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by bonzini 4mo ago
Considering Mississippi has 7-8 years less of life expectancy than the UK, the onus of proving who has better healthcare is probably not on the Brits.
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by bonzini 4mo ago
Speaking of incompetent politicians, let me remind you of the Liz Truss lettuce...
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by bonzini 4mo ago
> However, net-net, I'd rather have one shite layer of government, rather than two. To make a parallel that might work for California or NY. In Europe however there is no single country that is so much better than the others at mak
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by bonzini 4mo ago
What Tridge says is that the "more code" is more fixes and more thorough test suites, not random changes made by LLMs.
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by bonzini 5mo ago
I'm bad at sarcasm apparently.
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by bonzini 5mo ago
More like for all that sweet sweet cooling capacity. EDIT: guys, it's sarcastic... since the parent was talking about latency, cooling is something that is even worse in space than latency
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by bonzini 5mo ago
One correction: the point of copyleft was to explot the restrictions in order to ensure that it would be possible for everyone to copy the software.
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by bonzini 5mo ago
More precisely one in the range (a,2^32) and two in the range (2^32/a, 2^32). But if the latter have many duplicate prime factors it's worse.
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by bonzini 5mo ago
Even if you have 32-bit factors the number may not be the product of two 32-bit numbers. For example 2^62*3 cannot be split as either (2^32, 2^30*3) or (2^31, 2^31*3). In both cases one factor does not fit in 32 bits.
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by bonzini 5mo ago
The low level interface is documented at https://github.com/compudj/librseq/blob/master/include/rseq/... , the list is just an internal implementation detail. The syscall these days is invoked b
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by bonzini 5mo ago
People for a long time didn't know what the reproductive cycle of eels is like, because they travel all the way from the Atlantic ocean and back while maturing, so nobody had ever seen a juvenile. Too bad they're critically endang
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by bonzini 5mo ago
Demographic decay was already going on in the 90s in some countries (Italy, South Korea, Japan), and the obesity crisis in the US too. For Brexit & Trump it could have been a contributing factor, but Italy had Berlusconi in the 90s just
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by bonzini 5mo ago
"Doing things X times faster" at some point hits Amdahl law. If just context switching takes 5 minutes, speeding up a 1 hour task by 10x provides 5x improvement. Furthermore, if looking at the results takes 10 minutes, that same 1
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by bonzini 5mo ago
I'd still say Temu and Wish are in a whole other league compared to other predecessors (AliExpress, Banggood, miniinthebox, etc.).
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by bonzini 5mo ago
The money has to move from the EU to Temu/Pinduoduo coffers at some point.
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by bonzini 5mo ago
"compared to Temu that does not give a damn by design" would be more accurate.
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by bonzini 5mo ago
There's a lot that can be improved in the code, such as just using FOR...TO...STEP would be much faster. In general, this is a routine that is super easy to write in 6502 assembly. Most magazine BASIC games had something like that, wit
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by bonzini 5mo ago
Silver claimed that his model was better because it predicted a high correlation between PA/MI/WI. A model that predicts a 30% chance of winning the election will be wrong 1 out of 3 times, which is not quite a coin flip but close
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by bonzini 5mo ago
That's a deep thought worth of x.com.
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by bonzini 5mo ago
For better or worse, the Catholic church has shaped most of western philosophy for at least 1500 years, including topics not necessarily related to existence of a deity or belief in that existence. It's not surprising that some of thei
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by bonzini 5mo ago
Windows 95 used a related hack. Whenever a v8086 program asked to create a call to protected mode code ("please give me a real mode address to call to, in order to start executing the protected mode routine at address 0x123456"),
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by bonzini 5mo ago
At the time of DOS, x86 didn't have multiple privileges. The system call instruction was typically INT, the software interrupt instruction. Later on the 386 Intel added virtual 8086 mode which trapped to the kernel privileged instructi
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by bonzini 5mo ago
Yeah, you aren't selling anything. "Reno has a 100% pass rate for recovering cleanly after the loss phase, so the bug is almost certainly related to CUBIC" is a perfectly fine technical text.
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by bonzini 5mo ago
Yes, and it becomes unbearable after a while.
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by bonzini 5mo ago
_start takes care of calling the global initializers and register the atexit callback for the finalizers. (In practice _start calls __libc_start_main, a libc function that handles all of that).
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by bonzini 5mo ago
It does not, it's actually arbitrary code running during the dynamic loading process, i.e. before _start.
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by bonzini 6mo ago
That, or in general for system calls. In particular EX AF,AF' + EXX allowed you to exchange all registers other than AF, to be able to return an error code or status.
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by bonzini 6mo ago
I know it's not, but I don't understand why it has to exist.
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by bonzini 6mo ago
Elbereth always seemed like a cheat... Never understood the point of it. I got to the quest without it, but not deeper.
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by bonzini 6mo ago
If it's 2% now after 2000-3000 generations, it must have stabilized because any number <.995 is basically zero when raised to the 2000th power. The neanderthal genes would have to be 1-10^-5 as fit as a the sapiens genes, which is b

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