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Why? How in the world is hwaccel gated behind an entitlement??
Re:Cerebras CS-4 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @06:09PM (#49380927)
> We'll see exponential improvements in energy efficiency and speed over the next decade. Exponential, not linear.

Why? Make your case.

Yes. This reads like a LinkedIn post rehashing old news. I’m not even in the industry.
GP is talking out of his ass - he’s probably not up to speed on meth economics like you and me.
Re:Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for World Makers on Monday June 01, 2026 @04:06AM (#48353908)
My understanding is that it’s got a bespoke 20 core Nvidia Vera CPU - unified RTX Vera Rubin Spark chip. Seems like Nvidia trying to copy Apple M-series chip
Do any of the legit scene groups sign their binaries? How do you know a release isn’t tainted?
Re:The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands on Thursday April 02, 2026 @06:01AM (#47612268)
On a modern OS, doesn’t the kernel (eventually) take care of the cleanup anyways?
Re:The beauty and terror of modding Windows on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @07:27AM (#47231359)
Did you also have a windows 8 laptop with touch screen?
I tend to agree, but the FMC on Boeing aircraft sure leave something to be desired.. I do not find the menu/tab system very ergonomic (and the non-QWERTY key layout)
Love the transparency - someone should make you VP of ..uhm dev rel or something! I was being quite hyperbolic in my original comment, however, I _do_ think you are doing the right thing, and you are definitely not the bad guy.

Having said that, there are big corps who have been known to use the CFAA as a way to coerce the long arm of the law upon teenagers and geeks hacking away - not always a great thing either IMO.

Nice, thank you Martin. How do you punish the fraudsters? Do you send them to prison over CFAA violation terms of service?
Re:Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:59AM (#46852895)
Security through ..rarity? Maybe not for nation state actors though.
Re:Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf] on Sunday February 01, 2026 @04:33PM (#46849590)
I have 2 or 3 yubikeys associated with my account. I think apple does a decent job at communicating the importance of having recovery keys to the point where they deter those who can’t be bothered.

Yubikeys are great

> C# doesn't depend on a VM these days when it is AOT compiled

Maybe I’m being pedantic, but this is an oxymoron. Also the premise is incorrect. It’s not like the VM is gone. Merely baked into the code at compile time. It compiles IL to native code. Same for IL2CPP. The VM is still there.

The term “virtual machine” is confusing. I think you meant to say JIT compiler :-)

Re:Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf] on Sunday February 01, 2026 @03:17PM (#46849010)
Why?
Re:Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf] on Sunday February 01, 2026 @03:16PM (#46849000)
> Apple’s solution affects your whole digital life

I don’t know if that’s generally true. I could lose my apple account and not really give a a damn. Not that I see how such a thing would happen, save for apple burning down all their datacenters. I’m running ADP

Re:Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf] on Sunday February 01, 2026 @03:13PM (#46848979)
> because of the serious (potentially destructive) consequences

Huh? What are you talking about? I don’t see anything destructive about it.

Re:Mobile carriers can get your GPS location on Sunday February 01, 2026 @05:13AM (#46845024)
How do you work on the go? I use personal hotspot quite often. Not only when on the go, but if there is unstable WiFi. It’s saved me on multiple occasions - both for live-site incidents and for random meetings.
Re:Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases on Saturday January 31, 2026 @05:08PM (#46841401)
As someone not very deep into databases, these papers were fun to read.
Re:Moltbook on Friday January 30, 2026 @11:58AM (#46826817)
Today's Yap score is 8192.
It uses a Unix keyboard layout where the caps lock is swapped out with the ctrl key. I think it’s much more ergonomic to have the ctrl on the home row. The arrow keys are behind a fn modifier resting on the right pinky. Also accessible without moving your fingers from the home row. It’s frankly the best keyboard I ever had from an ergonomic POV. Key feel is also great, but the layout has a bit of a learning curve.
Dunno why I’m getting downvoted. Is it because you disagree with my statement? Is it because I’m off topic? Do you think I’m a shill?
> Just wait until you get a group of nerds talking about keyboards

Don’t get me started on the HHKB [1] with Topre membrane keyswitches. It is simply put the best keyboard on the market. Buy this. (No, Fujitsu didn’t pay me to say this)

[1] - https://hhkeyboard.us/hhkb/

I prefer using MS Exchange mailboxes for my message queue.
Re:When employees feel slighted, they work less on Saturday January 24, 2026 @02:58PM (#46747076)
What about a farm worker who tills the land? Is every farmer/farm worker achieving business goals through _cooperation_? What about seasonal farm workers? I guess the farmer can set up incentive payments, but even so, are you saying there no adversarial component to the relationship?
Re:When employees feel slighted, they work less on Saturday January 24, 2026 @02:48PM (#46746979)
Does your company have a culture of recognizing work anniversaries? To me it feels very arbitrary. Maybe I’m jaded by big tech.

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Re:Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video] on Sunday January 11, 2026 @04:39PM (#46580442)
Do you have fountain soda in your convenience store? I've usually only seen that in fast food places (am european)
Re:Dell Admits It Made a Mistake When It Abandoned XPS on Sunday January 11, 2026 @04:32PM (#46580358)
> If you are a UI developer you want 200% scaling

Isn’t it good to test your UI on different scale factors? I run several non-uniform scale factors concurrently for that exact reason.

Re:Dell Admits It Made a Mistake When It Abandoned XPS on Sunday January 11, 2026 @04:27PM (#46580295)
Additional anecdata: my top of the line XPS 15 had to be repaired twice due to a "stuck" trackpad issue. It seems to me like they crammed as much compute as they could into that tiny chassis while their manufacturing tolerances really weren't up to the task.

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