Sloogs

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[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I kind of don't want Linux to become mainstream tbh because then corporate enshittification becomes a much more real threat.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Perfect 🀌🏻

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I would give everyone noclip mode.

Convenient because you can fly anywhere and through walls. People's commutes would be so much shorter! You could visit any country you wanted without even needing planes. Everyone would experience an unprecedented level of freedom.

Inconvenient because of the messy implications of getting stuck in walls if you turned it off at the wrong time. Also people would probably just be able to take anything they wanted without repurcussions so the world might devolve into chaos. You wouldn't really be able to jail anyone. Security and privacy would be hard to come by.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Is there even enough of a supply of people to just add more people? I'm with you, I'm just skeptical about the logistics of how many people are available that have an interest and skills in (or desire to learn) those trades that aren't already employed in them.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

As a non-American, US intellectual property law feels absolutely ridiculous to me sometimes. It feels like it incentivizes all the wrong behaviours.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Just about any place I know that uses C++ also does that with C++ so that's nothing unusual for C++ specifically. It's too big of a language to reason about very well if you don't, so you've gotta find a subset that works.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

How does scrying work in the game actually? I'm kinda curious and I don't have the game yet :<

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It will prefetch the instructions and put into the pipeline the branch it thinks is mostly likely. It may do ahead-of-time speculative execution on certain instructions but not always. If it missed the correct branch it will flush the pipeline and start the pipeline over again from the correct branch. Afaik it doesn't execute or prefetch both branches. The other guy is saying it does but that doesn't really gel with my own recollection or the Wikipedia article he cited. You can see some further discussion that suggests only one branch gets prefetched here here and here. Reasons cited for only predicting one branch are: 1) Two pipelines with all the associated circuitry to look ahead, decode, and speculatively execute is incredibly expensive in terms of both processing requirements and die real estate. 2) Caching both would thrash your caches with new data constantly. 3) Modern branch prediction is already so accurate, there's really no need for two pipelines anyways.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think it's right around how much they were selling brand new Decks for during the summer sale, so it would make me want to wait for a future sale probably. Or rather I think it was 10, 15, and 20 percent reduction for the low, mid, and high end options respectively. I wonder if they'll reduce the costs of the refurbs during future sales.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah. Or just use a password wallet.

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