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    LucidMew got a reaction from minibois in I Can't Believe This Worked!!!   
    I'm still waiting for the Define R4 unboxing/review. 
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    LucidMew reacted to biff420 in I Can't Believe This Worked!!!   
    That isn't concrete, that's cement.  You didn't add any aggregate (you know, the sand the instructions on the bag called for), so stop calling it concrete.
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    LucidMew got a reaction from ian223 in More bad news for Intel owners: Speculative register leakage from lazy FPU context switching   
    "Lazy" is a term in computer programming that pretends to load the information and if that information is actually used then it actually calculates it for you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_evaluation
     
    You can have an "infinite" list in python, and store it with a finite amount of memory, because you only calculate what you actually use. It's also commonly used in databases as well with Hibernate. 
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    LucidMew got a reaction from Taf the Ghost in More bad news for Intel owners: Speculative register leakage from lazy FPU context switching   
    Source 1: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00145.html
    Source 2: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/189
     
     
     
     
    Honestly, I don't care about all these vulnerabilities. I'm not going out of my way to patch my 5820K, because I'm not a cloud service provider. However, with all these similar vulnerabilities being found with Intel's CPUs, I wonder how many unknown vulnerabilities are still undiscovered, and when all these will actually be fixed in hardware.
     
    There is a patch available on the seclists website, but I'm not sure what exactly that patches; Intel's website says software engineers can use Eager FP restore instead of Lazy FP state restore, so it seems like an update to windows and/or applications can fix this? It's not entirely clear if that'll fix it, or even if it's exploitable from javascript from the browser.
     
    These sort of registers do hold AES encryption keys, so it's fairly high priority for people who actually use it.
     
     
    edit/update 1:
    For those who don't know, "Lazy" is a term in computer programming that pretends to load the information and if that information is actually used then it actually calculates it for you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_evaluation
    You can have an "infinite" list in python, and store it with a finite amount of memory, because you only calculate what you actually use. It's also commonly used in databases as well with Hibernate. 
     
    Another source that puts it in more human readable terms: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/13/intel_lazy_fpu_state_security_flaw/
     
     
     
    No word if desktop windows 7/8.1/10 is patched or not.
     
     
    I guess it kinda makes sense that eager might be faster than lazy, depending on the data size and how frequently they need to be evaluated to its actual value. But I would think that it's more complex than "more often than not, eager is faster than lazy".
     
    Mitigated for years. Cool. People don't have to freak out. And AWS is protected. With no exploit code using this bug discovered in the wild just yet.
     
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    LucidMew got a reaction from Bananasplit_00 in More bad news for Intel owners: Speculative register leakage from lazy FPU context switching   
    "Lazy" is a term in computer programming that pretends to load the information and if that information is actually used then it actually calculates it for you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_evaluation
     
    You can have an "infinite" list in python, and store it with a finite amount of memory, because you only calculate what you actually use. It's also commonly used in databases as well with Hibernate. 
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    LucidMew got a reaction from sof006 in CDProjektRed release the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer after 5 years of development   
    There were also a bunch of (xbox) codes for The Witcher 3 that flew by right before the trailer.
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    LucidMew got a reaction from shermantanker in CDProjektRed release the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer after 5 years of development   
    There were also a bunch of (xbox) codes for The Witcher 3 that flew by right before the trailer.
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    LucidMew got a reaction from Septimus in CDProjektRed release the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer after 5 years of development   
    There were also a bunch of (xbox) codes for The Witcher 3 that flew by right before the trailer.
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    LucidMew got a reaction from Nup in CDProjektRed release the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer after 5 years of development   
    There were also a bunch of (xbox) codes for The Witcher 3 that flew by right before the trailer.
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    LucidMew reacted to davo1111 in Nest Cams are a BIG SCAM   
    My subscriptions page (not front page) isnt showing this video. Anyone know what is happening?

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    LucidMew reacted to Ginger_ in Want "free" PC games? You can get them by letting a German company mine on your GPU   
    Nicehash is paying $1.88/day for a 1070 right now,  which is lower than you would make direct mining. So maybe not bad for someone who isn't very tech savvy? But pubg goes for $30 and in 28 days you can make $52.64 with nicehash (before electric costs) which is ridiculously easy to use. 
     
    Neat idea, not that great in practice. You'd be better off just pool mining zcash and using an exchange or two. 
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    LucidMew got a reaction from Enkephalin in New BITMAIN ASIC Mines Equihash = 15x1080Ti GPUs at 300 Watts   
    This is actually a pretty damn big deal. After reading the Equihash algorithm whitepaper, I've always liked the algorithm. Super customizable and requires a bunch of memory, plus the fact that GPUs get not even a thousand solutions a second is pretty cool.
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    LucidMew got a reaction from mr cheese in iPhone X is dead as consumers turn their backs on pricey smartphones   
    This OP: iPhone X is dead
    That OP: iPhone X got 35% of the industry profits in 2017
     
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    LucidMew got a reaction from Mutoh in iPhone X is dead as consumers turn their backs on pricey smartphones   
    This OP: iPhone X is dead
    That OP: iPhone X got 35% of the industry profits in 2017
     
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    LucidMew got a reaction from ByteMe in iPhone X is dead as consumers turn their backs on pricey smartphones   
    This OP: iPhone X is dead
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    LucidMew got a reaction from Bensemus in iPhone X is dead as consumers turn their backs on pricey smartphones   
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    That OP: iPhone X got 35% of the industry profits in 2017
     
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    LucidMew got a reaction from Techstorm970 in iPhone X is dead as consumers turn their backs on pricey smartphones   
    This OP: iPhone X is dead
    That OP: iPhone X got 35% of the industry profits in 2017
     
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    LucidMew got a reaction from simson0606 in iPhone X is dead as consumers turn their backs on pricey smartphones   
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    LucidMew got a reaction from Silentprototipe in iPhone X is dead as consumers turn their backs on pricey smartphones   
    This OP: iPhone X is dead
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    LucidMew got a reaction from asus killer in iPhone X is dead as consumers turn their backs on pricey smartphones   
    This OP: iPhone X is dead
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    LucidMew got a reaction from Tenelia in iPhone X is dead as consumers turn their backs on pricey smartphones   
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    LucidMew got a reaction from shermantanker in iPhone X is dead as consumers turn their backs on pricey smartphones   
    This OP: iPhone X is dead
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    LucidMew got a reaction from mrchow19910319 in iPhone X is dead as consumers turn their backs on pricey smartphones   
    This OP: iPhone X is dead
    That OP: iPhone X got 35% of the industry profits in 2017
     
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    LucidMew got a reaction from TopHatProductions115 in iPhone X is dead as consumers turn their backs on pricey smartphones   
    This OP: iPhone X is dead
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    LucidMew got a reaction from DrMacintosh in iPhone X is dead as consumers turn their backs on pricey smartphones   
    This OP: iPhone X is dead
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