zephen

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by zephen 9d ago
Sorry, didn't mean to send anybody on a wild goose chase. Glad you found a reference, and also somewhat glad that the reference says that the the term was "often" used -- maybe I'm not quite ready for the dementia ward
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by zephen 9d ago
Well, that was the whole issue. After marking the memory as not accessible via a data load, the CPU was still executing there and borking itself. He had to also mark the memory as inaccessible for code loads. Which, honestly is kinda stu
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by zephen 9d ago
> I'll instead observe that it seems to follow from what you said that you actually agree with me. As long as the prefix remains consistent across a given level of indentation then there's no cause for concern. No, I vehemently
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by zephen 9d ago
> Speculative instruction fetches fetch code from "a location that you never asked it to execute code at" by design. If it already knew you asked it to execute code there, it wouldn't be speculative. Sure, but (a) the spec
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by zephen 10d ago
In an attempt to go fast and beat benchmarks and other computers, CPUs attempt to speculatively execute code, and then later undo the results of the speculation if it turns out it was wrong. This causes all sorts of security issues (spectr
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by zephen 10d ago
Truly, indentation is the moveable feast. Even on ancient typewriters, you could adjust your tabs depending on what you are doing. And people who have dissimilar tastes in tabbage will certainly write stuff that doesn't appear that g
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by zephen 10d ago
> that criticism is usually posited by users of the language. Uhhh, no. Sure, it's posited by people who feel they are are forced to use it, but it's basically unlearning other syntax. Here's a study about people with no
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by zephen 16d ago
> What I found irritating in the post is the premise that what we put in front of kids should be judged by counts of attributions to career success. For a start, that's effectively the premise it's sold on. And for another thi
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by zephen 16d ago
More like asking if anyone in the Tour de France has credited a win to early use ofone of those little Fred Flinstone-style kiddie cars where they use their feet on the ground for locomotion.
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by zephen 26d ago
> inherent in the drawing of that line, anywhere, is the legal authority for one entity to prevent another from engaging in creative activity. Seldom, if ever, is anybody restrained from "engaging in creative activity." As opp
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by zephen 27d ago
It seems like the same sort of category error that some people make regarding free speech. Just as you can say whatever you want, but facebook/twitter/reddit/whoever is not required to give you a soapbox, you can download thi
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by zephen 27d ago
> And all you're responding with is invective. This statement is mendacious, at best. I have explained that HTML has fuck-all to do with layout. I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you. Here, check out what
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by zephen 27d ago
Thanks for the downvote, but you're wrong. > explicitly and implicitly describe the layout of an HTML document. No, this doesn't happen. > In fact, "HTML" itself is an acronym (HyperText Markup Language) Duh. >
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by zephen 27d ago
> HTML describes layout News to me.
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by zephen 27d ago
A careful reading of your previous comments seems to indicate that you are completely against the idea of intellectual property in any form. That is fine. You do you. But, again , if such property exists, then a line must be drawn. Give
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by zephen 28d ago
So all the non-pixel-specific stuff is in a publicly accessible repo? So the pixel team just decided that they wanted to keep their kimono mostly closed?
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by zephen 28d ago
Many commenters agree this is not a nice move by google. But is there any reason that google might have that they feel is legitimate? For example, delaying releasing source until they've had a chance to update all the pixels with secur
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by zephen 29d ago
> You literally just gave an example above of that notion applying to copyright. No, I literally did not. The difference may be subtle, but it is real, as I explained. > Even if you can somehow prove you've never heard a particu
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by zephen 29d ago
> So even if said intellectual property (AI-written code) is not copyrightable, it's still a trade secret. It's only a trade secret as long as the company takes reasonable steps to protect it, and as long as what is being prote
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by zephen 29d ago
> The notion of “your work is too similar to mine so I get to take ownership of it from you” That notion only applies to patents and trademarks, and it seems highly unlikely that it would ever directly apply to copyright. It may seem
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by zephen 29d ago
> Intellectual property does not necessarily have to be copyrightable The US recognizes exactly 3 types of intellectual property: copyrights, patents, and trademarks. There are also, of course, trade secrets, but if you didn't surr
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by zephen 29d ago
Who owns the code if you built it with AI? Someone else! All they have to do is show it's close enough to code that was swallowed during training. Songwriters have been successfully sued for many decades for creating songs that are too
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by zephen 29d ago
There are two different categories of patent issues at play here, and several different implications for competition. The first issue is on the purely physical level. The fabs (and integrated companies like Intel) fight this one out, and e
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by zephen 1mo ago
Bleeding edge processor development is always going to be a patent minefield, even for RISC-V. Most patents are broad enough to cover more than one architecture. But there are now several RISC-V IP vendors, and ARM can't possibly shut
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by zephen 1mo ago
The confusion is deliberate. The Republicans are trying to strangle the IRS and outsource everything. The IRS, despite its many shortcomings, consistently tries to help people get their taxes filed. So when the Republicans were in charge, a
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by zephen 1mo ago
No. They are fucking not. The site that was killed was the IRS direct file site. The webform is through the free file alliance, aka Turbotax and friends. The API requires you to jump through a million hoops. Heaven help you if the reason
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by zephen 1mo ago
Hard to know at this point. In the past ARM sued people for daring to think about implementing ARM compatible computers. (Even university research projects.) Of course, in the more distant past, AMD and Intel sued each other a lot. But t
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by zephen 1mo ago
Do you think the government should allow electronic filing of taxes? Because if the government is going to accept returns electronically instead of through the physical mail, then it should accept them without requiring an intermediary. Int
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by zephen 1mo ago
> There aren't ones that wouldn't be served better by ARM Sure there are. If you want to do weird and wacky stuff, try to do it with an ARM and see how fast you get shut down. > The improvement is entirely "we don&#x27
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by zephen 1mo ago
> I don't understand how the two viewpoints fit together Well, they don't and they do. Linux runs on everything from an $8 generic IP camera to the world's fastest supercomputers. RISC-V is attempting to achieve the same

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