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Re:Execution Units Are Often Pipelined on Monday December 30, 2024 @02:27PM (#42552566)
Unrelated, do FPUs on modern CPUs use FMAs to both multiply and add or do they use mul/add-only units?
Re:Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code on Saturday February 03, 2024 @11:17AM (#39241732)
You don't need the whole Visual Studio installation, only MSVC build tools and Windows SDK. See here: https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/installation/windows-msvc...
Re:AdaCore Announces Gnat Pro for Rust on Saturday September 30, 2023 @07:04PM (#37720811)
So are they basically packaging a toolchain and selling support for it like RHEL or what? Because I doubt they managed to create a full rust spec.
Why is your comment greyed out? Are people being so confidently incorrect that they downvoted this comment?
On "people that don't know what they're talking about" today!

That's the anti-cheat which only Valorant uses

>We have had the Five Eyes and ECHELON for decades. Since before the Snowden revelations. How is this different?

Because the EU is not part of either?

Theux UE teuc oueur FIGues!!!
Re:A Web UI for Stable Diffusion on Friday September 09, 2022 @06:06PM (#32785460)
People have reported that this repo even works with 2gb cards if you run it with --lowvram and --opt-split-attention.
Works for me (also Windows)

Version 1.42.97 Chromium: 104.0.5112.102 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Re:All Algorithms Implemented in Rust on Sunday August 21, 2022 @10:12PM (#32546560)
Linked list strikes again.
Re:End the Streaming Struggle with Plex on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @03:42PM (#30923959)
Jellyfin is written in .NET 6, not .NET Framework. .NET Framework is the legacy Windows only version, but .NET 6 is FOSS and cross-platform.

And the documentation is on Microsoft's site because it was originally developed at Microsoft.

From my perspective, it has some great new features. WSLg and WSA, for example.
Re:Gender in Latin and Beyond: A Philologist’s Take on Friday October 29, 2021 @04:57PM (#29043451)
>Is there as much of a gender "confusion" (for lack of a better word) in parts of the world that use languages that have gendered nouns?

As someone who speaks a Slavic language with masculine, feminine and neuter genders (Croatian), I've never heard of anyone identifying as non-binary in my language. It'd be extremely difficult because all adjectives and verbs in some tenses change based on the gender of the person in question. Singular they wouldn't work because it's already used to formally refer to someone (similar to German Sie). You'd have to rethink half of the language to not gender someone, which no one is going to do for such a niche problem.

One thing I see Anglophones do when talking about other languages is confuse neuter gender for gender neutral, which equates to calling someone an "it".

>...English doesn't use gendered nouns so maybe we have less deeply entrenched ideas about gender and what is masculine or what is feminine...

That's another thing Anglophones get wrong. At least in my language, when not talking about people, 99% of the time the gender is determined by the ending (suffix?) of the word it's referring to, not some mystical gender role we imbue that object with. When using the word human, the rest of the sentence refers to them as male, whereas if you're using the word person, it'd be female even if you're using them to talk about the same guy.

One other thing is, when referring to a mixed group of people, you use a masculine form of plural, same as "latinos". It REALLY doesn't matter and it only bothers people who don't speak gendered languages.

Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones on Thursday September 23, 2021 @10:03AM (#28629311)
To be fair, the CEE 7/7 plug will work almost everywhere in the EU, not counting the UK of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#CEE...