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    Comment #16187029

    I made a quick demo of how the UI "representation" given out by Hawaii emergency management officials http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/01/hawaii-distributed-phony-im... might work.

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    Comment #16111472

    and POWER6, PowerPC 970MP, 7447A, and 7450 fail. PowerPC 7447B is maybe a fail.

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    Comment #15911972

    They did experiment with that in fact: https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-s... https://player.vimeo.com/video/187042840

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    Comment #15770941

    I think big tech companies are perfectly aware of how people react to their actions.

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    Comment #15770801

    > may not be algorithmically optimal, but better meet the needs of the community Yeah, that sounds a bit like a blank check for someone to corrupt the generated output under the gu…

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    Comment #15770765

    She is only asked about it in the last question, and mentions a New York City politician wanting open source algorithms: > Algorithms make decisions all through his borough, the Ea…

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    Comment #15770667

    Agreed, I will take the wide-screen ratio god intended (16:10) any day of the week over 16:9.

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    Comment #15769640

    > Once that has been determined, designed, and goes into production, we start on firmware. So you use coreboot. Right? Because if you don't, where is this firmware development goin…

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    Comment #15767230

    I think it is probably: * a guarantee, and support for running Linux * UK-based customer support, rather than ROC/Taiwan-based * maybe component selection that avoids certain hardw…

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    Comment #15764926

    Although as someone mentioned below, they are rebranded Clevo machines, and really were designed to run Windows first. Station X is just offering a guarantee that they will run Lin…

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    Comment #15764905

    Any idea what ODM Purism uses for their components? This is exactly the sort of thing I find interesting.

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    Comment #15764836

    Is there no way to make this an argument at boot time? Something like, `ksecerr=log+kill`

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    Comment #15764802

    Then after you get compromised in some way, you will start to look for better vendors.

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    Comment #15764759

    You would rather have a self driving car in an undefined state, rather than having it shut down? A random glitch could be just as bad as an exploit; if some chunk of memory gets ov…

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    Comment #15659957

    Ideally mining usage could help drive volume for economies of scale, or at least provide a good used market once this particular boom dies down.

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    Comment #15535689

    The Zaius/Barreleye systems use the LaGrange chips instead; the quick breakdown I made for wikipedia was: Sforza — 50 mm × 50 mm, 4 DDR4, 48 PCIe Lanes, 1 XBus 4B Monza — 68.5 mm ×…

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    Comment #15535656

    POWER and PowerPC chips have been bi-endian for a while. Since POWER3 would be my guess.

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    Comment #15535534

    For anyone curious about that source code, it is here: https://github.com/open-power

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    Comment #15535511

    Can you provide a link? Is it an ARM system?

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    Comment #15535491

    Because there is latency and overhead involved when shuffling things to the GPU, and a lot of the focus on POWER these days is on OpenCAPI/NVLink. If there is an ARM chip fast enou…

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    Comment #15053085

    After some more looking around, talking to someone on reddit.com/r/openpower, and looking at the new site information; the thought is that these are 50 mm × 50 mm Sforza sockets an…

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    Comment #14997465

    Fedora and RHEL do seem to come in big endian versions as well as little endian. Have not seen any other distros that do though.

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    Comment #14996125

    Talos Model 3. Oh wait, wrong company.

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    Comment #14995688

    https://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards Looks like 2 [+ 2 for old builds] server boards supported; which is ironic since coreboot began as a project for server clusters.