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dmitrygr
13,816karma·4,955submissions·March 28, 2012
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I make things and I break things for fun.
me@dmitry.gr
https://dmitry.gr/ long ago: http://palmpowerups.com/
Places we might have crossed paths: VMWare, Google, Apple
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The hardware support was there for a while. Given that this runs macOS, i would guess (no insider knowledge) that it would work just fine and not be disabled like it is in iOS (by policy, not by techn…
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Vote for politicians who'll lower VAT from 25% (!!!) to the same about as we pay in sales tax (5-9% depending on locale, 0% in some states) -- see lower prices :)
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Mobile devices, to give you good battery life, operate in a “race to sleep” mode. Good performance is necessary not to compute a lot of things, but to finish your computation quickly and shut down the…
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and you are 100% sure none of this will change suddenly, and are willing to bet you have the money to defend yourself in case you are sued wrongly, perhaps, but still need to provide a lawyer to defen…
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"It probably does not apply to you" and "Laws are usually applied as intended" and "You'll probably be ok" is what i keep hearing. None of that addresses "if yo…
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Windows UI customization used to be a thing Stardock did with products like "WindowBlinds". Googling around, it seems it still exists and even supports windows 11...wow
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this "divide" thing will add latency which you really do not want to add to L1 hits
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that is ... not at all how that works. RAM is a separate chip, that is placed on top of the substrate that holds the main dies. It is bought from normal ram manufacturers like micron. it is not "…
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> Sifive is moving fast as far as I know) worked with their cores in $pastJob. I'd say their main products are flowery promises and long errata sheets.
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that will break if any page is mapped at two VAs, you'll end up with conflicting cache lines for the same page...
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I think you may have set friction too low
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FB marketplace and/or eBay.
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cool, now do it without the test suite that some human made for you
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> I hope that as a society we are starting to learn, and protect, the value of, and right to, privacy. I wish... but nope... see CA's and CO's requirements that OSs check ID
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notepad.txt now joins calc.txt in my list of EXEs i bring from an old WinXPx64 install to all new windows installs
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Is there a problem with Peter Thiel or is their problem that somebody accidentally leaked the front end source code? The first I would understand, though I would find it silly. The second I don’t unde…
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There is absolutely no reason for css to be turing complete. None. That being said, well done
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So this is just LZ with a pre-populated window? Any backreferenceing compression can be used this way - just prepopulate the backreference history on both client and server up front and off you go. Wh…
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Brutal, but understandable and well-argued. Thank you.
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And you can use it. You can, in fact, keep using the software that shipped on it. What you want is access to further intellectual property they develop (updates, features), that just so happens to be …
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Yes. I am effectively asking you what the moral justification for DMA is. I understand that lawmakers can make whatever law they want. I understand they made it. I am curious how people who agree this…
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That is not their fault, though. I can see how you could complain to the people who mandate you use B’s products. Otherwise what you’re saying is that control of any intellectual property can be stole…
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They still exist!? I just don't use any merchant that lacks the "checkout with apple pay" or "checkout with amazon" button. Too much trouble.
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Yes — a very clear and unambiguous “speech is allowed” is the correct solution. If your feelings got hurt, you can cry to your mommy. The world does not owe anybody comfort.
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But thumb2 is dead. “Successful RISC CPUs” is aarch64. No thumb2.
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Do you really not understand the sort of slippery slope that presents?
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> It's smart to ban hate speech Everyone has their own idea what hate is. For me: it is anyone saying any word with “a” in it. Better stay quiet, or it is hate speech.