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by db48x 1y ago
There is nothing even remotely similar about it.
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by db48x 1y ago
Most of the time they’re just there to make you _think_ that you shouldn’t be opening the box. In the US the Magnusen–Moss Warranty Act of 1977 explicitly prohibits companies from voiding any warranty merely because the owner opened up the
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by db48x 1y ago
Crime had already been falling consistently for several hundred years throughout Europe when the first gun-licensing and gun-control laws were being passed in the Wiemar Republic. You don’t need control over weapons to reduce crime, you jus
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by db48x 1y ago
Err, be careful. You made these improvements sequentially, not independently. Each one halved your costs and might still have done exactly that if done in the opposite order.
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by db48x 1y ago
It could be a conspiracy on the part of Canonical, sure. People have hidden motives all the time. Sometimes you have to deduce their motives from their actions, while ignoring their words. I don't think there’s any serious evidence of
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by db48x 1y ago
Sadly people don’t always do what’s best. We sometimes do what other people are doing on the theory that maybe someone else has thought it through and already decided that it _is_ the best thing to do. It’s not perfect, but then heuristics
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by db48x 1y ago
That might be Canonical’s motive though.
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by db48x 1y ago
I didn’t delve very deep into it, but the program was written in Go. At this point in the lifecycle of the program we had optimized it quite a bit, removing all the inefficiencies that we could. It was now spending around two thirds of its
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by db48x 1y ago
That may be the intention, but you shouldn’t rely on it. In practice the average IO size is, or at least was, almost always 4KB. Here’s a screenshot from atop while the task was running: < https://db48x.net/temp/Scree
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by db48x 1y ago
Sounds like you just need more memory.
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by db48x 1y ago
If it’s frozen, or if the mouse suddenly takes seconds to respond to every movement, then it’s not just using some swap. It’s thrashing for sure.
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by db48x 1y ago
This is not really true of most SSDs. When Linux is really thrashing the swap it’ll be essentially unusable unless the disk is _really_ fast. Fast enough SSDs are available though. Note that when it’s really thrashing the swap the workload
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by db48x 1y ago
You’re welcome.
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by db48x 1y ago
Yea, he’s recording several thousand samples per pixel. That’s how it becomes a video instead of a snapshot. Check out his previous video < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaXdSGkh8Ww > for more details about that part.
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by db48x 1y ago
He explained that. His inexpensive oscilloscope _can_ trigger from the second channel, but only at one billion samples per second. Where’s the fun in that?
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by db48x 1y ago
No, not generally. 99% of all webpages you visit will be perfectly fine. At most you might notice some misalignment between graphical and text elements on the page, but most pages don’t rely on that for anything important.
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by db48x 1y ago
Instead of complaining about individual sites, learn to use your browser more effectively. They can all zoom in on things, and any good one will let you set a minimum font size. Set that to the smallest size that you can easily read and ins
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by db48x 1y ago
Bugzilla is good for some things, but terrible for discussions, questions, offers, advice, etc, etc.
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by db48x 1y ago
It is performative, I agree with that. However, if ICE breaking the law, then why didn't you point that out a few years ago? Why wait until 2025 to complain? The law that they enforce was last amended in 1991 and signed into law by, le
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by db48x 1y ago
Change your browser settings. You can tell the browser what font you prefer to use, and set minimum font sizes. You can also turn off remote fonts, so that pages can only use fonts you already have. Then you can just uninstall any fonts you
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by db48x 1y ago
It’s not strange, it’s deliberate.
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by db48x 1y ago
You can’t expect a bureaucrat to know about that kind of thing! If it’s not printed on a key right in front of their nose then no government employee is going to be able to type it in. But that’s not really the point. No matter how many key
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by db48x 1y ago
No, you don’t magically get the fuel back. But you do get a lot of the _kinetic energy_ back, and that energy keeps you flying without having to burn yet more fuel. You burn a lot of fuel while climbing, but then hardly any at all while des
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by db48x 1y ago
Yea, FSAs are dumb. Luckily nobody forces you to have one. Just get an HSA like a sane person.
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by db48x 1y ago
No, they can only use what shows up on the keyboard. Internally the software is a vast mix of systems that in practice can probably handle unicode just fine by now. It's just that the people can't type any of those characters.
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by db48x 1y ago
Except that if those upgrades had been started 10 years earlier then there would have been lower demand (10 years less growth in demand). The reductions in capacity would have had a much lower effect on prices.
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by db48x 1y ago
Sure, I believe them when they say that they’ve got all the food. I believe them when they say that if the residents of Gaza don’t want to starve then they should send their sons to sign up as a soldier. I believe them when they say that th
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by db48x 1y ago
Hamas regularly brags in their recruitment videos about how much food they have, and how their fighters get to eat as much as they want.
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by db48x 1y ago
Yes, but that’s a heavyweight solution that you don’t always need. Notice that in my example problem an arena that only ever grows can use ordinary references. You don’t need any kind of handle type in that case. And if you are manipulating
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by db48x 1y ago
Why? Sometimes you don't know how ahead of time how many references to a thing your program will need. For example, consider a program that reads in a git fast-import stream. The first commit creates a file named README.txt. How many m

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