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by epcoa 3y ago
Hardly "little details". They give a fairly broad explanation about the high level flaws in Wirecutter's analysis. The point they make about the issue of marketing speak "true HEPA" is a bit out of place and sort of
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by epcoa 3y ago
> Rust's stdlib and implementation of stdout/stderr buffering is wholly unrelated to the one in C. They're not wholly unrelated, they are related. The rationale for the implementation in both cases is the same (whether i
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by epcoa 3y ago
> at most of the world is, in fact, Linux. Yeah, other than the most popular Unix like desktop OS being macOS and iOS a dominant second in mobile. Other than those two that no one uses, most of the world is Linux. And for the topic at ha
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by epcoa 3y ago
Sidestep what problem? Backblaze is a practical application of Reed-Solomon coding. And the article text is " With a Reed-Solomon code, you’d need to perform a massive computation involving all the encoded data to recover your emails f
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by epcoa 3y ago
> In Unix, character special files are files that access to I/O devices such as a NULL file (/dev/null) and file descriptors. In our case, stdout is a file descriptor (1) so it is a character special file. (The name "
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by epcoa 3y ago
Where do you get 80% success from? Reducing the score on an assessment by 80% on average is not what most would infer from “80% success [rate]”, two very different measures. The headline author also has a very liberal definition of “banishe
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by epcoa 3y ago
Sorry, but reality bites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
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by epcoa 3y ago
> The AIs are doing precisely what an intelligent human in their place would do. Nah. Either the human is feigning, lying with full knowledge that they’re doing so, or you torture them enough and they cease responding intelligently, if t
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by epcoa 3y ago
> I'm pretty sure no company in their right mind today start a new product in C++. The library support for rust in key areas is terribly lacking and not everyone is a Microsoft that can afford to build the world from scratch. As jus
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by epcoa 3y ago
“ feature gaps between platforms, making their feature set a union of features” This fundamentally doesn’t work for UI/UX. You have to pick a paradigm and implementation details at some point and the high level UX design of Windows UI
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by epcoa 3y ago
That’s $9 per computer, not directly comparable to raw storage to use however you want. I get there are ways around this (host a local centralized backup) but that then sort of destroys the turnkey part anyway.
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by epcoa 3y ago
Mostly won for CRUD apps (yes and a few others). Your DAW, your photo editor, your NLE, your chatbot girlfriend, your game, your CAD, etc might actually want to use more than one core effectively per task. Even go had to grow up eventually.
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by epcoa 3y ago
But what forces you to declare the correct interrupt policy as it may not be the same for all uses of even the same mutex?
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by epcoa 3y ago
I replied to their comment because it was related, but where do you get the impression it is not supportive? I’m responding to the idiots poking holes in that claim. It's funny when you don't read carefully.
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by epcoa 3y ago
This thread is already full of silly archetypes and over generalizations not borne out by the reality. With that in mind: When you say drug using, “curious hacker mentality” all I can think of is Eric Raymond and the implication that this w
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by epcoa 3y ago
> I'm sure there are a select few who find this appealing That’s really all you need dude. And yet both private and public sector intelligence jobs are selective. Supply and demand might help you reconcile your other points. You sli
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by epcoa 3y ago
A state actor would have done a much better job. This was detected nearly immediately and anyone that knew how the system was setup (which was public knowledge) would have known this would be caught. The state level hackers are not that dum
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by epcoa 3y ago
Geez, this crowd. The clearest evidence that it was not an NSA attack is that it was not very good. It modified a CVS mirror. At no time was the source of truth (the bitkeeper repo) in any danger. Anybody that knew how this stuff worked at
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by epcoa 3y ago
I can’t state any more clearly: minimize the production of garbage. “Surely some % of garbage helps as you're garbage collecting ” Garbage that doesn’t exist doesn’t need collecting. The flaw here is confusing free space with garbage.
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by epcoa 3y ago
There are more appropriate and better data structures for an FTL especially with the assumption of some amount of auxiliary RAM (either host or on controller). Much of this literature is open access/free. “All that garbage helps cycle
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by epcoa 3y ago
This is fair, what I think ended up happening in the 2010s is that REST was pushed similar to XML, a solution for all application problems (it wasn’t like Fielding was not pushing this view either), and realistically the useful scope of R
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by epcoa 3y ago
It’s not about being charitable. For those unfamiliar with the terminology this is just confusing, and for those that are familiar this discussion is all fundamental and well known anyway. Unfortunately for COW filesystems including zfs and
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by epcoa 3y ago
> 48v seems overkill and dangerous. In fact the exact opposite is true, it is safer in practice. In a true fault condition into flesh the currents involved aren’t substantially less safe (4x microamps is still microamps). With protection
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by epcoa 3y ago
Where do you get the impression there was firmware reversal involved? All I see is sniffing of the RF and the observation it’s all plaintext.
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by epcoa 3y ago
I was gonna say take it up with Jason. Looks like that has been done http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3415
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by epcoa 3y ago
Java is in that age ballpark and code with a similar level of dependencies as this of that vintage works just fine. Java has a solid backward compatibility story. The Java standard runtime also comes with much more than the C library so I’
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by epcoa 3y ago
I would guess in terms of raw compute efficiency the ARM will beat the eZ80 due to the older Z80 architecture (3x faster than slow is still slow, and the HPs used ARM9 IIRC, while the eZ80 is more similar to an ARM7 and only a 24 bit ALU, e
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by epcoa 3y ago
> Z80 having any suitable primitives upon which to implement preemption. In general the only thing needed is an external interrupt (which the Z80 has). All but the cheapest deeply embedded 8 bit micros will have one and therefore can sup
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by epcoa 3y ago
> when you forward port 1024-65535 to your Nintendo Switch, as Nintendo says you need to do in its documentation, Nintendo is a shit company that treats their customer base like bitches yet gets a tremendous steady amount of good will so
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by epcoa 3y ago
>> ISPs charge for public IP addresses > Because NAT allows them to. NAT increases the available supply of IPv4 addresses, it makes them cheaper. >> Do you want to be charged for a large enough block of public IP addresses to

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