Posts by artem

At this point if you are in for buying a new PC/server, your best option is AMD and will remain so until Ice Lake is relased.

> "I don't talk to customers about nanometers," said Shenoy. "At the end of the day what they care about is delivered system-level performance...Our roadmap and the products we're putting forward gives us confidence we'll continue to win."

But customers do care about TDP, price/performance ratio, platform features (like PCI-E lanes, memory speed), the number of cores per socket and, sorry, Intel, you're royally f*cked: there's this interesting Threadripper 2990WX and AMD Epyc Rome is on its way. No wonder you fired Brian Krzanich but that was too little and too late. The ship ran aground. Luckily for you it's temporarily.

Releasing the fourth iteration of the SkyLake uArch (Intel Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700K, Core i5-9600K CPUs) could have seemed like a crazy idea several years ago, now it's reality.

I applaud the researchers however there's one thing I cannot understand at all: Intel was let know about some of these vulnerabilities (Meltdown and Spectre v1/v2) at the very least a year ago and to this date they don't have a single CPU where these vulnerabilities are mitigated at the hardware level. And according to rumors and leaked documentation they'll soon release yet another Skylake reiteration.

The notch must die.

16x9 must come back.

Stereo speakers are a must.

Symmetrical phones are a must.

The removable battery is a must.

Wireless charging is a must.

3.5" headphone jack is a must.

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Those tall notched fugly phones are just that.

For opening Unix files in Windows I've always used Wordpad which does handle Unix line endings. Of course, if you have a working Internet connection Notepad++ is the first choice but sometime I'm just too lazy to download it.

While I agree that current AI is hundreds of light years away from AGI, I hate when people throw mind, consciousness, thought and knowledge into the mix. Let's be honest and admit that we don't have the slightest clue as to what these things are and if they are really required for AGI to exist.

And to all those people who keep fearmongering about AGI or being scared of AGI: please read this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm

After studying the simplest nervous system on Earth (302 neurons) for several years we still don't understand how it works.

Seriously, who cares?

Windows Mobile along with its ugly 8bit tiles has been an abomination from the get go and deserved to die. Too bad, parts of this abomination found their way into Windows 8/10 and now people have to "enjoy" moronic apps on their desktops, including UWP'ized Start Menu and maimed ugly cr*ptastic Control Panel, a.k.a. PC Settings. And Microsoft keeps persisting with UWP despite failing spectacularly in mobile.

It's worth noting that ./ (slashdot) is down as well.

I don't own a single Apple product and I don't have a single Facebook app installed on my smartphone. So, again, what's all the fuss about?

I've been talking about that ever since Windows 8 was released.

Design created for the sake of extreme simplicity without also being functional leads to disastrous results.

More on that here: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/01/27/1425205/ask-slashdot-a-point-of-contention---modern-user-interfaces

In other words the "intelligence" part of current "Artificial Intelligence" remains an utter sham. We're still dealing with stupid highly specialized very narrow algos and there's no general AI in sight. Wake me up in 300 years.

"The new bezel-less iPhone. Look close enough and you can see an evolution, or should we say a rip-off?"

FTFY

I'm with Zuckerberg here. Currently we have no freaking idea what

* intelligence

* thought

* consciousness

are and the algos we've come up with up to this moment are very advanced algos for solving very narrow tasks. And they often suck at what they do - much touted image recognition requires terabytes of data and fails at recognizing very unusual things toddlers have no troubles identifying right off the bat. Many computer scientists reckon that we'll soon have another AI research winter.

There's very little if any progress towards AGI. We may all sleep well for at least 200 more years.

This is ridiculous.

Come and see C:\Windows\WinSxS which is filled with literally _gigabytes_ of libraries you'll never need (like localized versions of many core libraries even though you don't intend to install and use any language pack) while a lightning fast, super easy to use application which weighs less than 1 megabyte gets removed.

Microsoft has lost touch with reality.

> "despite Firefox getting much better during the same time window"

Let me correct Andreas: "despite Firefox 1) getting much closer to being a Chrome clone 2) without distinctive features while at the same time 3) lagging in standards support and 4) being hell bent on not implementing the features Mozilla's users have been asking for for years (e.g. WebP support) and 5) losing its distinctive UI and 6) removing features which many users can't live without (JavaScript on/off switch for websites) and 7) rendering literally dozens of thousands of add-ons dead and 8) having such an inflated ego that Mozilla simply ignores its core professional users' needs and 9) killing XUL".

For the past two years you've rendered dead more add-ons than you've done for your entire history. Many people used to use Firefox solely due to its add-ons and now a lot of them have ceased to exist due to Mozilla's relentless efforts.

Multiprocess conversion should have started at least 14(!) years ago just when efficient multicore CPUs became a commodity (Athlon 64, 2003) and if you had done it back then, you wouldn't have let down thousands of add-ons developers who are now simply fed up and have parted ways with you.