Don't have to go back that far. Bonnelle and Saltflat (first and second generation) Atoms are strictly in-order. No speculative execution. Just move your server loads to clusters of 2nd generation eeepc's!
Yup, I continue to use my in-order Atom from about 2010. Not everything needs a ton of CPU power. It's a fanless Mini-DTX board. And before you ask, it's 64-bit, I did my homework.
- old, in-order, non-pipelined CPU like the 6502 in your good old trusted C64 don't do speculative execution and thus aren't affected specifically by such exploits.
If I'm reading this correctly, older Intel Atoms are safe because they are in-order CPUs ( https://spectreattack.com/#faq). I still have an Atom from 2010, and it's already slow enough so I'd rather leave it without KPTI. Of course, my important servers are all AMD.
The summary is not fully explicit: this is not a flaw in Intel x86 ISA, but specific to CPUs made by Intel. AMD processors don't have the problem, so they should not need the patch.
This could be a huge win for AMD, because the patch incurs a measurable slowdown. At the moment, though, the Linux fix doesn't seem to distinguish between manufacturers. I expect the distinction will appear later -- better safe than sorry.
Social needs are a double-barreled sword. I see a lot of misery because people are living more for others than for themselves. Most of us need some level of social contact, but you need to find your balance.
Nearing 40, this two-step program has worked pretty well for me: (1) Find out what you enjoy doing in the mid/long term, and (2) focus on doing it -- don't waste time on things that make your miserable, whatever those are, or whatever other people think. Step 1 is generally pretty hard and a life-long process, but step 2 isn't straightforward either.
For instance, If you don't enjoy large social gatherings, they can be hard to avoid if there are a bazillion hypersocial people who want you there. Going there might make sense if there's a net gain for you; this may sound harsh, but in the end you need to worry about your own happiness.
Many people also go to work they don't enjoy because they feel there's a net gain in the form of money and other benefits. This can work in the short term, but over time you'll be wasting your talent. In general, I feel people should be more picky and not settle for the easy choices, no matter how antisocial you might appear.
Burning polyethylene, polypropylene, and polystyrene produces CO2 and water.
Sort out the vinyl, and almost everything else will burn clean.
Incidentally, plastic recycling stations in Finland accept everything but PVC. I'd like to think there is some actual recycling going on, since there are separate bins for combustibles. I guess there are concerns about chlorine compounds even at melting temperatures.
A related example: when you order a beer in Finland, you don't ask for 0.5 litres which is the usual measure, you ask for a beer. You could also ask for a small beer (0.33 L). You might think our decimals are cumbersome and nerdy, but we wouldn't use them in such situations. The precise volumes vary across places, but these are the general standards; some UK-themed bars do use actual pint and half pint.
You thought the stock market was bad? Companies have intrinsic value.
Companies don't have intrinsic value just because they're companies. They must produce something of value, products or services. Now please compare the innovativeness of Bitcoin as a money transfer technology to something like Twitter, instead of treating it like trading cards.
For grannies, tablets make much more sense than a full desktop. Most of those are already running Linux under the hood. It doesn't take away my fully tweakable Gentoo experience, nor does it make the Linux supercomputers any dumber.
Other thing though, Linux setup has for awfully easy. I did a n Ubuntu install on a new ThinkPad two days ago. The base install took minutes and was trivial (boot from usb, set new password, done). The subsequent setup was easy too (a bunch of extra packages and a ppa or two).
This; Windows only appears easy because it comes preinstalled, but it's no fun if you need to reinstall it from scratch. The LiveUSB aspect is also nice to give some idea of Linux to people without any permanent installation. Of course, you need to remind them that it will be faster and more capable after a proper install. My gf has been constantly amazed by the "just works" nature of Mint I installed for her, compared to the usual Windows nightmares.
Then again, I don't use Mint myself, and I like the variety of different distros for different purposes. Linux already has the option of a shiny plastic experience, it's not an issue of dumbing it down for everyone.
Because it is inconvenient for the people living in the eastern and western zone.
