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Re:European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:24AM (#50352370)
No, it's not hasty to say that a processor that I can buy and benchmark today outperforms a processor that hasn't even been taped out.
Re:European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:11AM (#50352216)
That's a weird measure of success.

It's a far better measure than "despite all the years of unfulfilled hype and promises we'll absolutely have a smorgasbord of performant RISC-V cores Real Soon Now". Single core performance down in the Intel Core range? Needs 96 cores to even be competitive on a handful of benchmarks that don't equal a modern users compute needs? The competition isn't sitting on their hands, and RISC-V hasn't delivered the performance it's fanbois have told us is 'inevitable'. Loongson has at least managed late-2010s levels of performance.

Maybe RISC-V will completely take over the embedded market. That's not a bad gig. High volume, tho slim margins, lot's of niches for lots of innovation (want to continue to go crazy with ISA extension? Not a big deal in the embedded world). But they're still selling billions of 8051s, ARM is ubiquitous but even they didn't take over that world, and I know how I would lay my bets there, too.

Re:European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:43AM (#50351887)
You don't accomplish anything like this without funding. This is computing fanfic, at best.
Funny...no mention of it in the 'News' section of their web site.
Planet X is supposed to be Neptune sized. This thing is less than 1000 miles across. 'Giant' for a Kupier belt object; not so much for planets.
Re:AI-assisted PCB design for KiCad 10 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:02PM (#50282193)
Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be a popular ethic, particularly around here. These are the disciples of MVP and 'move fast, break things' and all the rest.
Re:Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:45PM (#50279794)
I remember NeWS being significantly slower than NeXTStep (and on a faster processor). X11 could be slow, too (VAXStation QVSS, anyone?), but flew on decent hardware. The tragedy is that with 5+ orders of magnitude more processor, 3+ orders of magnitude more memory and a GPU, I still think "crap this is laggy".
Re:Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:35PM (#50279624)
This might surprise some people, but there are pretty cool tech companies that aren't in the Bay Area.
Re:Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:33PM (#50279598)
I think the same thing, then I price a Power 11 (or Power 10) machine. Ouch. I even kinda liked AIX, even though it is definitely it's own thing. We had such hope for OpenPower but it never came to anything.
I've certainly had such nudge-nudge, wink-wink interactions around reatil system stupidity, but this isn't a general solution and not every person/demographic would have such a happy ending. Indeed, you're lucky a separate anti-shoplifting system didn't flag you for 'enhanced screening' or some such taking the friendly clerk out of the equation and handing you off to the rental security drones. Then you'll just be the guy on the surveillance camera taking a part of the shelf and walking out with it (and no they probably won't care you put a part back). The more automation, the less 'human in the loop', the less opportunity for common sense to inject itself into the scenario.
That's true, but it falls under the thing I keep saying: people saying "the AI said so" with no thought or checks as an excuse for pretty much anything. And AI provided probable cause is terrifying. Minority Report was not aspirational.
Wouldn't be the first once hot memory tech that ended up in the scrapheap. See: RDRAM.
Well, yes, but wouldn't this fall under Regulation S-K, Item 303? They don't have to provide forward revenue guidance, but if they're exiting a line of business don't they have to disclose future trends and risks leading to that decision in their 10Q/10K?
Re:Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:39PM (#50252131)
You'd be surprised how many working VAXen are out there. The later desktops (the 3100s and 4000s) are pretty reliable, and you can put enough memory in them they don't (always) swap to death.
I wish I had just some yellow or orange for highlighting.

Yes, I would really love this as well. They make tri- and quad-color e-ink displays, but I've only ever seen the 'badge' size. I'd buy a full sized reader with just that right now.

Re:The result of the C++26 DIS ballot on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:30PM (#50248642)
Cfront seems so quaint in retrospect.
Re:The Curse of Soldered RAM on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:33AM (#50242566)
PATA & SATA drives don't have low level format, but SCSI did long after 1992.
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:49PM (#50199432)
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Wednesday said it has taken “serious note” of the reported security incident

Will they send a "strongly worded letter"? That's the best way to make sure such an incident never occurs again. /s

Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:35PM (#50199314)
Anyone relying on them with anything related to security or trust is playing Russian roulette at this point.

In any legal dispute involving them, Exhibit A will be "look at how they ran their SSL/TLS business". That won't go well.

The boat long ago sailed on Mach/Hurd; there are probably better options in microkernel-land. There's Zircon, but Google laid off a bunch of the Fuchsia folks and has been pretty quite lately. QNX is still a thing, but closed source yadda yadda. Best hope there is probably the L4 family (seL4, et. al).
Like when graphics stack and drivers were "imported" into the WinNT kernel as an optimization for the user-space version. And thus began 30 years of "another week, another graphics subsystem crash/vuln".
Re:I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:46AM (#50195261)
That...kinda brilliant. Demented, but kinda brilliant.
I'm betting you spend a lot of your life telling other people your inability to understand them is their fault.
This is probably the future, tho. Being first to disclose a vuln is a Big Deal in some quarters. And now, the velocity of AI driven pentest swarms mean every researcher who finds something worthwhile has to think "how close is the next droog's swarm to finding what I found" and the temptation to jump the gun only gets stronger.
So you didn't bother to read where I explicitly said I wouldn't want an HOA ever again. I guess it was more important to hear yourself speak than replay to what was actually posted.
Re:Learning to live with Waymos on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:38PM (#50175799)
Considering the rate I'm being downvoted, gullible seems too kind.
Re:Learning to live with Waymos on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:47PM (#50175460)
Yes...given the spotless record of these sorts of companies in zealously guarding our privacy it would be unthinkable that Waymos is listening in to our conversations. /s
So we're condemning the entire legal system (all of them) now.
Bullshit.

  Recital 64: The controller should use all reasonable measures to verify the 
  identity of a data subject who requests access, in particular in the context
  of online services and online identifiers.
Yes someone drools out this particular version of "because GDPR!" enough I know exactly where to look for the rebuttal.
Just because people did shitty things in the past, doesn't mean people shouldn't care about the shitty things people are doing now. Particularly if the 'people' are corporations.

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