temac

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811.
by temac 9y ago
> But a lot of engineering effort went into making the core really nice. I quite like Linux but I would not say the current state of the core kernel is "really" nice. Somewhat nice, maybe, but "really" nice? You just
812.
by temac 9y ago
"nobody" is a little strong. Advanced users might want to use advanced data structures that are not built-in in the langage, and templates can be convenient to do that.
813.
by temac 9y ago
> Having the clock be an ambient authority leaves the system open to easy timing attacks via implicit covert channels. "leaves the system open" are strong words. If you allow only threads you have got high precision clocks as a
814.
by temac 9y ago
This is not what we are discussing about. Your answer is plain false dichotomy. We were discussing about the fairness of that situation.
815.
by temac 9y ago
I guess he would not resent that his cofounder has kids, but rather because he just would be kind of paying (even more than usual) for those kids; why exactly?
816.
by temac 9y ago
Are employees paid more (in a given company) just because they have children? It might not be even legal to ask them in some jurisdictions, during recrutement and salary negotiation. Most of the time employees are not paid more just for tha
817.
by temac 9y ago
> Those switches went away, but the underlying issues remained. The new method was some firmware that did a bunch of pre-boot configuration. That was refined over the years and now today there's an entire computer running it's
818.
by temac 9y ago
Can hospital security neutralise the rogue cop in a case like that?
819.
by temac 9y ago
If you change the thermal resistance, you can very well overheat or not with the same constant TDP.
820.
by temac 9y ago
If we are talking about modern processors, I doubt they are going to do custom masks.
821.
by temac 9y ago
But you can change a larger module. If you want to cover that kind of risk with that kind of supplier companies (hint: a marginal risk, to begin with), you are not going to go anal about the drop it characteristics of single chips. Or at le
822.
by temac 9y ago
I don't completely understand the "need" for bribery. Could they just not lower their prices? (which could have resulted in the same balance in the end)
823.
by temac 9y ago
ECC was probably not for consumers. I think they needed to have an offering for processors smaller than E3 for pro needs, and somehow merged it with some i3. Also check for embedded options: those are basically LTS, so low volume and/o
824.
by temac 9y ago
Yep, you have the "far detached from real work" reaction. Plus, if you consider "you" (or an imaginary candidate you project yourself upon) risk not being able to answer it in 10 minutes because of such the high pressure
825.
by temac 9y ago
> Do you think the people living Italy, Greece, and Ireland believe they are excluded from being 'white'? For sure some of them are not white. Not that we should care much, unless we are dermatologists or something like that I
826.
by temac 9y ago
You can't do it anymore on Windows 7, because they switched to the consolidated patch model of 10. Now, the possibility you have are mainly a linear security only channel, and a linear security+stability(+eventually features) channel.
827.
by temac 9y ago
ex: CreateProcess As for the openness because of installable FS; WTF? Other systems have (more) installable FS. As for my lack of experience: WTF bis? I once got an NT error through a Win32 call. That is not even supposed to happen. It was
828.
by temac 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that excuse is random bullshit. First, are handles limited to 16 bits in 32-bits Windows? I'm pretty sure they are not, especially when the 2 lsb are 0 for NT handles... Second, you could cherry-pick other random r
829.
by temac 9y ago
You cherry-picked one function for which some errors were specified (and even in this case; few of them), yet you ignore the general case where MSDN seems to tell "go fuck yourself" to the programmer looking for the possible dif
830.
by temac 9y ago
General principles will be more interesting than examples: Win32 does not list the errors that can happen, rendering the greater error code space it has half-useless. Even without considering errors, the description of what functions do is
831.
by temac 9y ago
The criticality is insanely high...
832.
by temac 9y ago
OTOH, the situation is reversed by the userspace API documentation... even more so if we are talking about POSIX vs Win32.......
833.
by temac 10y ago
Yes, I saw you were talking about the subsystem, but I think this is highly related to the whole picture. The OS/2 subsystem in released NT was neither a critical component, nor was it actually interesting for MS that it became too goo
834.
by temac 10y ago
The NT kernel is not "really" (<-- read that: at all) a microkernel with message passing. The kernel space scope (but not constraints, for example their is no stable kernel/user ABI on NT) is actually very similar to the o
835.
by temac 10y ago
OS/2 might have been somehow better than Windows Consumer (and that's given the proper big enough computer at the time), but it was clearly inferior to NT. In term of tradeoffs though, maybe they are comparable (using the first ve
836.
by temac 10y ago
> So much work went into the OS/2 subsystem, but I can't imagine it was important at all to NT's eventual marketplace success. It was even the reverse that is true. MS support of Win32 instead of OS/2 PM was a strateg
837.
by temac 10y ago
Cutler developed VMS, and then went to MS and developped NT. NT is not a modified version of VMS, although some principle are obvious common. At the very beginning, NT was developed as NT OS/2, targeted for OS/2 v3. Then MS and
838.
by temac 10y ago
Not sure how exaggerated this is, but even then, those vendor can very well have the bad idea to don't give a shit about compat between one chip and its next version. Given where there go and the associated ecosystem, I suspect they do
839.
by temac 10y ago
It is half-responsible, but MS did the necessary thing to achieve their capability to independently update the OS (and deliver it as binaries, instead of letting phone vendors built it from source, which MS do not want to distribute to anyb
840.
by temac 10y ago
Let's ignore the historical legacy non-PNP ISA config nightmare, because they do not bring anything of value in this discussion. The core system of PC is highly compatible with OSes in pretty much all directions. (Well now even if I d

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