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by phire 3mo ago
> so alloc() doesn’t just need to hand back a pointer. it needs to hand back a pointer that’s correctly aligned for whatever type the caller is about to store there. Malloc doesn't know the required alignment (because has no idea
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by phire 3mo ago
You have a point... Alsop is saying that the destruction somehow made it "more clearly transformative" (which is not quite the same thing as "more transformative"), so it is something that could potentially impact the ou
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by phire 3mo ago
Transformative alone isn't enough for a fair use defence. Nor is it required. It's simply one of the many factors a judge will take into account. But it was an important factor in the google books case. One of the other key factor
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by phire 3mo ago
The RIAA (and the wider copyright industry) were careful to never bring a case that might rule on the issue of "ripping data from CDs and converting to digital". What they did was bring a case against Naspter, which ruled that rip
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by phire 3mo ago
I'm not aware of any cases where the RIAA sued people who ripped their own CD/DVDs/VHS for personal use. Their MO was suing owners of internet connections which were seen sharing content on file sharing networks.
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by phire 3mo ago
I've read through the order again. I can't find anywhere where Alsup says the destruction was required. He cites three cases where a conversion from one format to another (without destruction of the previous version) was ruled to
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by phire 3mo ago
> And since they literally destroyed the books (not just delete files, which would be copied), that made it transformative. You have to be careful, just because the judge points a factor out as notable, doesn't mean that factor was
98.
by phire 3mo ago
This settlement has basically nothing to do with LLMs. At least not as far as the courts are concerned. Alsup ruled [0] that feeding a book into an LLM is transformative and counts as fair use. Especially when they purchased a physical co
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by phire 3mo ago
It looks like the previous hyprland config language was already getting close to being Turing complete; Already has variable substitution and math, it seems to falls short of Turing completeness only because I don't see any form of rec
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by phire 3mo ago
> some of the complex load/store ops, which are usually cracked Ah, cracking. Another thing the RISC-V ISA will try to avoid at all costs. > I don't think they would've added 3r1w if it wasn't for the complex lo
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by phire 3mo ago
Well, cmov is absolutely possible without flags. You see such "select" instructions all the time on GPUs. Doesn't even require an extra instruction, cmp + cmov is two instructions, seqz + select is two. But it does require th
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by phire 3mo ago
Huh, it does have CLZ on all ALUs (And CLZ can actually be used to reduce the cost of checking for all zeros). So it must be something about limiting the complexity of the flags register file and/or its bypass network. > But I hadn
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by phire 3mo ago
> That allows the parallel execution of up to 8 instructions per cycle, even without register renaming Though, PowerPC implementations (like the PowerPC 750) do have renaming of condition registers, which allows them to speculatively e
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by phire 3mo ago
I wonder if the issue is actually the cost of calculating the flags. N and C are basically free (copy of bit 63, and it's carry out), V is an extra gate or two, but Z requires a full 64-bit wide NOR gate. Or it might be about making th
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by phire 3mo ago
True, and I wouldn't be surprised if modern x86 implementations need to do something a bit smarter. But if you are designing a new ISA for the modern era (the purported selling point of RISC-V), you just don't implement any such i
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by phire 3mo ago
IMO, the "out-of-order performance/complexity" excuse is complete bullshit. Out-of-order pipelines actually have a really elegant way of handling flags, they just store a copy of the flags register on every ROB entry. During
107.
by phire 3mo ago
Not really. Generally we use "Local Privilege Exploit" to describe an exploit that goes from a reasonably normal user privileges to root privileges. And we don't usually worry about them, because an application with normal us
108.
by phire 3mo ago
UHD bluray isn't really a new physical format. It's the exact same physical format as regular bluray. They didn't change a thing except move some previously optional parts of the bluray spec (like three layer discs, and 33GB
109.
by phire 3mo ago
Yeah, it's much closer to SPI. The reason why they both follow the same naming scheme is that Philips Semiconductor (now NXP) made both.
110.
by phire 3mo ago
TBH, 100% offline gaming has been problematic since day-one patches became the norm in the PS3 era. Sure, you might be play version 1.0 of the game from the disc, but often the experience was pretty compromised without the patch, often very
111.
by phire 3mo ago
That's part of what I was thinking. The idea of digital-only must be very attractive for content owners, so I don't think they will put much effort into preventing that outcome.
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by phire 3mo ago
With this news, I have to wonder how much longer bluray will live. Will we continue seeing new bluray releases of movies and TV shows for decades, or are their days numbered? The loss of console gaming presumably removes a guaranteed revenu
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by phire 3mo ago
There isn't really a minimum production run for silicon chips, they do small test runs all the time to test new designs. At least not from a practical perspective. From an economic perspective, stopping after a single small run is just
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by phire 3mo ago
This transmitter doesn't really have the range for reliable global communication, it's optimised for covering the UK. For the global communication usecase, there are other networks of military transmitters (DHFCS) that are much be
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by phire 4mo ago
This floppy decompresses the entire initrd image into memory at boot, which "wastes" memory compared a proper install on a HDD. You can also lower memory requirements further by enabling swap. A floppy distro (especially one relyi
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by phire 4mo ago
Apparently can’t in NZ either. There was a scheduled test last weekend, and I disabled the single “emergency alert” option in my iPhone’s settings. But it didn’t work, I still received the alert, complete with the heart attack inducing soun
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by phire 4mo ago
Still are. The latest IBM z/Architecture mainframe (released in 2024) will natively run binaries compiled for the original IBM System/360, released 62 years ago. The original architecture has been expanded to 64 bits and can (or s
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by phire 4mo ago
PDP's lack of naming really confuses things, they essentially just numbered the computers by release date. There are like 3-5 completely different family trees of computers in their numbering scheme (depending on how you count), all of
119.
by phire 4mo ago
They were most likely just bugs. Quite possibly really stupid bugs. Not every bug results in the program doing the wrong thing, they often just make the program do the right thing very slowly. And nobody notices, since it still produces the
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by phire 4mo ago
They side-step the issue: "Schwitzgebel and Pober do not attempt to define consciousness. Instead, they proceed from the premise that it's a real and recognizable phenomenon, posing a narrower question: Must it be tied to the bio

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