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Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by freddref »

justin66 wrote: post #9
mrweasel wrote: post #7

The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…

YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic. The recent forcing of people (including me) to turn off their ad blockers was an eye opener. Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage, and it’s embarrassing to think that any humans respond to them. YouTube has…

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Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by petercooper »

The bit I found interesting was how Xbox's hypervisor is based on that of Azure, rather than anything they did on the desktop, and that Xbox games are/were packaged up with an OS rather than relying on a single OS on the device, so a bit more like containers. Dave also said he's working on making ML workloads run on idle Xbox Cloud Gaming devices. Any architectural tie between Azure and Xbox had never occurred to me before.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by Philpax »

mikewarot wrote: post #32

Looking back on all both Daves said, there is an extraordinary amount of attention paid to getting things done and out the door, and almost no mention of planning ahead, and actual security strategy. Its all commercial pressure to get the sausage out of the meat grinder, and keep the failures down to an acceptable level. No wonder things never get better, and never take a turn in the right direction, industry wide. I…

> I used to think we'd eventually get to capability based security, but now I see we'll always be stuck with application permission flags, the almost worthless bastard cousin, instead.

My hope is that WASI will introduce capability based security to the mainstream on non-mobile computers [0] - it might just take some time for them to get it right. (And hopefully no half-baked status-quo-reinforcing regressive single-runtime-backed alternatives win in the meantime.)

[0]: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/main/docs/...

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by xyst »

Not a fan of MS as a business.

But the tech that built the business is fascinating. Surprised to see an 81 y/o still working. Dude looks good.

Haven’t fully watched the episode (3hrs long!). But it’s queued.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by xyst »

mikewarot wrote: post #32

Looking back on all both Daves said, there is an extraordinary amount of attention paid to getting things done and out the door, and almost no mention of planning ahead, and actual security strategy. Its all commercial pressure to get the sausage out of the meat grinder, and keep the failures down to an acceptable level. No wonder things never get better, and never take a turn in the right direction, industry wide. I…

The market rewards companies that get there first. Market and regulators hand out slaps on the wrist for lapses in security. Actually punished if you are second to market

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by ge96 »

justin66 wrote: post #9
mrweasel wrote: post #7

The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…

YouTube recommendations have always been pretty awful, incentivizing people to avoid exploring videos on controversial topics once they learn that if they do so, they’ll be inundated with garbage on that topic. The recent forcing of people (including me) to turn off their ad blockers was an eye opener. Holy crap, YouTube ads are hot garbage, and it’s embarrassing to think that any humans respond to them. YouTube has…

Idk how people can use the internet and get influenced by ads, I will stop using whatever it is the moment an ad comes on.

I guess I am a bad person for that

edit: also reminds me when you look at YouTube when not logged in, the home page tiles wow...

it's like podcasts man... like good old ones and now they rattle off like 10 companies for 5 minutes straight before it even starts.

I get it though, takes time to make, need to pay for it somehow

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