- Not in RE, maybe, but directly viewing source isn't RE either.
- It seems they're pretty directly admitting to referring to the LGPL library while implementing theirs under a different license.
I wonder if they'll have no issues with people directly reading their code while happening to implement the same functionality with a closed license? Or a GPL-style one?
I'm surprised they admitted to it - it's hardly "Clean Room"....
- You could argue that microcode emulation is what they do now.
- If you can realistically notice and reason out a bug within ~45 seconds of seeing the diff, then they are really shallow "dumb" bugs. The sort that even a junior would be expected to avoid.
And I wonder how many other massive issues are being committed to main, but would take longer to reason out, but you're already looking at the next 45-second shallow bug.
This has to be a joke, right?
- It's very much nvidia specific, not just using CUDA but the backing nvidia-specific management libraries.
Though I don't think there's anything particularly device-specific they're measuring, they're using the private nvidia interfaces to do so.
- Arguably most MP3s are limited lower than 48k, depending on the implementation.
Like LAME uses a low pass filter unless you explicitly disable it, even on the "insane" preset it cuts off about 20khz.
But I can still understand why mp3 is still used, if only because of compatibility and intertia of keeping a collection in a consistent format. I see the worries about file size becoming less important over time, so many people I don't don't really see an advantage to a more modern codec like Opus.
And piracy has always been more about "branding" that people seem to like to admit - many video rips were labelled DivX for years after they had already moved to other mp4 encoders. And over the years the "brand power" of various pirate groups was surprisingly large.
And I suspect that mp3 and flac were the last "big" changes that made a significant difference to many end users, so newer formats just don't have quite the same improvement to promote their own branding.
- > MP3s don't (really) support higher than 48 kHz sample rates
Neither does the human ear.
While there may benefits for intermediate representations during mastering/modification, for playback higher frequencies can only ever make things worse as it increases the chance of unintentional frequencies causing distortion etc.
And for those intermediate steps any lossy compression is probably a bad idea.
- "Can't complain"
- As a Brit, I'm not quite sure this article is right in it's declaration it's a universal "English" thing and not more "American English".
- I think you're thinking of british-style "en-dashes" – which is often used for something that could have been separated by brackets but do have a space either side – rather than "em" dashes. They can also be used in a similar place as a colon – that is to separate two parts of a single sentence.
British users regularly use that sort of construct with "-" hyphens, simply because they're pretty much the same and a whole lot easier to type on a keyboard.
- I don't think they were "intended" for anything - it's just that was the state of the control lines after it decoded that instruction byte, and combination might do something somewhat sane.
Wiring all the "illegal" instructions to a NOP would have taken a fair bit of extra logic, and that would have been a noticeable chunk of the transistor budget at the time.
- If the round trip time is dominated by the time taken to encrypt and decrypt packets locally, as seems here, then the speed at which it can complete that is absolutely important for measuring "latency".
- My belief was that many analysts at the time considered that the justification rather than the cause, as alluded to by the Ukraine counter claims in the guardian article.
Similarly, Trump isn't saying he wants to invade Venezuela to distract from domestic issues, but it's all about the "drug boats".
- I think it's very sector dependent.
Working on drivers, a relatively recent example is when we started looking at a "small" image corruption issue in some really specific cases, that slowly spidered out to what was fundamentally a hardware bug affecting an entire class of possible situations, it was just this one case happened to be noticed first.
There was even talk about a hardware ECO at points during this, though an acceptable workaround was eventually found.
I could never have predicted that when I started working on it, and it seemed every time we thought we'd got a decent idea about what was happening even more was revealed.
And then there's been many other issues when you fall onto the cause pretty much instantly and a trivial fix can be completed and in testing faster than updating the bugtracker with an estimate.
True there's probably a decent amount, maybe even 50%, where you can probably have a decent guess after putting in some length of time and be correct within a factor of 2 or so, but I always felt the "long tail" was large enough to make that pretty damn inaccurate.
- Depends on how you define "war", but the initial invasion of Crimea by Russia in 2014 and Israel's strikes on Iran this year may count - both were closely aligned to rising domestic pressure on the leaders at the time.
- Apple did that to push people towards their own walled garden of APIs rather than some deficiency of the OpenGL API.
There is no "technical" solution to this, no Even better API that would make them support it, as it's a business decision as much as anything else.
- I kinda disagree with #2, even ignoring the adversarial wording - at most it's an extension of "HN isn't All Of Tech"
From people I've spoken to personally, I've seen it as primarily #3 - "Why do we need collective bargaining when we have negotiating power from being in high demand with lower supply?" - despite IMHO that is when you should be using that power for such, as that power will never last forever.
Don't need politics/a "type of person" to be only looking at the short term, and thinking the current status quo will last forever. It seems pretty much a constant in every demographic.
- During "light" browsing pretty much any laptop's power use is massively dominated by things that aren't the CPU, assuming there's been any attempt at enabling that use case (which doesn't always seem to be the case for many SKUs, certainly on the cheaper end).
A huge amount of Apple's competitive edge is in the "other 90%", but they don't seem to get the headlines.
- Any "given" name/ID (IE anything but the full hash) in a distributed VCS has to be mutable - without some single central arbiter of truth it's simply impossible.
I'm honestly a little surprised people seem to think they might be immutable - I guess maybe if people see "git" as "Actually Github"?
So you expect to see the results of that. The AAA games being released faster, of higher quality, and at a lower cost to develop. You expect Microsoft (one of the major investors and proponents) to be releasing higher quality updates. You expect new AI-developed competitors for entrenched high-value software products.
If all that was true, it doesn't matter what people do or don't argue on the internet, it doesn't matter if people whine, you don't need to proselytize LLMs on the internet, in that world people not using is just an advantage to your own relative productivity in the market.
Surely by now the results will be visible anyway.
So where are they?