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by hedora 7mo ago
Fundamentals are the only thing left to learn in our field. Either the AI doesn’t understand them, and you need to walk it down the correct path, or it does understand them, and you have to be able to have an intelligent conversation with i
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by hedora 7mo ago
Yeah, but what percentage of the time was the CPU stuck blocked on the memory bus for the two workloads? Also, how was it guaranteeing the page writes were atomic?
573.
by hedora 7mo ago
No; the issue with the DIMMs wasn’t drivers. The issue was that the only people allowed to target the DIMMs directly were the xeon hardware team. There was a startup doing good work with similar storage chips that were pin (BGA) compatible
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by hedora 7mo ago
Traditionally, X11 didn’t have compositors, and didn’t need the extra round trip wayland exists to remove. I wonder if there’s space for a project like xlibre (or x.org, if it were revived) to update the x11 protocol to fill whatever gap co
575.
by hedora 7mo ago
You joke, but the wayland protocol leaves this up to the compositor. Nothing in the protocol prevents your desktop environment from doing this.
576.
by hedora 7mo ago
I think it was killed primarily because the DIMM version had a terrible programming API. There was no way to pin a cache line, update it and flush, so no existing database buffer pool algorithms were compatible with it. Some academic work
577.
by hedora 7mo ago
Any decent SSD has capacitor (enterprise) or battery backed (phones) DRAM. Therefore, a sync write is just “copy the data to an I/O buffer over PCIe”. For databases, where you do lots of small scattered writes, and lots of small overw
578.
by hedora 7mo ago
Anecdotes are not data, so here's some data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/C307RC1Q027SBEA US Factory build out investment increased from $80B/year to $240B/year under Biden. Trump's economic p
579.
by hedora 8mo ago
I wouldn't lump the high-end audio brands in with Apple. They often produce models that cost 25% as much and perform much better than the comparable Apple offerings. I think Apple is in a "fashion tier" that's distinct f
580.
by hedora 8mo ago
Isn't aptx lossless an old and very standard thing? I haven't bought headphones in years, and my current set support it.
581.
by hedora 8mo ago
I wonder what percentage of the people driving this trend have either only had AirPods (they make me dizzy, and I think the sound quality is terrible), Beats (even worse) or no-name $20 bluetooth headsets. I have a nice high-end set of Senn
582.
by hedora 8mo ago
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
583.
by hedora 8mo ago
Even worse, it just randomly blows away the plan file without asking for permission. No idea what they were thinking when they designed this feature. The plan file names are randomly generated, so it could just keep making new ones forever
584.
by hedora 8mo ago
One (expensive) vendor claimed to support this stuff, and it flat out didn't work. After lots and lots of escalations, the fix ended up being with a massive terraform diff for us to deploy to prod. The problem had nothing to do with o
585.
by hedora 8mo ago
After looking at the California bill a bit, I'm equally worried about the implications for application developers as I am for the implications for OS developers. It says apps must use the age signal as proof the user is a minor, and th
586.
by hedora 8mo ago
It's also identical to what Claude Code does if you put it in plan mode (bound to <tab> key), at least in my experience.
587.
by hedora 8mo ago
https://copy.sh/v86/
588.
by hedora 8mo ago
Today, I learned Helium does burn, and when it burns, it forms Carbon. https://www.britannica.com/science/chemical-element/Processe... Granted, the flare gas probably doesn't reach the prerequisite 100M-200M
589.
by hedora 8mo ago
I wish they'd add mandatory labeling. I'm over 16 and have no interest in games with loot boxes.
590.
by hedora 8mo ago
Food, fuel, utilities, insurance, electronics, services and digital goods.
591.
by hedora 8mo ago
There was a lot written about this in the 1990s during the rise of globalization and just in time supply chains. Basically, you build a big warehouse and keep it full when prices are below projection. This is equivalent to investing capital
592.
by hedora 8mo ago
Nonsense. Deploy the SLS. Use the hydrogen tanks. If the seals can hold hydrogen, helium should be easy for them. /s
593.
by hedora 8mo ago
It’s going to be 90-100F in California next week. Not sure how that impacts fertilizer demand, but it certainly screws up planting season. The ground will be dry in a week or two, and they’re predicting the worst spring snowpack on record (
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by hedora 8mo ago
In related news, diesel is $7/gallon, and peets coffee is $25/lb, and computers (hardware and cloud) are up 25-50%. The official numbers claim 3% inflation. Does anyone actually believe that? We were seeing 30% YoY before Iran h
595.
by hedora 8mo ago
The California bay area, at least all the sides of it I’ve lived on. We currently have a whole house battery, whole house surge protector, a second surge protector, and a UPS between the router/nas/etc and PG&E. It’s not good
596.
by hedora 8mo ago
Short of a general strike, this sort of thing is going to move forward. They don’t need you to purchase hardware or software any more. We’re moving to centralized economic planning, where resources for datacenter buildouts are reserved for
597.
by hedora 8mo ago
Generally speaking, the SEC exists to regulate communications about the underlying realities driving security values. Any mechanism involving “the bank invested (lent) my deposits to organizations that avoid SEC scrutiny, and used an instru
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by hedora 8mo ago
We had them in the US before the SEC, which regulated them out of existence. It’s likely the term is a pejorative referring to the Liverpool setup you describe.
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by hedora 8mo ago
I’ve found this happens with repos over time. Something convinces it that implementing the same bug over and over is a natural next step. I’ve found keeping one session open and giving progressively less polite feedback when it makes that
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by hedora 8mo ago
In fairness, when I’ve seen that, Yes is obviously the correct answer. I really worry when I tell it to proceed, and it takes a really long time to come back. I suspect those think blocks begin with “I have no hope of doing that, so let’s o

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