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451.
by puzzle 9y ago
Back in the mid 90s, we already had scripts for ircII that used cowsay or figlet to generate annoying ASCII art, taking up too many of your terminal's 24 lines. In some ways, things never change...
452.
by puzzle 9y ago
In my almost ten years, under almost as many managers and directors, only one of them was occasionally active on any of the lists I was on. Although some of his discussions with others got a bit tense, they were mostly of tech policy nature
453.
by puzzle 9y ago
How so? For the majority of employees, the lists' main adverse effect on promotions is the time sink that they represent, just to read them . When I was there, only a minority of subscribers actually posted in the conversations. The r
454.
by puzzle 9y ago
Most of that is on mailing lists that nobody forces you to subscribe to.
455.
by puzzle 9y ago
I should have been clearer: their external customers can and will use bad binaries inside their VMs, but everything else, especially anything at the boundaries between VMs, will not: it will have the appropriate mitigations in place. Runnin
456.
by puzzle 9y ago
Google doesn't run VMs. Or, rather, even VMs that make up GCE are actually running in containers. From the Borg paper: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/papers/borg.pdf VMs and security sandboxing techniques
457.
by puzzle 9y ago
Google also has this: https://source.bazel.build
458.
by puzzle 9y ago
Sometimes the desired behaviour is actually generating a Docker image with specific contents. Think of the pause container image that every Kubernetes cluster out there uses. To put it in other way, this is for build targets producing Docke
459.
by puzzle 9y ago
I think it's more accurate to say that they believe they can fix this with a combination of SW + microcode. The microcode is a sort of HW assist for the new defensive measures. If you don't also update kernels, the new microcode i
460.
by puzzle 9y ago
Yes. There is still variety, though. On PowerPC, for example, there is the concept of segments. On 32bit systems, the address space is divided into 16 segments of 256MB each. Each of them has a privileged register that can be setup in diffe
461.
by puzzle 9y ago
ASID is not an instruction. It's basically an attribute in how MMU tables are set up. Processes usually get different ASIDs from each other and all their MMU pages are tagged with it.
462.
by puzzle 9y ago
Twenty years ago, Sun had special RAM in their Elite3D cards to do write-only alpha blending and z-buffering (saturated updates), instead of the much slower read-modify-write: one PCI write instead of one read + CPU computation + one write.
463.
by puzzle 9y ago
Different encodings for line endings?
464.
by puzzle 9y ago
Yeah, they replaced their custom CISC with a POWER + a bunch of extra instructions + a special processor mode + RAM with extra bits.
465.
by puzzle 9y ago
The USB C XPS13 models don't support dual MHL monitors, something which older models apparently did (and why I figured it was a safe purchase). Intel is taking a surprisingly long time to implement the necessary Thunderbolt support. No
466.
by puzzle 9y ago
I'd be surprised if other Googlers like Christian Ludloff (also of sandpile.org fame) and Dean G were not involved. They know x86 better than many engineers at Intel/AMD, having been in charge of the most performance/cost cri
467.
by puzzle 9y ago
AS/400 and descendants have a security model, but they rely at least partially on a trusted runtime code generator (and, transitively, trusted boot). The systems have HW assist to tag real pointers, but that's mainly for performan
468.
by puzzle 9y ago
Not that I know of, sorry. Perhaps it might be worth petitioning some of the original developers. I doubt Matsushita/Panasonic would have the information anymore, although they would retain copyrights.
469.
by puzzle 9y ago
NYC is probably the optimal case, since it's been known for years that it's one of the few places where there are more single women than single men. In some areas, many more single women. In other words, it skews the exact opposit
470.
by puzzle 9y ago
Not prevalent, but some things are more likely to happen when there's money floating around. A lot of it. Not at a party, but a VC, for example, told me nonchalantly that I could easily take home a woman from the place we were at, assu
471.
by puzzle 9y ago
This discussion goes into more detail about commonalities and differences between the two: https://github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-java/is... The use case of non-request metrics is the biggest differe
472.
by puzzle 9y ago
The machines used a fairly sophisticated OS. It was an evolution of the Amiga OS, which originally was meant for a console, too, although they kept adding bonuses and abstractions that a game machine didn't need. Compared to its predec
473.
by puzzle 9y ago
I am no Apple fan, but part of what they sell you is an experience where details like that are hidden from you. Before everybody got a Mac, didn't techies complain about Apple dumbing down computers?
474.
by puzzle 9y ago
Yeah, it's not a new spat and definitely not limited to just the WSJ. See also this, starting from the title and finishing with the zinger at the end: https://europe.googleblog.com/2014/09/dear-rupert_25.html
475.
by puzzle 9y ago
Between this and the high Tesla prices, they really want to move people to use Google's TPUs...
476.
by puzzle 9y ago
The exodus to Google (including the CEO and CTO), which Nan Boden's bio itself describes as an acquisition, happened months before the sale to CSPi. Draw your own conclusions.
477.
by puzzle 9y ago
There are quite a few ex-Myricom people at Google, including two of the founders. One of which was also CEO: Nan Boden's bio mentions joining Google via acquisition. https://www.crunchbase.com/person/nan-boden
478.
by puzzle 9y ago
Originally, yes: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/09/google_processor/
479.
by puzzle 9y ago
Yes. Hennessy is a Google board member, too. It's a small world.
480.
by puzzle 9y ago
The funny thing is that when Acorn spun off ARM some 25 years ago, Apple owned a chunk of the new company, since they used ARM6 for the Newton. The new chip's MMU was actually designed by Bob Welland, one of the fathers of Newton OS, f

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