cwillu

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2731.
by cwillu 10y ago
fsync() is a very different thing from sync(), and it's the former that is relevant here. ext3 configured in a manner that used to be popular had a side effect of making fsync() require nearly as much io as sync, which is probably whe
2732.
by cwillu 10y ago
That has nothing to do with write endurance; it's a known bug in the firmware.
2733.
by cwillu 10y ago
_Safety critical_? I doubt that...
2734.
by cwillu 10y ago
My personal favourite is facebook chat. Mobile site? "You have to use the app!" Request desktop site? Well well well, it appear to work just fine. Supremely annoying the one time a month I need to reply to someone's mess
2735.
by cwillu 10y ago
Tangental, but interesting in a The-Dystopian-Future-Is-Now! sense: "The endorsement key initially placed in security fuses may be revoked by the TPM2_ChangeEPS command introduced in TPM 2.0. In this case, the TPM must generate a new
2736.
by cwillu 10y ago
ISBN 9781430265719: "To get the current date/time information, the EPID manager requests a real-time OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) response from a trusted OCSP server, which was endorsed by Intel. The response contain
2737.
by cwillu 10y ago
It was, it was just thought to be in a different part of the bay (if I understood things correctly), 96km north of where it actually was.
2738.
by cwillu 10y ago
Your reference confirms the parent's interpretation as well as yours: > During the braking phase, up to the time the landing radar locked onto the surface, the duty-cycle margin was over 15%. After the radar acquired, the extra comp
2739.
by cwillu 10y ago
Two things: if you weren't measuring the output voltage under load, then you weren't measuring anything terribly useful. Second: LED's are typically constant current devices. If they don't receive a _minimum_ voltage, t
2740.
by cwillu 10y ago
Most cars manufactured in the last hundred years has a tendency to, you know, _crash within seconds_ when the driver lets go of the steering wheel. In practice, this tends to train users to keep a hand on the wheel.
2741.
by cwillu 10y ago
Until such time as a College of Hortators gets invented and people start including standard provisions to defer some decisions to them. Yay, the courts have been reintroduced.
2742.
by cwillu 10y ago
What I don't get is why the _default_ isn't made the safe choice, with the more performant option being available for when it actually matters?
2743.
by cwillu 10y ago
Also, at low brightnesses, the PWM frequency of the LED backlights drops, and depending on how low it drops to that can cause a bunch of eyestrain as well.
2744.
by cwillu 10y ago
They make it really hard to purchase the displays for development or small volume of things _other_ than retail price signs though. Overpriced tiny development kits aren't enough to test lots of interesting applications, and they won&