Posts by Dostoevsky

It happens occasionally, but it's not prevalent. People are far more likely to fall for phishing attempts than get charged by hardware that's been tampered with.

I mean, if you were a criminal, which would be easier for you?

Re: 42% less unix philosophy

Just warming my hands with this bonfire you started...

Re: If they flew over Texas, Louisiana, or Florida

Crowd-sourcing air defense!

No one else has companies providing the services America's do? I mean, where's the German Microsoft, or the French IBM?

> Intel processors are just not very fast.

And that's a load of hooey. My ultrabook's Intel chip is faster (higher clock speed by half a GHz) than my friend's M3 Max. It has more cores, too. The only thing it doesn't compete on is power consumption, but oh well. Once Linux is fully ported to the ARM notebooks Apple makes, they might even be usable!

Sweeping generalizations generally don't add anything to the argument.

Re: No social media for kids

*Texan googles "Australian government opposition leader*...

My word, he DOES look like Voldemort!

Re: Alternative solution

I didn't think it was possible to hate a comment this much.

His are so small they'd be easy to miss.

It's a thing.

Mathematics and compsci students at my university (Texas, USA) have a requirement and an option, respectively, of writing an undergraduate thesis on some topic of mutual interest to them and the advisor. Undergraduate research is also a requirement for honors—seniors from all disciplines but nursing would do that in their last two semesters.

> No sane person could claim that currently shipping RISC-V is as fast as currently-shipping Arm. It's just not even close.

And why should it be? There's no reason to tape out multi-GHz 32-core RISC-V CPUs. Who would buy them? It'll take years for the adoption to happen.

The point is that some company *could* do it if they wanted—ARM isn't somehow inherently faster than RISC-V. That's like claiming one API definition is faster than another. Definitions don't have a speed. Implementations do.

Re: "regime"

Oldest continuously-functioning representative government on the planet, unless you actually count the UK since its last civil war and the Interregnum. You're pretty bad at history!

Some examples: the Fifth French Republic was established in 1958. Most other European countries' governments are in the same boat. Germany was reunified in 1990. The Netherlands changed hands like a hot potato, and Spain was effectively fascist until the 70s. Poland was communist, Eastern Europe was under the USSR's thumb, and Italy couldn't make up its mind on whether it was Maoist, Socialist, Neofascist, or sane.

Any long-lived national government I'm missing? No? Didn't think so.

Re: There's still no good alternative to PaintShop Pro...

Eventually, this may be it: https://graphite.rs/

Re: Yolo-C/C++

> ...no need to lose sleep about writing operating systems in it.

I'm certainly not losing any! That's just where the most C is used. Atomics everywhere is not a path to a good operating system, though I suspect it wouldn't hurt Windows' performance much (worse). Good points!

Re: Variable Names : Case Sensitivity

Yay PostScript!

Re: Windows Intelligence

Well, their QA team. But besides that, nah.

Re: Ransomware

Old data, but there's new spyware installed.

Re: FAA to be rejigged?

It used to be much longer, but back then, we had to coordinate elections across half a continent by snail mail and courier.

Well, that was brutal!

"Hello? Police? I'd like to report a murder..."

Re: Confirmed.

Hehe. I remember a video of some five-year-old giggling uncontrollably at Putin's name—he had a little electronic globe that announced facts about the country you selected, and one was the head of state.

I don't know about the commie states in the Union, but we're doing fine here in Texas. Eighth-largest economy in the world, and all. Wouldn't say the same for Houston, though. Those guys are commies, too.

Also, the White House is currently full of sh*t, and the election won't change that, no matter who wins.

Re: And what about our friend Linux.

WTF is a PC? Apple's computers are personal computers too, aren't they? PC is not an operating system, or architecture, or type of device.

Re: Idiot.

Term limits for Congress now!

Re: "the formidably hard-to-install Debian"

I'm filing the serial numbers off this one!

Or use LaTeX and R.

Re: He's right, of course

It appears my idea was stolen by you.

Re: Good

Nah, we don't want your Californian tech bros. Or anyone from California, for that matter! Y'all can solve your own problems over there.

As always...

...the answer is *moar nukes!* See this Cold War-era program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casaba-Howitzer

Re: Is my understanding correct?

ROFLMAO

Re: But wait ... there's more!

I'd never heard of "Propeller" before. That was a neat read; thanks! I like the idea of automatic parallelization, and this sounds like an interesting way to go about it.