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eric__cartman
·vor 28 Tagen·discuss
It's more niche but also underestimating the impact of using SIMD in places where it makes sense. Especially in higher level, interpreted programming languages where the overhead for each iteration is much larger than the few assembly instructions it would take to perform that iteration without vectorization in a low level language.
eric__cartman
·letzten Monat·discuss
How would destroying the GPUs prevent the model weights from leaking? By the time you get your hands on them the memory is powered off for a long enough time that a cold-boot style attack is impossible.
eric__cartman
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
If I transported you to the 1960s and gave you a wizard that could punch cards for you with a chance of making a mistake, would you still bother to learn how to operate a punch card?

What would you do if the wizard gets stuck? Coarse the wizard into making the black box work through somebody else's direct perspective on the problem?
eric__cartman
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Those operating systems already exist. You can run NetBSD on pretty much anything (it currently supports machines with a Motorola 68k CPU for example). Granted many of those machines still have an MMU iirc but everything is still simple enough to be comprehend by a single person with some knowledge in systems programming.
eric__cartman
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
How many of those legacy applications where the source is not available actually need to run natively on a modern kernel?

The only thing I can think of is games, and the Windows binary most likely works better under Wine anyways.

There are many embedded systems like CNC controllers, advertisement displays, etc... that run those old applications, but I seriously doubt anyone would be willing to update the software in those things.
eric__cartman
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
I prefer to wear a tin foil suit thank you.