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Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by rifkiamil » Mon, Oct 23, 2023, 5:27 PM UTC

shiroiuma wrote: post #162

hjk_bear wrote: post #144

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Dave's Garage is a channel with genuinely interesting content and is very knowledgeable about all things Microsoft/Windows. However (I hate to be this guy) take everything he says about non Microsoft/Windows stuff with a huge grain of salt. Especially after this comment he made [1]: >" No, Windows is a closed-source operating system loved by millions. Linux is an open-source operating system which includes a binary b…

"loved by millions"? In all my years in the IT sector, I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who actually loved Windows. I've certainly seen my share of Apple fans (some people call them "cultists"), and of course plenty of Linux/FOSS devotees, but I've certainly never seen this kind of devotion in Windows users.

For some one running many line of bussines applications in a enerpise I loved NT 4 to NT 6.1! So I guess you now meet sombody @shiroyama!

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by JohnFen » Mon, Oct 23, 2023, 5:33 PM UTC

spondyl wrote: post #122

I haven't watched this video yet but I'm looking forward to it, having read Showstopper[1] quite a few years back. One thing that stuck out to me when I was still in my early 20s thinking I needed to work all the time was the mention that Dave would always take holidays on time, every time without any debate. While I may not love Microsoft, it was probably my first real exposure of a highly competent and qualified pe…

> it was probably my first real exposure of a highly competent and qualified person who wasn't grinding 24/7.

Over the years, I've noticed that most (although certainly not all) highly experience and skilled devs are rigorous and unapologetic about taking time off. I didn't take the clue for a long time, though.

Then I burned out. Now, I recognize that taking time off and sticking to 8 hour workdays (except in actual emergency situations) is a professional responsibility as well as a personal one, because it helps to reduce the risk of burnout, and burnout is bad for literally everybody.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by subharmonicon » Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 12:20 AM UTC

Arainach wrote: post #195

subharmonicon wrote: post #43

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Most execs at most companies really are driven by very short-term planning and thinking, as it benefits their career to do so. They just need enough good quarters/years to justify their promotion from VP to SVP or SVP to CEO. Nobody gets blamed and punished three years after they move on to a new role for the shortsighted choices they made in their previous role. Having said that, Cutler is not one of those execs, bu…

Shipping is a feature. Nothing is ever done and nothing is ever bug free. Cutting the scope to have a complete product in finite time is the single most important part of product management.

Agree, with the caveat that I think finding the balance here is really the hard part, and projects that don’t pay down technical debt eventually fail, if only because people decide to replace them because of the debt.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by Sylamore » Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 3:35 AM UTC

naikrovek wrote: post #14

jotato wrote: post #12

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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…

Worse is that things land in your watch history simply because your mouse hovered over a video on the page and it auto-played, even if it was only a fraction of a second of play time.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by Sylamore » Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 4:06 AM UTC

helloooooooo wrote: post #90

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…

The hypervisor in Azure, Xbox and Windows are all the same: HyperV.

Dave explicitly said in the video that the Xbox hypervisor is based on Red Dog, which is not HyperV based, which was also the hypervisor used in early iterations of Azure, but that currently Azure runs on a variant of HyperV.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by cronix » Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 4:36 AM UTC

MaKey wrote: post #108

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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.

I use both

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by snazz01 » Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 10:16 AM UTC

shiroiuma wrote: post #162

hjk_bear wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dave's Garage is a channel with genuinely interesting content and is very knowledgeable about all things Microsoft/Windows. However (I hate to be this guy) take everything he says about non Microsoft/Windows stuff with a huge grain of salt. Especially after this comment he made [1]: >" No, Windows is a closed-source operating system loved by millions. Linux is an open-source operating system which includes a binary b…

"loved by millions"? In all my years in the IT sector, I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who actually loved Windows. I've certainly seen my share of Apple fans (some people call them "cultists"), and of course plenty of Linux/FOSS devotees, but I've certainly never seen this kind of devotion in Windows users.

I don't love Windows, I just don't despise it like Linux.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by pjmlp » Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 12:04 PM UTC

Sylamore wrote: post #215

helloooooooo wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hypervisor in Azure, Xbox and Windows are all the same: HyperV.

Dave explicitly said in the video that the Xbox hypervisor is based on Red Dog, which is not HyperV based, which was also the hypervisor used in early iterations of Azure, but that currently Azure runs on a variant of HyperV.

And Azure Host OS, which is Windows based.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-os-platform-b...

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by cafard » Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 1:44 PM UTC

rifkiamil wrote: post #210

Was the origin of 'NT' in 'Windows NT' really New Technology? Some suggest that the name might have originated from the Intel i860 CPU. Originally, NT was targeted at the Intel i860 CPU, codenamed N10 (or "N-Ten"). Dave Cutler's put to rest that it was 'New Technology' https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=2ZCM44xPTR831MeR&t=4233&v=x...

Some pointed out the advancing each letter in VMS yields WNT.

Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

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Post by bullen » Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 3:01 PM UTC

I finally plowed through the computer parts of this interview.

This tells you so much about how Microsoft works they probably will want it removed from the internet. Not directly but implicitly between the lines.

My conclusion is that what built our winners today is just infinite amounts of energy and random selection until something stuck to the wall.

Complete bat shit ranges of bit sizes and competing infrastructure (you cannot compete with infrastructure because uniformity is the main driver)!!!

This is not a technique we will have the luxury of using from now on.