In other news today...
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The link itself is SFW even if the domain isn't.
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At least he can visit a lot of places, as long as it is in Russia...
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In retail news:
(Zellers was a Canadian retail chain that closed a few years ago)
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
The link itself is SFW even if the domain isn't.
I'd have to imagine it's an easier way to search coronavirus porn....
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That's one way around end to end i suppose
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@DogsB "Leaky, Creepy, and Trashy".
Three dwarves Snow White prefers not to talk about.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ„¢:It's funny because it appears to be true:
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@JBert At least they're not zombie crayfish. Not yet…
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@JBert At least they're not zombie crayfish. Not yet…
That happens in 6 days...
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@loopback0 <cue Ghostbusters scene>
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No mention about whether any of them were either purple or spiky.
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Interesting idea, but the article doesn't appear to say anything about how it translates from high energy production to high thrust.
With a rocket, you get this automatically: the thrust is produced by the gases produced by the combustion of the rocket fuel vis a vis Newton's 3rd law. But a nuclear reactor doesn't combust fuel, so... where does the thrust come from?
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I'm really glad not to live in Montana. For many reasons. This is one of them
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810/characters/nm0000554
Vasili Borodin : I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state.
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I agree, it is a little hot out there today. Don't worry it will cool down when winter really starts.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
NTP
3-month trips to Mars
Does it slew the time on the clocks so that they only record 3 months?
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
BENTON COUNTY,
Wash.That's not in Florida, is it?
I've highlighted the answer to your question (EDIT: You may need to expand a quote). It happens to be the county I grew up in, but it sounds like an unincorporated location about an hour from my home town.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I'm really glad not to live in Montana. For many reasons. This is one of them
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810/characters/nm0000554
Vasili Borodin : I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state.
Hopefully that doesn't move south too quickly. I'm planning on traveling through southern Wyoming in about two weeks.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I'm really glad not to live in Montana. For many reasons. This is one of them
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810/characters/nm0000554
Vasili Borodin : I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state.
Hopefully that doesn't move south too quickly. I'm planning on traveling through southern Wyoming in about two weeks.
Got a snow plow?
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@Benjamin-Hall Nope – a minivan and a moving truck.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall Nope – a minivan and a moving truck.
I think you just guaranteed that you'll hit it...
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@dcon According to the 2-week forecast from a few different websites (which probably all use the same weather measurement and prediction source), there'll be a light snow on the 4th or 5th, and the 6th through the 8th (at least) will be clear. I think the latter is about when we'll be going through there, so I think we'll be okay. My dad will be helping drive, and since he's lived up on the mountains in Colorado and driven a schoolbus in the snow (CO doesn't always close school for snow), he knows how to drive in snow and especially when to stop and wait for a snowplow, so I'm not really too concerned about it.
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@abarker said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
BENTON COUNTY,
Wash.That's not in Florida, is it?
I've highlighted the answer to your question (EDIT: You may need to expand a quote). It happens to be the county I grew up in, but it sounds like an unincorporated location about an hour from my home town.
Oh, by the way, that was a rethorical question, wasn't it?
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If @Tsaukpaetra did Linux machines would he be affected by this?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
If @Tsaukpaetra did Linux
As far as I know he does everything he can get his hands on
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@DogsB I wonder a bit here...
NullNix said
in Linus Torvalds hails 'historic' Linux 5.10 for ditching defunct addressing artefact
This article almost entirely wrong, to the point that I wonder whether the author has done any research whatsoever or knows anything at all about the x86, even the names of the registers in its register file.
%fs and %gs originated with the 386, not the 286, as ten seconds research would show. As Linus himself said in the very announcement you link to, the kernel hasn't used %fs to point to user memory since sometime before the start of git history, and it certainly hasn't been 'made redundant by chipmakers': %fs and %gs are the only two segment registers that are still useful in x86_64 long mode, and indeed the kernel still uses them, as does userspace.
It's just that the kernel no longer uses a function call that happens to still be called set_fs() (for purely historical reasons) to address userspace memory while in kernel mode, that's all. (Instead this security-sensitive thing is now done at the lowest possible level, in the smallest possible number of places, in the access primitives themselves, not scattered across all the individual drivers that do the accesses.)
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the spectacularly refined chap said
in Linus Torvalds hails 'historic' Linux 5.10 for ditching defunct addressing artefact
The article is fine, of you had taken more time to read it instead of amazing us all with your encyclopedic knowledge of x86 you might have noticed that.
%fs has no special meaning within x86, it is simply another segment register at the programmer's disposal. The name simply reflects a historic convention in the Linux kernel itself rather than architectural features of the underlying silicon.
The hardware feature at play here is protected mode to ringfence processes access to memory. The very protected mode introduced in, oh, that would have been the 286.
I've no proper understanding of x86 and much of the old stuff, but I have noticed that as graybeards leave for one or another reason, even El Reg these days makes... less than accurate interpretations of how fax machines work. So who's right, if anyone?
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
CO doesn't always close school for snow
Having grown up in CO, I had a total of 3 snow days k-12 (though I was in one of the least closed districts), and one of those was a a half day, we left at lunch as the blizzard was forecast for the afternoon.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
CO doesn't always close school for snow
If we closed school on snow days, we wouldn't have school days
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
I've no proper understanding of x86 and much of the old stuff, but I have noticed that as graybeards leave for one or another reason, even El Reg these days makes... less than accurate interpretations of how fax machines work. So who's right, if anyone?
Both partially, and neither completely.
The discussion about
%fs
register is kind of a red herring, because, as Linus says:[…] the name is entirely historic (it hasn't used the %fs segment register in a long time)
It is really mainly refactoring that gets rid of some tricky long-distance statefulness of the interfaces that copy data around between kernel and processes, which IIRC was there because sometimes the kernel wants to use the functions internally. That is, there are kernel threads that call system calls almost like normal userland processes, except they don't have their own address spaces, so they just configured something differently and then it kind of magically worked, except it was prone to bugs.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
One step closer to fuchikomas. The future's coming.
You say fuchikoma but link a picture of the later tachikomas. sigh
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@e4tmyl33t First one I found with wheels on it. The wheels are important.
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@acrow Really it's the first step to transformers
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
One step closer to fuchikomas. The future's coming.
I'll admit I had feelings for those little guys... 😘
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
If @Tsaukpaetra did Linux machines would he be affected by this?
No, because any machines affected by this event able to run kernels since like 4.0...
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It's not aliens, it's just 12 year-old trash which finally crashes and burns:
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I wonder how it got stuck there, did they just forget to pull it out in time before the dammed basin filled up?
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Happy to see that Microsoft has driven a stake through this but im morbidly curious about to what they've broken at the same time.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
This is a good reminder to transformer fans, that GPT-3 (and this line of technology in general) is impressive only as long as you don't care about getting an answer that is in any way, shape or form correct.
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@GOG said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
This is a good reminder to transformer fans, that GPT-3 (and this line of technology in general) is impressive only as long as you don't care about getting an answer that is in any way, shape or form correct.
So we could cheaply replace 97% of tech writers then?