daneel_w

59 ms·

901.
by daneel_w 4y ago
That's good info and news to me. "relatime" is unfortunately a silent killer as well, albeit nowhere near as intense as "strictatime".
902.
by daneel_w 4y ago
Also: a lot of OS distributions aimed at SBCs with microSD storage forgetting to set noatime/relatime on their file systems, to avoid thousands upon thousands of writes for access time updates whenever files are read . It's onl
903.
by daneel_w 4y ago
I have, on numerous occasions. It's one of the reasons why general desktop use on them can be so infuriating.
904.
by daneel_w 4y ago
The ones I have all "come online" faster than a mechanical HDD spins up and incur no slowdown. Things run at full Ultra ATA speeds. You may have run into one with quirky firmware or so - there are quite a few different chipsets.
905.
by daneel_w 4y ago
I don't buy it, because it contradicts the very nature of flash storage. Unless you used your IDE HDDs as piñatas, that is. But the problems specific to SD/microSD and USB flash drives are more than limited longevity. The underlyi
906.
by daneel_w 4y ago
Don't use SD/microSD storage for these things. It's terrible for a number of reasons. Get yourself a cheap IDE-SATA adapter instead and plug an old used 2.5" SATA SSD in there.
907.
by daneel_w 4y ago
Nice work, especially reverse-engineering the controller. I use a $5 bidirectional IDE<->SATA adapter.
908.
by daneel_w 4y ago
I remember seeing the precursor to this some 10-12 years ago. Can't recall if it was the same company or not. The prototype looked like a block of very densely packed sheets of carbon fiber - imagine a typical car radiator but with fin
909.
by daneel_w 4y ago
Does the scanning software in the update have any opinions about installations of LibreOffice? Asking because Microsoft really has a strong opinion about not using Microsoft Edge, whose shortcut icon they keep resurrecting from the dead to
910.
by daneel_w 4y ago
Does the scanning software in the update have any opinions about installations of LibreOffice? Asking because Microsoft really has a strong opinion about not using Microsoft Edge, whose shortcut icon they keep resurrecting from the dead t
911.
by daneel_w 4y ago
Prosody (server) and Monal (iOS client) make a great combination. I'm not aware of anything for Android that's as elegant as Monal but I'd be happy to hear people's suggestions.
912.
by daneel_w 4y ago
To me there's a sense of pioneering in the pictures.
913.
by daneel_w 4y ago
Computer magazine/book art from the 70s and 80s is almost an artistic style of its own. I love browsing old issues of Byte, COMPUTE!'s Gazette etc. just to see the imaginative graphical work.
914.
by daneel_w 4y ago
My source is my experience from having worked with MariaDB and MySQL for about 15 years now. The two articles you cited are 10 and 13 years old, so let's run a fresh test with two identical test tables that have their columns indexed i
915.
by daneel_w 4y ago
FFS/FFS2 on OpenBSD is definitely one of the system's weaknesses. In addition to being kinda slow it's also a bit unnerving that the file system invalidates relatively easily. While it doesn't happen regularly for me, an
916.
by daneel_w 4y ago
cc -o exifstrip main.c # this is hacker news, after all
917.
by daneel_w 4y ago
Yes, I'm saying the opposite. You want to be done scanning (discarding) each large branch (column) as soon as possible before you move on to the many twigs. Additionally, if you start at the branchiest end you cannot know what path lea
918.
by daneel_w 4y ago
That application icon logo... "JUST DRAW ANYTHING, DUDE, THE MASTER DISK IS OFF TO THE DUPLICATOR IN 4 MINUTES!!!"
919.
by daneel_w 4y ago
Tiny alternative for just scrubbing EXIF from JPEGs: https://github.com/stolendata/exifstrip
920.
by daneel_w 4y ago
Something the author(s) don't seem to fully consider when creating composite indices is how B-trees work. The leanest and almost always fastest composite index for MariaDB/MySQL is one where the columns are ordered first to last r
921.
by daneel_w 4y ago
I've been waiting for Briar to show up for iOS ever since I came across it many years ago.
922.
by daneel_w 4y ago
I know there's a "clique" criticizing this. That's not my point, but thanks for trying to balance the needle on its tip. Ask common people and the media about gold, silver and platinum mining, and you'll get a carel
923.
by daneel_w 4y ago
"Not really sure what you are trying to say here." That there's an ongoing movement with common people and the media, almost a fashion, of yapping about the perils of lithium extraction from ore, despite most of it coming f
924.
by daneel_w 4y ago
It certainly depends on the industrial process as a whole. But it's worth pointing out that nobody ever had a complaint about gold, silver, platinum or diamond mining, nor about the unimaginable volumes of ore processed to acquire iron
925.
by daneel_w 4y ago
It's a programmable synthesizer. You can of course implement the MT-32 instrument line-up with it.
926.
by daneel_w 4y ago
While barely known in Europe or the Americas, these were incredibly popular home computers in Japan. There's an endless amount of unique, interesting and curious games for them.
927.
by daneel_w 4y ago
Cheap and sustainable in your lab, neither once it hits the market.
928.
by daneel_w 4y ago
I think the issue is that they might just yank access without a word and on absurd premises, and following that the near impossible task of 1) getting in touch with a human, and 2) a human who's also willing to help instead of just def
929.
by daneel_w 4y ago
Another day, another NoDaddy mishap. Best of luck getting it solved. If the recommendation is of any value, I've used joker.com (registrar providing free DNS services) for something like 20 years now. Not a single tech hiccup thus far.
930.
by daneel_w 4y ago
I can safely say that it's not really an immediately impeding problem with 1 GB of RAM either. I have a bit of experience in the context as I develop and manage a very large Perl software stack that runs on a fleet of servers ranging

More ›