Re: Mind blowing
Yeah modern signals are amazing. The DDR5 spec does channel characterization of the link to the RAM, something you'd used to do on an ADSL line or HF link.
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Very few cases ever go to trial.
The defendants can't afford to defend themselves. They usually take a plea deal, even if innocent. Usually the prosecution hits them with 25years of charges, but is willing to drop to 3-5 years if they plead guilty to a few of the charges.
if it's broken, if you lose your files, it's not like most people have any alternative.
There's no real competition to desktop Windows or Office for most users. Yes, I know Linux, Google and Apple are there, but for most home and office users, it is a Microsoft world, and Microsoft owns that world as a monopolist.
I have a Kindle 3 and a Kindle 11.
The Kindle 11 has a much better screen. That is the only thing that is better. The reading experience stutters every few pages, downloaded books can't be found in the list, and you need to search for them, there is no longer folder support. The list goes on.
It's like Amazon decided to remove most of the software features of the Kindle 3, and replace them with advertising and online shopping on the Kindle.
Luckily, there's KOReader and Jailbreaking.
This research smells of academic theoretical BS to me.
The typical interrupt service routine and kernel context-switch overhead is tiny. Parsing a few lines of json strings in user-space probably has more instructions.
Besides, this, all network hardware in the last 15 years has had buffer coalescing, so interrupts come through at variable rates depending on the load.
Sanctions have a long history of failure, from South Africa developing a first world armaments industry in the 1980's to Iran and North Korea now supplying war supplies to Russia in the Ukraine war.
The inference (not the training) for Deepseek's models is apparently done on Huawei GPU chips.
Sanctions are worse than just failures, they backfire.
No Office. the last version of Office it can run is from 20 years ago.
Apart from some games, my experience with Wine is that many Windows apps can "sort of run" under it. But not very well, lots of little things don't work, even if you play with bottles etc
The commercial side of Wine (CrossOver) claims to run Office 2010
https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/microsoft-office-2010
Windows revenues are now only 11% of Microsoft's total revenue. Windows is around the same size as LinkedIn and XBox. Azure is huge now.
Long-term, I expect MS to slowly drop operating systems and move to a Linux Kernel with a UI that looks like Windows/KDE but showing Ads everywhere.
After all, they did this with Internet Explorer being replaced by Chromium based Edge.