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Comment · 2 years ago
GPUses
Comment · 2 years ago
Maybe you should use a secondary partition for work
Comment · 2 years ago
Hindsight bias.

The industry believed 15 years ago that ASML would fail to make EUV work.

Comment · 2 years ago
Article says 3M exited floppies because it was retail oriented very low margin business.

But how is Scotch Tape not that too?

Comment · 2 years ago
What would be the problem of downloading a few MB more, aren't these source tarballs just used to build the distro binary and then they are deleted?
Comment · 2 years ago
Never forget the video where Marc was asked what is Web3 and he spent 5 minutes talking gibberish nonsense.
Comment · 2 years ago
GitHub has the feature of downloading the tree as a zip, why is this not used?
Comment · 2 years ago
Depends on the width of the radar beam. They are certainly not thin like a laser. It might not fit in the gap between the blades.
Comment · 2 years ago
Some tools scan for crypto algorithms, typically by searching for the magic numbers, Ed448 is so new many tools probably don't recognize it.

Malware authors frequently change the crypto magic numbers to prevent detection.

Comment · 2 years ago
You can do it on a single machine if you use the TPM to create log hashes which can't be rolled back.
Comment · 2 years ago
You're talking as if securing a backdoor with public cryptography is some unimaginable feat of technology.

It's literally a couple hours work.

Comment · 2 years ago
You're using the wrong CPU.

Consumer AMD 7950X supports AVX-512, it's faster than M2 Ultra at half the cost.

Comment · 2 years ago
FBI could subpoena GitHub for IP addresses.
Comment · 2 years ago
I learned that AMD GPUs have layers upon layers of drivers, in user space, kernel space, and drivers running on the device itself.
Comment · 2 years ago
Isn't HDCP/DRM implemented in ASIC hardware? There is nothing programmable there.

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