Teongot

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by Teongot 1y ago
> To be cynical, there's probably a lot of corporate spin - Seagate is a HDD company after all. applause
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by Teongot 2y ago
I'd love to see this combined with the author's fork()-less implementation of ps to make a (almost) fork()-free implementation of psDoom. Seriously though, this is really cool
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by Teongot 2y ago
If you can get a suid root binary into the chroot, then you can control its configuration files to bypass security restrictions. $ ln /usr/bin/sudo ./my-chroot $ echo "$USER ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" &gt
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by Teongot 2y ago
It so much that JITs became feasible, it's that bigger CPUs were less suitable for Jazelle's approach because of the behaviour of the in-order CPU pipeline. Because Jazelle converted Java bytecodes into ARM instructions in sequenc
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by Teongot 3y ago
From the article > When it started testing simulations of early Pentium prototypes, Intel discovered that a lot of game designers had found that they could shave one instruction off a hot loop by relying on a bug in the flag-setting beha
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by Teongot 4y ago
Thumb-2 was internally codenamed Wrist. Because it's between ARM and Thumb
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by Teongot 4y ago
There's a good write up of it here https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/109917995005981968
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by Teongot 4y ago
An excellent bug report for a compiler would * have reduced source code for the example, preferably a single source file, in a form which can be compiled * have the exact command line used to build it * have the exact compiler version being
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by Teongot 4y ago
What was the origin of the idea that the Unix philosophy is "do one thing and do it well"? If anything, the UNIX philosophy is more like "do one thing, and do it to a text file".
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by Teongot 4y ago
> Isn't it surprising that modulo arithmetic, as already employed successfully in TCP sequence numbers and the like, still seems to be incorrectly implemented today Even in TCP sequence numbers, it can be implemented incorrectly. h
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by Teongot 5y ago
Because "don't" is easier to read than 'don\'t'
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by Teongot 5y ago
Arm's marketing department doesn't consider it an abbreviation any more. The progression of the Arm brand goes something like this: * ARM (abbreviation for Advanced RISC Machines) * ARM (not an abbreviation for anything, but looks
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by Teongot 5y ago
I find Samsung much more reliable than Sandisk in my pis
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by Teongot 5y ago
The corollary to that is, of course, that any technology which is distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced
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by Teongot 5y ago
Your book is set in racist times and appears to be about a racist protagonist. If you aren't careful you can allow those sentiments to propagate into the overall message of the novel. Try to be less defensive, the editor has taken the
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by Teongot 5y ago
If all the companies doing custom AArch64 microarchitectures had spent the effort building systems around ARM's designs instead, we'd probably have a thriving ARM server ecosystem by now.
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by Teongot 5y ago
Neoverse-N2 will have SVE2 (source https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/config/aar... )
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by Teongot 6y ago
There's a tidy mathematical progression in Apple CPU architectures. 6502 (Apple 1,2,3): 1976 68k (Mac): 1984 (+8 years) PPC: 1994 (+10 years) x86: 2006 (+12 years) ARM: 2020 (+14 years) If the trend continues, we will see Apple's
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by Teongot 6y ago
The cost of simulating 32-bit ARM on 64-bit ARM is nothing like 10x if you try hard enough https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/56078084/...