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by p_l 4mo ago
Somewhat dubious claim if it was right or not, the only benefit was that asm.js was backwards compatible and set the stage for Mozilla to lose out by simply having the slower JS engine whereas NaCL/PNaCL proposal was "performance
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by p_l 4mo ago
They used a lot of NASA resources to bootstrap, makes sense they later lobbied to destroy them once they could do the expensive testing on their own
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by p_l 4mo ago
Even in Apple land M1 isn't the first with unified memory - pretty much all intel on-chip GPU (Sandy Bridge and newer) count - it was even a reason for driver issues early in intel's new dedicated GPU lineup, as the drivers expect
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by p_l 4mo ago
O2 GPU was slower than other SGI options at the time, however it could use hilariously larger pool of memory without copying, which meant that O2 could use approaches that were punishingly hard (very tight transfer loops) or impossible (hug
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by p_l 4mo ago
Every AMD APU since introduction of HSA did it, which is how AMD ended up doing SoCs for PS4, PS5, and Xbox
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by p_l 4mo ago
SGI O2 was the famous "unified memory architecture" graphics system, two years before i740 that didn't really do UMA. O2 was popular in systems where large textures or textures generated dynamically (like mapping external vid
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by p_l 4mo ago
And don't forget it's not really about chipset, it's about market segmentation and up selling you for setting a boolean flag in firmware.
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by p_l 4mo ago
Surprising amount of gear required extra licenses or even parts to have fully functional remote console that does all the stuff PiKVM 4 brings to the table, and not always do you have the benefit of properly operational netboot infrastructu
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by p_l 4mo ago
And so easy to make into bottleneck. Yes, zygote pattern makes it easy to make fork() into bottleneck - it requires a lot more discipline and low level tricks (linker scripts, compiler-specific extensions, custom sections, low level depende
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by p_l 4mo ago
It's called prerendering tabs or something :V At 4k it adds up, especially since if you look into DevTools Chrome actually renders more at least vertically if not across major scroll regions.
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by p_l 4mo ago
Also sometimes you have few big companies dominate local market to detriment of choice, even if your plan is on getting further away. The polish company I mentioned was infamous for using still in education students especially from an unive
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by p_l 4mo ago
You mean Chrome? (Looking at the 5GiB usage here...)
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by p_l 4mo ago
Unfortunately, the manager pushing the outsourcing pockets the money, outsourcing company pockets the money, and the local and indian teams get to be abused and latter gets extra blame for things outside their control. I would say the probl
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by p_l 4mo ago
One day I forgot about SIGSTOP in a FAANG interview when asked how to stop a forkbomb that already exhausted all PIDs but you have a shell already running. My very dirty trick at last was to abuse the part where forkbomb's code segment
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by p_l 4mo ago
The single chip ones were not originally supposed to be PDP-11 compatible - but there was a push to use PDP-11 ISA and Unibus/Qbus in that specific segment, so they reworked the microcode to implement PDP-11 instructions with minimal c
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by p_l 4mo ago
This is exactly what "Optimus" and "hybrid graphics" is, the issue is that you need to configure that - laptops will provide information to OS "hey, this card has no video output" or "hey, there's an
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by p_l 4mo ago
The -DA might have been critical in them doing so well ;-) -TA2 might have heated somewhat mightily (only recently lower thermal power twisted-pair gear started showing up)
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by p_l 4mo ago
Aviation documentation in general is expected to use special, constrained variant of english (Simplified Technical English) where one of the requirements is that every word has preferably only one meaning, and there's a standard dictio
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by p_l 4mo ago
Does not have to be weird, at least once it happened to me that their strictest settings simply banned something like major portion of internet users in my country - to the point that if you had FTTH you were likely blocked. And no, it wasn
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by p_l 5mo ago
S/360 is what pushed 8 bit bytes to worldwide prominence. IBM was ridiculously huge, both by actual IBM hardware, but also by clones, and manufacture of S/360-compatible systems. Even many wildly different computers often had th
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by p_l 5mo ago
ISAM in all important variants pretty much required DASDs, CKDs (Count Key Data) in fact as opposed to FBAs (Fixed Block Access - which act like normal drives people are familiar with) Tapes don't provide CKD interface and thus do not
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by p_l 5mo ago
Naughty Dog's Uncharted games for PS3 used bytecode VMs for various graphic tasks - essentially they implemented shaders running on SPUs using their custom bytecoded VM, with compiler written in Scheme.
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by p_l 5mo ago
Not "might" - will . That's why there were separate "Mac editions" of certain cards (like GPUs) - the Option ROMs were different to support the Mac's frankensteined PPC OpenFirmware-like setup, and later to pr
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by p_l 5mo ago
Foreign Military Sales from USA all go under a very ugly kind of contract where you could argue you're not sure of delivery until after the gear was decommissioned and turned into razor blades. You can't (officially) negotiate it,
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by p_l 5mo ago
The best and understated part about it is that the culture change was pushed from Boeing side , and at least some people from McD side of the merger were pushing internal memos warning about actions pushed by Boeing-lifer CEO exemplified i
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by p_l 5mo ago
The equivalent of greencard in most countries (permanent residency) usually requires that you're in the country, not outside, and the process is heavily reliant on you being present in country and able to show history of legal (tempo
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by p_l 5mo ago
Not really. This "reputation" is based on misunderstanding of differences in doctrine. The engines did have lower overall hours, yes, but the suggestion they need whole overhaul after very few hours is because it looks so when loo
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by p_l 5mo ago
Landing is the trivial part, though the USAF traditions of "FOD walk" do seem funny to air forces where donations you found out the aircraft spent whole day flying with maintenance toolkit left in intake. The maintenance is the re
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by p_l 5mo ago
The way I remember it, NaCl and PNaCl ended up nowhere not because big, but because Mozilla, then with big influence on standards, declared them not web enough for the crime of not being JavaScript and pushed against any addition of it into
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by p_l 5mo ago
In my experience JRuby is way more viable than Jython ever was, one because Ruby native modules were more often thin wrappers, two because Ruby has sorta-standard in form of test suite (which AFAIK evolved from one that was necessary for IS

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