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Java threads including Virtual Threads (JDK 21+) are preemptive.

But this seems like a reasonable approach for reverse-engineering, and it seems the bug they found is real.

I don't think comparing new Pis to used micro pcs is fair. Compare a _used_ Pi with a used micro pc. If you have any geek friends, it's probably not hard to find a used Pi for free…

I was in the ballpark!

POJO is one of my favorite acronyms. Along with POTS and COTS. POTS = Plain Old Telephony System COTS = Commercial Off-The-Shelf

And I think he's also acknowledging that not everybody has an application that needs these performance optimizations.

What are the most recent and/or highest performance of these? Update: And mainline support and lack of proprietary boot blobs are two separate criteria. I've heard that NXP offers …

Well, a 5-year-old chip may not count as "recent" but the RK-3588 boot chain is "almost fully open-source" [1]. And it seems like it took a major amount of effort (from Collabora, …

The "seated" option adds the feet and helps make it more recognizable.

Although that date should really only apply to the `m6502.asm` file. I think for a historical archive accuracy should be important. For example when was it licensed under the MIT l…

The wikipedia definition is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share There are multiple methods of measuring multiple (related) things. What you are describing sounds more …

Sounds depressing (i.e. ~5000 in a typical US election)

I have diligently searched for this article online and have been unable to find it. (It might be on microfiche somewhere...) I did however, find this humorous anecdote: > A Lotus e…

I've heard of companies doing things like this to "cook the books" for a quarterly report.

There are multiple ways of calculating market share (e.g. units vs dollars or for different time periods) but assuming it is measured in dollars for a quarterly time period, how wo…

That is how it was calculated in a published trade magazine (either Infoworld or MacWeek, I think) I'm not sure if the the analysis was done by a market research firm or the magazi…

> The only way that makes any sense is if you subtract returns for sales made in a different period to the sales period you are considering Exactly. That's the way accounting works…

TIL about the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index and I wanted to test it with a weird corner-case that I remember. At one point in the late 1980's Microsoft had a GREATER than 100% market …

Good point. They'd get whatever profit they make from the sale of tech to Intel, plus half of whatever benefit Intel receives.

Well, to be fair, Intel stopped laying golden eggs years ago.

> We need more of comparative posts The article focuses on a comparison between GUIX _system_ and NixOS. It would be interesting to see an equally thoughtful comparison that just f…

See my comment under the "There are two equals buttons?" parent.

The key layout on the calculator (DA or desk accessory) exactly matches the numeric keypad of the Lisa keyboard, but the big '=' key is labelled 'Enter' on the physical keypad. You…

Well, he did fund this: https://www.thetech.org/education/

With the latest EA release (EA 24) of JDK 25 [1], you no longer need the `--enable-preview`. You can also simplify the println to: void main() { IO.println("Hello, World!"); } JEP …