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by inkyoto 10mo ago
They are after the personal use VPN clients, but corporate users will follow soon. Using the corporate VPN for personal purposes, including social media, is generally against corporate policy and is frowned upon (at least officially) in mos
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
> A subset of an ISA will be incompatible with the full ISA and therefore be a new ISA. No existing software will run on it. So this won't really help anyone. This isn't an issue in any way. Vendors have been routinely taking o
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
Finnish and Hungarian, despite being spread well apart from each other, are from the same Uralian language family. Both (and other languages in the family) share one distinctive feature – an excessively large number of noun cases (by Indo-E
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
Colours are fun in many languages. For instance, Japanese and Vietnamese do not differentiate between blue and green and require context specific clarification, e.g «traffic light blue-green».
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
WhatsApp did not have a dedicated Watch app until 1 or 2 months ago – it was not even possible to respond to WhatsApp messages on the Watch, only seeing the mirrored notifications was possible. You can blame Apple for other things if that i
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
I used «powermetrics» bundled with macOS with «bandwidth» as one of the samplers (--samplers / -s set to «cpu_power,gpu_power,thermal,bandwidth»). Unfortunately, Apple has taken out the «bandwidth» sampler from «powermetrics», and it i
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
> I have seen pushback on this kind of behavior because "users don't like error codes" or other such nonsense […] There are two dimensions to it: UX and security. Displaying excessive technical information on an end-user i
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
> Idle threads do increase the amount of committed stack . I am not clear on why the stack of an idlying thread would continue to grow. If a previously processed unit of work resulted in large amounts of memory pages backing the thread
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
> […] the purposes of memory accounting. This is a crucial distinction and I agree when the problem is framed this way. The original statement by another GP, however, was that fork(2) is wasteful (it is not). In fact, I have mentioned it
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
Solaris, AIX, *BSD and others do not offer overcommit, which is a Linux construct, and they all require enough swap space to be available. Installation manuals provide explicit guidelines on the swap partition sizing, with the rule of thumb
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
Also, > Thread stacks come up because reserving them completely ahead of time would incur large amounts of memory usage. Typically they start small and grow when you touch the guards. This is a form of overcommit. Ahead of the time memor
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
> […] because after the fork writes to basically any page in either process will trigger memory commitment. This is largely not true for most processes. For a child process to start writing into its own data pages en masse, there has to
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
The described scenario (and, consequently, a concern) is mostly a philosophical question or a real concern for a very specific workload. Memory allocation is a highly non-deterministic process which highly depends on the code path, and it i
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
Without going into a discussion about whether this is right or wrong, how is fork(2) wasteful? fork(2) has been copy-on-write for decades and does not copy the entire process address space. Thread stacks are a non-sequitur either as stack u
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
«Use» and «utilise» are not always interchangeable. «The burglar utilised the door to escape» would sound comical at best, or it would have the domain knowledge intrinsic to the forensics. But «utilise» is almost always interchangeable with
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
It's all pants to me. – not understood outside the UK even across the Commonwealth.
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
ServiceNow is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS), not a SaaS, that allows development of new products on top of it. At its core, there is a workflow management engine that third parties can use to implement their own, stateful, process centric
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
I can't speak for CAT's outside NSW, but in NSW, under section 45 of the «Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NSW)», a party (including a company that is the respondent) is not entitled to be represented by any person unle
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
It appears that the only way to reach Apple Customer Relations is by way of writing a formal letter to: Apple Pty Ltd, PO Box A2629, Sydney South NSW 1235
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
> Sure, but if it's a corporation, who is going to represent the corporation besides a lawyer? Under common law, lawyers (in the US sense) are not required on either side in the case of handling a dispute or a small claim. Specifica
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
Civil tribunals in Australia (an equivalent of small claim courts in other countries) do not involve lawyers in vast majority of cases and encourage self-representation instead. In fact, the NSW Civil Administrative Tribunal explicitly requ
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
> You could own a microwave, but there doesn't have to be a button that makes it run with the door open. The UI of devices doesn't let just anything happen. And where is the UI capability that prevents microwave users from putt
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
Type IV (also known as Metal) cassettes came in stunning industrial designs – BASF, TDK, Maxell etc. They were worth owing even if a Nakamichi was out of reach.
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
67 and 41 are the TikTok / Gen Z speech. 67 stands for «whatever», «I don't care», or, cyclically, 67! 41 is an expression of shock or disbelief – «that's wild», «no way» and stuff like that.
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
To be able to fully comprehend Perl (even without having to embrace it), one needs a fiddle. Perl and some of Perl's quirks will make more sense once you realise that it is deeply rooted in UNIX command line utilities, UNIX convention
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
I wonder whether the regulatory / civil vs criminal distinction plays a role here. It is plausible to assume that, at any given time, a random person from the juridisction A is in breach of compliance of jurisdiction B – knowingly or u
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
> I don't see any evidence Ofcom is currently asking anyone else to enforce their laws. As far as I can they're currently simply taking the steps they can themselves to enforce their laws - i.e. as far as people in the US go se
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
> So no, there are plenty of easy ways to fool the optimizer by obfuscation. If you mean fooling the compiler by the source code obfuscation, it won't – by the time the first optimisation pass arrives, the source had already been tr
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
It is, of course, well known – or at the very least frequently and enthusiastically repeated – that a suitably drunk Odersky devised Scala whilst watching a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup ad[0]. [0] http://www.nerdware.org/doc&#x
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by inkyoto 11mo ago
Laminated glass does not prevent routine stone chip events – if a tiny fragment of the stone becomes wedged in the outer ply or at the laminate interface at a tension point and, coupled with the temperature difference (inside the cabin vs a

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