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by IcePic 11mo ago
How can we make programs this slow in 2025 when people have ssd and nvme drives, people have 12-24-64 threads in the cpus, memory that is lightning fast and still we wait for crap to load? How is it that noone creates pushback on applicatio
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by IcePic 1y ago
And another example, AI upscaling the C64 version Dragons Lair will not turn it into the amiga version, or the laserdisc version. ;)
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by IcePic 1y ago
I think I would not. When you move from 160x200 with few colors to 4k with 16M colors it places new demands on the graphics which I don't think this solution would give you. It could, but would probably require tons of people to make i
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by IcePic 1y ago
> Currently with an SSD, when there’s a power cut, there’s about a 20% chance my router will require me to walk downstairs and plug in a keyboard, type “fsck” manually and press y at all the prompts. > I’d settle for a default “boot a
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by IcePic 1y ago
If you can get an Edgerouter Lite 3 it will run fine( ) on that, serial console, three gig ports, fanless and not-x86 and probably available for cheap if you look at used hw sites. ) as far as its hw goes, that is. Will not be competing in
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by IcePic 1y ago
Yes, at http://bluhm.genua.de/perform/results/perform.html (a bit down on the page) which was also mentioned during bluhm@s talk on EuroBSDCon 2025( ) recently. Then again, the sentence "tcp is outside of glo
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by IcePic 1y ago
You can see how well it compares to other compressors here, https://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
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by IcePic 1y ago
Shame they didn't test and publish results from commonly used large files, like enwik 8 and 9. https://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
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by IcePic 1y ago
Even AmigaBasic (by Microsoft) did this, so it also broke on 68020+.
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by IcePic 1y ago
I think it was far less special that advertized, so it was probably a stripped Solaris that ran a JRE hoping noone would notice. Dog slow they were at least so from my viewpoint, there was nothing magic about those boxes at all.
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by IcePic 1y ago
This even applies to remove-viewing software that wants to "follow" the resolution changes, flipping your remote window size around a lot. Super annoying.
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by IcePic 1y ago
All images failed. Not very good.
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by IcePic 1y ago
I think so, as in "make sure all other stuff has run before calling the NOP finished". Otherwise, it would just skip past it and it would have no effect if placed in a loop, so it would be eating memory for no use at all.
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by IcePic 1y ago
I think for certs, you are not better of paying $5 for the cert, than paying nothing to get an LE cert. It is already "subsidized" into cheapness, and the $5 company will bug you with ads for EV certs and whatnot in order to make
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by IcePic 1y ago
It's the power converters that break down from what I've heard, not the LED themselves. So light bulb companies can make the 230V -> 1.5V conversion brittle and have you rebuy lights over and over "as designed".
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by IcePic 1y ago
Yup, 6502/6510 available at https://codebase64.net/doku.php?id=base:16bit_xorshift_rando...
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by IcePic 1y ago
You could use bcachefs on the OSD drives, but you can also just point the WAL/DB of the OSD to a partition on the ssd and have the data on hdd. You don't have to tier pools to get help with small writes/metadata using ssds.
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by IcePic 1y ago
No, that is likely not true. There are platforms today for which C-based tmux runs but Rust never will. It's not that we are simply waiting for the backport of Rust to magically appear for them, it's quite a certainty that it will
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by IcePic 1y ago
No, the Bell curve explains that quite simply. "So the scientists compared the ratings of the top hundred male and top hundred female players from Germany. And they found that the men indeed outperformed the women. However that differe
50.
by IcePic 1y ago
..but you don't find it strange that merit somehow only ended up in one gender over the last several hundreds of years? Especially given that there seem to have existed competent women in this time, but for some reason men chose to ele
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by IcePic 1y ago
I seem to recall amiga midi getting a bit of critique (at least when used with Bars and Pipes) for adding latency when doing MIDI. For hobbyists, this probably wasn't a showstopper, but for serious use it would be lots more important.
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by IcePic 1y ago
This has probably been true for all unix fs's for a really long time. My take on it is that the amount of people that make better decisions than fsck are probably on a first name basis with eachother and I am certainly not one of those
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by IcePic 1y ago
And I was meaning to circle back again to the comparison of incidents and crashes with or without computer assistance but got derailed. =) If we then figure that we are in the situation where those who decide are balancing between X% fatali
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by IcePic 1y ago
> It's not acceptable to have FSD crashes same as it's not acceptable for people to crash. Not sure what you mean by that? We could prevent almost every death, for instance by limiting speeds to <10 for instance, that would
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by IcePic 1y ago
I think anyone that can avoid this 'MS tax' on computers should try it, just stating that last time it "worked" in 1999, it stopped working really really fast.
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by IcePic 1y ago
Wasn't it the radar/lidar what caused lots of crazy brakes when you ran towards a bridge or something else that reflected the signal as if there was a still standing vehicle or so?
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by IcePic 1y ago
When I had a robot vacuum cleaner it would sometimes leave a big ball of dust in the middle of a carpet or something. If I vacuum manually, I would have a harder time working under the sofas and tables, so one could argue that we both did 9
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by IcePic 1y ago
What I don't get is this part, "Story’s death — one of 40,901 US traffic fatalities that year — was the first known pedestrian fatality linked to Tesla’s driving system" Regardless of if its FSD or the autopilot system under
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by IcePic 1y ago
Probably going to end like it did in 1999, you have to return the whole kit, not just the part you didn't like to pay for.
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by IcePic 1y ago
From and older perspective, we used to find things like "having 378238 drivers for matrix and line printers noone uses", so while they may not eat cpu resources and possibly zero ram too, every user had to install them and only 0.

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