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by Sweepi 4mo ago
Good to see an "organic" J-Link + RISC-V use case :)
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by Sweepi 4mo ago
"-t 8 matches physical cores. The machine has 16 SMT threads but only 8 cores. On a memory-bound workload, oversubscribing threads adds scheduling cost without adding throughput: the cores are waiting on DDR3, not on each other."
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by Sweepi 4mo ago
Doc link: https://jqwik.net/docs/current/user-guide.html#anti-ai-usage...
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by Sweepi 4mo ago
Regarding "The exterior looks like an iPad since Jony Ive designed it": Marc Newson is also on the team, and there striking similarities to (t)his 27 year old concept car[1]: https://marc-newson.com/ford-021c-conce
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by Sweepi 4mo ago
Title should be "Flatpack 2.0 considered to be depended on Systemd"
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by Sweepi 4mo ago
The market needs competition. Apple has this reasonable offer: - Buy an Homepod/Apple TB as a home station - Everything works locally, even the internet is down. - no Accounts. - only one privacy policy: Apple's - but
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by Sweepi 5mo ago
Answer: Because the "random stuff" (plugins for VS Code and other IDEs) solves real problems and nothing bad happens most of the time. Almost no manager will sign-off spending time on building stuff in-house if its available &quot
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by Sweepi 5mo ago
Not reading that AI slop, if you need to flash the VBIOS of 3080 (or any GPU), do the following: 1. Get a new VBIOS from a trusted source. I recommend TPU[1], they have a HUGE collection. 2. Backup the current VBIOS (e.g. GPU-Z has a
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by Sweepi 5mo ago
so this tool: - Strips away comments, metadata and directories(!!) - re-compresses the data with deflate (on presumably higher setting) makes me feel uneasy that sth. which does lossy compression(metadata is lost) is called "ZIP Shrink
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by Sweepi 5mo ago
dont you worry, as a sighted person I am also infuriated by apples slooow reading speed, e.g. for "Announce Notifications".
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by Sweepi 5mo ago
"Obviously EVs currently account for a small fraction of road use right now, but they mostly drive on dense, urban infrastructure - the most expensive to build and maintain." Is it the most expensive by $/length of road, or b
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by Sweepi 5mo ago
"Torvalds' remarks contrast with recent comments from fellow kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, who recently told The Register that AI has become an increasingly useful tool for the FOSS community." Does it? Both points ca
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by Sweepi 5mo ago
looking forward to SPEC2026 vs SPEC2017
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by Sweepi 5mo ago
| It’s evident the average commenter on this subject hasn’t run the numbers on a full cost benefit of the various options. Strong words. | heat pumps sometimes fail in ways that the ozone depleting refrigerant to escape. R-290(propane) and
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by Sweepi 5mo ago
please add [2024] any current articles on that topic?
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by Sweepi 5mo ago
TIL: I mixed up the meaning of turquoise and teal.
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by Sweepi 5mo ago
And people say "never read the comments": CL says: April 20, 2026 at 9:18 pm I updated sandpile.org to reflect that Bit 19 = MP-capable Bit 18 = ECC-capable Those were two distinct capabilities. [sources: K7 µcode + K8 XO
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by Sweepi 6mo ago
> Conclusion "The Firefox 150 data suggests a tool that is genuinely useful for defensive security work, especially at scale, but the public record does not justify the strongest claims people want to make from it. The headline numb
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by Sweepi 6mo ago
If anything brakes on the Framework, you get all the docs you need to attempt a repair yourself, also spare parts are available, also, you can upgrade SSD/RAM/Mainboard and ports. Apple: Every repair is Mainboard replacement and c
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by Sweepi 6mo ago
"Bonus bonus chatter: The xor trick doesn’t work for Itanium because mathematical operations don’t reset the NaT bit. Fortunately, Itanium also has a dedicated zero register, so you don’t need this trick. You can just move zero into yo
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by Sweepi 6mo ago
EU-wide tariffs: 10% on any imported car and an additional.. BYD: 17% Geely Group: 19% SAIC Group: 35% Tesla (Shanghai): 8% XPeng, Nio, ...: 21% Others: 35% [1] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/
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by Sweepi 6mo ago
Sounds a like next century problem to me.
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by Sweepi 6mo ago
"they're banning nicotine products" If I am not mistaken, they are banning to sale of tobacco, not nicotine: "[..]provision prohibiting the sale of tobacco to people born on or after 1 January 2009[..]" "I also
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by Sweepi 6mo ago
>This is a clear restriction on liberty. So is banning the sale of leaded gasoline.
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by Sweepi 6mo ago
iirc alcohol is the drug with the highest amount of 3rd party harm due to the high number of people beating their spouse, children and sometimes random strangers under the influence. (+ 3rd party property, car crashes, ...) Keep in mind thi
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by Sweepi 6mo ago
Newsflash: Its possible to consume "marijuana" w/o smoking it (just like nicotine!).
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by Sweepi 6mo ago
That's one of the reasons they are banned from selling new ones starting in 2035.
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by Sweepi 6mo ago
They ban buying cigarettes, not nicotine in general, correct? In that case, I would compare it to making catalytic converters mandatory in new cars in the 1970s. You still can pickup nicotine consumption, but with xx % less carcinogens :)
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by Sweepi 6mo ago
| 'I don't like the idea of a central authority determining what "my child should be kept away from" and then implementing Orwellian surveillance laws to enforce it.' Well thank God this about a double-blind way to
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by Sweepi 6mo ago
Whats the diff between today giving you phone to your 8-year and making sure /having trust that they do not use it to e.g. order a new toy from Amazon and tomorrow that he is not using to verify they are an adult? I mean, most things t

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