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[zxy_thf]

An alternative way to implement AVX-512 is only implementing the decoder part and keep the core ALU as 256-bit. AMD did this to AVX-2 in Zen 1/Zen+....

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The UI of nano is far worse than Turbo Pascal or QBasic
No idea why anyone would think it's user friendly.

[zxy_thf]

Clearly you haven't developed/deployed any non-toy apps on more than one distribution.

Not all developer wanna deal with tons of different...

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No, I'm afraid I'm too old to remember Windows 8.

I was recalling Windows 9x, or earlier MSDOS days.
Apple was not a serious desktop...

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Yes in general these two concepts are not equal, but for MS things are little bit different.
MS did not fail to take control. It intentionally did...

[zxy_thf]

That's because Microsoft, no matter how unpopular it is in OSS community, is more friendly to an open eco-system.
MS simply is unable to enforce...

[zxy_thf]

The new naming scheme is DOUBLE PLUS GOOD!

[zxy_thf]

Wait a sec, I thought everybody knew Fedora is the testbed of next major RHEL release....

[zxy_thf]

I read this a while ago, and I agree his point, VPN only gives your unverified safe feelings.
But most of its recommendations, well lemme be frank,...

[zxy_thf]

The problem is, forwarding all your Internet traffic to some VPN/proxy only hides your IP address, but IP is not the only Internet identity.
Furthermore,...

[zxy_thf]

Sounds like Linux DE were going strong before those things were proposed.
Only in your dream.

The unwelcoming fact is, no matter how...

[zxy_thf]

Actually not a surprise to me.
This is not the first time Intel's microcode updates messed up its customers, and it seems they screwed up again...

[zxy_thf]

Fedora only serves as the beta version of RHEL x+1.0, and RH needs a beta version of RHEL x.y+1.
I'm guessing this is why they are pushing &quo...