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- Comment on Praise jeebus 1 day ago:
Hell yeah, I fucking nailed it
big oooof on the j-dawg and his tree.
but seriously, nice bit of ackchyually here.
- Comment on Why is Jean-Luc Picard so hot 🙏 3 days ago:
he brings live shakespearean actor mojo to the small screen and make zero fucking apologies for it. its like watching a honda civic do a quarter mile with a corvette engine.
best. captain. eva.
- Comment on Top Donald Trump official tells Europe to choose between US or Chinese communications tech 1 week ago:
carr does know that the “easy button” the EU is about to press was made in china, right?
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 1 week ago:
MAVA!
- Comment on Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned! 1 week ago:
🎶 I’m your cult of personality 🎶
- Comment on Encryption Is Not a Crime 1 week ago:
…from my cold, dead hand. no lie.
- Comment on Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs. 1 week ago:
trump - toupee deep in the bread and circus show. “are you not entertained by your baubles?!”
- Comment on How I Finally Got a Handle on File Formats (Without Losing My Mind) 1 week ago:
what the hell is this trash post?! user is clearly a sleeper ad bot.
- Comment on Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ 1 week ago:
wow! self-reflection is something we all need more of (especially me). agree or disagree, converstaions are always better when everyone considers things for a moment. nice comment. :-)
- Comment on Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ 1 week ago:
I am sure you already know, but the objection here is going after kids. literally profiling and then abusing their vulnerabilities for profit. this isnt your standard cereal box advertising, I think this is something much darker and disgusting.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
to be fair, perhaps we are not in the worst of all multiverses. I would say my heart goes out to him, but… you know.
- Comment on Trump tariffs 'will increase the unemployment rate to recessionary levels,' says economist 2 weeks ago:
all this trump bullshit about “Make America Wealthy Again” contrasted with his actions and the very root of his popular support has not yet figured out that they are not the america he is talking about.
- Comment on China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU 2 weeks ago:
ok. my apologizes.
there really are tons of things to consider with that question. RISC has historically allowed for faster clocking and fewer cycles per instruction, so thats a win. RISC also requires more instructions per useful operation and also blows up the binary size, so… :-(
all things being equal (hahaha) RISC has more headroom and legroom for future improvements that dont complecate the silicon to extreme degrees. the vast majority of CISC designs are now pretty RISC-like at their cores, but the software interface remains CISC and, I think, complicates and limits variety and advancement.
imho, a properly spec’d RISC processor and a carefully designed compiler, cycle for cycle, macro for macro and watt for watt outperforms a CISC design (even with a RISC-like core). major computing holy wars are been waged over this for decades.
all I currently have access to are older studies that show mixed general purpose results on RISC vs CISC (performance, not power efficiency), but if I had to make a choice about what my future ideal processor would be, it would be RISC core and RISC instruction set architecture simply due to less complexity, more efficient use of wafer space and lower power requirements. then we start talking about massively parallel RISC in tiny spaces and, for many (but not all) workloads, thats a big win.
- Comment on China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU 2 weeks ago:
this is so deliciously and disappointingly true. :-/
- Comment on China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU 2 weeks ago:
CPI per CPI… RISC, but thats a trap of a question and you know it ;-)
tons of variables in that question, but there should be more headroom in RISC designs and thats why, internally, most things are RISC-y.
- Comment on China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU 2 weeks ago:
meh (not dismissive - just cute), ecosystem mootness is overrated. at the heart of every CISC beats a RISC. strip away the mask and lets poke the nuclear core.
- Comment on China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU 2 weeks ago:
great reply. I am not saying RISC is the panecea, what I am saying is that there are more options for workload optimization further up the stack and rebalancing of the intelligence from the silicon to the software is an advantage.
some time ago most CISC core design become more RISC-y and, to indulge in some ISA snobbery, I just want to slash and burn the CISC presentation to the software layer. memory is cheap, bus bandwidth is insane - simplification on the ISA just seems like a hardware complexity win all around and I am willing to pay for that in compiler complexity that incorporates changes more easily than hardware or CISC microcode.
RISC-V’s challenge is can they standardise the software ecosystem enough[…]
agreed. this is why I say my wait may be coming to an end.
personally, I think RISC is the more flexible design in almost every usecase. cycle for cycle, RISC hits the right buttons for me across the widest number of situations once we get above the “magic hardware” layer. willing to flog the CISC vs RiSC horse convo if you have recent information, and thanks for the response.
- Comment on China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU 2 weeks ago:
between the 30k’ overview of Reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture and the lower level RISC-V Architecture: A Comprehensive Guide to the Open-Source ISA, you should get a pretty decent feel for it.
the level of optimization you get via hardware and software tooling is honestly pretty spectacular. I have been waiting for RISC to come out of hiding for years and it seems to be happening.
- Comment on China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU 2 weeks ago:
“reduced” is the super power. I would much rather put the smarts into the assembler/compiler/interpreter than the silicon. have been followed RISC since the 80’s and discovered that I am really a RISC guy living in CISC world. open arch is the world dominating cherry-on-top.
- Comment on China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU 2 weeks ago:
and, honestly, RISC-V is the right place to spend it. RISC has super powers.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
anonymity is hard and easily broken by human mistakes, but parents comment is absolutely on point.
the methods and tools you use depend on your threat model, but now is always a good time to begin getting more comfortable and improving your digital hygiene. as parent points out, while privacy (like security) really cant come in a box, tails is a great start.
- Comment on Detailed explanation of an impossible 9-sprite demo on a C64 4 weeks ago:
🤯 seriously.
- Comment on Trump floats sending Tesla attackers to El Salvador prisons 4 weeks ago:
please remember that teslas are rolling spy machines. protect yourself accordingly. for your own privacy, I would never approach a tesla (you know, to gawk at a distance) without adequate protection.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 4 weeks ago:
this machine…
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 4 weeks ago:
that trial balloon is already a-floatin’.
non-citizen permanent resident (aka green card holder) spouting views that the govt dont like? straight to the black hole of ICE detention with you.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 4 weeks ago:
indeed, but so is Tor. not a perfect solution, but its there and it works well for “casual interactions”.
- Comment on Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”. 1 month ago:
subscribed. thanks!
- Comment on Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”. 1 month ago:
hero material.
my family contributes $5 monthly to the signal foundation. consider doing the same if you are able.
the entire family uses it personally and for business so its among the best montly contribs we make.
- Comment on Utah becomes the first state to pass an app store age-verification bill and require parental consent for minors to download apps; the bill heads to the governor. 1 month ago:
totally fair, however I think these laws.should be treated as though they might apply and pushed back on appropriately. things have been weird for a while and are getting weirder.
- Comment on Utah becomes the first state to pass an app store age-verification bill and require parental consent for minors to download apps; the bill heads to the governor. 1 month ago:
definitions
(5) “App store” means a publicly available website, software application, or electronic service that distributes apps from third-party developers to users.
requirements
(1) An app store provider shall: (a) at the time an individual who is located in the state creates an account with the app store provider: (i) request age information from the individual; and (ii) verify the individual’s age using commercially available methods that are reasonably designed to ensure accuracy;
I dont see how any anonymously accessible repository legally escapes the account and age verification requirement without some sort of specific carveout.
the wording of the bill seems terrible - their definition of “mobile device” and “mobile operating system” are just plain stupid an could apply to your laptop running almost any OS.
I just did a quick parsing, but did I miss something in the bill that offers legal protection to non-commercial repositories?