Yuzu Switch emulator is made by devs of a 3DS emulator Crita: https://citra-emu.org

3DS is unique with its 3D display that doesn't need a 3D glass. The "New 3DS XL" is especially great, as it has a stable 3D effect because of infrared eye-tracking. While most gamer got a bad impression from the first gen 3DS 3D effect without eye-tracking. I would pay premium for such a 3D PC monitor. Unfortunately Nintendo Switch doesn't feature such a 3D display nor does any other device available.

At the moment Shanghai (China) is the cities with most sky scrappers in the world.

To this day the Win7 is arguably the best OS (supported til 2020), followed by the aging XP.

Writing algorithms in parallel manner isn't as complicated as make to believe you, a lot can be rewritten based on cookbooks/patterns.

Intel developed a many-core CPU (72 CPU cores) called Xeon Phi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi

Unfortunately they drifted of the target (instead of making it the successor of x86-64).

For Javascript engines, it would help if the offer an optional fallback "Javascript interpreter" instead of JIT. A JIT is basically at the moment insecure, especially when running untrusted code. The same goes for WebAssembly, let the user deactivate execution/support of it. Please allow end user to enable an alternative JS interpreter for high security things like online banking.

The 777 is way too crammed. The washrooms are on the side instead in the middle aka mini-washrooms (but with window). In general it feels like the first computer designed airframe, they forgot about the size of humans, it's made for short people. I take a 747 or even better A380 any day over the 777. I mean who seriously prefers to sit in a narrow long can for 12 hours, when you can choose a double decker A380 were you can stretch your legs, walk around and have big washrooms were you can stand even upright. And don't get me started on the entertainment system of the 777 - needs a serious upgrade.

The 757 will go out of service next, United still has some 757 from the 1980s - sure the seats are super comfortable because in the 1980s the were bigger and softer, but the airframe is old and the entertainment system was added as addon, meaning a computer box is below every other seat and gives the unlucky guy (who doesn't know about seatguru) little leg room.

Why is the very very odd 737 still going? It's older than the 747, I wonder when they finally design a new smaller airframe.

  compareTo uses 0x19, which means doing the “equal each” 
  (aka string comparison) operation across 8 unsigned words 
  (thanks UTF-16!) with a negated result. This monster of an 
  instruction takes in 4 registers of input:

The question is, how can one check if the CPU already got the microcode update?

Can a OS running inside a VM (over Intel VT ring-1) patch the CPU's microcode? (e.g. Linux host, and Win guest patches CPU's microcode) Nothing seems impossible anymore.

The config in Chrome is broken, WebAssembly cannot be deactivated anymore with chrome://flags/#enable-webassembly , setting it to "deactivated" and it's still active.

Yesterday we only guessed it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16069740 based on ARM CPU list,

the RPi 1-3 CPUs

  ARM11, Cortex-A7, Cortex-A53

Affected ARM cores:

  Cortex-R7, Cortex-R8, Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9, Cortex A15, 
  Cortex-A17, Cortex-A57, Cortex-A72, Cortex-A73, Cortex-A75

(I tried to post it 3 hours ago, but HN is rate-limiting my posts, oh well)

Btw deactivating WebAssembly support in Chrome 63 (up-to-date) doesn't work anymore!!

  chrome://flags/#enable-webassembly

Yes. We should really start to learn from history, MULTICS operating system had already 16 CPU ring support back in the early 1970s. MULTICS is the mother of UNIX, its smaller child. MULTICS had so many advanced features that barely got implemented (often reinvented) in newer OS. It's time to read old docs and ask the old devs who are still alive. (Another such often overlooked gem is Plan9, but it's better known thanks to Go lang devs).

Older Intel CPUs only supported 2 rings. Modern Intel CPU supports only 4 rings. Windows and Linux use ring 0 for kernel mode and ring 3 for user mode. And Intel introduced a ring -1 for VT.

  "To assist virtualization, VT and Pacifica insert a new 
  privilege level beneath Ring 0. Both add nine new machine 
  code instructions that only work at "Ring -1," intended to 
  be used by the hypervisor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_ring

The CPUs in Raspberry Pi 1-3 are not affected.

