implr | 1 year ago | on: Why Oxide Chose Illumos
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implr | 1 year ago | on: Yes, there are more driverless Waymos in S.F
They just poured $5B into it, that's a decent runway.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/23/alphabet-to-invest-another...
implr | 3 years ago | on: The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar
Until recently the Swiss National Bank was mostly concerned with pushing the franc down, they had the lowest rates in Europe (and after the recent raise they're still negative at -0.25%), after many years of this they've accumulated over a trillion USD in foreign reserves. Trading in the other direction and keeping CHF up should be fairly easy for them.
implr | 4 years ago | on: Bottles – Run Windows software and games on Linux
Not only there isn't any sandboxing, the lack of it is how WINE works - wine's low-level dlls (kernel32.dll for example) just call out to linux libs, or syscall directly.
implr | 4 years ago | on: Telephone Central Office Building Pictures
More likely to be sold or leased out, and the server is somewhere far away. Basically all telephony nowadays is VOIP, even if you have an old fashioned landline it'll be analog only at the last mile.
implr | 5 years ago | on: AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana
Elastic isn't an open source project after the license change.
implr | 5 years ago | on: Hallucinations re: the rendering of Cyberpunk 2077
On AMD the GPU driver stack is unlikely to be materially different from Stadia, I doubt Google is using anything else than (possibly customized/patched) amdgpu+mesa.
implr | 6 years ago | on: Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email
KMail uses QtWebEngine, which is effectively Chromium.
implr | 6 years ago | on: Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Support
That is much more difficult, might require various unsupported hacks and for a truly robust solution you'd need two GPUs. For games having a Vulkan or DX12 (via DXVK) renderer, wine can be as fast as native Windows with almost none of the hassle. DOOM(2016) is a very good example.
implr | 7 years ago | on: 4Chan Is Turning 15–And Remains the Internet's Teenager
/pol/ has grown a lot louder and prominent in the past few years though, to the point where even many seasoned 4chan posters are annoyed by them. "go back to /pol/" is a complaint you can now see on almost every board.
implr | 8 years ago | on: Upcoming HDMI 2.1 Features
Those are usually quite expensive. If HDMI requires 48Gb/s capable transceiver chips to be built into every TV, they will get really cheap very fast. It might not be a viable solution in the end, but it could work for some applications.
implr | 8 years ago | on: Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit
If you're in Europe, RIPE still hands out ipv4 /22's to new members. Their fee is 1400EUR/year though, so not that cheap.
implr | 8 years ago | on: Iterators and Streams in Rust and Haskell
If you pass -march=skylake it will get even more monstrous, with AVX:
https://godbolt.org/g/v7iKF3
implr | 9 years ago | on: Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
This seems relevant https://i.imgur.com/l4kjNba.png
implr | 9 years ago | on: Systemd v228 local root exploit
polkit doesn't typically run on server installations, so this isn't that bad.
implr | 9 years ago | on: Systemd v228 local root exploit
>We would like to see that systemd upstream retrieves CVE's themself for their own bugs, even if its believed that its just a local DoS.
So not only they didn't notice this was exploitable, they also seem to think that a local DoS is not enough for a CVE or a public report. Excellent.
implr | 9 years ago | on: Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
The Chromium codesearch instance is public: https://cs.chromium.org/
implr | 11 years ago | on: Some thoughts on hidden services
To block a certain hidden service on a relay you need to know what is the hidden service you are relaying data to (obviously), which completely defeats all anonymity - a 'first hop' relay would basically be able to make a list of all hidden services visited by clients connected to it.
implr | 11 years ago | on: Volumetric Particle Flow
They did two much more impressive demos[1][2] with this technology, including drawing complex geometry using only point sprites, on DX9(no compute shaders).
It's remarkable that those five year old demos could easily do flows, shading and blending on milions of particles in real time, while this JS version starts dropping frames at 262K.
[1] Agenda Circling Forth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5w7Gh7WBjw
[2] Ceasefire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grqb1aIa_4s
implr | 11 years ago | on: Volumetric Particle Flow
That is GLSL, the language pixel, vertex (and other) shaders are written in.
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and on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41268043