bestouff

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   by bestouff 5y ago

   I don't like Apple, but I don't find these disappointing at all. For one, I'd love to replace my maxed-out Linux XPS 15 i9 with a maxed-out Linux MacBook Pro - if that worked well. The M1 Max really looks like an exciting p
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   by bestouff 5y ago

   This ! Support forums from all brands (big ones like Dell or Lenovo, but also niche brands like Framework) are plagued with requests from unhappy users with their laptop dying in their bag. All because of the Modern Suspend feature. Let&#x2
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   by bestouff 5y ago

   I'm coding since I'm a kid (around 5, and I'm now nearing 50), mainly C/C++ with the occasional whatever other language you encounter in a normal coder life. I had lost it a few years ago. Gdb fatigue, tried higher-level
4. 604.▲
   by bestouff 5y ago

   if you compare that with an inefficient electric heater. Otherwise, your gaming gear will consume way more electricity for the same heating power than, say, a heat pump.
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   by bestouff 5y ago

   RPiPlay is itself composed of many great OSS projects (e.g. GStreamer). Maybe we should somehow be able to publish the shole "tree" of contributions to a particular project (including build-time tools) ?
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   by bestouff 5y ago

   Rust also trivially allows to keep overflow checks in release builds.
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   by bestouff 5y ago

   I have an XPS 9500 under Linux (this is a >$4000 machine), no amount of fiddling with BIOS settings (which are few) or systemd/GNOME settings will make it work reliably: - short suspend time (it can't really stay overnight when
8. 608.▲
   by bestouff 5y ago

   I think I tried everything, from buttons to lid to magic network packets. Once in S3 it's dead Jim, and there's nothing in the BIOS to change that behavior. The irony is that I have a 4 years old XPS 13 where everything works lik
9. 609.▲
   by bestouff 5y ago

   My 9500 is more like $4000. And it can't sleep properly.
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    Spoiler: I have an XPS 9500 under Linux, which sleeps fine under S3 but then it never wakes up. So the problem isn't with Windows.
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    Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag(dell.com)

    1080 points by bestouff 5y ago|878 comments
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    I have a TS3+ with an XPS 15 9500, it's a nightmare. With only 2 monitors plugged it works well, but when you plug keyboard mouse and webcam it starts randomly dropping the whole usb stack. I guess that thing works only on macs (for o
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    PTP and NTP don't have the same use: - PTP is for sub-nanosecond local networks, with possibly hundreds of packets per second, local (in network card) clocks, hardware timestamping everywhere - NTP if for long distance sync, with sophi
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    For now the only production-ready backend is the historical LLVM backends.
15. 615.▲
    by bestouff 5y ago

    The only missing part for me is thunderbolt. I'm so used to it in laptops I would have a hard time without it.
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    Rustc is based on LLVM. A GCC backend would target more architectures and be somewhat more optimized. Plus, a different implementation of a compiler frontend is, for some, a good thing to have for a language.
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    So far I've always used Evolution and I like it pretty much. It even connects to my team's O365 stuff.
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    I would appreciate if the title said it's for js (and not rust)
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    +1 for Meinberg. I have worked for the competition (Gorgy Timing) for a few years and boy were we far behind in terms of hardware as well as software. They had a full ntpv3 while we marketed sntp as ntp (i.e. we missed a good part of the st
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    I was 14, in France, and as others said it was a hit like many others, even if a catchy one. I also don't know why Rickrolling took off but I distinctly remember the feeling of surprise, then joy the first times it happened to me. Bein
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/927/
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    I guess any driving instructor worth its salt would have the required skills to correct the vehicle if it attempts to do something weird. After all FSD is a still-in-training (maybe for an unusual long time) driver.
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    On Linux machines malloc()'s returning NULL doesn't mean you're out of memory, it means you're out of address space which is very different.
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    "Unspecified behavior" means something correct will happen, but you don't know what (in that case you can't rely on the execution order). "Undefined behavior" means something entirely incorrect may happen (cras
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    ... And yet I've worked with them a few years ago, and they were fragile little beasts which easily broke and stated drifting without warning.
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    "By definition" if you believe in the Free Market religion. There ain't no such thing in the real world.
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    A tool to generate ext2/ext3 filesystems from various sources (device tables, directories, tar archives, etc.) used mainly for generating embedded systems images or android ROMs. https://github.com/bestouff/genext2
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    Not with the same performance and memory safety guarantees.
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    by bestouff 5y ago

    After too many years doing C/C++, I became allergic to off-by-ones, use-after-free, etc. Oh, I still enjoy an occasional carefully crafted unsafe piece of code, but it really must pay back. Otherwise I'm just lazy and prefer to b
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    by bestouff 6y ago

    I thought I was getting too old to still be interested in computers and then I discovered the Rust language, loved it, managed to shoehorn it into a project at work, and became a happy coder again. I still have the passion for code I though