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> we're approaching a time where a single processor has hundreds of threads Approaching? EPYC 9996 has 512 threads. EPYC 9754 had 256 threads three years ago.

It seems like what's missing here is lower cost plans, because the existing plans had been fairly affordable, but now they're basically triple. The least expensive one seems to be …

> I did not. This is the exact quote: > And at least for connected devices at home, a dedicated app can have lower friction for initial setup for the "I'm not a computer person" cr…

You made the claim that companies require apps because it has lower friction for ordinary users. That claim is in error. The implication that there is nothing anyone can do to impr…

> And at least for connected devices at home, a dedicated app can have lower friction for initial setup for the "I'm not a computer person" crowd than other alternatives do. For a …

You only need things like that for non-iterated games. A company that gets a reputation for keeping the money when it's a real bug would stop getting real bug reports.

You don't have to determine if it's an AI or not. If AI finds a real bug then it can get the bounty. If a human pays to make you read artisanal hand-crafted word salad then they do…

Bounties already have that whenever you reject one for being nothing.

Just require people submitting a bounty to post an evaluation fee. If it's a real bug they get a refund and the bounty. If it's AI slop, you keep the evaluation fee.

It seems like what this needs is the return of video arcades. Fill a room at the mall with Linux boxen with midrange GPUs and fiber internet and the sort of keyboards you can clean…

There are two different kinds of updates. One is security updates and bug fixes. These need to fix the problem with the smallest change to minimize the amount of possible breakage,…

> That whole model dates to before automated testing was even really a thing, and no one knew how to do QA; your QA was all the people willing to run your code and report bugs, and…

They can block traffic to update servers so the computers behind the router aren't all patched up, then exploit them. They also get access to all the IoT devices on the internal ne…

They're not going to put a newer version in stable. The way stable gets newer versions of things is that you get the newer version into testing and then every two years testing bec…

For that you really only need CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE. The bigger issue is that if you want to install or update system-wide packages, many of those will be used by privileged process…

> But if you want to participate in the writing, debugging, and maintenance, it has to be in a language that a human can read. I think the idea is that languages like Python and Ja…

"When you thrash them" is kind of the issue. There are ten year old business desktops with a Some of the newer hardware is actually worse because the idle power consumption of PCs …

> You cannot utilize that type of speed with a Mac Mini. Mostly because the base Mini has Thunderbolt 4 which maxes out at 40Gbps. Anything with a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot will take a 100…

The noise problem is pretty easy to mitigate by choosing 2U servers instead of 1U. The latter are forced by the form factor to use smaller, higher speed fans. A bigger issue for en…

Its performance is pretty unbalanced. If you're using it for the couple of things that it's good at, the TDP is competitive.

Which is why people run only copper because that costs less than running multiple types of cable everywhere when most drops only have one device, and then pull fibre through using …

The original problem was that everyone runs copper instead of fibre because there are too many existing devices that only have copper. Running both everywhere would require you to …

> If you're connecting a single device, why the hell would you use that when you could slap a copper SFP or SFP+ module in the switch's cage and run a cable? The problem to be solv…

You can get copper ones for $5.99 (quality may vary): https://www.amazon.com/1000Mbps-Network-Performance-Gigabit-... https://www.amazon.com/SALAN-Ethernet-Portable-Internet-Conv..…

That doesn't solve the chicken and egg problem. What probably would is something like having PCIe and USB to 1Gbps fiber adapters that cost $5.