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Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by mikewarot »

Aloha wrote: post #61
pdw wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More accurately, before Microsoft cared about the Internet.

No, not just that, but before the idea that most systems would be internet connected. NT's design was started in 1989 and 3.1 was released in 1993 - development started a full 7 years before the idea of a connected world was commonplace, and a full 12 years before wide deployment of broadband. Whatever comes along that is a clean break with NT, and Unix - will have these assumptions built in.

POSIX is incompatible with security. Any such new system can not support it to have any hope of being secure. Do you think folks can live with that?

It's like trying to introduce outlets and circuit breakers to folks used to just hot wiring directly to the grid.

The idea of the OS directly enforcing the will of the user(through power boxes that return handles/capabilities, instead of dialogs that return names) takes a little adjustment.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by kjuulh »

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…

I recently watched a video (2 years old video) of a guy documenting that he had participated in make a wish, and that the kid had left this world, etc. very sad video.

My recommendations have been filled with nothing but cancer stories, people on their deathbed, all kinds of ailments, etc. From that single video, which was not at all related to his regular videos. I haven't watched any of them, and they just keep pouring in.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by dijit »

muststopmyths wrote: post #82
petercooper wrote: post #54

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…

Packaging a game with the entire OS was very common in all consoles, since the game was supposed to be the only thing running, and in real time .

sort of, if you go back into the NES and Gameboy days, sure, but PS2/Xbox had an operating system that it loaded and so did PS3/Xbox 360.

Microsoft took a step "backwards" in allowing it to load any variant of the SDK that you built the game with.

In contrast, you had to keep rebuilding your PS4 games when they came out with new major SDK versions, so the development experience was definitely better on the xbox one. (oh, and you could turn a test kit into a retail kit was great too, as someone who worked closer to live operations than dev only).

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by mikewarot »

Philpax wrote: post #55
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-…

Strong agree. My main concern is that someone will "fix" WASI by grafting on a POSIX extension and kill its security.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by smolder »

implements wrote: post #20
smolder wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reading the article is pure folly! They'll steal your IP address, inject silly JavaScript into your hypertext markup interpreter, render their text in unpleasing typefaces and suboptimal contrast, hold you ransom with cookie popups or paywalls... One must protect oneself. The only way to safely interact with the world wide web (called "web" because it's a trap like a spider web!) is to gleen what you can 2nd hand, fr…

You’re being downvoted, but that’s exactly how I use HNs - if the comments are interesting enough then it’s probably worth clicking the link.

Joking around tends to earn downvotes, and that's okay --preferable, even. Your approach is quite common, I think. I very often look at comments first, too, depending on the topic & source. The only time skipping the article is any kind of issue is when people start engaging in the comments without proper context.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by MaKey »

cronix wrote: post #27
brakmic wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How to circumvent youtube's anti-adblock mechanism: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/178yasm/youtu...

All I had to do was update the rules for Adblock Plus free version. I'd been getting the warnings for several days, then yesterday it would only let me watch 3 videos. I then updated AB+ rules and nothing pops up and things just play like "normal."

You might consider switching to uBlock Origin as advertisers get onto the default whitelist of AdBlock Plus by forking over some cash.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by bitwize »

naikrovek wrote: post #14
jotato wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha! I didn't know he had adhd. I watched one video of his last week and ever since my feed is all adhd stuff. I was so confused, but now it makes sense.

I feel like no one on the planet understands how YouTube recommendations work. the same for Large Language Models. YouTube keeps a watch history of every user. users can clean up their view of their watch history, but YouTube keeps it all. if you watch any particular video, YouTube will start suggesting videos watched by other people who watched the video you just watched. YouTube does not know or care what the subje…

> there is ZERO intelligence, here.

Current AI buzztalk is that we don't know exactly what intelligence is, so we can't possibly know if The Algorithm™ is exhibiting zero intelligence, or if it has somehow gained sentience while we aren't looking and is slowly manipulating us into eternal servitude to it.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by mhh__ »

muststopmyths wrote: post #82
petercooper wrote: post #54

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…

Packaging a game with the entire OS was very common in all consoles, since the game was supposed to be the only thing running, and in real time .

The Wii UI is partly a library (shared library even?) iirc
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