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by drewg123 1y ago
Without any context in terms of what the VM is doing or what VMM software you use, my best guess is that the OS/VMM are pre-allocating memory for the VM. This might involve paging out other processes' memory, which could take som
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by drewg123 1y ago
The problem is that its across an international border from the Montreal airport. So you'd need to cross a border twice to fly to a domestic US destination and twice more on your return. Crossing a border is always an unknown in term
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by drewg123 1y ago
I'm on FreeBSD, so its a lot of overhead to check myself: But, does this have a source view like Vtune, that can attribute cycles / cache misses / etc, to a line of code? I see it has an assembly view..
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by drewg123 1y ago
If this is indeed done trillions of times a second, which I frankly have a hard time believing, then sure, it might be worth it. But on a modern CPU, focusing on an optimization like this is a poor use of developer resources. There are li
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by drewg123 1y ago
To temper this slightly, these sorts of optimizations are useful on embedded CPUs for device firmware, IOT, etc. I've worked on smart NIC CPUs where cycles were so precious we'd do all kinds of crazy unreadable things.
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by drewg123 1y ago
I tend to be of the opinion that for modern general purpose CPUs in this era, such micro-optimizations are totally unnecessary because modern CPUs are so fast that instructions are almost free. But do you know what's not free? Memory
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by drewg123 1y ago
The backstop forcing function to end meetings is the conference room being booked for the next slot... One of the things I noticed during COVID when everyone was remote was that meetings would never end on time b/c there was no content
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by drewg123 2y ago
I was hoping for more from the new Siri, but its just awful for me. Latest example: My wife and I were watching Jeopardy late at night, and Pol Pot came up. I asked Siri something like "Siri, tell me about Pol Pot" and instead,
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by drewg123 2y ago
The notification feature that I miss most from Android+Garmin on iOS+Garmin is the ability filter what apps notifications can go to my watch. Its apparently possible, as Coros seems to have done it. But after hearing repebble's compl
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by drewg123 2y ago
Yes, this would have been so much smarter. But in this case, they apparently sold extra large lots to the surrounding houses, and made no provisions for pedestrians. Welcome to the USA.
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by drewg123 2y ago
This problem is over for me, as my son has graduated, but part of the problem is NIMBY'ified suburban roads that dead-end rather than connecting neighborhoods (in order to cut down on neighborhood traffic). My son's school was abo
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by drewg123 2y ago
This, so much this. It has happened to me one too many times in the past, so I always make sure I'm looking at the same code (release branch, etc) where a bug has been observed.
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by drewg123 2y ago
I wonder how much this is costing Intel in terms of enterprise sales? I'm guessing that headlines like this will accelerate the switch to AMD and ARM. Who wants to design servers around chips from a company that is not likely to exis
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by drewg123 2y ago
Does this actually provide a meaningful improvement on NVME/SSD storage? I can see how it would help with mechanical drives..
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by drewg123 2y ago
I've had a 2017 Model X since new that came with FSD. I had Tesla upgrade the FSD computer (for free), and drove like a granny during the FSD trial period when you needed to have a certain "score" (which was mostly dictated
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by drewg123 2y ago
I have a huge soft spot in my heart for DEC. They hold the same place in my heart that Sun does for a lot of people. One of my first *nix accounts was on MIPS DECstations running ULTRIX as an undergrad. My first job was as a *nix sysadmin
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by drewg123 2y ago
The NFS issue that I had was that I was working for a math/stats department, and the profs made heavy use of LaTeX. Disks were tiny, and the fonts they required were huge. So we had fonts centrally available from an ULTRIX NFS serve
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by drewg123 2y ago
I started running linux in 1992 or so. I converted to FreeBSD right around the time you were starting with Linux because I had the opposite experience: I was new *nix sysadmin, and I needed good NFS performance (replacing DEC ULTRIX workst
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by drewg123 2y ago
Seems like what I do when I encounter an AI answering machine that can answer only simple questions... after "representative" fails, I start saying "Give me a fucking human"
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by drewg123 2y ago
How entwined is it with Linux specific APIs? Eg, how hard would it be to port to FreeBSD?
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by drewg123 2y ago
I had GI surgery, and afterwards, I had an "Ileus" (intestines don't move food through), which is apparently a low probability side effect. I was utterly miserable for a week, with horrible nausea and vomiting. Even water.
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by drewg123 2y ago
My wife volunteers for a no-kill cat shelter. One night a literal basket of kittens was found on their doorstep. The shelter was already well over capacity, so we became foster "parents" for them. The runt of the litter (whom t
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TikTok Emerges from Shutdown Without ByteDance's US CDN(kentik.com)
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by drewg123 2y ago
There is growing evidence that Red 40 causes IBD: https://www.uhhospitals.org/blog/articles/2023/02/can-red-fo...
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by drewg123 2y ago
“For all mankind” is excellent. As is “Silo” I enjoy “invasion” And there is always “Ted Lasso”
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by drewg123 2y ago
According to https://point.com/blog/arm-report-2024 , ARMs were 10-20% of mortgages 2015-2020 So I think the GP has a good point.
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by drewg123 2y ago
Dish is terrible. After my mom passed away, they were one of the few things that my Dad had trouble cancelling. Even with a copy of her death certificate, my Dad could not get the service cancelled. He just ended up throwing the bills (
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by drewg123 2y ago
When I took Waymo in Phoenix, I booked a ride from a suburban hotel to a restaurant in a strip mall. One of the things I noticed was that I was picked up far away from the entrance of the hotel (eg, not under the overhang that protects fro
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by drewg123 2y ago
For me it was both.. I had pretty bad BP and high enough cholesterol to that my doctor wanted me on a statin. Now my BP is normal, and my cholesterol is in the "low risk" range. My doctor said she'd never seen such an impr
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by drewg123 2y ago
For air travel, I really like my Xreal Air glasses now that I have a newer iPhone 16pro. Just plug in the USB-C cable, and you have a virtual 60" screen in front of you which works perfectly for Netflix, etc. And they cost less t

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