_fjb4

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by _fjb4 4y ago
Hmm maybe it's a Mac thing then, as Discord works fine on my (newer) 4G Linux machines. Though I'll definitely agree that the site is very bloated.
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by _fjb4 4y ago
How much memory does your MBP have? I imagine it's a 2GB machine and therefore is swapping like crazy. I have the same issue when trying to load modern web apps on my 2GB netbook. Setting up zswap improved performance a bit but then CP
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by _fjb4 4y ago
> But the real kicker is this: with Linux, I have the power to fix things. This is one of the major reasons why I have switched to Linux and never looked back. Obviously this mindset is not for everyone, but for a technical user willing
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by _fjb4 4y ago
Historically Intel has the best Linux open-source drivers, with OpenCL and OpenGL support (unlike AMD ROCM which requires a custom kernel and closed-source components, and the fully closed Nvidia stack). Unfortunately for ARC they pretty mu
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by _fjb4 4y ago
As stated by another user it's not true open source, the source is solely available for personal use and for the submission of patches back to the author. Such a model can backfire though as it would appear to be legal for a third-part
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by _fjb4 4y ago
I had a friend tell me recently that he had to teach a (high school) intern how to navigate the Windows taskbar and use the Control-C and Control-V shortcuts on the keyboard. I thought he was joking until he mentioned that the student mostl
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by _fjb4 4y ago
I've seen a lot of people complaining that their 100M+ connections are "slow" for that reason, and they upgrade to 1G and they complain again. It's not like they're doing much on that 1G line either, just say a Stea
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by _fjb4 4y ago
There's something the "old hackers" know that many CS students don't learn from the start (in the introductory classes), and that is actually how a computer operates. Don't spend a lot of time on this unless he&#x27
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by _fjb4 5y ago
The course had a machine solely for benchmarking. It would only compile and benchmark one program at a time and the students had to queue up. It worked well for the course and the results were very consistent between runs, but that kind of
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by _fjb4 5y ago
As an aside, it would be fun to see a programming challenge website focused on performance and optimizations, rather than code golf (shortest program) or edge case correctness (interview type sites). I took a course like this in uni where w