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p_ing··on To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets
Please read the remainder of the thread. Context matters. Pedantry, not so much.
p_ing··on Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
It's doubtful that there would be 1000 people dedicated to the scheduler, or that it would produce a better result than the 1 to 4 people that likely work or are tied to owning the scheduler.

That said, what deficiencies do you see in the scheduler with the current build of Windows?

p_ing··on To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets
In the US, you have the right to face your accuser. Since that's not possible with a camera, photo-based enforcement becomes a non-moving violation.

You can still point the finger at someone else when you get the ticket in the mail. Or just put a bunch of question marks in reply as it is on the State to prove their case, not for you to snitch on your own bad driving habits.

At least that is how it works in the state I live in.

p_ing··on Ask HN: Why am I unable to post Show HN?
There were too many people posting their 'innovative' local-only PDF websites so it was restricted to not-new accounts.
p_ing··on Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
Discussion ongoing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861270
p_ing··on Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
I don't see how this is a 'problem', but rather a tunable. And any decent OS has tunables. Would you rather not have this option?
p_ing··on Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
Azure networking is Microsoft's own Linux: Azure Linux [0]. I don't know what they use for storage controllers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Linux

p_ing··on Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
That’s not sufficient as you will still downclock.
p_ing··on Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
Azure services run on [customized] Hyper-V, thus Windows Server.

Azure networking is Linux.

EDIT: Marvel at the NT4 style Task Manager [0].

[0] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windowsosplatform/a...

p_ing··on F-35 is built for the wrong war
Outside of wartime, yes these are jobs programs. If we stop, we lose the know-how, man-power, and facilities. Starting back up becomes expensive, time consuming, and potentially impossible on the time scales required. That does not bode well for a war you're involved in.
p_ing··on Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
Typical approach on an HV server is to disable C States, set power management to high, etc preventing x86 from downclocking. Keeping the CPU from seesawing can have big improvements.

But you’re not going to do that in a lab/personal machine, usually.

p_ing··on Does Your Poop Float?
The author is wrong.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22626-x

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2346620-we-now-know-why...

It's due to gas in the stool produced by gut microbes and is not a concern or representation of poor (or good) health.

p_ing··on TPM 2.0 is actually cool
It sucks, until I understood what it was -Author

> Every modern motherboard ships with a tiny cryptoprocessor

The majority of implementations for quite a few years now are fTPM, that is TPM on the CPU package rather than the motherboard.

p_ing··on Show HN: Built Secure PDF tools (25+) that run in the browser
Yet Another PDF Site (someone please unironically buy yapdfsite.com and make one of these)

There seems to be at least one AI-generated PDF offline processing only site per week posted to HN. Often free.

p_ing··on Gahsiskdiididkdjdjdhdhxuisoaoabcb
Actual title: Securing today for the quantum future: WARP client now supports post-quantum cryptography (PQC)
p_ing··on ChatGPT for Excel
Only for personal accounts. Enterprise customers have a Frontier agent called Copilot Cowork via the M365 Copilot app.... copilot.
p_ing··on ChatGPT for Excel
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/choose-your-model-...
p_ing··on ChatGPT for Excel
Excel Online was a component of WAC. It was an ASP.NET (and C++???) web application that used OAuth between SharePoint Server and Exchange Server.

So I mean yes, you viewed Excel docs through a webpage just like you do today via ODSP or OneDrive consumer. The backend is completely different in the cloud service, though.

p_ing··on ChatGPT for Excel
Not sure why you'd state that. 'Correct' is a grammatically correct and complete sentence to your question.
p_ing··on ChatGPT for Excel
Microsoft runs the model, not OAI.
p_ing··on ChatGPT for Excel
Correct.
p_ing··on ChatGPT for Excel
$200-something per user per year. Will vary based on license type and seat count.

No limits.

p_ing··on ChatGPT for Excel
If you're concerned, you don't send it outside of the M365 boundary and presumably your admin has Purview Sensitivity Labels in place covering the document to prevent such activity.
p_ing··on ChatGPT for Excel
Token expenditure isn't a concern for Copilot users. They don't see that form of cost model, just a flat monthly (or yearly) price for a user license.
p_ing··on ChatGPT for Excel
Never did this. WAC was the original version (integrated with SharePoint Server). Everything was server-side.
p_ing··on ChatGPT for Excel
Cheaper to get M365 Copilot licenses for the Claude models in Excel.
p_ing··on ChatGPT for Excel
That's the nature of these add-ins. Modern Add-ins are all little XML frames with some JS or whatever. All processing occurs server-side, hosted by the add-in publisher.

This is counter to the old (security nightmare) COM model where processing could be local.

p_ing··on ChatGPT for Excel
Your comment is recognized as low effort, but Copilot has been OAI models behind the scenes. For enterprise customers, quickly being replaced by Sonnet as a default.
p_ing··on ChatGPT for Excel
Based on my discussion with DSEs, enterprises have not been impressed in the results of "Copilot", i.e. OAI models. MSFT has been replacing (or changing the default) to Claude across a variety of Copilot endpoints.
p_ing··on ChatGPT for Excel
Microsoft has this built-in using Claude models (for M365 Copilot licensed users). I don't know why you'd use this as an M365 subscriber in an enterprise. I'm sure there's some edge cases, but MSFT has been moving away from OAI. Even Copilot Studio agents now default to Sonnet 4.6 and not GPT 5.
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