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I’ve been on the receiving end where hobbyists were trying (and eventually succeeded) to hack our DRM scheme. It was really fun to read the forums and see how, day by day, they man…

Reminds me of comfort noise in the telephone system. Even though the system encodes silences noise free (so improve compression), it deliberately inserts noise because otherwise pe…

Here is one of them: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0... Intel graciously paid for trees to brighten up the street and has a nice street sign saying so.…

If that were true, why didn’t they do this kind of authentication right from the start? There is little upside in screwing over millions of existing customers.

Other phone manufacturers aren’t as prolific in updating the low level firmware of their devices once it’s on the market?

I’ve worked with many LCD panels: while they all support one of a few signaling standards, there is no standard for the cables and connectors. (Or if there is, nobody follows them.…

Yes, but even for your WiFi example, fixes to work with a non-compliant third party are often reactive. In many cases, that’s the only practical way.

They already IPO’d. :-)

I assume that there might be technical reasons to do it that way. For example: a soft delete may be just a stronger version of public vs private settings. The whole software infras…

Last time I checked, HIP didn’t support reading from textures. That’s something that’s not only useful for pure graphics. So it is (or was?) not a straight substitute for CUDA.

Yes, but it means AMD will have to do the original work. They can’t use a CUDA to HIP converter.

I retried. Still doesn’t work. Looks like I’ll be forced into human to human interaction.

“We’re sorry but we can’t cancel your account automatically. Please contact support.” Yeah...

Last month I stayed a weekend at the Salisbury hotel right across Carnegie Hall for $180 per night. Nothing fancy, but a surprisingly big room at a prime location.

The author mentions that they fired his management before they fired him.

Thanks for posting this link! I don’t care at all if a photograph from a photographer whom I’ve never heard of is a composite, but today I learned about the location of the moon No…

Tangentially related: the singing Commodore 64 floppy drive. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnMgmlKi_o

That was a very long time ago. Microcode can be loaded by the BIOS.

There are only so many ways to accelerate a CPU by speculating. I’ve written RTL that speculatively fetches data from memory in order to avoid bubbles in a pipeline. Not a CPU, but…

I have no stake in this particular race, but I try to see things from both points of views. And I know from experience that what looks ridiculous and petty for an outsider is sudde…

Exactly. :-) And it’s great progress if people at least realize that they are, or would be in the same situation as that Berkeley neighborhood.

In the context of a belittleing “Oh, the horror”, it’s perfectly acceptable to argue that he has he right to not be happy about it.

Yes, I think about it this way as well. In general. Until it happens to impact me personally. I’m not proud of it, but I haven’t seen anyone who doesn’t react the same way. Nobody …