo was ported ov
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by p_l 2y ago
A chart similar to this [1] was what I remember from a friend's time at Mozilla: [1] https://itdm.com/mozilla-firefox-usage-down-85-but-why-are-e...
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by p_l 2y ago
The best answer is an old graph of CEO compensation to Firefox market use.
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by p_l 2y ago
IIRC the rule now is that every new API has to be provided through a COM interface

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