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by jeffbee 7mo ago
In a multi-tenant environment, yes. The faster they can get off the CPU and yield to some other tenant, the better it is.
722.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
The argument about the California bill is not that it is a slippery slope, but that it was drafted by people with zero domain knowledge. It applies equally to toaster ovens as well as iPhones.
723.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
Of course, it only helps workloads that exhibit high rates of page table walking per instruction. But those are really common.
724.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
There's a book about being the child of back-to-the-land hippies called "Against the Country" that I enjoyed and recommend to all who might be tempted.
725.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
Allocators like that aren't the default for every process because they have higher startup costs. They are targeted to server workloads where startup cost doesn't matter, but it matters a lot if you're doing crud like startin
726.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
mimalloc definitely made claims that could not be reproduced, or at least not by me. That's why I wrote this doc five years ago. "Irreproducible malloc benchmarks" https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/evnn
727.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
That strikes me as a common hugepages win. People never believe you, though, when you say you can make their thing 20% faster for free.
728.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
Right but on Intel the 1G page size has historically been the odd one. For example Skylake-X has 1536 L2 shared TLB entries for either 4K or 2M pages, but it only has 16 entries that can be used for 1G pages. It wasn't unified until Ca
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
Just out of curiosity are you getting 1GB huge pages on Xeon or some other platform? I always thought this class of page is the hardest to exploit, considering that the machine only has, if I recall correctly, one TLB slot for those.
730.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
I'll tell you what AI apparently can't replace and that is information graphics designers who are familiar with the exotic detail known as "contrast".
731.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
This is 99.44% slop! You are completely correct. The "exposure" is based entirely on vibes and does not correspond to observable reality. Down here in the real world the very first sector that is being disrupted is manual farm lab
732.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
Don't project the emptiness of your existence on the rest of us. Cities are the only reason we have orchestras and ballets, vibrant sports leagues, and other things central to family life. I do not want my kids to have to live in a &qu
733.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
Yeah, but unfortunately false nostalgia for subsistence farming is widespread and has traction in the discourse. I guess it's probably because every American who ever suffered from that lifestyle is dead, in other words the same reason
734.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
Depending on how old you are, I might suggest that you were simply not aware of the details of your grandparents' lives at that time. And it just sounds like you have surrounded yourself with assholes in adulthood.
735.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
Yes but they do it in a structured way rather than this "autonomous" way where "autonomous" means that no effort has been put into seeing if it works right.
736.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
People made self-guided missiles with 1940s technology, in the 1940s. It can't be too much of a surprise if someone right now can make guided missiles in their garage with 2026 electronics. At this point the "guided" feature
737.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
Sure, but it's totally ridiculous to post about that without discussing the survey response rate, which is the cause of that drift. People are attributing it to political meddling, and that is baseless. Naturally all of this metadata a
738.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
"BLS CPS is worse than a hypothetical better thing" is tautological, void, and without meaning.
739.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
> I've never met a single person willing to attest to filling out a BLS survey. Unless you have introduced yourself with this question to thousands of people, this is a totally meaningless statement. It says more about your social c
740.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
It is in fact not at all reasonable. They are saying that the BLS stats can't be trusted because they totally misunderstand the survey methodology. That isn't a reason!
741.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
Do you have a substantive complaint to make about the BLS methodology? So far all I see in your remark is shadowstats vibes.
742.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
Your comment is broadly misleading. In fact, I would say that "shadow stats" guys like you have enabled the destruction of the system by creating the space to cast doubt on the valid methods used by BLS. BLS unemployment metrics h
743.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
I did read it. The point is there are no findings that justify the regulation in light of the grant of rights in the same bill. The only WHEREAS that approaches the level of a finding amounts to "many are saying..."
744.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
It amuses me how contradictory the two bullet points from the article are. - Strict limits on governmental regulation, wherein any restrictions must be demonstrably necessary and narrowly tailored to a compelling public safety or health int
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
It seems like a normal-sized motherboard? For comparison here is the ifixit teardown of a PixelBook Go (happens to be the laptop I am using right now). https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/LT6YEIeE1Svh4WCk.hug...
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by jeffbee 7mo ago
The fuckwit in the video is personally responsible for crushing the productivity boom. Higher education is, or at least was, one of America's chief export industries.
747.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
Nobody hates ALPRs more than tax evaders. I love ALPRs because they bring lawless sociopaths out of the woodwork.
748.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
From the company that brought you the Lung Brush.
749.
by jeffbee 7mo ago
"How dare they say mean things about the manner in which I destroyed a nation?"
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
I don't even know why this is downvoted. Standard technique in Texas. Harris County does not have 40 DPS offices for its 5 million people. The current backlog to get a DPS drivers license appointment in Harris County is 45 days. The ne

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