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They have NPUs for running tasks like figuring out what your app usage pattern is. The TOPS number is too low to be relevant enough to preserve because Apple prioritized other features in its chip design during the years leading up to the s
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Shout out to Palmer Luckey Land. Fun fact, the new court next door was built by DEC --notice the street address? It was a joke on IBM.
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Huh. Well, maybe look at the "forest through the trees." You say 'Linux is great on these laptops, blah blah blah' and can't disagree, but point was that unlike those that came before, these particular laptops are d
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2y ago
whoosh
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2y ago
Linux on new Macs is pretty toxic except as an intellectual or academic exercise. With the industry transition to AI-as-a-platform, the hardware that these Asahi devs are working on (m1..m5) has no real preservation value (even with 128GB R
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ALL CHINESE BRANDS ARE WORKING WITH THE CCP. It is literally required by Chinese law! You can be pointed towards the novel research work that explains how to self-modify the die in the field using opcode sequences that, by the way, came out
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2y ago
The real news HERE is that NY Times is turning on Zuck. They are so angrah [sic] because it turns out Meta is a business that operates within a government regulatory structure and is accountable for following it for the benefit of its actua
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2y ago
The fury of all Los Angeles being focused on this will result in: a) A large fine b) A lengthy prison sentence c) The banning of all non-commercial drones in California outside of remote desert areas d) All of the above
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2y ago
It is probable the latest editions of ESP32, Rockchip and other controllers manufactured in China do contain CCP exploits. Even the Intel-based mainboards from certain Chinese manufacturers also contain EFI with CCP exploits. (It's not
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2y ago
Yes, as a computer scientist with almost a half century of experience, I get your product, UX, why you made certain decisions, what made ExtJS popular, why people choose Proxmox, etc. I even get how much of an ask it is of someone who chose
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2y ago
"It's 1990, time to get ugly. [Pre-Chorus 2] Should be a crime to be that ugly." https://youtu.be/CroETQY51J4 Just for the record, you cannot go in my headset with that UX [Kids who have been playing with Pro
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2y ago
Haha, you're so wrong, Spooky23. Older workers love doing "boring" work that younger workers do not enjoy. What's more, a 1337 definition of "senior level" that I used back in the day was the ability to walk in
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2y ago
..and Abichandani is reported to be an actual academic (in drone swarming technology) at a prestigious university that is local to the observations, not an enthusiast or politician! In next room, I have a nearly 100yo man who, in a small gr
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2y ago
20 years lol Off by a factor of 2.5x, but your expectation is reasonable --so is having a Defense Secretary that tells his staff when he's checking into the hospital for a serious medical condition and an airspace that doesn't all
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2y ago
https://youtu.be/8Z3N3KquVJY That's me, everytime I visit this website ROFL PS: I heard a podcast interview with dude calling himself "Uncle Bob" ..being interviewed about "clean code" by an Indian
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2y ago
"You built a couple widgets and a wiki that scales And then you paid your people double cause they did it in Rails" https://www.youtube.com/embed/za0nyYbp6is?feature=oembed "Look what I'm not doing&
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2y ago
Don't forget FunnelLeasing.com which funnels its victims into Finicity.com which is "consent based" financial surveillance where landlords can monitor the cash, credit and asset accounts of their customers using a pretty dash
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2y ago
Just threw up in my mouth. Yes, our capital markets developed FOMO on the next Apple or Microsoft and so they devolved into throwing caution to the wind and funding people like This. There were trillions lost, millions of workers permanentl
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2y ago
This table will help you, but it stops way back in 2021 at 346,350 MIPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second Looking forward to the Apple A18 Pro reported to be 4GHz x2 and 2GHz x2 +/- thermal co
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2y ago
I think we need to put it in terms of smart watches now, soon smart rings. Hope we remaining masters can stop the delusional tech bastards running around convinced they're a new and more powerful Steve Jobs (oblivious that his success
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2y ago
What the... I open the article and it is not about "maintaining" the old Data General and DEC machines (the original "The Should of a New Machine" was about the race to create the first 32-bit minicomputer --between DG a
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awesome
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Bottom line is that there was mutual respect between engineers on both sides but I can tell you that our guys didn't have as much respect for their work products --not because of who they were (though their language was a constant sour
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"What is up guys-today we're going to be reviewing <noname super cheap ridiculously fast or spec'ed microcontroller or ME-hacked-Intel-based media/router box from China> and I'm going to show YOU how to put al
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Must keep those Black Box Binary Blobs up to date with the latest security related patches! Tune in next week to the same Bat, same Bat-Channel for the next episode "Mystery Packets from Outer Space"!! https://s.zeptoba
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https://www.wired.com/2016/06/demonically-clever-backdoor-hi... (/"Lil Jon Bend" begins playing) 2016..2020 = sufficient interval to implement See also: Google Search: "rockchip backdoor",
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/31/fbi-... Note: This site does not like to entertain contentious topics and has rate limited me over my prior post about factory and foundr
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I didn't post the social media influencer's video, I posted a 15 minute executive summary that references that issue among many.
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Pre-Loaded Trojans in China's Mini PCs, Irremovable
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Dan, an obviously insulting tone was used while inappropriately putting a demand (not request) to me that I have no legal interest nor actual requirement (even under your Guidelines) to satisfy. The allegation that my comments are “unsubsta
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