BoingBoomTschak

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by BoingBoomTschak 6d ago
Such a classic societal fail most people can't seem to recognize. The point isn't to read, it's to read because you want to , not because of a stick/carrot. RMS makes the same mistake in thinking that disallowing propri
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How hard is it to get a jobserver client right?(blogs.gentoo.org)
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by BoingBoomTschak 6d ago
Good job and clean website interface! Something as exhaustive as this is clearly needed. Some remarks: 1. Why does the CoW button remove XFS from the list? Even https://github.com/fenio/modern-fs-benchmark/blob&#x2
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by BoingBoomTschak 6d ago
Wall-E future here we come. Soon the people loader that lifts you from your sofa and plops you into the seat!
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by BoingBoomTschak 7d ago
I don't know how to say nicely that you don't realize how ignorant about the field you must seem to anyone who isn't. You'll have trouble finding such comparison for the same reason you won't find a "caterpilla
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by BoingBoomTschak 7d ago
> Nothing prevents a vendor from implementing a high quality hardware encoder Uh yes, it's called reality. Advanced video coding techniques are just too complex, full of serial and branch heavy algos to work in decently sized and pr
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by BoingBoomTschak 7d ago
HW and SW encoding are not comparable with regard to quality (for the same size, obviously) though. That's kinda what I meant with my quip.
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by BoingBoomTschak 7d ago
I think software with a strong focus on SIMD really favours x86 over Apple, since AVX2 support was pretty uniform and AVX-512 (except Intel's fiasco) has been supported for a while, while the post-NEON landscape is strange in ARM count
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by BoingBoomTschak 7d ago
1. I didn't manage to find a non trivial (i.e. Hello World) example anywhere on the website. That should be one of the first things greeting my eyes, especially since the colloquial Lisp family is so large you can't easily infer t
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by BoingBoomTschak 9d ago
Or funnier version: "don't worry, we're not Alpha".
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by BoingBoomTschak 11d ago
If you want one I continue to really trust almost blindly: Genelec (Finnish pro audio). Not even that expensive for what it is.
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by BoingBoomTschak 11d ago
No control for prosperity. Lifelong comfort insidiously cripples any people on all these levels. For a fun novel on the very subject, read The Dosadi Experiment .
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by BoingBoomTschak 11d ago
The day I can furnish my NAS in SSDs for roughly the same price as HDDs probably won't come before any current filesystem is obsoleted for some reason or another, methinks.
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by BoingBoomTschak 11d ago
What a wonderful surprise! The nearest thing seem to be modern (v5) XFS + dm-integrity, I'll have to see a comparison once it's stable enough. A thing ZFS suffers from is fragmentation (no way to defragment in-place nor preallocat
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by BoingBoomTschak 11d ago
I think he means that if the OS knows about locking, it can manage a list of "waiters" to quickly know which thread to wake (resp. let sleep) once (resp. before) the lock is released. A bit like what classic UNIX does with wchan,
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by BoingBoomTschak 11d ago
I think Linus says it well: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpost...
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by BoingBoomTschak 14d ago
Is Marginalia the only real competing search engine ?
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by BoingBoomTschak 14d ago
Finally, the Butlerian Jihad is entering the Overton window.
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by BoingBoomTschak 15d ago
One thing I've desperately wanted from git worktrees is to use reflinking in some way to lower the cost of copies. I just found https://github.com/josharian/git-cow-worktree that doesn't inspire confidence.
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by BoingBoomTschak 15d ago
There's "just like" and "just like". Understanding what allows you to stand out and making sure you don't throw it away is important, but so is avoiding stagnation. After all, creation is the essence of art.
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by BoingBoomTschak 16d ago
Would you say the same about more obviously artistic mediums? "Oh, their second album sounds exactly like their first which I liked!" isn't a compliment, usually.
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by BoingBoomTschak 17d ago
The article sensibly asks if the (intentionally or not) cherry-picked stats about automated driving (fair weather only, limited to specific areas that aren't especially difficult) is valid then cites a study that really massages those
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by BoingBoomTschak 17d ago
Yeah, it's just "new technology". Like those Flock cameras, I guess.
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by BoingBoomTschak 17d ago
> I have NEVER seen a single person accuse anyone of being a bad person for still preferring to drive a car manually Just read further in this thread, will you?
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by BoingBoomTschak 17d ago
Sounds like what Mazda did with the MX-30 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_MX-30 ) which flopped hard. They used their new Wankel engine as range extender, perfect use case since the power:weight ratio of these is i
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by BoingBoomTschak 17d ago
Might be less efficient, no? At least in CL ( https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/t_sat... ) this is the case, that static type analysis isn't clever enough to work with predicate based
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by BoingBoomTschak 17d ago
Can it do holes like this? (typep 3 '(or (integer 0 10) (integer 50 100)));; => T
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by BoingBoomTschak 17d ago
Even if that's impressive, the README is low SNR slop as usual...
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by BoingBoomTschak 18d ago
At first I thought about something like https://libreelec.tv/ but Kodi instead of the much more powerful mpv is not an option. So probably a custom lightweight distro with mpv outputting to DRM directly and a game controlle
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by BoingBoomTschak 18d ago
Fun thing, both SA and ChipsAndChesse similarly dunked on that presentation: https://www.semiaccurate.com/2026/09/07/arms-2026-tech-day-i... https://chipsandcheese.com/p/arms-c2-ultra-g2-

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