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91.
by temac 3y ago
The graphic stack did not broke application and workflow compat between the two, though. Neither did it incitate to couple the desktop to the graphic server, on the contrary it even made the system resilient to graphic driver crashes.
92.
by temac 3y ago
Virtue signaling is about telling the world how good you are. There is no practical difference between being altruistic intrinsically for others or subconsciously to feel good about yourself. We may even never be able to distinguish between
93.
by temac 3y ago
> And with the Pentium & the ISAs that followed they just seemed to pull a rabbit from a hat. They made the x86 CISC architecture scale in a way that pundits at least? didn't seem to think was possible. The Pentium was not great
94.
by temac 3y ago
That was absolutely not the rational they provided. Which was more a meaningless thing like: we got telemetry measures that show that modern computers are faster and crash less, so we are randomly requiring them.
95.
by temac 3y ago
I doubt it was more about Intel than about themselves. Of course, the environment being the huge collateral damage. They also make unreparable devices, so their pretend support has no weight.
96.
by temac 3y ago
If that's the first time you touch the last bits of your private arena, you can trigger the OOM killer.
97.
by temac 3y ago
That's a terrible idea to disable overcommit on a generalist Linux system because: * exec * some tools or even libs map gigantic area of anon mem but only touch few bits of it.
98.
by temac 3y ago
If all that matter to you is RAM and HD space, you can as well buy a cheap desktop tower. As for "similarly spec'd" laptops if you put good perf and low consumption in the equation, they just do not exist. Yes Intel Mac were
99.
by temac 3y ago
Seems to be quite evil though.
100.
by temac 3y ago
To be fair writing trully portable C that does useful things is not that simple. When was the last time you made sure your code supports CHAR_BIT != 8 for example.
101.
by temac 3y ago
The first atoms were their own kind with design principles more from the P5 than even the PPro. It was slow. I'm unsure if it was slower than contemporary Arm, but for sure it had a way lower IPC than the Pentium 4.
102.
by temac 4y ago
This data should not even be collected in the first place. Even just the collection is 1984-style.
103.
by temac 4y ago
You could not patch 8086 microcode though. On this CPU was just because it was simpler and maybe smaller than random logic. Most CPU have a form of microcode in one place or another, often sequencing transfers between registers and buses. A
104.
by temac 4y ago
LSB support has been mostly dropped by some distros (e.g. Debian dropped support in 2015)
105.
by temac 4y ago
If you actually use consummer CPUs a lot (maybe e.g. you are a kernel maintainer and compile Linux all day) some of them may not last how long as you think. Or if you put consummer CPUs in embedded equipements that are always (or at leas
106.
by temac 4y ago
IIRC Intel consumer CPU target 5 years (or is it 3? Not sure and the info is not public) at 30% duty cycle. Of course lots of CPU make it for longer, but 10 years is certainly not a design target.
107.
by temac 4y ago
Software is still widely "cracked" and tons of people still want to not break the law. In some case telemetry is removed. Otherwise you run it in a VM without network access. This has little to do with autologin and lack of effici
108.
by temac 4y ago
A few years ago at least GB pages were buggy under Windows. I'm not sure of the current siruation.
109.
by temac 4y ago
On "old" versions you could - or at least you could not connect and it would allow to create a local account in this case. On the last one MS says you can't OOBE without the Internet, even with Pro, and at a first glance it s
110.
by temac 4y ago
In French, we once had a poor translation that said: "Laissez-nous tout". Well the "leave everything to us" original was maybe already kind of weird.
111.
by temac 4y ago
Does the code then run with admin rights ?
112.
by temac 4y ago
Good luck for developping a robust system by considering the execution plateform can introduce bugs anywhere and trying to resist them all. The article makes me think the Linux journaling redudancy robustness was not even really a conscious
113.
by temac 4y ago
Well, if you count like that people not necessarily know that they are using Linux either when: * They use Android (the article was about fs so its applicable) * They use an embedded routeur powered by Linux * Embedded stuff in their cars E
114.
by temac 4y ago
Iirc it is not the case anymore even for pro in 22h2. But bypassnro works for both home and pro.
115.
by temac 4y ago
Im not completely sure about that given it includes a few additional features like refs.
116.
by temac 4y ago
"This setting only applies to Enterprise and Education SKUs."
117.
by temac 4y ago
Im not sure you can even do that anymore with the last edition. But bypassnro is still there.
118.
by temac 4y ago
It is absolutely malicious tho ugh, because Windows works perfectly fine with only a local account, and tbh it would still be malicious, and actually even more malicious, if they managed to change windows to make it not work anymore with ju
119.
by temac 4y ago
So the DoD deploys IT that some of its users virtually can't login to? Appart from avalability, at least that's secure :)
120.
by temac 4y ago
I get the point but that's also a little like saying Windows is quite simple software because it is simply full of 'if' and 'for' and 'while'. A modern great CPU or GPU chip is not that simple to design. I

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