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Re:AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage over x86
on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @05:21AM (#45179579)
Even Jim Keller says that instruction decode is the difference, and that saves a lot of battery for ARM even if it doesn't change the core efficiency at full lot.
Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyd...
on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @08:27AM (#45102210)
It's very difficult to determine if the length is due to the font being used or due to actually being hyphen or emdash.
Re:Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"
on Sunday August 31, 2025 @11:30AM (#45083951)
Was there any attempt at making rules for experimental features looser than other filesystems? That seems to be the biggest bottleneck here.
Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyd...
on Thursday August 28, 2025 @01:18AM (#45048656)
Em-dashes are very confusing to me, can never figure out if it is a emdash or a hyphen, so I avoid them altogether.
Re:Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyd...
on Thursday August 28, 2025 @01:17AM (#45048648)
Are you worried that ChatGPT will give you wrong words just because they look natural? (And yes it does)
Re:Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)
on Friday July 25, 2025 @03:39AM (#44680633)
Consumer protection can still be separate in this case. That's not a problem at all. The only reason it is not prevalent in these countries yet is because they in general have lax consumer protection laws. But this can easily change. The unified payment interface does nothing to exclude it.
Re:Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)
on Friday July 25, 2025 @03:37AM (#44680619)
India has UPI. China has something. It is only a good thing that this should spread everywhere.
Re:Jujutsu for Busy Devs
on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @06:48AM (#44645332)
How much time do you spend resolving merge conflicts between multiple team members?
Re:Yoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility...
on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @06:37AM (#44645279)
Poor people will always want to move to richer neighborhoods. The advantage to their kids from this is much higher than the stress and bad effects especially as early in kids life as possible.
So, a lot of people will be looking to move as soon as they can afford it.
Re:Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
on Friday July 18, 2025 @03:15AM (#44602085)
Only legal requirements can change it. Nowadays, the mokutil is good enough that linux users can build a good tool around it to automate registration at boot that should ease some pain. But otherwise, it is a big mess and still needs legal requirement.
Re:Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Reduce Productivity
on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:00AM (#44531637)
I use it very routinely to generate tikz diagrams. It is obviously wrong and I need to manually tweak a little bit. But the hardest part is often to get something working at first, and in this AI is first class. It gets me 90% there, and rest is me.
Re:Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Reduce Productivity
on Friday July 11, 2025 @08:59AM (#44531621)
It's kind of true. I only use it for simple stuff that I don't have time for. For example, how to write a simple diagram in tikz. The Ai does the simple and busywork of providing a good enough approximation which I can tweak and get what I want.
For hard questions, I prefer to use my own skills, because AI often regurgitates what I'm already aware. I still ask AI in the off-chance it comes up with something cool, but most often, I have to do it myself.
Re:Apptainer: Application Containers for Linux
on Thursday June 26, 2025 @06:56AM (#44386118)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3126908.3126925
This paper might help
Re:The FPGA Turns 40!
on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @07:02AM (#44364810)
No. It's not competitive. You'll spend previous time (which should be spent on prototyping an design) on solving bugs and writing infrastructure code. Reverse engineering has not been a viable effort for a long time now.
Re:Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and why they fal...
on Sunday June 15, 2025 @02:48AM (#44280954)
the real ability of intelligence is to correct mistakes in a gradual and consistent way.
Re:Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes compu...
on Saturday June 14, 2025 @02:03PM (#44277772)
I found all the jokes funny as well. Thanks for the blog post. Extremely nice read.
I love the approach.
Re:Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 yea...
on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @06:20AM (#43982832)
It's very similar to people getting scared about SKylab so, you are not alone.
Re:The language brain matters more for learning programming than the m...
on Saturday May 03, 2025 @07:59AM (#43878496)
Not treating math as just another language for expressing your thoughts is a weird position to take. I cannot take this position seriously.
Re:Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutils
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @02:24AM (#43779819)
I think this is a good experiment. 25.10 is not an LTS, people who want stability are using LTS anyway.
Re:C++26: more constexpr in the core language
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @02:18AM (#43779784)
That is more on the fact that less investment is made in C++ compilers nowadays. Companies are migrating away from C++ and it shows in compiler development.
Re:MacBook Air M4
on Friday March 07, 2025 @12:57AM (#43287663)
Then you suddenly want a Nvidia GPU on the side and you need more power.
Re:Securing tomorrow's software: the need for memory safety standards
on Thursday February 27, 2025 @02:13AM (#43192085)
> Fil-C is currently 1.5x slower than normal C in good cases, and about 4x slower in the worst cases. I'm actively working on performance optimizations for Fil-C, so that 4x number will go down.
I am pretty sure you cannot go much lower than 1.2 here on the best cases. In contrast, CHERI on good hardware will easily be as close to current performance as possible.