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by sliken 2y ago
I'be heard that a long standing issue with the test releases is still present in the release and can result in a unbootable system if you try to upgrade. Be warned that the do-release-upgrade -d might well make your system unbootable.
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by sliken 3y ago
Or it might be literally invisible, a small black hole fits the observations. Also it's predicted that a star comes with 1,500 AU of the sun every billion years or so, a star could have thrown things out of whack and left.
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by sliken 3y ago
If you Epyc's are too pricey, there's the Threadripper pro, 8 channels. AMD Siena/8000 series with 6 channels, and and Threadripper with 4 channels.
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by sliken 3y ago
Only for networking, not for anything measured inside a node. Disk bandwidth, cache bandwidth, and memory bandwidth is nearly always measured in bytes/sec (bandwidth), or NS/cache line or similar (which is mix of bandwidth and la
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by sliken 3y ago
From what I can tell the problem is the use of glibc's IFUNC. This broke the testing for XZ, suddenly accounts appeared to lobby for disabling that testing, which enabled the exploit.
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by sliken 3y ago
Like Ivanti's Pulse VPN? Who hid a CentOS 6 in an appliance, unpatched, way past EoL?
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by sliken 3y ago
Kinda surprised banks aren't more current with security, after all even NIST recognizes the problem with 2FA over SMS: https://www.nist.gov/blogs/cybersecurity-insights/questionsa...
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by sliken 3y ago
Just curious, why?
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by sliken 3y ago
Additionally the exploit is not present on the e-cores and the M3 allows turning off the speculation on a processes by process basis so encryption programs can safely just disable it.
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by sliken 3y ago
I think of that as a win. Heavy software stacks create a demand for faster hardware and the market provides. Those of us with use cases that represent a tiny marketshare, but actually need the performance can do so with light software sta
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by sliken 3y ago
If anyone can't read it in chrome, firefox makes it readable. In chrome it hides the title and about 20% of the left most text behind the navigation column. I tried playing with the font sizes and it didn't help.
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by sliken 3y ago
What's worse is he claimed he "owned" early mined bitcoin but lost the keys. One of said coins was then moved with a message saying "Not owned by Craig Wright". Of course he just made up more lies.
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by sliken 3y ago
Not only the physical substrate, but the platform it runs on. Even 30 years (not much for a library/archivist) old software can bring substantial challenges. Much more so if it was a closed system like a game console, or DRM protecte
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by sliken 3y ago
Rust's native support of WebAssembly makes sense that a common default is use a browser based UI.
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by sliken 3y ago
Agreed. I did see a limit of 220GB or so for the M2 max, but haven't seen an updated number for the M3 max. Certainly GPUs have great bandwidth, but get quite expensive if you need more than 24GB ram. I've been impressed how we
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by sliken 3y ago
Pipelining helps, usually. You can have 10 stages run at 3 GHz instead of 1 stage at 300 MHz. Up until you have a branch misprediction and have to dump the pipeline. Memory channels are independent, however generally all cores use all cha
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by sliken 3y ago
Actually I'd argue that Linux is a magic bullet that stops ... most malware. The problem I see with OSX and Windows is they don't have a unified package manager, which encourages users to go find it, often from a random website.
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by sliken 3y ago
Do you have any evidence that Nvidia or Apple are using non-standard memory chips? Link? From what I can tell they are both using standard chips, but very wide memory interfaces. Apple's lowest end is 128 bit, but offer 256, 512, an
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by sliken 3y ago
Doubling the channels from GDDR6 sounds good, the speed of light isn't changing, so at least we can handle more parallelism with the same latency.
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by sliken 3y ago
I've had the same thought. They obviously know how to add decent iGPU and the required bandwidth in the PS5 and XboxX (and the previous gen). Does seem like they finally plan to do this with the AMD Strix Halo which looks to hit somew
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by sliken 3y ago
The perf/watt advantages of Apple's M1 series are quite a bit better than you'd expect from the process advantages. With that said the competition is gaining, a couple hope to match Perf and perf/watt of the M3. Some ev
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by sliken 3y ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist, claims [0] that if you remove one observatories data, that the anomaly that leads to the conclusion there's a planet 9 disappears. [0] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RvNYL5sP
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by sliken 3y ago
You are assuming that the raw cost of the chips are 100% of the cost of selling one to the consumer. Other costs are fixed like quality control/testing, marketing, delivery, overhead for the distributors profit, etc. I'd also exp
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by sliken 3y ago
Yes, MPSC, single consumer which is limiting.
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by sliken 3y ago
Well the trick is a process or your entire OS crashed, why? Was it the powersupply? Motherboard? CPU? DIMM? Which DIMM? Are you going to keep a complete PC of spares to replace piece by piece to see if the crash stops? For such a mini
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by sliken 3y ago
I'm fond of rust, but compared to go, I dislike that you need a different code path to support sync vs async in a module. Or pick a different runtime like Tokio. So you end up with modules that are async only, sync only, or both. Mak
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by sliken 3y ago
Make a stack of phones in the middle of the nearest table. First one to grab their phone pays for the the groups food/drinks/next round/whatever.
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by sliken 3y ago
Indeed, great for speed and correctness. It also makes awesome use of a multiline display, even an extra 3 lines to see the stack is a game changer. Without RPN I just use the extra area for graphing. It's especially useful for unit c
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by sliken 3y ago
For simple stuff, sure. Try -b±√(b²-4ac))/2a. Or anything complicated really. You end up counting parenthesis, writing down intermediate values, and just blowing it and starting over. It's really nice to have something complica
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by sliken 3y ago
As discussed on thread, not banned, but posting it somewhere could get you in significant trouble. In fact, Phil Zimmermann got in quite a bit of trouble for his contribution towards the world getting a hold of PGP, which was considered a

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