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by faragon 9y ago
.cat domains work properly, e.g. http://www.elperiodico.cat (tested from Barcelona) TL;DR: if you break the law, expect to get punished. The operators knew they were breaking the law, so involved sites in that domain were blocke
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by faragon 9y ago
So after Tesla hiring Jim Keller -brilliant engineer- from Apple (DEC Alpha 2116421264, AMD K7/x86-64/HypertransportK8/K12/Zen, Apple A4/A5), the cards are on the table: they will play hard for winning the AI race o
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by faragon 9y ago
Wow, now includes graphics!!! Fabrice Bellard is amazing.
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by faragon 9y ago
There are few C99 compliant compilers. In my opinion, TCC is a very good tool, and deserves being maintained.
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by faragon 9y ago
Glory for a true hero. Thank you, Mr Petrov.
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by faragon 9y ago
I'm not buying a phone without headphone jack nor FM radio.
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by faragon 9y ago
A Coca-Cola Zero soft drink in a French restaurant in Paris (France) is typically 5 to 6 euro per 50 cl (even in "normal" restaurants, not in the Champs-Élysées nor the Eiffel Tower), while in Barcelona or Madrid (Spain) is 1.50 t
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by faragon 9y ago
"White privilege is not being afraid of the police" Where is that happening? Everyone should be afraid of the police, everywhere, as authority, their word is over yours.
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by faragon 9y ago
That's very serious stuff: that people is also behind Elbrus microprocessor x86 emulation [1] [1] https://eltechs.com/company/about-us/
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by faragon 9y ago
Don't surrender, Scott.
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by faragon 9y ago
Does it work also in ARM architecture ("weak" memory model), or just in x86/x86-64-like ("strong" memory model)?
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by faragon 9y ago
In Spanish bread is written and pronounced "pan" (after latin "panem").
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by faragon 9y ago
... and for many people a reason for not paying for Netflix.
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by faragon 9y ago
Amazon Prime Video is even cheaper. If Amazon manages to increase content while leveraging costs because of their scale and vertical integration, it could be huge.
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by faragon 9y ago
It incredibly detailed, including references and historical investigation. Mind blowing. Kudos, Brendan Gregg.
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by faragon 9y ago
My two cents: - Time don't make you [much] smarter in the "brute force" sense, however it allows you doing less errors, avoiding unnecessary stuff, and in general making you more productive. Also, it allows you to enable othe
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by faragon 9y ago
Intel could make tons of money by licensing their IP so 5-10 USD SoC could flood the IoT market.
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by faragon 9y ago
Please, Microsoft, don't remove the Paint program.
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by faragon 9y ago
My opinion was about the linked article, not the original article. So don't blame me, blame the linked article author.
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by faragon 9y ago
Bertrand Russell already put most of that in a book in 1930: "The Conquest of Happiness" [1] [1] Some quotes: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Conquest_of_Happiness
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by faragon 9y ago
> At least, before writing your usual biased diatribe you should read the original link in that shitty article. That was just my opinion. > In no place is mentiioned Spain and the article talks about rationalizing the shops schedule.
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by faragon 9y ago
That's separatist propaganda: Catalonia, a Spanish region where separatists are ruling and expect to do a referendum against the rule of law in October so the region can exit Spain and the European Union and be "free", is &qu
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by faragon 9y ago
Firefox: please lower the priority of the religious stuff (Rust, etc.), and increase the priority for actual work involving better user experience.
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by faragon 9y ago
They could make 32-lane PCI-E slots, then.
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by faragon 9y ago
Are Ryzen and Threadripper affected? If so, I would change my opinion on AMD, and chose Intel instead for my next home computer.
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by faragon 9y ago
Ok, thank you.
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by faragon 9y ago
Sure, using hardware-accelerated packet routing for accelerating network protocols (e.g. Cavium SoCs).
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by faragon 9y ago
PCI-E 3.0 x16 has 16GB/s bandwidth, being 200 Gbps 25 GB/s, so yes, it is not enough. Even having enough bandwidth, handling 25 GB/s data, except for hardware-accelerated network processing, is very hard when current processo
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by faragon 9y ago
The bottleneck is not PCI-Express, not even the 3.0 version. The bottleneck is shipping processors with just 16 PCI-E 3.0 lanes (!). Things are changing with the new high end desktop processors, with 64 PCI-E 3.0 lanes (e.g. AMD Threadrippe
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by faragon 9y ago
USD is more useful than gold, as can be transferred electronically, and recognised everywhere. And also, the USD is more useful than Bitcoin, in the pragmatic usage, not in the idealistic. Demostration: Bitcoin liquidity is because of place

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