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@dkf they’re not selling FPGA accelerators, they’re selling DRM.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
With this technology we could finally get to the stage where you can download more RAM from the internet.
Probably not. RAM is one of the things that it's really not a good idea to do in an FPGA (which is what I guess Intel are really putting on there) as the gate densities that you need for RAM are crazy high and you use specialized gates for that. Indeed, for a long time you simply couldn't get standard RAM on the same chip as a CPU; the technologies for making them were incompatible. That's not true any more, but RAM blocks are still special worlds.
Downloading an FFT solver, crypto engine or matrix inverter, that's possible.
Maybe. But it sounds like you're not downloading anything other than a license, really. The stuff is already on the chip.
x86 CPUs are microcode based. New firmware can add additional opcodes. I wouldn't be surprised if the vector/SIMD parts of the CPU can do a lot of things from microcode which cannot be reasonably exposed as basic instructions.
EDIT: what I'm doubtful about though is to what degree common software is going to leverage such instructions.
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@PleegWat It's an interesting thought. There are a few vector instructions that are heavily microcoded (more common ones seem to map 1-1 to µops - for reference, I was looking at Zen 3 in Agner Fog's tables).
Having a "virtual ISA" is kinda neat, because you can change the HW implementation underneat more freely. Exposing weirdo instructions will lock you into supporting those for quite some time. (x86 isn't quite a virtual ISA, unlike e.g. NVIDIA PTX).
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@loopback0 As long as it is “Best of the 21st Century… So Far” then that's a title they can claim. There's still quite a few decades to go though.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
I'd vote Bron|Broen probably.
Sounds like the name of an Ikea desk
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
I'd vote Bron|Broen probably.
Sounds like the name of an Ikea desk
English title: The Bridge. #34 on BBC's list.
There are also two terrible knock-offs for those who don't like reading subtitles.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
English title: The Bridge. #34 on BBC's list.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Instead of having their chips crippled by security vulnerabilities they're doing it by design now. A bold move.
Congratulations, Intel - you invented FPGA.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 As long as it is “Best of the 21st Century… So Far” then that's a title they can claim. There's still quite a few decades to go though.
Looking at how things are going in showbiz, this may very well be the best of the 21st century, period.
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The Federal Trade Commission might crack down on false online advertising, specifically false product reviews/endorsements and paid reviews/endorsements that aren't identified as being paid. They sent a warning letter to 700 companies that use reviews or endorsements to promote their products. (Being on the list doesn't necessarily mean they are using or have used deceptive endorsements, but the warning allows the FTC to take action if they do so in the future.)
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@HardwareGeek that list is shorter than my favorite news site's GDPR-mandated list of data-sharing partners.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek that list is shorter than my favorite news site's GDPR-mandated list of data-sharing partners.
Yeah I was like "wait, that's it?". Then I figured it would be an almost insurmountable task to list off all the fake companies...
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@HardwareGeek a full list of all companies not doing this would be about as long as the list of all non-lethal animals in Australia
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Security research deemed criminal.
OK, news at 11 - we already know that. Just another case.
"Modern Solution" provides some services for web shops, and they communicated some SQL in plain text:
Now, I really feel safe to live in this country.
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Modern Solution having modern problems.
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Article @Bulb posted in In other news today... said:
Just by coating the porous anodic aluminum with a thin film of silica, it has been confirmed that there is a cooling effect that exhibits a lower temperature than the surroundings even under direct sunlight.
"just by"
From my understanding, by adding a layer of insulation it's preventing the rapid absorption of radiated heat while still allowing the slower radiation to continue regardless?
Not that it's actually improving heat dissipation, just that it's improving how much it's absorbing the heat being transmitted by the distant nuclear reactor...
I have a feeling the difference in efficacy would be greatly reduced in the shade.
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@Tsaukpaetra There is no one way insulation. Every insulation insulates both ways, and every surfaces emits thermal radiation exactly as readily as absorbing it (that's why it's black body radiation). The trick here is that the coating is white in visible light, where the maximum of sunlight is, but black in far infrared, where the maximum of its own thermal radiation at typical Earth surface temperatures is.
In shade it will indeed not cool better then other black objects.
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"come with me if you want to live!"
Bark bark! *scurry away*
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@DogsB somewhere (the driving antipatterns dread probably).
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@DogsB somewhere (the driving antipatterns dread probably).
In other news
Sounds a little light to me. 4.5 trillion pissed away on projects that went nowhere sounds more accurate.
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Facebook could change their entire company to a kitten santuary and we still wouldn't trust them.
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It comes as Mark Zuckerberg plans to stress that his company is focusing on building the metaverse
The what?
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@loopback0 A verse which rhymes with itself, I guess.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
It comes as Mark Zuckerberg plans to stress that his company is focusing on building the metaverse
The what?
You’re not supposed to know. You’re just supposed to buy ads, VR goggles, and Facebook stock.
E: Also, whatever it is, if it’s built by Facebook it’s automatic Do Not Want.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 A verse which rhymes with itself, I guess.
No. It's an embedded verse that is spoken twice as fast in a voice one octave higher. It embeds a metametaverse.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
It comes as Mark Zuckerberg plans to stress that his company is focusing on building the metaverse
The what?
Like the thing in Snow Crash, but more dystopic
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
It comes as Mark Zuckerberg plans to stress that his company is focusing on building the metaverse
The what?
Like the thing in Snow Crash, but more dystopic
Obviously, because you just know there won't be any sword fights.
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Things were finally starting to look better for Team Blue, but then...
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Apparently the name "Hudson" is now a racially-offensive term.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Things were finally starting to look better for Team Blue, but then...
Dabadee dabadye.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
That's the major difference between Europe and the US:
nudity is a non-issue in countries of culture, in contrast to glorification of violence.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Things were finally starting to look better for Team Blue, but then...
Dabadee dabadye.
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cocaine hippos
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Poacher trampled by elephant.
https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/572547860/olifant-doodt-stroper-in-kruger-national-park
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
the resulting knives are nearly three times sharper than a standard dinner table knife
A standard dinner table knife is about the dullest thing that could possibly be called a knife.
It was used to cut through a medium-well done steak with ease.
Abomination!
just as sharp as regular steel nails.
Common nails aren't particularly sharp, either.
They taper to a blunt not-point.