faragon

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by faragon 10y ago
My two cents: 1) Write programs easy to understand at first glance 2) Write code easy to delete 3) Write considering costs: target zero -or as low as possible- maintenance costs 4) Write code for both fun and profit
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by faragon 10y ago
It is very cool to see @antirez dedicating time for testing Redis in exotic platforms, showing how different CPU architectures can affect performance of a widely used software. Kudos.
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by faragon 10y ago
Does anyone know if there is a way for mapping virtual addresses to areas with zeroes and replacing it with the memset to 0 on write access, so software could be still efficient without calling calloc() instead of malloc()? (i.e. memset to
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by faragon 10y ago
You can not avoid responses in clear-text quoting your encrypted emails, so that mechanism is broken by design: it should be a point to point encrypted mailbox.
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by faragon 10y ago
Pure beauty.
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by faragon 10y ago
Oracle should stop that, in my opinion. That attitude could kill Java in the long term.
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by faragon 10y ago
Being "smart" is not easy. From conflicts with others because of Dunning-Kruger effect [1], because your own ego (no matter how "smart" you think you are, you're not that "smart" in the whole "smartne
578.
by faragon 10y ago
PCI-Express bus encryption in 3, 2, 1...
579.
by faragon 10y ago
It would be easier for Intel to buy Nvidia...
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by faragon 10y ago
Blaming Linus for whatever personal frustration with Linux is becoming a sport. From my side, I prefer simpler GUIs, without massive bloat.
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by faragon 10y ago
Anyone knows how far is Apple from getting the following desktop system as one SoC? - 4GHz 12-core 64-bit ARM OooE with 256KiB L2 cache per core - 12MiB of L3 cache - Integrated graphics with 128MB eDRAM - PCI-Express buses - 35 GB/s D
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by faragon 10y ago
Does anyone know how could affect that to wormholes? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole
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by faragon 10y ago
So now all the "NDA" excuses for not releasing graphic drivers source code are gone?
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by faragon 10y ago
That's scary. So all DDR3, an probably most DDR4 memories are affected by that. Anyone knows if ECC is protection enough?
585.
by faragon 10y ago
The no-driver Uber arguments as profitable future it is crazy stuff, in my opinion. Could be as simple as Uber being a bubble? How much will take until that bubble bursts?
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by faragon 10y ago
The "24 GFLOPS" in RP come from the GPU (Videocore IV, 32-bit precision) [1]. The PS3 does more than 230 GFLOPS, just with the Cell processor (1 dual threaded CPU and 7 vector units -CPUs with wide SIMD, working in 256KB local scr
587.
by faragon 10y ago
$425M is a lot of money. Was Trello profitable?
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by faragon 10y ago
Thank you very much, Riku! Kudos and glory! :-) Debian muscle is behind many other Linux distributions, and Debian maintainer work is fundamental.
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by faragon 10y ago
I still remember watching the Chernobyl accident report in TV with my family when I was a boy. We started crying spontaneously when it was explained that many volunteers knew they were working knowing they would not survive (when the situat
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by faragon 10y ago
And again, Stallman is right. Despite how much convenient, cheap, and easy Skype could be. P.S. Is today the "day against Stallman" in Hacker News? Come on.
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by faragon 10y ago
Westworld (2016) is an amazing show. In my opinion it is more about how real it feels, than the thematic itself. I'm convinced that same approach would work for other genres, not just sci-fi. It is a kind of hyper-realist cinema, where
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by faragon 10y ago
I wrote a similar thing for C99 [1], but "safe" (bound-checked), having both stack and heap allocation, and many other array/vector functions [2], including integer-optimized sort (in-place MSD binary radix sort -wich is avai
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by faragon 10y ago
Stallman is right. However, people, myself included, use Google services (search/email/groups/docs/maps/youtube/etc.) because it is easy, cheap, and good.
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by faragon 10y ago
For new PCs, Intel chips are amazing. However, e.g. updating a desktop PC with a 2.8GHz (3.46GHz turbo, 8MB L3 cache) Core i7 from 2009 with a decent enough video card it is not: spending 300-400 USD on a new CPU for just 30% performance in
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by faragon 10y ago
Sure. My point was related to that it would be interesting a standard IR, instead of a vendor-specific one :-)
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by faragon 10y ago
TL;DR: vendor lock-in.
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by faragon 10y ago
Is that safe? E.g. exploits, privilege scalation, etc.
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by faragon 10y ago
In my opinion, 80% of hiring decision is related to psicological terms. I.e. you can have the knowledge, but being discarded because resulting difficult to work with (anxious, narcissistic, undisciplined, uneducated, etc.).
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by faragon 10y ago
Amazing work. Hector Martin (@marcan42) is an incredibly talented hacker. I still remember his post for enabling the hardware virtualization of the CPU in his laptop, an Acer Aspire 5930 [1], that had it disabled in the BIOS, and it was not
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by faragon 10y ago
It is an interesting overview of Game Boy development: it includes hardware description (CPU, memory map, etc.), per-line interrupt ("raster effects"), palette, priorities, layers, sprites, sound, etc.

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