adrian_b

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by adrian_b 1y ago
While Lunar Lake has excellent energy efficiency and AMD does not really have any CPU designed for low power levels, Lunar Lake had also a very ugly hardware bug (sporadic failure of MWAIT to detect the waking event). This bug has disqualif
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by adrian_b 1y ago
After the big surprise of seeing at work a list with all my personal purchases included in a big set of documents to which I, together with a great number of other colleagues, had access, I went immediately to the bank and I reported the fa
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by adrian_b 1y ago
Such articles are very interesting for many people, because nowadays all CPU vendors are under-documenting their products. Most people do not have enough time or knowledge (or money to buy CPU samples that may prove to be not useful) to run
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by adrian_b 1y ago
She was fired because she leaked information and this fact had become public. When they can cover such facts, the banks are much less prone to use appropriate punishments. Many years ago, some employee of a bank has confused my personal ban
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by adrian_b 1y ago
I do not see the connection between shrinking and migrations. In migrations you normally copy the file system elsewhere, to the cloud or to different computers, you do not shrink it in place, which is what XFS cannot do. Unlike with Windows
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by adrian_b 1y ago
Many years ago, XFS did not support snapshots. However, there is also a long time since XFS supports snapshots. See for example: https://thelinuxcode.com/xfs-snapshot/ I am not sure what you mean by "whole-volume&
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by adrian_b 1y ago
While brain size is not a certain sign of intelligence, it is correlated with intelligence, especially when the comparison is done between more closely related animals, which have similar brain structures. The largest brains belong to eleph
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by adrian_b 1y ago
There is a strong correlation between the behavior an animal will exhibit against a human and the behavior it will exhibit against other animals of its own species. The animals which do not tolerate other animals of their own species and wh
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by adrian_b 1y ago
Fortunately, most orca families appear to have very specialized tastes in food, different from family to family, and quite complex strategies for acquiring the exact kind of food that they prefer. As long as they can still obtain their chos
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by adrian_b 1y ago
There is the alternative to call them orcas, which I prefer and which is also a much older name for them, being already used by Pliny the Elder, two millennia ago. It would have been simpler if the word "whale" would have been app
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by adrian_b 1y ago
The Coriolis effects can be made to be mostly negligible, with a big enough wheel. A big wheel may be too costly, but it can be replaced by either 2 identical bodies with a long link between them, or with a single body linked to a counterwe
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by adrian_b 1y ago
Heat pipes only reduce the thermal resistance between 2 points. They cannot cool something below ambient temperature. Thermoelectric coolers do not compete with heat pipes. They are useful only when you want to obtain a temperature lower th
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by adrian_b 1y ago
Also in the article, it is implied that there is no chance to replace mechanical compressors for great thermal powers, but for small thermal powers, from a few watt to a few hundred watt, thermoelectric devices may become preferable, due to
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by adrian_b 1y ago
"Semitic" is a word that includes both hebrews and arabs, because both are classified as descendants of Shem in the Bible. Despite that, most people who use the word "antisemitic" apply it only to something that is done
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by adrian_b 1y ago
With most available software packages floating point arithmetic remains much faster than integer arithmetic, but because those software packages do not use the more recent CPU features, since thanks to Intel's stupidity there still are
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by adrian_b 1y ago
In very old CPUs and in many microcontrollers, floating-point operations are slower than integer operations. However, in many old but not very old CPUs, e.g. in many from the last decade of the 20th century and from the first decade of this
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by adrian_b 1y ago
It looks like by "colorful signals" they mean colorful surfaces of animals and plants, in the case when those colors are not colors necessary for the function of some vital organ, e.g. the pigments that capture light in plants or
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by adrian_b 1y ago
None of those looks effective by itself for not leaving greasy the hands and the rest of the skin. For thorough washing of clothes and other objects they were using lye, but lye would be too harsh for skin. Perhaps they were first using ear
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by adrian_b 1y ago
It has a lower symmetry than cylindrical, but it still has axes of symmetry and planes of symmetry and a center of symmetry. The equilibrium condition only forces the symmetry condition that the points of intersection between any straight l
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by adrian_b 1y ago
"Higher temperatures" must be qualified in any statement like this. There is absolutely no doubt that with increasing temperature the rate of failures for any semiconductor device increases very quickly. This is routinely tested b
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by adrian_b 1y ago
There must have been computers with 6502 and DRAM. For higher memory capacities, e.g. 32 kB, 48 kB or 64 kB, static RAM would have been too expensive and too big, even if 6502 did not have an integrated DRAM controller, like Zilog Z80. Usin
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by adrian_b 1y ago
According to TFA, the main culprit for disrupting "the human oxidation field" from the skin care products are the alcohols contained therein. The massage oils and the perfumes used by the ancients were not alcohol-based, but they
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by adrian_b 1y ago
Massage with vegetable oil, usually mixed with some fragrances, had been a widespread practice for many millennia, not only in Ancient Greece, but in most lands around the Mediterranean, which was about as frequent as it would be today to t
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by adrian_b 1y ago
Armv8.6-A is almost the same as Armv9.1-A, except that a few features are not mandatory. There have been no consumer chips with Armv9.1-A, but only with Armv9.0-A and with Armv9.2-A. The only CPU with Armv8.6-A that has ever been announced
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by adrian_b 1y ago
As another poster has said, due to it high content of saturated fat. Butter remains healthier than butter substitutes, e.g. margarine. Small amounts of butter should not be a cause of concern, but only when butter or other dairy products ar
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by adrian_b 1y ago
By "cereal" I have meant cereal plants, i.e. wheat, rye, barley, oats, rice, maize, millet, sorghum and so on, in their raw ingredient forms, i.e. as grains, meal or flour form. Cereals have been the main sources of energy in huma
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by adrian_b 1y ago
White bread has a bad carbohydrates per protein ratio, but nonetheless it has a much higher protein content than almost any other cereal (i.e. except oats) and a much higher protein content than anything else with a comparable price. So say
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by adrian_b 1y ago
Half a century ago, neither Pentium 4 nor Athlon would go in flames without a cooler, but because they included thermal protection circuits that stop the clock above a certain temperature threshold, which cannot be modified by users. The ha
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by adrian_b 1y ago
While Amdahl’s Law is very important, its practical effects are very frequently overestimated, at least as frequently as Knuth is misquoted. Simple problems, e.g. solving a system of equations, will usually include some non-negligible seque
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by adrian_b 1y ago
What I have said is that for this kind of home users external HDDs are obviously the right solution as long as the total amount of stored data is not much more than 100 TB. For some threshold in the hundreds of TB range, magnetic tapes beco

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