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by temac 6y ago
> It will, indirectly. When MacBooks offer 1.5x the performance at 2x the battery life, people using Windows or Linux will start to demand similar devices from Dell, Lenovo, HP, Acer, etc; Well, people can demand that, but if only Apple
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by temac 6y ago
I'm not sure about the difficulty level of enlarging the pages in Windows. But I'm afraid there are 3rd party programs hardcoding it (and existing ARM hw they run on, etc.) But thinking more about it, IIRC Windows has a 64kB granu
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by temac 6y ago
Apple is competitive with Intel. Not ARM in a more general way. So I don't really see how Intel could magically produce a vastly better microarchitecture by retaking an ARM license... Especially since the microarchitecture is not c
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by temac 6y ago
Where it can have the same semantics, yes. But if you look at the details, not exactly. For example Box is not nullable, but a not-nullable C++ equivalent is hard to do given the rest of the language.
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by temac 6y ago
Arguably it works well enough for the Rafale. But it is an older plane with less specifications constraints, designed mainly for a single small country, and still the development up-to real usability took an insane amount of time (first pro
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by temac 6y ago
I don't think that kind of optim is usually important in a kernel, especially one architected a lot with dynamical modules. Plus, on the convenience side, you can also use other models (e.g. have some function pointers at instance leve
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by temac 6y ago
Oh I see the architecture, it make sense in their case to consider it an important issue depending on the surface area to audit and the amount of work it would take. The architecture of both WSL1 and 2 are different, and neither have this p
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by temac 6y ago
While this is true that on Windows 64 the sizeof(long) is 4 while on 64-bit Linux it is 8, and while it may have been a problem for coLinux (I don't know how it was built, however I doubt it was with much MSVC anyway because the Linu
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by temac 6y ago
> Go executables are statically linked. It makes deployment a breeze. But what are we comparing to what then ? A few custom Go applications, compared to whole classic Linux distros, on which deployment is both not really the same thing,
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by temac 6y ago
You don't necessarily have to give equal weights. Plus the whole reasoning tends to imply old versions are overall better (you don't have just one bug added or removed from time to time, you have to consider the overall bugginess
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by temac 6y ago
IFIS multiplexes with PCIe so it probably qualifies as quite serial. IFOP a little less, but that's blurry at this point.
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by temac 6y ago
> Value types in C++ cannot be null They can just not exist. And C++ being C++, dereferencing an empty std::optional is UB. In practice this particular UB often leads to way worse consequences than more "conventional" null-po
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by temac 6y ago
> loses none of the meaning It absolutely looses some meaning and important information conveying, and most importantly some impact factor. Communicating by pretending you are in a neutral state of mind when you feel very strongly about
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by temac 6y ago
Stallman is less strict with video games.
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by temac 6y ago
There is absolutely nothing Free Software has been an obligatory enabler for SAAS. Actually if you admit the existence of SAAS and regardless of its own issues, it using Free Software is still strictly better than it using only proprietary
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by temac 6y ago
But that's so vague that so what? Tons of high profile people have been talking about how it is not tolerable that the US is unilaterally forcing embargoes using the $US and tech as a weapon. Development of alternatives take time, but
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by temac 6y ago
SMIC already produces at 14nm. You can cover lots of things with that.
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by temac 6y ago
State of the art chips are only partly starting to be produced with EUV. You can do 7 nm without. And even then you don't do all chips with 7, specifying all "high-end" as a race to the smallest node is completely insane, the
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by temac 6y ago
Not really a strong criteria: so is France but we are kind of tired of US bullshit.
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by temac 6y ago
Continuing to read: > Why is it animated? Or, even if it is, why is animation so slow? Given it is not animated on my computer, I suspect it is animated when Windows is configured to have animations... (and it if this theory is good, it
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by temac 6y ago
> But the first launch of the Linux subsystem after system reboot is unbelievably slow. Proceeds to provide a video showing a 3s startup time to illustrate the unbelievable slowness that happens once after a reboot. I suspect the favorit
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by temac 6y ago
> What if that had been my main source of revenue? I'm not saying that people who did are in the wrong, but yeah, don't do that. Likewise, it is very risky to have Youtube as a unique source of revenue, etc. Or even to diversif
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by temac 6y ago
Depends on the market. Enthusiasts/gamers/etc. are going to want a discrete GPU. For a random desktop / family (without too much gaming needs) / corporate usages, an APU is not only fine, but it does not even make much s
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by temac 6y ago
You don't infer potential ownership from a C++ ref. Likewise for char* strings unless it is to interface with a C api, in which case you will keep it anyway.
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by temac 6y ago
You can find the i486 programmer's reference manual easily. It contains, in the part documenting all the instructions, the number of cycles they take. (That's kind of a simplification, but in the context of the in-order, small pip
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by temac 6y ago
There are also custom scheduling policies in the XBox One IIUC. I agree that a “custom version of Windows 2000” for the original XBox is wrong, but it is not extremely consequential in this article, I can see where it comes from, and I don&
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by temac 6y ago
WSL2 contains Linux and other stuff. I would not say "WSL2 is Linux" because that kind of imply a bijection which does not exist, and MS is starting to play on that while extending WSL2 with e.g. D3D12 access to the host and talki
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by temac 6y ago
> The Xbox OS isn't "a custom version of Windows 2000". They took the networking stack and a couple other bits from NT, but otherwise it was built from scratch. From the whole Win2k obviously not, and it is common for jour
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by temac 6y ago
I did not mean "actor" as in a people playing in a movie, but I learnt something from your comment nonetheless :)
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by temac 6y ago
There is the question of the long term effect of policies like even just threatening to block major Chinese actors thanks to doubtful instruments (the US is basically the only power that attempts and manages to rule the world by claiming an

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