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by temac 5y ago
Ok so I read the mail from Andy and understand the real problem better: UAI is not context switched and is to be enabled system wide. I don't know what AMD has been smoking.
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by temac 5y ago
I'm intrigued by: > Turning on UAI would allow user space to create pointer values that look like kernel addresses, but which would actually be valid user-space pointers. Those pointers can, of course, be passed into the kernel via
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by temac 5y ago
Quite slow and not multicore for x64-64 though. It eventually works, but you better take a spare PC for any non trivial task.
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by temac 5y ago
For now do not attempt to run Win11 on it though. It kinda sorta works a little after doing tons of workarounds including some really crazy ones (network through a kernel debugger stuff or something; manually installing x64 store packages i
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by temac 5y ago
> to scale the iPod’s embedded Linux OS up to serve as a phone OS The OS of the iPod was Linux-based? edit: hm I should have read all of the article before commenting, although the way it is written at the start is quite misleading, I fi
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by temac 5y ago
They will breath the dust and get some internal radiation though. Not really a problem for the others if they move after that, but not very good for them.
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by temac 5y ago
> I think this whole part applies as much to the text of the GPL itself as to the common Linux explanation. The GPL draws a distinction between dynamic linking, static linking, and use over a network or through a CLI style interface to d
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by temac 5y ago
I'm on Monterey with a local account and have never signed into iCloud, although I'm signed into the app store with an Apple Id. I just checked in Preference and under Apple Id it shows: iCloud -not signed in- Media & Purchase
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by temac 5y ago
I think I saw that happening too, but a few years ago. Although looks weird for a non-feature update.
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by temac 5y ago
Thus at least you can have a local account without any attempt of Apple trying to force you not to, and then login to the app store with an apple id, if you want.
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by temac 5y ago
About forced online accounts, MacOs is better than Windows (for now it does not force, I hope they won't in the future)
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by temac 5y ago
> as has been the case for several years with Windows 10 It was not mandatory in Windows 10, thus there was nothing to bypass (on Home maybe you had to ensure you are not connected during OOBE though, at least on some versions) IIRC in t
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by temac 5y ago
> MacOS version stinks I have not tried it yet but was thinking I could need it one day; what particularly stinks about it?
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by temac 5y ago
The on-die ECC for DDR5 is typically: * mandatory (an hypothetical DDR5 without could have error rates so high it would basically not work) * an implementation detail (if the raw error rate was not that high, there would be no on-die ECC) *
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by temac 5y ago
Though the motherboards and ram modules are also harder to find and with far less choice. (and actually the processors are too, depending on your market)
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by temac 5y ago
> My understanding is the stats from hyperscalers is that ECC correction events happen a lot more than "Common Knowledge" may imply - I wonder just what proportion of things that are blamed on software may actually be due to ha
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by temac 5y ago
I have an XPS 15 9560, something like 4 or 5 years old. It's not great, not terrible, bug getting more and more annoying. 1 or 2 years ago, a mandatory major Windows 10 upgrade broke the USB3 port (except 1 time every 10 connection att
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by temac 5y ago
That's a state of mind that is favored by an adversarial system.
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by temac 5y ago
I disagree that you need to know the internals. You need to understand an abstract model, that may have been influenced by internals of early versions, and part of such internals may have been preserved into current versions. But unless you
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by temac 5y ago
Propagating the niceness of a process by default is perfectly normal and most OSes do it by default. E.g. Windows propagates IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS or BELOW_NORMAL_PRIORITY by default. So much of the "Unix processes" theory. Given sy
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by temac 5y ago
And programs written in Lisp are not written in Lisp?
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by temac 5y ago
Above something that is probably quite marginal this is basically free money for Apple. What are you comparing 30% to? Profit vs gross income? That's not what the 30% are here. That's 30% of an amount which depends on: * a market
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by temac 5y ago
Late versions of MS-DOS are also full of assembly langage. Hell even QBasic and QuickBasic were written in assembly IIRC. There were a few tools in C though I don't really remember which ones; but the vast majority of the OS stayed wri
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by temac 5y ago
I would prefer to see issues on real text if they even exist. I don't care about some missing combining support for emojis esp for probably a quickly moving target.
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by temac 5y ago
More have been added since. Unicode has even become synonymous to emojis in general or even tech "enthousiast" media
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by temac 5y ago
Yet I would say the majority of the unicode posts linked on HN are not about non latin scripts but about silly emoji / flags etc
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by temac 5y ago
If that's like WSL2 that's a complete VM. And WSL1 was already departing from the trasitional NT subsystems anyway (because e.g. they were not designed for completely bypassing NT userspace to the point of not mapping it)
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by temac 5y ago
It's not legally, because it is not philosophically. And that's without denying that e.g. copyrighted works, inventions, models, etc., can and often have value.
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by temac 5y ago
Not much hardware sales as OEM licenses sales from MS point of view. The problem is that by doing so they redefined "forever" to only mean 6 years for them, and did that at a time when the hardware started to progress again + in a
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by temac 5y ago
Apple has a polished UI. MS seems more focused on changing the control panel / settings program in each version without ever finishing the migration and keeping unrefreshed UIs from all era and branches of Windows. That, and the start

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