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by inkyoto 3y ago
In Linux, you use cgroups to confine a process to a fixed memory limit that won't cause an OOM in adjacent processes. You can create a separate memory cgroup with a different allowance for each customer depending how much memory is all
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> There is a trade off obviously where the kernel can evict I/O buffers more efficiently. But to me all that says is that the interface for managing I/O buffers in user space is really immature and needs some better performing
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by inkyoto 3y ago
For the sake of my own curiosity, what is unclean about or in the POWER ISA?
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Perhaps it didn't have atomics at that point? That would've killed it for that project. That would have been PPC 601 and perhaps [entry level] 603 models. Motorola/IBM first released a single processor PPC, then they add
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> People on tropical islands don't really use cars. They do and do so extensively in some places. I have been to Wallis and Futuna islands, two very small islands in the Pacific being French overseas territories where the transporta
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Minute amounts of wax will be ingested into the body with every use. It will be similar to the current situation with microplastics (mostly polyester – coming from the sportswear and clothing in general that fray at the microscopic level) t
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by inkyoto 3y ago
«Wantonly» is perhaps not the most accurate term at least in the context of hiragana. It evolved as a writing script for women and used exclusively by women and by women only due to the Japanese women having been denied education in Japan a
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by inkyoto 3y ago
It was the French who pushed for a Latin based writing system for Vietnamese in an attempt to improve literacy in Vietnam and to also cut the cultural umbilical cord with China. If China itself were colonised by Western powers towards the e
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> […] where a familiar notation would be appropriate . And this is the problem I have been trying to point out. «+» comes from math, and – in the world of math – there are no bytes, no half-words, no overflows, no carry overs, no branch
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by inkyoto 3y ago
It is not, and it has never been. ELF is platform agnostic, and has been used in operating systems on nearly every existing CPU platform since mid 90's (with a few notable exceptions being OS X, AIX, the embedded world and Windows).
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> rd = rs1 +u8 rs2 AMD 29k (its descendants are still alive) has two further ADD operations: – ADDU – IF unsigned overflow THEN trap (out of range), and – ADDCS – IF signed overflow THEN trap (out of range). The ADD instruction fami
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Because from the CPU perspective, «+» is ambiguous as there is not one «addition» but many: - signed add - unsigned add - add and carry There are a few others in other ISA', then there are the operand sizes (byte, half-word, word, long
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Yes, but often a one off step that sets all your calls to call through a pointer, so each call site in a dynamic executable is slower due to an extra indirection. That is true, however in tight loops or in hot code paths it is unwise t
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> The compiler has built-ins for parts of libc exactly because dynamic linkage is ridiculous for performance […] The argument is entirely contrived and has no root in facts. Compiler built-ins appeared in GNU C/C++ compilers as an a
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by inkyoto 3y ago
1. It is hard to reason without having a reference to a concrete product. For a start, how would a branded smartwatch and a no-name one compare in terms of: - Feature parity (hardware and software). - Build quality (again, hardware, softwar
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> when the watch you are describing is only worth $50, give or take . How do you know that it is «only»? The BOM alone is likely to exceed that for a not very smart watch. There is no «only», as there are other costs of running a smartw
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Static linking gives you better instruction cache utilization as you are executing local code linearly rather than going through indirection with more boilerplate. No, it does not, it worsens it. For example, «strlen», if it comes from
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Just to add to what you said: in the old days the linker would include only the .o files in the .a library that were referenced. It was not exactly like that. Yes, the .o file granularity was there but the unused code from that .o file
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> A linker typically only includes the parts of the library it needs for each binary […] It is exactly the same with the dynamic linking due to the demand paging available in all modern UNIX systems: the dynamic library is not loaded i
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Young Japanese with professional jobs are different from young Japanese living in the countryside. The former is the lifelong job stability (job hopping is far less common in the Japanese corporate environment compared to the West), and the
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by inkyoto 3y ago
From the quoted article: > «However, you’ll often hear from people that Tokyo isn’t “that expensive,” which isn’t false, depending on your location and lifestyle. Indeed, the Deutsche Bank report lists the average price for a “typical”
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Japan does not have the same house affordability problem. Houses and rent are low compared to most 1st world countries (not including the «luxury» accommodation). Japanese houses are pulled down and rebuilt from scratch every 20-30 years, a
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> […] freeze it's state right after the boot and clone it afterwards. You can't do that easily as devices can be attached, detached or reattached dynamically whilst the VM is running and when it is shut down. In lieu of the har
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by inkyoto 3y ago
My point did not pertain to aesthetic qualities of PAE but rather to a limitation of Intel CPU chipsets that imposed a maximum memory constraint (either out of marketing microsegmentation or engineering reasons), the practice that has persi
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by inkyoto 3y ago
The laptop has an Intel Core CPU that supports 36 bit physical addresses (via larger memory pages), so – practically – it can address up to 64Gb of RAM. The constraint is the Intel chipset.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Nah, the trend had started some time before, and Intel is complicit due to limiting the maximum amount of RAM at the chipset level. I am not sure whether it was a technological or a marketing constraint. I have a Sony Vaio VGN-Z17 laptop th
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Indeed, just like the rumours about the premature death of INTERCAL have been grossly overstated. For the INTERCAL freemasons have been tirelessly working in the midst of countless nights in the Lodge to complete the proposal to add support
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Which year of the Ford Mustang? Since 1 metre is 0.019 of the Ford Mustang 2024.50MY, that could have been the source of the descrepancy. It is imperative that we steadfastly adhere to the rigorous standards of scientific exactitude in the
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Did you use the American bald eagle wingspan (latitudinal) length or the length (longitudinal) of the said bald eagle from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail in your calculations? Considering the length of an American football field
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by inkyoto 3y ago
There is a UK company that makes vacuum cleaners under the brand of Vax. They suck well, indeed, although they do not last due to the atrocious build quality – I had one years ago (granted, I had to pay homage and buy a Vax vacuum cleaner),

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