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by drewg123 2y ago
I thought windows required all kernel modules to be signed..? If there are multiple corrupt copies, rather than just some test escape, how could they have passed the signature verification and been loaded by the kernel?
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by drewg123 2y ago
When I started doing driver development on MacOS X in the early 2000s, there were a number of questions on the kernel/driver dev mailing lists for darwin from AV vendors implementing kernel extensions. Most of them were embarrassing q
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by drewg123 2y ago
Low power is my main interest in these mini-pcs. Eg, the ability to use "laptop" level CPUs in servers that do a lot of IO, but have smart NICs that can offload TLS.
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by drewg123 2y ago
I came here to say a lot of this. One thing you didn't mention that I'd like to see is what, if any, PCIe slots there are. This is pretty rare in mini PCs, and I've only seen it on the Minisforum ms-01 ( https://st
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by drewg123 2y ago
Has anybody ever just straight up stolen a drug from a clinical trial and had it save their life? If there was ever a case for jury nullification..
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by drewg123 2y ago
It seems like the drug maker needs to participate in the program. What is the rate of participation?
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by drewg123 2y ago
How is it an improvement? It wastes tons of whitespace. The first one is far better.
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by drewg123 2y ago
Yes, it takes me back to configuring my X session for the first time on an NCD Xterminal in the computer lab at uni, connected to the schools's Sun and Dec servers. It was so much better than all the vt220 serial terminals, and they
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by drewg123 2y ago
I don't find that strange at all (prefering emacs to vi mode). I feel the same way. I use tcsh, and have it configured for emacs-style command line editing. I use emacs for complex stuff (coding) and vi for simple stuff (editing a c
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by drewg123 2y ago
I realize that. But every distro I've used uses an initramfs, so unless you want to build your own kernels, you're stuck with it, and the painfully slow initramfs updates when you update packages, and dkms (or similar) updates th
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by drewg123 2y ago
I personally think they're moving in the wrong direction. I'd rather have "NMIRFS" (no more initramfs). Eg, a smarter bootloader that understands all bootable filesystems and cooperates with the kernel to pre-load modu
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by drewg123 2y ago
Last minute / next day fares have traditionally been far more expensive than 3 week advance, and that was intended to impact business travel more than leisure. If there was a 3rd party marketplace for airline tickets, last minute tick
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by drewg123 2y ago
I'll never know, as mine isn't nicely decorated :) Its hard to tell from the site, but given that they seem to be hiring human cleaners, I was viewing the robot as a tool, like a vacuum cleaner. If it can offload tedious manual
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by drewg123 2y ago
Whoops.. I misread what he was doing.
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by drewg123 2y ago
The price is actually very competitive -- it is about 30% cheaper than the service that I use for my townhouse. Their site is very rough around the edges. I assume this is available only in the bay area?
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by drewg123 2y ago
If modulus is expensive, and he's checking a power-of-2, why not just use a bitwise AND. Eg, for positive integers, x % 16 == x & 15. That should be trivially cheap.
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by drewg123 2y ago
I’d love to hear the story behind this
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by drewg123 2y ago
There already exists the comskip project used by most home-brew PVR software for broadcast TV. I wonder if it could be leveraged for this. See https://github.com/erikkaashoek/Comskip
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by drewg123 2y ago
I'd like to use it for watching Netflix/Hulu/etc on a plane on a larger screen than my phone without being forced to carry an iPad. I really wish Apple would just force companies to enable their iPhone/iPad apps on Apple
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by drewg123 2y ago
FreeBSD hasn't use CVS and P4 in decades. FreeBSD uses git internally, and has a github mirror. See https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/committers-guide/ The unintentional ordering change being fresh
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by drewg123 2y ago
Yes, exactly.
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by drewg123 2y ago
In addition to the lack of zero-copy sendfile from ZFS, we also have the problem the ZFS is also lacking async sendfile support (eg, the ability to continue the sendfile operation from the disk interrupt handler when the blocks arrive from
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by drewg123 2y ago
Author here: Note that the 4 hours per bisection is the time to ramp the server up and down and re-image it. It does not count the time to actually do the bisection step. That's because in our case of following head, the merging &a
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by drewg123 2y ago
Thanks for asking. The only kdb I'm familiar with is the FreeBSD kernel debugger: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/developers-handbook/kernel...
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by drewg123 2y ago
Wish there was a FreeBSD pkg/port for this. KDE3 was the last DE I used that worked reliably..
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by drewg123 2y ago
One thing I wish they'd work on is making saved credit card information work correctly and reliably. I use FF on Macos laptop and FreeBSD desktop, with multiple profiles on each. I have different profiles where CC saving work fine, a
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by drewg123 2y ago
I took one in Chandler last year, and it was amazing. Especially in combination with my Tesla and its "Full Self Driving". It kept up with traffic, turned confidently, yielded to pedestrians, etc. The biggest (only?) complaint I
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by drewg123 2y ago
Tell her to look at the travel system. At least when I was there a decade ago, they gameified it so that we needed to come in below the average cost for a flight, otherwise we needed VP approval. But if we came in under the average, you c
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by drewg123 2y ago
You don't always have a choice. Sometimes there are loud places where you just have to be (airports, train stations, etc). My most frustrating time is transiting airports with my wife, who is a very quiet talker.
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by drewg123 2y ago
That's interesting. So UC was 2x as expensive in 2000 than SUNY was in 1990. That made me go dig up the fee schedule at https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/fees/201415/doc... From that p

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