Spain lies almost entirely West of Greenwich, yet it uses CET. There are probably other examples, but this one is pretty obvious when you look at maps of Europe.
recently voted in favour of the same, after a citizen initiative. For years there has been a general argument that there's nothing Finland can do, since the EU dictates everything, and not following their rules would make us look really bad. But now we're finally pushing the issue via our MEPs.
I guess it makes it easier to work with timezones when all EU countries switch at the same time. However, to really harmonize things, why not have UTC (or possibly Central European time) across all EU? We only have something like 3 adjacent timezones anyway, and natural solar time has already been ruined by summer time.
The usual argument for DST is that we get an extra hour of sunlight. I say we shift the clocks a full 24 hours for a full extra day, and avoid the 1-hour jetlag. OTOH, it would be a bitch if the extra day happened to be a Monday.
The way that the systems are designed require that all transactions be made public on the network and tied to a unique set of numbers corresponding to particular "wallets." There is ultimately zero anonymity with cryptocurrency long-term.
You know there are several privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies where transactions are not public? The prominent ones include Monero and Zcash, and there are other worthwhile contenders such as Zcoin. It's not like developers have been sitting on their asses since Bitcoin was launched in 2009.
I would encourage switching to full 4G internet coverage everywhere, which enables infinite TV and radio capacity, among other things.
The "other things" include the need to send separate copies of the same data for each receiver. For live broadcasts, this is only "infinite" in its wastefulness.
BTW, while most cryptocurrencies are regarded as wasteful, there was a project called Kryptoradio for distributing the blockchain via DVB transmissions. You'd need an uplink to send money yourself, but the broadcast downstream would suffice for points of sale, for instance.
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It would be cool to code your own special-purpose algorithm accelerators in VHDL or Verilog, etc.
Fancy that! Well, it's fun and games until there's enough demand for an ASIC implementation. https://github.com/teknohog/Op...
Well, we still have AMD processors that do proper checking on their speculative fetch. Intel has valued speed over security, and this is what we get.
Don't have to go back that far. Bonnelle and Saltflat (first and second generation) Atoms are strictly in-order. No speculative execution. Just move your server loads to clusters of 2nd generation eeepc's!
Yup, I continue to use my in-order Atom from about 2010. Not everything needs a ton of CPU power. It's a fanless Mini-DTX board. And before you ask, it's 64-bit, I did my homework.
- old, in-order, non-pipelined CPU like the 6502 in your good old trusted C64 don't do speculative execution and thus aren't affected specifically by such exploits.
If I'm reading this correctly, older Intel Atoms are safe because they are in-order CPUs ( https://spectreattack.com/#faq). I still have an Atom from 2010, and it's already slow enough so I'd rather leave it without KPTI. Of course, my important servers are all AMD.
--bareback is funnier.
It will only work if you're streaming Bareback Mountain. Otherwise, use nopti.
The summary is not fully explicit: this is not a flaw in Intel x86 ISA, but specific to CPUs made by Intel. AMD processors don't have the problem, so they should not need the patch.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/...
This could be a huge win for AMD, because the patch incurs a measurable slowdown. At the moment, though, the Linux fix doesn't seem to distinguish between manufacturers. I expect the distinction will appear later -- better safe than sorry.
Social needs are a double-barreled sword. I see a lot of misery because people are living more for others than for themselves. Most of us need some level of social contact, but you need to find your balance.
Nearing 40, this two-step program has worked pretty well for me: (1) Find out what you enjoy doing in the mid/long term, and (2) focus on doing it -- don't waste time on things that make your miserable, whatever those are, or whatever other people think. Step 1 is generally pretty hard and a life-long process, but step 2 isn't straightforward either.
For instance, If you don't enjoy large social gatherings, they can be hard to avoid if there are a bazillion hypersocial people who want you there. Going there might make sense if there's a net gain for you; this may sound harsh, but in the end you need to worry about your own happiness.
Many people also go to work they don't enjoy because they feel there's a net gain in the form of money and other benefits. This can work in the short term, but over time you'll be wasting your talent. In general, I feel people should be more picky and not settle for the easy choices, no matter how antisocial you might appear.
Burning PVC can produce dioxin.
Burning polyethylene, polypropylene, and polystyrene produces CO2 and water.