  ARM11, Cortex-A7, Cortex-A5

Raspberry Pi 3 (and Pi 2 v1.2) uses a Broadcom BCM2837 SoC with a 1.2 GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor.

According to ARM website https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update it especially says

  "*Only affected cores are listed, all other Arm cores are NOT affected.*" 

  "Cortex-R7, Cortex-R8, Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9, Cortex-A15, 
  Cortex-A17, Cortex-A57, Cortex-A72, Cortex-A73, Cortex-A75"

In the end, hardware and software devs in the 1970s were right. Operating systems like MULTICS and computers like PDP-11 got it right. MULTICS supported 16 rings and has many advanced features that almost everyone forgot and never implemented in newer OS - shame on all of us!

Intel CPUs barely support more than 2.5 rings (if you count the VT that just blowed up). Also operating systems need to now focus on supporting more rings too. Just 2 rings aka kernel and usermode (and VT supervisor as third) is NOT enough in 2018.

HN doesn't support free speech, very unfortunate that pg isn't around anymore to sweep up. It turned from startup, SV and VC news to a popular but unfocused news site, sponsored by whoever.

A380 is in its own league, super comfortable, super low noise. No 747, 777 or 787 can match the comfort. They are noisier, or have downsides.

Only Blender is the ugly swan, that still has this inhouse-style homegrown UI from the early 1990s UNIX where Blender originated. Nothing in a Blender works as expected, the mouse buttons are opposite to everyone else, the toolbars go all over the place and spam the workspace, no tabs, weird floating windows, keyboard shortcuts from hell, camera controls like coded by 5 year old kid, and so on. Even GIMP has a more sane UI, it's actually not that bad at all. But don't get me started on Blender. Blender needs a complete new UI, otherwise it would be such a shame, the program is good but it's very user hostile and the interface has a step learning curve for no reason at all, and the devs see no reason at all to get over their pride and will never change Blender's UI, which is unfortunate. So maybe someone forks Blender and scraps the old UI and adds a sane UI comparable to industry alternatives - it would help adoption of Blender a lot. Sometimes it looks like they get paid to keep Blender lower key, so that Maya and co still can be sold.

On Win both Picasa (also discontinued), Lightroom (non-cloud also discontinued), and various open source alternatives are less polished and slower than Photo Gallery. I will try out Darktables 2.4.

The cool thing of Windows Live Photo Gallery is that everything is saved back to the file. If you tag a photo (even hierarchy tags like Places/City/NewYorkCity) the tag is stored also in the photo file, so when you copy somewhere else, all metadata (EXIF, XMP, IPC) is still there. And all photos are NOT-imported to a central database. So you can organize the photos like you want and Photo Gallery just indexes the folders and stores thumbnails and metadata in a central database file for fast viewing and searching. Most a alternatives to a Photo Gallery want to import all photos to a special directory or even to a central database (see Picasa, and Lightroom) which is like iTunes where all your metadata like the 5 star rating sits then in a central database - that is soooo wrong!! - instead of storing the changes back to the photo files.

I had moved to MPC-BE (Media player classic home cinema black edition) due its superior UI and 4K hardware support and dual-device audio-output (PC 5.1 speaker plus over HDMI to TV). And MPC-BE allows one to quickly skip through a movie by dragging the mouse. And MPC-BE can play partly corrupt files too, one can even skip around such files. VLC 2x sucks at all these things, yet it's still better than traditional Windows Media Player or iTunes. VLC 1x was quite good back then, but 2x was a let down and MPC-HC and MPC-BE are simply better for several things. But let me try VLC 3 again, maybe things improved.

> SMPLayer

It's a light GUI over ffmpeg library, so the video playback is great, but the UI looked like a fisherprice toy and it was a rough experience two years ago. On Win64 MPC-BE is a lot better.

In case I need to spend money, I prefer to own the thing I pay for. So Blu-ray/DVD/CDs discs for me. The gathered video/music can be played on all my devices from car to phone, even in flight-mode offline. I trade a bit of less convince upfront to really own it, but then I can play it as often and exactly when and where I want.

Anyway every few years one could get a higher resolution version, unfortunately the films aren't sold in source versions, but downscaled, but the video-on-demand at always lagging behind and stream worse bit rates.