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juergbion Intel Fights for Its Future

Ryzen Threadripper and the TR4 socket are advertised with ECC support on the AMD website¹², in contrast to regular Ryzen/AM4. This may mean that all motherboards support it. I can't be sure, however, ECC seems to work fine on ASRock X399 Taichi.

¹ https://www.amd.com/en/products/ryzen-threadripper ² https://www.amd.com/en/products/str4-platform

juergbion The new microcode from Intel and AMD adds three new features

> GCC added support in 7.2

No, GCC adds support in 7.3, which is scheduled to be released tomorrow.

juergbion Meltdown and Spectre

Not everything. In-order CPUs such as Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A53 are not affected. Confirmed by Arm at https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update "all other Arm cores are NOT affected"

juergbion Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw

That's an old issue, fixed many months ago, not related to the 'new' Intel bug. The comment was updated in this patch series, that's it.

juergbion Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret

Euro SEPA transfers between Switzerland and EU are typically free. At least the major Swiss banks don't charge anything extra. International transfers in other currencies (e.g., CHF, GBP) still incur a fee, though.

juergbion Show HN: Yue – A new library to create cross-platform GUI apps

E.g., Linux and GNOME