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by chao- 4mo ago
Yes, that would work the same way! However, I was on an HEDT system, with no iGPU and many PCIe lanes to spare.
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by chao- 4mo ago
Having gone this route in the past*, once I accepted that I needed a second GPU dedicated as owned by the VM, most issues went away. No SR-IOV battles, just the simplicity of "Linux owns GPU A, Windows VM owns GPU B". If I am reme
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Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration(notepad-plus-plus.org)
65 points by chao- 4mo ago|22 comments
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by chao- 4mo ago
Context: Notepad++ was compromised last year by a PRC state-sponsored group: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-up... This is not purely a cosmetic release, as it does contain a few fixes.
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by chao- 4mo ago
There's also much more to Shopify than just Ruby feature work. I've heard tales of their infrastructure and it seems like it would be very exciting for the right kind of person. Never worked there, probably never will, but they ha
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by chao- 4mo ago
I know it as "when the Elves leave Middle Earth" from an essay of the same name: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
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by chao- 5mo ago
`method(:name).source_location`, but yes. Ruby is very introspect-able and it is fantastic.
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by chao- 5mo ago
Ah yes! I remember Merb now that you say it :) I have my criticisms of Rails, but that definitely set it on a better path.
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by chao- 5mo ago
This has not been my experience. I have taken applications from 2-to-3, 3-to-4, and so on, through 8.X. If anything it has gotten better/easier over time. The most challenging upgrades were 2.X to 3.X (for reasons I can't recall),
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by chao- 5mo ago
>one could also expect a functioning city to not have flooded streets In some cities, certain streets are designed to flood during heavy rain, and are an integral part of routing the water away from neighborhoods and businesses, and in
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by chao- 5mo ago
>The Times was also in the midst of a leadership transition, and new management tends to want to move on from the old regime’s pet projects, even if they were successful. Learning about B2B sales over the years, the size of this leader
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by chao- 5mo ago
Refinancing a loan I passed on the lowest possible rate I could get, for a slightly higher one, specifically because they used Plaid. I'm not the most privacy-focused individual, not nearly as paranoid as I could be, but Plaid's m
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by chao- 5mo ago
>sometimes you find someone akin to a hammer looking for nails, starts to label anyone a missing stair over the slightest incompatibility. I 100% agree. This is why it is important for leaders not to rely on the judgement of a single p
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by chao- 5mo ago
Depends a lot on the community's topic, purpose, and size. However, a sign that someone needs to be removed is if you find that the community writ-large treats them as a Missing Stair [0]. If they have refused direct requests from comm
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by chao- 5mo ago
Hmm... when I really care about the quality of something, I basically write what I think/speak, then try to edit it down by half. I don't find it unsalvageable, but the editing does require an order of magnitude more time than the
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by chao- 5mo ago
When writing on paper, either I will pause thinking enough, or will sometimes lose where a thought was going. I am much faster at typing than writing, so I end up with more, then edit/delete afterwards (if I feel like writing well). I
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by chao- 5mo ago
I write the words that I hear in my head, as though I am speaking. With the exception of timed, in-class essays, I always turned in papers far in excess of any minimum during high school. In college, I took a constructive writing course bec
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by chao- 5mo ago
There already are SXM5-to-PCIe adapter cards, but from what little I've seen, they are all a bit dodgy. If (if!) there really is some flood of used/decommissioned H100s/H200s into the market, perhaps that will motivate iterat
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by chao- 5mo ago
Maybe not insurmountable in the "laws of physics" sense? However, it may be so costly in cobbled-together parts, and in time to deal with unsupported drivers and/or VBIOS, that it is not worth it compared to using a proper se
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by chao- 5mo ago
Yes, but also no? For standard desktop CPUs, the memory controller doesn't support the signaling required to communicate with an RDIMM. There's no clever AliExpress adapter that will magically give a component within your CPU capa
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by chao- 5mo ago
Unless you meant buying an entire server (instead of laptop/desktop components), it won't work out the way you are describing. Prices may come down, but the components for the datacenters market aren't fungible with the compo
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by chao- 5mo ago
There ought to be decent number of people within Microsoft who have "Copilot usage" as a KPI. I don't think this was gamesmanship on their part (no sarcasm, I truly do not suspect malice), but I'm sure if it could have s
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by chao- 5mo ago
It feels weird (sad?) that I'm starting to get a sixth sense for when Github is going to a service disruption. About an hour ago, clicking "Resolve Conversation" in a Pull Request failed a few times with an error message that
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by chao- 5mo ago
I'm sorry to hear about your friend, and hope they recover well. Something I think a lot about when it comes to e-bikes, is the level of protective gear people feel they ought to wear on "a bike". Not all cyclists even wear h
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by chao- 5mo ago
Your caveat makes sense, and I agree those are a serious issue. However, the article doesn't say "illegal e-bikes", "e-motos", "suped-up e-bikes", "dirt bikes", or anything like that. It only say
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by chao- 5mo ago
My ideal would be a non-proprietary, smaller native Ethernet connection capable of 10GbE. The adapter still has to adapt. That requires power, adds cost, and adds negligible-but-non-zero latency. I don't love the proprietary port being
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by chao- 5mo ago
I won't oversell myself. I am now in management, and have many close friends who are better programmers than I am, both generalist and specialized! Because of the era, I was able to be the lead engineer (as a freelance consultant) at a
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by chao- 5mo ago
In the early 2000's, I entered a university at the EXACT trough between the Dotcom Crash and the Web 2.0 Moment. In fact, I transferred from a lower-tier uni to a top-tier CS uni. At the time, they had still retained their "weed o
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by chao- 5mo ago
Not only will they always have iGPUs, but also cannot give up on advancing their datacenter AI GPUs (the next being Jaguar Shores). They need both of those far more than consumer or prosumer dGPUs, but that means they are committed to Big G
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by chao- 6mo ago
Yes, and since Teal is Cyan with 50% Value, you will often also see people use Cyan to refer to the boundary color between Blue and Green.

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