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by pgeorgi 7y ago
With a patent that the court ruled as invalid in just 2 pages, and the appeals court confirmed in just three days: Shouldn't the USPTO get at least a slap on the wrist as well? It looks rather obvious that they messed up by awarding th
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Are you referring to "The children now love luxury...", which is often misattributed to Socrates? https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates#Misattributed
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I believe that extension would be https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-tone/nnckeh... (last updated 3 years ago). Not sure if that was ever something official or just an experiment. There's a
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> all you have to do is run and you're home free But you're not. Police might get you in half an hour, or tomorrow, or in 2 weeks. Of course that requires proper documentation of the case (photos or even videos, fingerprints, I
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I'm well aware. But China is also the only country (or even bloc) in the world that's aiming for a fully internal supply chain for high tech. Not sure you can transform basic materials into a laptop (to pick one simple example) at
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> The tech community greatly benefits from settling on a lingua franca Maybe we see that in a few years, with everything moving to Chinese. > Imagine if everyone posted on StackExchange using their native tongue. Imagine users going t
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> finding an explanation for the error is a lot easier. Two options: 1. LC_ALL=C $command to get the universal version of the error to search/report 2. Add a numerical error code that remains stable across locales
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
As discussed elsewhere in the thread, the few dozen keywords are a different matter (and are just memorized to mean "make the computer do ..."), but having useful error messages from your compiler helps get stuff sorted out more q
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
All rings below 0 are informal. Generally, SMM can control the environment of an hypervisor, so that's where that hierarchy comes from. But: SMM is a relatively complete x86 computing environment. You can switch between real/prote
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Right, I cited current numbers in ICE production and planned numbers for EV production in 3 years. According to media coverage they only start EV production for real in Zwickau in November.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
That doesn't contradict the claim I cited: VW Kraftwerk offers a product based on "pure green electricity" (they didn't say they do that exclusively) and apparently Zwickau is buying that product, not the oil based one u
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The Zwickau factory I mentioned a couple of times produces 297k ICE cars a year (1350 a day, 220 days a year), and aims for 330k EV cars in 2022 (1500 a day, 220 days a year). Source: https://www.heise.de/newsticker/mel
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
That's outside the car makers' control. The public charging stations in my town (in Germany) are powered (hooked up to our common electricity network, but in terms of energy bought for them) using hydro power from a nearby river.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Plus you're only as clean as your electric grid. "The Zwickau plant is supplied with electricity by Volkswagen Kraftwerks GmbH. For a few years now, this company has been offering pure green electricity sourced from hydroelec
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Some of them are factories they remodel from ICE to EV, so those decrease the delta by 2. For example the Zwickau site that starts EV mass production on Nov 4 (but ramps up on EV and down on ICE over the next ~2 years until it's fully
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> practically or efficiently are terms of trade for computer scientists and mean that there's a polynomial upper bound. On the other hand IBM also claims (from the graphs? not sure if they have anything more to back up the claim) th
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> What do you take issue with M mode? As you say, it's similar to x86's SMM, and like all firmware stuff that survives beyond the kernel entry point, is something that I don't trust, and where experience tells me that it&#
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> M mode isn't a hypervisor mode. I'm well aware. I should have used a semicolon. I take issue with both m mode and hypervisor mode.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
ARM isn't at 7nm, TSMC is. That's different from the PPC -> Intel transition at Apple 15 years ago: the tech is available to anybody who's willing to pay (while back then, Intel was 1-2 generations ahead of everybody else,
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> RISC-V is new and sexy. RISC-V is pretty shoddy (M mode, a separate hypervisor mode instead of proper orthogonality, CSRs), but that's exactly what I'd expect from thesis-driven development (remember that RISC-V was an academ
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Having few instruction set architectures, or even one, enables quicker and more efficient software development by lowering barrier to entry > A single ISA doesn't have to mean there is a single CPU vendor or CPU manufacturer. T
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> when the whole reason Apple shifted to Intel 14 years ago was thermals? Wouldn’t ARM be better? The move to Intel wasn't because the instruction set is, for some reason, superior (it isn't), it's because IBM couldn'
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
>>> Most young people > The woke young programmers of the bay (and elsewhere) These are not the same.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
That's because of the subculture here. This is "hacker news" after all ;-) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hacker has the "illegal entry to computers" angle in both #1 (besides &quot
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Governments have a couple of safeguards in place to deal with irrational humans running the show. Some of them are division of power and checks and balances. These safeguards are the reason why governance is sometimes slow and sometimes bul
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Language changes. Hackers generally aren't "people who use things in unintended ways" anymore either, but evil criminals on computers.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
If the financials of that make sense, I think it's certainly something they should make part of their portfolio: make a point, gauge interest, increase volume. I suspect that the laptops are their mass market driver though. Note how S7
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> It's to prevent forest fires. > Also, how important can these experiments be (in CA) if they don't have sufficient backup power at a university?? How important can freedom from fires be if they don't dig trenches for
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Provide a path to a $1300 laptop that is POWER based (and not crippled "slow 1 core SMT1" stuff from IBM's dead-bin) and you might entice System76 and Purism. Your products target "Freedom, no matter the costs" whil
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> that need for an external service to decode plus codes diminishes my enthusiasm for the standard considerably The short code is "some place plus an override for the lower bits". You could just ship a list of common places to

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