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by tgma 3mo ago
Haha, almost everything at Apple that is not seen by the user is full of crap (and increasingly you see user facing bugs and schedule slippage too). Possibly still somewhat true in hardware, but in software, they have far worse engineering
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by tgma 3mo ago
As a host seems to refer to the machine that executes the tool not the machine that is being DFU'd. Intel Macs with T2 actually do have a DFU process as the primary processor is in fact T2, which loads UEFI image in RAM once it valid
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by tgma 4mo ago
It won't be just a couple. That's the point. The curve is at 50% after an astonishingly long time and is already flattening.
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by tgma 4mo ago
I was talking about internet at large. You , and many clients, are of course able to do it on your box, but to use the whole internet, you will at some point hit a translation point which uses v4. The point is the internet at large is neve
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by tgma 4mo ago
I mean, NSA-blessed or not, the way this happened was not some hidden conspiracy. It was in the open. The reason it happened is all of these machines are basically made to run Windows, so they need to have Microsoft keys. Microsoft was push
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by tgma 4mo ago
Is this a failure? Absolutely. The article tries to brush this off, but there is no denying it. Operating without an IPv4 stack is not going to happen with v6.
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by tgma 4mo ago
> It’s basically in maintenance mode Has been in more of a maintenance mode with a multiple of those people. If anything, the pace of the product has improved. Regardless of what you think about Musk, the company he bought was a bloat
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by tgma 4mo ago
I mean, the answer is obvious if you do not deliberately try to put a message in the worst light possible: - "Space company" has a major LLM+datacenter business called X.ai. - LLM for coding is a big business, as you can see from
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by tgma 4mo ago
> Who even sells insurance against software bugs? You don't buy insurance for existence of a singular "bug." You can and people very often do buy liability insurance against damage caused by software bugs. You need to buy
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by tgma 4mo ago
> remember when Intel messed up the division algorithm inside their chips? Yea, and what do you remember about that? Pretty much no normal person noticed before someone constructed a specific test case. You know what I also remember? Me
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by tgma 4mo ago
I am not sure if I correctly understood your point. On one dimension, you are basically hinting at another anecdote that proves my point: hardware failure (specifically bit flip in non-ECC memory) is pretty much guaranteed to happen at scal
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by tgma 4mo ago
It does not have to be brushed away as "brute force" necessarily. We can, and do, build more reliable systems out of less reliable components. In fact, most industrial engineering accepts some defect rate and builds margins around
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by tgma 4mo ago
The United States Copyright office. There's a whole world outside the US. And even then they can change their mind. Does not hurt to backstop with an explicit license.
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by tgma 4mo ago
I think there's a categorical difference between paying for long term maintenance voluntarily vs paying for something to exist. The latter works much better as the value prop is clear and you can scratch an itch. Kickstarter is similar
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by tgma 4mo ago
No technical reasons.
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by tgma 4mo ago
I am not. I am explicitly saying to offset revenue from ads. That's a different question. Best of luck getting Facebook-level distribution in your 1 EUR Mastodon.
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by tgma 4mo ago
I also think the figure GP quoted are not US, but lumped together with depressed "developed" economies. US numbers should be a multiple of that.
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by tgma 4mo ago
If you are in the US and in a demographic who posts on Hacker News, $100-$250 is likely below your monthly revenue contribution to Google alone.
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by tgma 4mo ago
People who spew I'd rather pay, I'd rather pay often majorly underestimate how expensive Google and Facebook would have to be in the western world to offset the ad revenue per person. The irony is this is especially true for you
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grpyc: Up to 8x faster gRPC Python in Rust(grpyc.com)
1 points by tgma 5mo ago|0 comments
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by tgma 5mo ago
Process documented here: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-library/refer...
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by tgma 5mo ago
If anything the causality is exactly the opposite. The labor cost will go up (empirically provable) in such "shithole countries" once work is outsourced to them, improving their livelihood.
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by tgma 5mo ago
I was talking about a specific device on a specific dimension brought up by the GP, i.e., "freedom to tinker for the owner while preserving security for the masses." Whether that became a standardized process is a different story.
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by tgma 5mo ago
Isn't that a feature not a bug? That means labor, a proxy for quality of life of the laborer, is more expensive than parts. That's abundance. In fact, in "shithole countries" where everyone wants to emigrate from, it is
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by tgma 5mo ago
You can easily remove the nag screen by opening the device and unscrewing a screw and running coreboot with SeaBIOS. Pretty neat security approach (not too hard to do, not too easy for a layman to fall for instructions to self-compromise).
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by tgma 5mo ago
Arguably a POSIX assembly programmer would also naturally keep strings along with their size, either explicitly or known implicitly, more similar to Pascal, not null-terminated, as that's how syscalls expect it. Null-terminated would c
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by tgma 5mo ago
If you actually start writing big stuff in assembly, esp a macro-assembler, you'd quickly realize it is more verbose, but not fundamentally that different from higher level programming. You basically need to get a hang of how to build
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by tgma 5mo ago
Law does not run on a CPU with certainty. There is risk analysis going on: there are many jurisdictions at play. When you are big enough, something that has fundamentally viral characteristics by design can have catastrophic impact even i
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by tgma 5mo ago
There is a difference between calculating and rational . There are certainly calculating elements within the regime. Not all of those elevate to rationality.
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by tgma 5mo ago
Part of the reason those tactics are so effective, even today, is there are leftist elements in the west who are eager to eat it up to substantiate their own agendas and echo it as truth. You can see it live on Hacker News people constantly

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