Sort out the vinyl, and almost everything else will burn clean.
Incidentally, plastic recycling stations in Finland accept everything but PVC. I'd like to think there is some actual recycling going on, since there are separate bins for combustibles. I guess there are concerns about chlorine compounds even at melting temperatures.
640k pixels should be enough for everyone.
A related example: when you order a beer in Finland, you don't ask for 0.5 litres which is the usual measure, you ask for a beer. You could also ask for a small beer (0.33 L). You might think our decimals are cumbersome and nerdy, but we wouldn't use them in such situations. The precise volumes vary across places, but these are the general standards; some UK-themed bars do use actual pint and half pint.
You thought the stock market was bad? Companies have intrinsic value.
Companies don't have intrinsic value just because they're companies. They must produce something of value, products or services. Now please compare the innovativeness of Bitcoin as a money transfer technology to something like Twitter, instead of treating it like trading cards.
For grannies, tablets make much more sense than a full desktop. Most of those are already running Linux under the hood. It doesn't take away my fully tweakable Gentoo experience, nor does it make the Linux supercomputers any dumber.
Other thing though, Linux setup has for awfully easy. I did a n Ubuntu install on a new ThinkPad two days ago. The base install took minutes and was trivial (boot from usb, set new password, done). The subsequent setup was easy too (a bunch of extra packages and a ppa or two).
This; Windows only appears easy because it comes preinstalled, but it's no fun if you need to reinstall it from scratch. The LiveUSB aspect is also nice to give some idea of Linux to people without any permanent installation. Of course, you need to remind them that it will be faster and more capable after a proper install. My gf has been constantly amazed by the "just works" nature of Mint I installed for her, compared to the usual Windows nightmares.
Then again, I don't use Mint myself, and I like the variety of different distros for different purposes. Linux already has the option of a shiny plastic experience, it's not an issue of dumbing it down for everyone.
And how many toes?
Because it is inconvenient for the people living in the eastern and western zone.
Spain lies almost entirely West of Greenwich, yet it uses CET. There are probably other examples, but this one is pretty obvious when you look at maps of Europe.
recently voted in favour of the same, after a citizen initiative. For years there has been a general argument that there's nothing Finland can do, since the EU dictates everything, and not following their rules would make us look really bad. But now we're finally pushing the issue via our MEPs.
I guess it makes it easier to work with timezones when all EU countries switch at the same time. However, to really harmonize things, why not have UTC (or possibly Central European time) across all EU? We only have something like 3 adjacent timezones anyway, and natural solar time has already been ruined by summer time.
The usual argument for DST is that we get an extra hour of sunlight. I say we shift the clocks a full 24 hours for a full extra day, and avoid the 1-hour jetlag. OTOH, it would be a bitch if the extra day happened to be a Monday.
The way that the systems are designed require that all transactions be made public on the network and tied to a unique set of numbers corresponding to particular "wallets." There is ultimately zero anonymity with cryptocurrency long-term.
You know there are several privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies where transactions are not public? The prominent ones include Monero and Zcash, and there are other worthwhile contenders such as Zcoin. It's not like developers have been sitting on their asses since Bitcoin was launched in 2009.
Howdy ho! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Exactly. In my field of academia, the only thing that really counts is number of publications.
Which isn't fundamentally much better than counting office hours. Both are ways of appearing busy.
Or the closed OS that needs anti-virus to begin with?
Let's ban the sale of all knives!
I'm sorry but I went to that page to see the phones in question and I have to say, it would have to be big-ass lipsticks.
If you're going to keister it into a prison, it might as well be a big ass-lipstick.
https://xkcd.com/37/
"C++" is just C incremented.
C++ makes C bigger but returns the old value (if you catch my drift).
I would encourage switching to full 4G internet coverage everywhere, which enables infinite TV and radio capacity, among other things.
The "other things" include the need to send separate copies of the same data for each receiver. For live broadcasts, this is only "infinite" in its wastefulness.
BTW, while most cryptocurrencies are regarded as wasteful, there was a project called Kryptoradio for distributing the blockchain via DVB transmissions. You'd need an uplink to send money yourself, but the broadcast downstream would suffice for points of sale, for instance.