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Comment In Germany, we don't do that. (Score 1) 46

In Germany, any company can get its online reviews purged of everything that isn't positive, simply by paying some lawyer a hundred bucks or so. They'll tell Google that each and every undesired review is fraudulent. They'll even go so far as to claim, against evidence to the contrary, that whoever posted the review was never a customer. Google will contact all the reviewers and ask for proof. In front of that law that makes this possible, you're guilty by default. It's on you, the reviewer, to prove your innocence, or else your review gets deleted. I hate it. Reviews in Germany are worthless. Honest/poor/clueless businesses bear their mark, while the scummy ones, that reviews are supposed to warn you away from, just clean their reviews until they shine and sparkle.

Comment put it in relation (Score 1) 210

200 complaints probably amounts to less than one hour of bicyclist interactions with meatbag drivers. California-wide of course. I also find it hilarious that the abstract implies that MOST of those complaints involving autonomous mobiles are due to two brands: Cruise and Waymo. Are they so over-represented in Cali, or does this imply that other auto-mobile makers are doing fine?

Submission + - Firestorm erupts over requiring women to sign up for military draft (thehill.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Senate Democrats have added language to the annual defense authorization bill to require women to register for the draft, prompting a backlash from Republicans and social conservatives and complicating the chances of moving the bill on the Senate floor before Election Day.

Comment The Spirit of Libraries (Score 1) 74

The Spirit of Libraries is free access to knowledge, for everyone. Publishers need to be reined in. If you don't, their greed will run everything. These judges need a splash of cold water in their faces. They are supposed to serve the people. Sure sure, "but the law says". Then also blame the lawmakers that enable this. The Spirit of Libraries is free access to knowledge, for everyone.

Submission + - Systemd 256.1 Maintenance Release Fixes Home Directory Deletion Bug (debugpointnews.com) 1

slack_justyb writes:

A critical issue has been discovered in the Systemd system manager version 256 that caused the deletion of the contents of the /home partition when executing the “systemd-tmpfiles –purge” command. This command, added in Systemd 256, was intended to delete all files and directories created through settings in tmpfiles.d. However, due to a misleading name, it appeared that the deletion only affected temporary files, while in reality, it also removed non-existent data directories. The bug was initially dismissed by a Systemd developer, who suggested that users should have read the documentation before running the command. However, it was later acknowledged that the documentation was outdated and did not accurately reflect the behavior of the systemd-tmpfiles utility.

After much discussion, the program's operation was found to be flawed and this update was issued for anyone who upgraded to the newest release. No distros are known to be using this release at this time. The maintenance release of systemd is considered a critical fix and users are urged to update to the latest version as soon as possible.

Comment Re:Gotta love that 4 year support window (Score 5, Informative) 18

Not planned. Miscalculated. In High Performance Computing, you have two "camps". Lots of software is closed-source and licensed. Engineering is like that. Lots of software has some legacy, which consists of running on CPUs and using all the abilities of a CPU, allowing the code to run complex logic, but not fitting a GPU programming model. That was often parallelized across multiple nodes (hosts), e.g. with MPI (a thing since the 90s). Multithreading was also used, but that required multi-socket nodes or multi-core CPUs to really make sense. And then you have the camp that fully leaned into GPGPU. Intel had no experience doing a GPU or vector processor, so they aimed for the CPU-only holdouts. Xeon Phi contained x86 cores without 64-bit, and I think missing a few other aspects of a "real" x86 core. They tacked some variant of AVX512 on. So now that Phi thing isn't a regular CPU, and it doesn't have GPU performance. You still had to recompile your program to run it on a Phi. Couldn't just take some (closed source?) executable and run it. Xeon Phi was a specialty item, not a mass market product, so the price point was another matter. Intel did learn. They eventually developed integrated GPUs (GPU in the CPU). Now they finally entered the discrete GPU market with their "Arc". Some generations of Intel desktop CPUs came with AVX512 but newer ones don't. It's just not worth it on x86/x86-64.

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