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by adrian_b 8d ago
Pangram is wrong. The text does not have any of the superfluous words typical for Claude/OpenAI talk. It is written like an answer to "Explain to me like I am 5", but it contains appropriate information for such a context. On
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by adrian_b 8d ago
Most Mali drivers from the kernel are not contributed by Arm, but you are right that nowadays some contributors from Arm have appeared for the older reverse-engineered GPU drivers, like Panfrost and Panthor, and now there are also a few GPU
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by adrian_b 8d ago
All the mainline kernel support is reverse-engineered. No help from Arm. Thus there is a considerable lag for the support of newer Mali generations. Some Linux distributions for various embedded computers with Arm-based CPUs and GPUs use cl
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by adrian_b 9d ago
As it says at the end, this was evidence at the class action suit "Comes v. Microsoft Corp.", which was eventually settled by Microsoft by paying $180 million, after many years of litigation.
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by adrian_b 9d ago
I assumed that NEADS did not receive appropriate notices, but this it what I do not understand how could it happen, and if it happened, why did not heads fall for this, immediately after the events. While I was watching the TV, before the f
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by adrian_b 9d ago
I think so. But developing the heuristics for choosing the appropriate compression algorithm for a stream of data is likely to need a very long time for compression tests of a lot of diverse training data, similarly to the training of a spe
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by adrian_b 9d ago
No. It is an unrelated algorithm.
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by adrian_b 9d ago
I have not experimented with bzip3 recently, but more than a year ago I have done many tests with it. Initially I was extremely impressed with it, because in a lot of tests it succeeded to compress hard-to-compress files, like movies, and i
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by adrian_b 9d ago
As a non-US citizen, what has always astonished me, already while watching a direct TV transmission of all the events of that day, and seeing live the following attacks, was not that the first plane successfully hit its target, because desp
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by adrian_b 9d ago
Did you really map it as normal memory? Standard UARTs are accessed in the x86 I/O space, which is uncacheable and strongly ordered, not in the normal memory space. Non-standard UARTs that are on PCIe add-on cards might be mapped into
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by adrian_b 9d ago
The original text linked by another poster says "salt as desired". So the quantity of salt is not specified in the original recipe, therefore it could be the same as any present cook would choose.
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by adrian_b 9d ago
I partially agree with you, in the sense that any useful custom integrated circuit must include some analog part, otherwise it would not be competitive with standard programmable logic. Nonetheless, having actually worked as an analog IC de
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by adrian_b 9d ago
Unless the husband was a jerk, he would have understood that this is a division of work, so the spouse who worked at home had actually earned a half of the pay received at the payed job of their husband. Moreover, in many past societies whe
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by adrian_b 9d ago
There are 4 differences between my home and that of my grandparents from one century ago, which indeed have reduced significantly the time spent with household chores: 1. Washing machine 2. Vacuum cleaner 3. Microwave oven 4. Electric refri
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by adrian_b 9d ago
The archive link given by another poster works for me. What matters is the pessimistic conclusion of the article: > "The uplift in prices is anticipated to persist for as long as the AI supercycle lasts. “I think we’re still in the
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by adrian_b 9d ago
> They also don't need masks for anything To skip the use of masks, there exists only 2 possibilities. For low resolutions, down to around the 1 micrometer claimed in the linked site, it is possible to use a small and low cost laser
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by adrian_b 10d ago
When I grew up a half of century ago in East Europe, keeping your shoes on when entering a house was still considered as an unacceptable behavior. However, later this changed, in good part because much of the population moved from bigger ru
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by adrian_b 10d ago
I have stopped using TV sets more than a decade ago. Instead of a TV set, I use a very big monitor, which is connected to a mini-PC (an old Intel NUC with Linux), which also has a TV tuner and an infrared remote control receiver. Besides ju
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by adrian_b 10d ago
Short turnaround times does not mean a single day. Even an ancient 1 micron CMOS process requires something like one hundred process steps, many of which may need up to a few hours in an oven. If completely automatized, it could be done in
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by adrian_b 10d ago
Yes, only one day of processing is impossible for any kind of integrated circuit. One day of processing would be possible only for semi-custom integrated circuits, like gate arrays, which have already been fabricated until a last step that
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by adrian_b 10d ago
Not really. To the front end, one needs to pipe only appropriate logical combinations of the flags that describe the memory properties, not the flags as they are stored in some control register. So a control register should contain flags th
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by adrian_b 10d ago
That is exactly what the poster to whom you replied said. So Arm did not add another means to disable this kind of speculative execution, after Spectre was discovered, but they just reused the existing NX flag, expanding its functionality.
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by adrian_b 10d ago
TFA contains a reference to the Linux kernel, where there is a workaround for a quirk in the Apple CPUs, where in hypervisor mode they diverge from the official Aarch64 specification. So by "vendors" it was indeed meant "some
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by adrian_b 10d ago
To get a sense of how the computer runs your program you need to learn some modern assembly language, i.e. either Intel/AMD x86-64 or Arm Aarch64, or for something simpler one could start with IBM POWER. The hardware machine model used
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by adrian_b 11d ago
This has been researched for decades, but progress is very slow. Other wide bandgap semiconductors, i.e. silicon carbide (a.k.a. "moissanite" in jewelry) and gallium nitride are well on their way to make silicon completely obsolet
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by adrian_b 11d ago
That is indeed impressive, but at least the excerpt given from the layout seems very easy to route, due to high regularity and an ample routing channel. Even so, there remained some "dozens" of unrouted traces, which are likely to
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by adrian_b 12d ago
Also the author of the famous "Programming Windows" books.
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by adrian_b 12d ago
I do not think that this is Firefox specific, more likely is is something Linux specific. For me, hCaptcha has stopped working immediately before last weekend, regardless of the site that uses it. It goes in an infinite loop, despite solvin
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by adrian_b 12d ago
Exactly. For example, various kinds of STM Nucleo boards with MCUs having far more useful peripherals for an embedded computer than Raspberry Pi can be found for less than $20, and you can connect them to any PC with USB, to load programs o
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by adrian_b 12d ago
I suppose that you refer to the circumflex accent, because that can differ wildly between Greek typefaces. Some render it similarly to a French circumflex accent, others render it like a tilde.

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