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by xorblurb 9y ago
That understandable (but still dangerous). However, considering that reading an unsigned char can reasonably ever be an UB is insanely stupid, considering chars have a special place in the standard. There are going to be (new) problems beca
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by xorblurb 9y ago
That was just an example but I'm starting to have horror visions: imagine you have a struct with some gaps because of alignment, and you read it as chars (which you are supposed to can and must do to get the representation) after havin
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by xorblurb 9y ago
The whole impact of the architecture on the processor is to be considered, not just the size of the decoder. If the ISA was irrelevant (and the ISA does not just influence the decoder, it influences pretty much everything in various degrees
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by xorblurb 9y ago
Except they occasionally miss some nasty bug in that area... This is yet another danger to security.
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by xorblurb 9y ago
Most registers including x86 segment registers need to be saved during context switches, regardless of its between threads or processes. E.g segment registers used for TLS. There are maybe optimisation for flat segments. > Context switch
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by xorblurb 9y ago
I think they don't support x64, and probably they never will, or at least not before a very long time. It's possible MS can leverage part of its existing WoW code with x86 on ARM64. They would have more work to do with x64 on ARM6
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by xorblurb 9y ago
> There is a downside. 64-bit systems consume more RAM since every pointer and word is double the size. This could mean a performance penalty due to more swapping too. 64-bit systems can run 32-bit programs.
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by xorblurb 9y ago
L1 size is probably constrained by a trade-off and competition for area between different CPU parts. If it can be increased with an overall positive effect on performance (while still being economically competitive to build), then I have no
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by xorblurb 9y ago
That's like Agile; the practices that emerged after the principles are sometimes (often?) WTF.
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by xorblurb 9y ago
There is no such thing as an EULA attempting to limit your terms. Without a licence, you have no right at all.
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by xorblurb 9y ago
> Where do you do sprint planning? A church seems appropriate to practice that kind of cult.
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by xorblurb 9y ago
Linked post entry is complete bullshit: 1. the author's estimate for non-commoditized software development is ridiculously low (0.1%) 2. even then, those 0.1% are at the risk of not getting private/shared offices. Do you want that
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by xorblurb 9y ago
An over-crowded open-office is even more productivity destroying than an open-office of a "normal" density. Plus, like already said, you can increase density (at least if the target is not overdensity) in other configurations... M
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by xorblurb 9y ago
For released distro, I doubt Debian will rebuild all their packages and upload them all on security.debian.org...
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by xorblurb 9y ago
Note: there is no such thing as standard C++ exceptions on invalid memory accesses. I'm not sure about division by 0, might be in the same case.
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by xorblurb 9y ago
If you use your computing in a way that makes you think about the potential interest of ECC, the price you are likely to target for a rig that fit your needs is extremely probably high enough to get some nice ECC...
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by xorblurb 9y ago
> The tools needed for this were pretty expensive though, and needed some expertise, as the process was somewhat complicated. This is a problem.
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by xorblurb 9y ago
> This software is by FAR the largest, most complex codebase I have ever interacted with. This is a problem. Edit: I want to add something. Serious 3rd party serious mechanical shops have had the ability to intervene on this kind of equi
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by xorblurb 10y ago
What if you try to compress the frequency components, scanned in zig-zag, using MP3 (without the first FFT like layers if they exists, I guess)? - if that even makes any sense...
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by xorblurb 10y ago
UAC is arguably better than nothing but: it was designed to run at max level (the only available one in Vista, where it was introduced). Because the UX hindrance was too high MS added intermediate levels, but without evolving the whole desi
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by xorblurb 10y ago
Real question: what kind of website she visited to get such infection? It's quite uncommon (even though theoretically an existing risk pretty much everywhere, and probably even not that hard to do if you control a website)
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by xorblurb 10y ago
How is this even neutrality at this point? And what is there even to attempt? It is ridiculous and serves no purpose that they do not write "CIA" once.
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by xorblurb 10y ago
7 is quite supported. MS just arbitrarily decided a few weeks ago to don't allow Windows Update if you have a too modern processor, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever from a technical POV (and which, I guess, will trigger devel
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by xorblurb 10y ago
Hu, you seriously believe Windows is developed like this, with an army of entry level programmers writing code from an ultra-detailed spec for a product they don't know? (and then what, they use Linux and Mac at home, probably?) At lea
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by xorblurb 10y ago
Of course they are using the data. They are not collecting it (mainly) for the NSA, but primarily for themselves.
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by xorblurb 10y ago
I thought what makes them RH was their support contract asking for money for (unsupported) CentOS installs, forbidding to republishing kernel patch series if you want to continue to be supported, and the like. But I've read that text,
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by xorblurb 10y ago
Wayland is the future is now the equivalent of the year of the Linux Desktop. In a way, maybe the year of the Linux Desktop was more convincing. At least people knew why they wanted that.
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by xorblurb 10y ago
This isn't the detailed list, here it is: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/configure/... I know Windows is a large piece of SW, but this seems "quite" big for the "Ba
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by xorblurb 10y ago
It's enabled with Basic.
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by xorblurb 10y ago
You are bound mostly when you distribute GPL covered works or derivative works. The licence is a-priori unconcerned whether such derivative work involve IPC or dynamic linking or anything else. There is no trivial relationship between the t

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