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by temac 5y ago
Tons of licences require at least attribution.
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by temac 5y ago
I will completely follow that opinion the day MS includes the whole Windows codebase into the training of copilot. Until then, it's basically "GPL" (and other licences) laundering with one-sided excuses.
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by temac 5y ago
The same way the rest of the world most of the time considers the US as a whole -- yet this does not make the individual states disappear.
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by temac 5y ago
> The US instead is built on citizenship. If you put it that way, I read it as "in contrast with e.g. Germany or France". However those countries are also built on citizenship. Oh of course you will have far-right people wantin
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by temac 5y ago
I think wait and see. That kind of CPU req published now sorta makes sense for OEMs, but for computers to upgrade, just WTF. Does MS really want a split install base to mostly Win 10 machines and a just a few 11? And BTW there is this &quot
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by temac 5y ago
It's very probable that Windows 11 will run on your P51. You may have a warning advising you to stay on Windows 10, but it will fit the hard floor so you will be able to upgrade regardless. IIRC the hard minimal req different from Win
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by temac 5y ago
Why people thought Google would suddenly stop being an advertisement company? (And pivot to what exactly overnight?) That's both in their DNA and still their overwhelming largest business. Of course don't buy a "smart"
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by temac 5y ago
That's an early build, maybe Windows 11 RTM will actually always use a TPM (1.2 is advertised as minimally supported though). As for secure boot, I don't see how that could be anything else than policy (that can have an impact on
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by temac 5y ago
Opt-in per-process spectre mitigation is already the case for some of them, because the mitigations in question are way too costly. Now it is not possible for every kind of mitigations, because e.g. patching the kernel between mitigated pro
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by temac 5y ago
> I love that this is a toggle like this, having control of my system is why I love Linux. You can disable mitigations on Windows too.
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by temac 5y ago
Even CPUs designed for a higher turbo-boost frequency have disproportionate power usage increases at their highest freq, compared to the marginal perf gains. I suspect the rush to idle must on tons of model be an equilibrium esp in freq sel
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by temac 5y ago
> anything that introduces UB for optimizations (like forbidding assuming that 'int y,x;' implies an order in memory) is also good for security. [...] > But also because compiling with extra security is not popular if it cau
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by temac 5y ago
Generalized tabs accros even different programs is an experiment that has been attempted a few years ago in a few insider builds, but has been quickly abandoned. IMO it was too complex from a UX pov, duplicated some of the use cases of virt
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by temac 5y ago
> such as making the OS work/build in such a way that there won’t be inconsistencies in the future I'm always very skeptical of refusal to handle the past because of the promise that the same won't reiterate in the future.
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by temac 5y ago
This has been tried (not on vaporhardware Mill, I'm more thinking about e.g. Intel Itanium) and it failed. The reason is extremely simple: a speculative OOO processor optimizes dynamically. If you switch that with static compile time o
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by temac 5y ago
You would be surprised how "slow" a non speculative processor is. Even Intel Atoms have been speculative since Silvermont. If you take more mainstream historical processors, for example: https://www.cpu-world.com/C
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by temac 5y ago
Have you ever seen a big codebase build 100% of the time after arbitrary toolchain, env, deps upgrade? There are some project more focused on that but even them eventually give up on supporting all versions of their deps. Likewise for com
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by temac 5y ago
edit: my comment addresses the text from the original link https://www.facebook.com/dan.colascione/posts/10107358290728... The author is confused. no-semantic-interposition does not preclude unicity of symbols. Th
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by temac 5y ago
Who decided there is a lack of consumer demand? There is a lack of OEM demand for sure which is driven by the fact that most companies are willing to sell crap if it can save 1 cent per product. The average consumer does not even know thi
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by temac 5y ago
Because benchmarks sale and are easy to perform whereas characterising spurious failures is hard and unreliable CPUs are not in the interest of users of server products (and arguably not in the interest of users of other products as well bu
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by temac 5y ago
I don't completely understand the perception that standard non hardened high-perf CPU, especially in an industry and more specifically in a segment that has been reported as consistently cutting a few corners in recent years (maybe so
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by temac 5y ago
Maybe Apple could display a prominent warning that this may put your personal data at risk, if you choose to enable alternate stores, and remind that regularly (including during each boot, when using the apple store, etc.), giving leverag
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by temac 5y ago
I don't understand why anybody would consider to be at risk if an alternate store, that nobody would be forced to use, and which could even be subject to identical or even better rules, exists. And I'm not even talking about trans
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by temac 5y ago
There are several things that are weird enough not to be taken as absolute logical premises. I mean they certainly can and have worked for many people in many companies, but let's just think a little more about them, especially in an i
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by temac 5y ago
I distinctly remember reading an article in a scientific magazine promising the marvels of quantum computing in 95. Let's just say some progress since then certainly exists but it is quite not commensurate to the progress made on tradi
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by temac 5y ago
Maybe if you move your head just a little bit with a live orchestra, the change is different from what happens with a few speakers (and often in a different room)
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by temac 5y ago
You can't visualize the numbers? Or translate the "audio" in your mind?
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by temac 5y ago
If you just don't jump on random tech without good reasons, you already naturally apply this advice. Especially since once you really need it and also wants Git, there is not much alternative (as the author recognizes). In this conte
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by temac 5y ago
The thing is that computers are useful for so many things that I find even just attempting to define what is "tech literacy" difficult and bound to endless discussion, and well the result is this blog post and the following debate
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by temac 5y ago
But that means the caller also has some proofs to do, if a counter example is found or nothing can be proven the caller also has to do a copy , and that's with no guarantee the callee won't do another one... So not really an opti

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