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by temac 5y ago
> The new design philosophy is ‘more familiar to on those unfamiliar with Windows’ I.e. Apple users. If they really wanted to that then: * too bad they only copied one superficial aspect without the others needed for it to make sense * t
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by temac 5y ago
> since as a French speaker, "boob" wasn't part of my vocabulary. I think this sentence has been carefully constructed to be kind of true. The original author certainly knew what "boob" mean at the time. And the
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by temac 5y ago
In theory some weak ECC on top of particularly unreliable storage can still be less reliable than way more reliable storage not employing any ECC, but I also suspect this won't be the case here. However, if the target reliability is on
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by temac 5y ago
Not GP but 100. If people complain about "bloat" for less than 1% they can simply be ignored.
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by temac 5y ago
Not really: internal ECC in DDR5 is an implementation detail that is neither exposed on the bus nor giving you the real reliability and monitoring capability that real ECC terminated in the memory controller did. It is only there because th
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by temac 5y ago
They did support ECC on some i3 simply because they did not bother to double the sku, however IIRC you need the server / WS S chipset to enable it. At which point just put an entry level Xeon on that. In the absolute the cost of ECC ev
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by temac 5y ago
I don't really see how the needed monitoring would be more interesting than fully driving the car, maybe with a few convenience and safety assistances. Planes can use autopilots because there are not litteraly surounded by traffics 2m
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by temac 5y ago
> I don't understand where this bizarre notion comes from that if you commit a crime while not physically being in the country and not being that country's citizen, this somehow nullifies the crime and means you shouldn't
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by temac 5y ago
IIRC there is a standard field in ISDN and H323 for transmiting precedence levels.
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by temac 5y ago
> 64-bit solves so many perf and user-perceived reliability issues I love how in tech everything is always evil one day and the next one nearly the panacea. Now I understand the timing component is actually not to get rid of entirely, in
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by temac 5y ago
Since 10.15 only 64 bits code is supported anyway.
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by temac 5y ago
Why is Airbus randomly asking for that in the USA and not e.g. in Europe?
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by temac 5y ago
A TI89 has that too, and probably way more features.
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by temac 5y ago
> I mean tell me how to make a UI on Linux? You copy paste a ten lines gtk or qt hello world, install a few packages (certainly not 20 GB), in a terminal go in the right dir, and type something like 'make'.
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by temac 5y ago
I kind of agree with you, but the problem is that "management" is often (very) poorly defined. Is it people or project management? It is often implicitly the two without much rational. Even considering project management the style
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by temac 5y ago
You seem to imply customers demand bridled CPUs. Thinking about it, there is one scenario for which their "sw-defined silicon" (hello newspeak) would both make sense and not be too much of a fuckery: instead of their regular proce
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by temac 5y ago
While the comment was overgeneralizing, the code will be rejected (actually, it won't even be rejected in a final way, just feedback will be given about how provide a better version that has chances to be integrated) if the code has a
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by temac 5y ago
Also if the state if USA...
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by temac 5y ago
> compiles against its own version of the C/C++ standard library The C++ library yes. However IIRC Windows now ships a conforming somehow-modern C standard library (ucrt) and modern MSVCs link to it. It is probably also included i
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by temac 5y ago
There is to be a cause, but there is no need to broadcast it to the world. The specifics are mainly a matter between the employee and employer.
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by temac 5y ago
The pure marginal cost of fabrication of a modern chips is not that cheap when seen in the context of production capacity (and with high demand you tend to concentrate on high-end anyway), and certainly not cheap compared to software, other
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by temac 5y ago
> Same goes for silicon. Oh no, a big part of the cost is in the manufacturing. A non negligible part is also in logic R&D of course but this is not comparable (at all) with software, where the marginal cost of duplication is near
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by temac 5y ago
Not so sure for the impact of regulatory. Tons of other countries/areas have equivalent regulatories req, if not more strict, yet does not yield to absolutely insane prices. Regulatory is there to prevent e.g. killing patients in a The
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by temac 5y ago
The M1 family certainly doesn't go into the direction of less cores, and even if you had a single one you could probably rowhammer during your timeslice and then patiently wait for the target process to execute. Since even individual c
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by temac 5y ago
The internal ECC in basic DDR5 is intended to provide a reliability just good enough to be at the level of DDR4 without ECC (or maybe slightly above, but probably not a lot?), and likely the error rate would just be crazy high without any D
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by temac 5y ago
The problem is right now DDR4 devices that work correctly in that regard, do not exist. Likely the best mitigation for any sensitive application, even so lightly, is DDR4 with ECC (even if it may not be enough, it is vastly better than noth
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by temac 5y ago
Also the branches are indicated at their positions at the moment you call reflog, not as they were for each operation of the log.
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by temac 5y ago
I get that remark in the absolute, but here we are talking about an article about how to get and compile CDE from source on a Debian 10. In which case your fear that setting up Xft font rendering via X resources is an insurmontable task to
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by temac 5y ago
The problem is not necessarily unfriendliness (trustworthiness is harder to define so I'll not concentrate on this one first), it is more generally causing wrongs to others. Of course on the friendly/unfriendly side, that could be
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by temac 5y ago
Yeah so on the disturbing scale, I think this one is quite good: extroraptor ex·tro·rap·tor a device by which a fetus is detached from another animal by means of an entrails lasso and inserted in other muscles "underhanded methods of c

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