glandium

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841.
by glandium 5y ago
I'll never understand why the "ce" is not pronounced, while OTOH in many cases silent letters in French are pronounced in the English equivalent...
842.
by glandium 5y ago
One reason is macOS updates are using LZMA, which is not exactly fast to decompress.
843.
by glandium 5y ago
Meta Goggles
844.
by glandium 5y ago
I thought the conventional wisdom was to avoid the STL if you need consistent performance across platforms, because they all have different pitfalls. Things might be different with libc++, now, though, since you can use it in most cases.
845.
by glandium 5y ago
It's gotten a lot faster recently. What's still slow, though, is macOS's updates.
846.
by glandium 5y ago
MS has a full Windows for arm64 with a Rosetta-like layer already. It's been available for at least two years, although it only supported x86 at first (presumably because of the patents on x86-64). x86-64 was added recently ( https:&#x
847.
by glandium 5y ago
Another thing that Windows Home requires a MS account for, even if you've got away with not using one: FDE.
848.
by glandium 5y ago
And it was already the case with Windows 10 Home.
849.
by glandium 5y ago
Relevant talk by Emery Berger: Performance matters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-TLSBdHe1A I'd recommend everyone interested in the subject to watch it.
850.
by glandium 5y ago
> For example, CPU will run using "performance" governor with turbo boost enabled regardless if it's plugged in to power or not. Don't most distros default to ondemand or schedutil governor these days?
851.
by glandium 5y ago
There is no wasm in the version built-into Firefox.
852.
by glandium 5y ago
IIRC, the bad read-only NTFS support was the one in the Linux kernel. NTFS-3g has been adequate, albeit maybe on the slow end, for a long time. At least I remember having used it successfully more than a decade ago.
853.
by glandium 5y ago
clang does something smart with the switch, equivalent to this C code: unsigned char lookup2_encode(const unsigned char dibit) { return ' \r\n\t' >> (dibit * 8); } I'd expect that to be faster just from hav
854.
by glandium 5y ago
24/7 ATMs can be found at any convenience store, but there usually are fees associated with using them. Fees that vary depending on time of day and/or day of week. The ATMs anywhere else that is not a convenience store are also st
855.
by glandium 5y ago
Thanks to homonyms, haku is a lot of things. - 吐く is to vomit, but also to emit, confess, etc. - 履く is to wear - 掃く is to sweep - 拍 is a beat or a mora and there are plenty more.
856.
by glandium 5y ago
The main downside is that you don't know what you get on Amazon (and I say that as someone who bought DisplayPort cables on Amazon that turned out to have the pin 20 problem http://monitorinsider.com/displayport/dp
857.
by glandium 5y ago
I can't tell about the US, but paying money to sleep in spare bedrooms was a thing in Europe well before Airbnb.
858.
by glandium 5y ago
Kind of a tangent: it's interesting to watch Favreau's Chef as being about Ironman. https://youtu.be/zIA3Iz48irs
859.
by glandium 5y ago
Windbg-preview supports TTD too.
860.
by glandium 5y ago
For some reason, I quickly ended up outside the walls with no apparent way to get back inside.
861.
by glandium 5y ago
Debian 11 doesn't make pipewire replace pulseaudio, alsa or jack.
862.
by glandium 5y ago
Parsing the dwarf data has orders of magnitude more overhead than fork/exec. (source: I'm the one who opened the linked Debian bug)
863.
by glandium 5y ago
Close to half the Mazda sales in Japan are with diesel engines.
864.
by glandium 5y ago
That tradition hasn't been lost. Cakes are still regularly sent. I think the last ones were https://mobile.twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1220135193991962...
865.
by glandium 5y ago
In France, a French kiss is a shovel.
866.
by glandium 5y ago
Also, pain perdu and French toast are different things. You don't use fresh bread for pain perdu, that would be a waste (pun intended).
867.
by glandium 5y ago
What I've found is that if you don't actively speak your native language and your day to day language is different enough from your native language sound-wise, you lose the ability to voice some sequences of syllables smoothly, be
868.
by glandium 5y ago
Is it me or the perspective is completely off in the picture?
869.
by glandium 5y ago
Conversely, people often forget how few children are actually good at foreign languages.
870.
by glandium 5y ago
Related, the LINE app that everyone uses in Japan can do video calls too, and that's barely used.

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