eqvinox

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by eqvinox 4d ago
> the internet will tell you that PC firmware developers are incompetent³ > ³ I’m not going to present an opinion on that here, merely say that this provides no supporting evidence for that assertion If anything, isn't this evi
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by eqvinox 6d ago
Failure on the Swiss flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Switzerland The Swiss flag is square, instead of the rectangular shape typical for national flags. Even if it were to be the civil & state ensign,
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by eqvinox 10d ago
Honestly feels like a misdesign in ARM. Where does it ever make sense for Device memory to not be data prefetchable, but allow instruction prefetch? It should IMHO disable all prefetch…
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by eqvinox 10d ago
Are you unaware that you can write code to RW memory, remap it to RX and then run it? That's how all JIT works these days. (Or did you confuse cache flushing with TLB flushing? The remap does the latter, not the former.)
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by eqvinox 10d ago
Everyone except the driver has ample time to swap boots during the drive to the location. (In cases where not, I'd also default to robust safety boots.) Depending on the boots, you might not want to wear them while "idle"¹ in
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by eqvinox 10d ago
Does the American South actually have that kind of group cohesion?
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by eqvinox 10d ago
Sorry, I phrased that poorly. The muscular support is its own thing (and I agree with you) but your soles don't deal well with hot summer asphalt surfaces, glass shards or even small pebbles surfaces.
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by eqvinox 10d ago
Probably the same in most Western countries. It's self reinforcing though; if you were expecting to take them off you'd never pick those shoes by default, rather leave them in the back of the car (which presumably/hopefully i
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by eqvinox 10d ago
> That's the whole function of shoes though. Nah, the main function of shoes is (to support your feet and) prevent injury. Cleanliness is second on the list. [ed.: added braces]
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by eqvinox 10d ago
That does actually kinda make sense, but it works very differently... the politeness is anything but superficial (even counters the racism and xenophobia to a limited degree, but also hides it, coming out to ±0), and the latter two are inde
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by eqvinox 10d ago
Having been to Japan several times… and actually studying Japanese studies… I can see why you're saying this but it's very superficial. None of the southern "essence" that caused the split & war is there in Japan at
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by eqvinox 10d ago
Wow, that's... oof.
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by eqvinox 10d ago
The UK is on it, Cyprus isn't, Switzerland isn't… but Iceland is, and Turkey, and Ukraine. But not Moldova. Serbia is on - I'll grant Kosovo, but… …weirdest map of either Europe or the EU I've seen in a long time.
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by eqvinox 14d ago
These systems AIUI have huge amounts of inertia, by design.
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by eqvinox 14d ago
Feels appropriate to ask an AI for that, no? You're vibing it, so the feedback would be vibed too… (and at that point why not ask an AI yourself?)
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by eqvinox 14d ago
> humans are always a bit skiddish around change skittish "skiddish" isn't a word, the only thing I can think of is leaving a 'skid mark' in one's underwear...
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by eqvinox 14d ago
Or, how about you just run the FPGA toolchain on WASM: https://yowasp.org/ ('mad propz' to Catherine/whitequark)
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by eqvinox 15d ago
> sequiter sequitur. I normally wouldn't insist, but on this particular topic, misspelled Latin is just a little too much for me.
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by eqvinox 17d ago
I'm not sure I see the use case for that, either. What do people use this for?
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by eqvinox 17d ago
The back button/navigation is broken on this website for me, likely due to the cookie banner. (Which I generally don't bother interacting with, because why would I?)
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by eqvinox 17d ago
Is it really worth the effort? What's the use case?
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by eqvinox 18d ago
Nothing, because blackhat activity disqualifies itself from such a label. Recognition is actively withheld since it'd encourage some bad actors. Same reason malicious software is always given a different name even if one can be found
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by eqvinox 18d ago
Coal or ash in the smoke means they didn't operate the engine correctly. The smoke is supposed to be quite minimal (in particular relative to the massive amount of exhaust steam) and free from significant solids. Ash is dumped in speci
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by eqvinox 19d ago
Not sure if that's just me, but "disimprovement" sounds like *removing* an improvement that was previously there…
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by eqvinox 19d ago
"updowngrade", funnily enough, I would understand as having the (IMO misunderstood/wrong) meaning you're trying to give to "Verschlimmbesserung" in your post here https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by eqvinox 19d ago
I don't think either of these 2 quite get the point across with the same "wavelengths" getting included.
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by eqvinox 19d ago
無 (the question cannot be answered because it relies on unmet prerequisites) "Verbesserschlimmung" isn't a word in active use & depending on how it (theoretically) were to enter use, its meaning might vary. It could ente
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by eqvinox 19d ago
As a German, I might not have thought of that but would absolutely use it to translate Verschlimmbesserung. Does it sound "normal" enough to native English speakers?
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by eqvinox 19d ago
(already edited in)
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by eqvinox 19d ago
It's actually a verb, "Verschlimmbesserung" is the substantivization. Base: verschlimmbessern Present conjugation: I verschlimmbesser[e], you verschlimmbesserst, he/she/it verschlimmbessert, we verschlimmbesser[e]n,

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