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by jjuhl 9y ago
Agreed. Knobs to turn is a good thing. But only if they are super relevant knobs. Too much configurability leads to bloat. Good defaults are good, but even better is (often) not having a knob to turn at all.
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The Limits of Correctness [pdf](student.cs.uwaterloo.ca)
2 points by jjuhl 9y ago|0 comments
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Benchmarking Retpoline-Enabled GCC 8 with -mindirect-branch=thunk(phoronix.com)
1 points by jjuhl 9y ago|0 comments
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by jjuhl 9y ago
Anyone who does something like this in production code ... shouldn't be writing production code...
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Cherry Introduces New Low Profile RGB Switches at CES 2018
1 points by jjuhl 9y ago|0 comments
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by jjuhl 9y ago
There's also option#4: just get on-board. Accept it's a fraud, milk it for everything you can, then leave after (hopefully) cashing in and leave the whole mess to everyone else and hope there won't be any (too bad) implicatio
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by jjuhl 9y ago
But those are all just mitigations, not fixes. Such changes don't guarantee that it's impossible to still leak information - just that it will be harder (but not inherently impossible) to exploit.
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Bad docs and blue screens make Microsoft suspend Spectre patch for AMD machines(arstechnica.com)
2 points by jjuhl 9y ago|0 comments
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Visual Studio 2017 Throughput Improvements and Advice(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
1 points by jjuhl 9y ago|0 comments
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Meltdown and Spectre: Here’s What Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Others Are Doing(arstechnica.com)
1 points by jjuhl 9y ago|0 comments
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Kernel Side-Channel Attacks(access.redhat.com)
98 points by jjuhl 9y ago|11 comments
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Git v2.16.0-rc0(lkml.iu.edu)
4 points by jjuhl 9y ago|0 comments
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by jjuhl 9y ago
I don't see the problem. If waiting a little is such a big deal then you are in too much of a hurry already and/or too stressed out. Relax. Take it easy.
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Tired of waiting for pull request reviews? Play Pull Request Roulette(deliveroo.engineering)
1 points by jjuhl 9y ago|0 comments
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PC vendors scramble as Intel announces vulnerability in firmware(arstechnica.com)
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by jjuhl 9y ago
The stuff I work on uses Qt, which makes internationalisation a breeze.
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Initial Benchmarks of the AMD EPYC 7601 on Ubuntu Linux(phoronix.com)
2 points by jjuhl 9y ago|0 comments
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by jjuhl 9y ago
Yeah, just do a "git init" and now you have one.
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High Integrity C++ Coding Standard(codingstandard.com)
1 points by jjuhl 9y ago|0 comments
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Debian Installer Buster Alpha 1 Release(lists.debian.org)
2 points by jjuhl 9y ago|0 comments
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by jjuhl 9y ago
No, no, no. What I want to see in a commit message is what the person who made the change thought the reason behind the change was. Anything generated based just on the basis of the diff (what actually changed) is going to always fall sho
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Crowdsourced Gaming of Google Translate Dubs Kim Jong Un “Mr. Squidward”(arstechnica.co.uk)
1 points by jjuhl 9y ago|1 comments
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Visual C++ for Linux Development with CMake(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
2 points by jjuhl 9y ago|0 comments
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LLVM Heat Printer(github.com)
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by jjuhl 9y ago
Read the benchmarks. Then judge for yourself for your specific workload.
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by jjuhl 9y ago
The only situation where I've actually employed bubble sort in production code was in a situation where the container to be sorted was guaranteed to be at most 5 elements (and usually 3) and was usually already sorted - and calling thi
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by jjuhl 9y ago
How things have improved. I remember my 386DX/33 with 4MB RAM + 16MB swap that took a little over 24 hours to compile a Linux kernel back in the mid-nineties ;-) Now get off my lawn kids..
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AMD Threadripper 1950X Linux Benchmarks(phoronix.com)
84 points by jjuhl 9y ago|23 comments
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by jjuhl 9y ago
As I see it, most engineers, developers etc (myself included) will instantly label anyone using these "tricks" as the most stupid person in the room.
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Some Early AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X Linux Benchmarks(phoronix.com)
7 points by jjuhl 9y ago|0 comments

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