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by temac 6y ago
The RAM already needs to be refreshed and IIRC it is done by the memory controller when not in sleep mode. However I don't remember if there are provisions for ECC checking in case there are some dedicated refresh commands. I hope so,
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by temac 6y ago
> Running a virtual machine often means accessing the UEFI to be sure they have virtualization extensions enabled. Likewise for WSL2. I hope modern computers with a capable processor are all shipped with virtualization enable at firmware
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by temac 6y ago
Wild guesses: * the kernel is not properly shutdown (and sometimes some buffers are not flushed) * the virtual block device and/or its linux driver has bugs
394.
by temac 6y ago
It is bugfixes or performance improvements about things that exist, though.
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by temac 6y ago
I don't know. Work fairly, certainly. Work hard ... what's the point? So in some cases you want to fast track your advancement in a direction that you like and this possible through this method, and you actually can work hard,
396.
by temac 6y ago
If somebody needed an example of open source washing...
397.
by temac 6y ago
I suspect for the majority of buyers the differentiator is the logo, then the OS, then maybe the CPU.
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by temac 6y ago
> The war would have won without it And then without the next advantage, and then without the next one, etc.? At some point everything counts.
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by temac 6y ago
He started LLVM before going to Apple. Likewise Michael Sweet created CUPS and went to work on it at Apple at some point.
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by temac 6y ago
There are some reasons Electrical Engineering is a thing. When you open the datasheet for a chip, all the cool numbers in nice tables are not just there to be pretty, but because they are useful to design a circuit to put the chip in... And
401.
by temac 6y ago
There are countless SUVs in Europe too. Maybe not as much as in the US, but already too many anyway.
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by temac 6y ago
> The article also suggests that Apple would have a "manufacturing partner". After all, iPhones are made by Foxconn. > So this may just be Apple selling BYD cars outside China. In this case BYD would not just be a "manu
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by temac 6y ago
Apple build quality has nothing special in the absolute. It's just that most of the phones or laptops of tons of manufacturers have cheap plastic body. But there are also plenty of less cheap but really nice products from other brands,
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by temac 6y ago
Why would anyone want to support programs for Knights Mill on Ice Lake? The (past) theory of Intel that x86 was valuable in itself made no sense anyway. And there is not a single "AVX512" extension set but a base and quite a numbe
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by temac 6y ago
One of a common modern thought about how to be successful when software is involved, is to favor time-to-market, ship first and patch later. That in a good number of areas bugs are said to not really matter that much because you gonna have
406.
by temac 6y ago
Worse, some believe Free Software is worthless if third party companies can not extract money from it in some ways, without any compensation or even just keeping it Free in practice for the users. And I'm OK that some Free Software act
407.
by temac 6y ago
It's already possible to have other app stores than Play Store on Android, even simultanously. I think some features are reserved to Play Store in practice (to stores pre installed on the phone) so there could be some improvement on th
408.
by temac 6y ago
I love how WSL was put in the "command line" team and they are now doing graphics, GPU, and audio (plus probably Android again) :)
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by temac 6y ago
> Any time not spent consuming or creating is bad for the economy. This is a complete countersense toward the etymology of "economy" and I would even say toward its only possible natural goal. The concept of economy is about re
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by temac 6y ago
Neither does C++, IIRC the compilers invented the notion because tons of operations are forbidden between pointers to different objects, so by tracking the provenance you can e.g. detect conditions leading to UB and trim them, because as us
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by temac 6y ago
Hard to call that a "perfect interview process", because from individual candidate point of view, some with unusual characteristics could be unfairly disadvantaged (and other unfairly advantaged), while reaching your overall &quot
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by temac 6y ago
So I would even not just say "the context isn't random people off the street", but that "the context isn't random employed/employable programmers". It's people working at Google. Deducing anything fro
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by temac 6y ago
Everybody seems to agree it is an LLVM bug, but "UB" is overloaded. There is no "C/C++ UB" in the original program, but the optimizers can introduce "LLVM UB" in IR form, which then results in something su
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by temac 6y ago
Web-dev I mostly take it back (well this is subtle: for complex server side dev scenario you will use Linux even in dev -- but even with that enough work remain possible under purely Mac Os to not say that web-dev broadly can't be done
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by temac 6y ago
Yeah I take back what I wrote for web-dev. Although I find Linux broader than Mac Os in this case because the server side is likely to be Linux in prod and never Mac Os, and in some complex cases it will also be Linux in dev. But even with
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by temac 6y ago
> “Hey Kristy, where can I find the payroll schedule?” > “Twelve dot oh-three.” Or, you know, don't encumber the brains of people with useless numbers, and use computers for what they are actually good are, at least better than p
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by temac 6y ago
Thanks for giving some counter-examples :) So I already wrote that I was exaggerating slightly, and I still believe your case fall into that. For example about embedded dev, I had in mind things less individual tinkerer oriented and more pr
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by temac 6y ago
Development for Apple devices is wide in volume but narrow in scope. You pretty much don't develop anything else on Mac OS. No web, no embedded, no Linux, no Windows, no nothing. Only Mac OS software, iPhone apps, etc. I am exaggeratin
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by temac 6y ago
> The regulatory costs of developing new instruments and intertia of manufacturers doesnt help. I work on (mostly non-critical) medical devices and I would like to remind that regulatory is there for a purpose. If anything the 737 Max fi
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by temac 6y ago
Especially since that kind of legal aspect highly depend on how much companies are willing to fight, and the state of mind of the judges. And in a not so distant past, Intel warned MS and PC vendors doing some ARM stuff that it might be w

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