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by drewg123 5y ago
I think it also got wind because it was just so much easier to compile stuff with gcc than it was to use the vendor compilers, with all of their incompatible flags and extensions. This was in the days before package managers, when everybody
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by drewg123 5y ago
I remember being assigned to look into Solaris when working as a volunteer sysadmin in grad school, where we were a SunOS shop. I took a sparcstation, wiped it, and installed Solaris. This was 1992 or so, so it must have been 5.0 or 5.1.
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by drewg123 5y ago
When did it become ubiquitous? I first got root privs via sudo on a *nix system in 1991 or so, and I remember it being widely deployed even then.
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by drewg123 5y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29611078
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by drewg123 5y ago
I wish they also inclided lmbench style microbenchmarks (time to open files, fork, ipc latency, etc). That was always an area where MacOS lagged behind pretty much everything by factors of 2 or more. The closest thing they have are some co
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by drewg123 5y ago
What functionality remains to make it a viable alternative to MacOS on an M1 13" MBP or MBA? It seems like wifi is the biggest remaining hurdle?
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by drewg123 5y ago
From the article: this translates into vaccine effectiveness estimates against symptomatic Omicron infection of between 0% and 20% after two doses, and between 55% and 80% after a booster dose What I'm wondering is: Is this due to
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by drewg123 5y ago
This is certainly true on the server side where QUIC can be ~4x as expensive as TLS over TCP for some workloads, and I've been wondering how much it matters on the client side. Do you have any data from low-end clients showing either
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by drewg123 5y ago
The article goes into very little detail regarding the client hardware and software. From "No other applications were running on the computer", one can assume it was a laptop or desktop. If you assume that it was a developer&#x2
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by drewg123 5y ago
I work on kernel and network performance on FreeBSD. For me the issue with QUIC is that we loose a few decades of optimizations in software and hardware. Eg, we loose TCP TSO and LRO (which reduce trips through the network stack, and thus
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by drewg123 5y ago
In some ways it reminds me of mdb from {open}solaris. https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18752_01/html/816-5041/modules-2... Its nice to have a fast, scriptable debugger. I'm thankful that it (partially)
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by drewg123 5y ago
I spent over 2 weeks in a US hospital in 3 separate stays this fall, and while its not "complete failure", it is pretty close. ER overflowing, nurses with 2x the patient loads of 2019, etc. It is not 100% clear to me if this was
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by drewg123 5y ago
So the breach involved their portal. I HATE those portals. I wish healthcare providers would just send an email, rather than "you have a new message on our portal". I think (hope?) my email is more secure than these portals..
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by drewg123 5y ago
[ slightly edited version of a reply i made a week ago on the CR article]: I have a 2017 Model X that I bought new. The EV part is great, its everything else that sucks. Since I've had it, I've taken it for service for the followi
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by drewg123 5y ago
That's awesome. Forza was the primary reason for both my Xbox purchases 360 ages ago, series X recently. No offense, but I'm not a fan of the horizon games. I far prefer the motorsport series. The horizon games are too "ar
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by drewg123 5y ago
Which ones don't support HDR and Atomos? All the major streaming apps I've tried do. And if they don't, and the android TV support is better, then you can just get an Nvidia Shield or FireTV Bear in mind that AndroidTV rece
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by drewg123 5y ago
I had a horrible experience w/Samsung as well. I bought their highest end non-curved TV in 2015 for ~$3,000. It was delivered when I was away from home and my ex did not notice it had a glaring defect -- very bright corners. It turn
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by drewg123 5y ago
You can, but I use the built in smart tv apps because they are the best at preventing burn in, which i'm paranoid about. I'm away from home, and I set it up nearly 2 years ago, but I recall there are settings to disable tracking&#
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by drewg123 5y ago
What do you use as your STB for YT, Netflix, etc? I use the built-in apps mostly because I'm still a bit paranoid about burn in. If I pause Netflix/Plex/AppleTV+ on the TV, it will aggressively pop up an ugly screen saver qui
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by drewg123 5y ago
I've had an LG OLED (65" C9) for roughly 2 years, and its the best TV I've owned, hands down. It is amazing for movies and TV, because of its inky blacks. (unliked LED/LCD, the OLED pixels are actually turned off indivi
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by drewg123 5y ago
Do the homebrew apps obey the normal screen saver / burn-in protections? Eg, Netflix on the TV, when paused, will put up a fireworks screen saver very quickly. Will the homebrew youtube app do the same thing?
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by drewg123 5y ago
In that case, you'd just buy a streaming stick or settop box, like a FireTv, AppleTV, Roku, or AndroidTV box.. These are a small-ish percent of the cost of a new TV.
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by drewg123 5y ago
The sad thing is that sugar is everywhere , not just in candy. I was in the local hospital for surgery, and the "juice" they gave me to drink when I was recovering was so sweet that it could have doubled for syrup. The first 2
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by drewg123 5y ago
People didn't think human babies could feel pain until the 1980s[1], and commonly did operations w/o anesthetic. [1]: https://www.newsweek.com/when-doctors-start-using-anesthesia...
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by drewg123 5y ago
> You can use the 'Fix Match' There used to be a way to not have any metadata, and just get plex to show you the files. I think they called it something like "home movies". The first time I setup plex, it was easy.
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by drewg123 5y ago
Does there exist an ergo (split) keyboard with the same layout as the Realforce R2? That keyboard has exactly the layout I want. But every single split keyboard has a horrific layout. Why can't there be a split keyboard with a normal
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by drewg123 5y ago
I don't know why this is downvoted. A crashdump would have made this 10x easier to debug. The answer is because "its linux" and crashdumps (except on a few distros) are not part of the culture. These days linux actually kex
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by drewg123 5y ago
The frustrating thing is that I could swear there used to be a "home videos" section or something for videos w/o metadata, but they seem to have killed that, or hidden it so well I can no longer find it.
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by drewg123 5y ago
I was kind of agreeing with the author, right up until he talked about setting up a pipeline involving Plex to have a good UX. Maybe I'm in the minority, and maybe I'll get downvoted, but to me, Plex has a horrific UX. 1) If I i
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by drewg123 5y ago
From that video, I assume you're in the UK. In the USA, it is still 2015 basically. Everything I've seen on charging non-Tesla EVs in the USA makes it seem like its a total dumpster fire. One of the YT's I watch has experie

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