Freaky

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by Freaky 12y ago
A friend of mine works on ports for both platforms, and he vastly prefers the graphics driver situation on Linux, both in terms of driver quality and vendor support.
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by Freaky 12y ago
Is an opcache still not included in stock PHP? That was on the cards years ago, as I recall.
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by Freaky 12y ago
I suppose it depends on how you define "that long ago" and "mainline implementations". From my point of view it's coming along to about half a decade, but I guess 1.8's remained popular in many places as recen
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by Freaky 12y ago
Except Ruby isn't really significantly slower than Python?
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by Freaky 12y ago
A more accurate link: http://freshbsd.org/search?project=openbsd&q=file.name%3Alib...
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by Freaky 13y ago
It's 50% off if you pay yearly, plus 2 months free on top. $25 for the year, not bad. Not exactly comparable, but still.
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by Freaky 13y ago
For me it's always the triple-whammy of being a bit (or a lot) slower, needing vastly more memory, and having astronomical startup times. Not exactly an appealing combination.
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by Freaky 13y ago
> I have to wonder why Python as a communities have always have the interested to substantially speed up Python. While the Ruby Camp has always been about if you want more speed, do it in C. Not sure I agree with that - a big part of the
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by Freaky 13y ago
They reduced Google Drive pricing about a fortnight ago - 100GB for $1.99/month, 1TB for $9.99/month.
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by Freaky 13y ago
> Amazon executes streaming content as well as anyone else Here on Windows 8, their Silverlight player doesn't even start properly - it plays the first second or so, freezes, then jumps back to the first second again, repeatedly. T
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by Freaky 13y ago
Thanks - that's actually the post I was thinking of. Considering on most modern machines scrypt will likely tune itself to use 512MB, a 1MB buffer's pretty small, but it would be interesting to know where the cutoff for significa
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by Freaky 13y ago
Ruby, you mean - it's part of the standard library.
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by Freaky 13y ago
Link for that? All I find is mentions of its weakness when used with very small amounts of memory (like Litecoin's silly decision to go with 128KB).
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by Freaky 13y ago
My only complaint with mosh is how slow it is - my top-level 266x188 tmux session absolutely crawls on it, and it's quite common to see it using more CPU than whatever heavy task is spewing out lots of tty output. Wonderful for the
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by Freaky 13y ago
Don't forget mosh exists if you're commonly in situations where a normal ssh session is unreliable: http://mosh.mit.edu
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by Freaky 13y ago
> it reminds me of other languages where it's global (JavaScript) Ew, I didn't realise JS had them and implemented them like that. It's supposed to remind you of Perl, which probably made more sense 20 years ago. > I
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by Freaky 13y ago
> Oh my god, it assigns a global(?)/magic variable as a side effect. Magic locals. You weren't actually unsure if they were global, right?
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by Freaky 13y ago
I much prefer it for the simpler cases over "if !x" and "if not x". Would be nice if people used it more responsibly, but I can say that about a lot of things.
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by Freaky 13y ago
> Ruby: a && b # `and` is available but is generally not recommended due to operator precedence They're low priority in both languages. I use and see others using `and` and `or` all the time. In 15 years I can't say I&
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by Freaky 13y ago
It's SIGINFO on the BSD's, and works with just about any process (though obviously not everything has a customized handler). Also handily mapped to Ctrl-T.
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Dispelling Backblaze's HDD Reliability Myth(tweaktown.com)
20 points by Freaky 13y ago|25 comments
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by Freaky 13y ago
No, Microsoft make their own compilers.
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by Freaky 13y ago
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/current-stable.html > FreeBSD-STABLE is the development branch from which major releases are made. Changes go into this branch at a different pace, and with the general assum
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by Freaky 13y ago
On LGA1150 you need a C22x chipset for ECC support: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/server-chips... Prices for these start about 3x higher than other boards, their choice is extremel
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by Freaky 13y ago
Integrity streams are enabled by default on mirrored pools, as per your first link: > By default, when the /i switch is not specified, the behavior that the system chooses depends on whether the volume resides on a mirrored space. O
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by Freaky 13y ago
OS X has a native port - http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Distributions#ZFS-OSX Windows has ReFS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS
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by Freaky 13y ago
Bit worrying not to see a single mention of ECC memory when discussing protection from bitrot, especially with filesystems which depend on correctly functioning memory to provide the protections people expect from them. People sneer at me f
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by Freaky 13y ago
> As far as I know, the hard drive won't auto-scan blocks that have been sitting still Seagates at least report their error correction rates via SMART, and make very obvious curves that show them scanning the heads across the disk s
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by Freaky 13y ago
> The digital watch has too much precision and requires too much parsing Funny, my stance on analogue clocks is they have too little precision and require too much parsing. If I'm tired or stressed it can take me seconds to read on
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by Freaky 13y ago
All I want is a digital watch that doesn't look like ass and isn't the size of a small car :/ I've literally flicked through thousands of them and found maybe 2 or 3 that didn't look completely awful. Do people ser

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