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by jlokier 3y ago
No. At the moment it's people who don't own a property and have savings instead who "pay twice". People who couldn't get a mortgage to buy a house so saved instead are expected to pay more towards old age care t
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Not a philosophical point, but potentially a physical one. The quantum no-cloning theorem says that it's physically imposible to make any copy of a quantum state, for example all of the state which comprises your body. But it is possi
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by jlokier 3y ago
I did the same and ended up using Chrome to generate invoices too, after years of painful workarounds with other tools and methods. So much time was wasted on different tools and methods, until Chrome HTML print-to-PDF proved to be reasona
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by jlokier 3y ago
Those notations are well-known standard notation for the same general concept, "the size of". What "the size of" means is different applied to each type of object, and may have to be defined to explain some of them (esp.
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by jlokier 3y ago
You're right, find won't call stat() unless it needs to. It doesn't need to for recursing through the directory tree because readdir() returns dirent.d_type these days to determine if a name is a directory. Yes, those stat()
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by jlokier 3y ago
When you are distributing over multiple geographic locations, and much of the data can tolerate a longer round trip time for access, you can extend the RAID pattern across multiple locations, instead of within a location. Provided you have
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by jlokier 3y ago
> I now know that startups often first allocate 10M shares, apparently for psychological reasons. Heh. My company has exactly one (1) share, probably also for psychological reasons.
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by jlokier 3y ago
That depends a lot on the channel. Some channels are exclusively monthly public announcements, of new version of software, or bugs, or announcements of conferences for example. Or job opportunities with instructions on how to apply. Some
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by jlokier 3y ago
Thanks.
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Can you say a bit more about what Linux got wrong in cmpxchg or provide a link?
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You'd listen 3 times instead of 5 to save on the monthly bill. Same as when dialup Internet access was billed by the minute. Most people would limit their time online to reduce the bill, and didn't feel free to browse for hours ev
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by jlokier 3y ago
It's not smart if you can't given them your phone number because they started requiring your phone number to login before you can give them your phone number.
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by jlokier 3y ago
The Apple M2 Ultra memory bandwidth is 800GB/s so it's not a long way off 1TB/s. A100 goes up to 2TB/s in the largest configuration, and H100 claims 3TB/s per GPU node. (These figures keep changing with new variant
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by jlokier 3y ago
Even before it's full, an open addressing hash table (also called closed hashing - confusing names!) becomes very slow as it gets close to full, because most of the table needs to be scanned on inserts, and on queries for the recently
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by jlokier 3y ago
> A lot of mallocs. Just malloc a pool and implement an allocation strategy on top of it. Malloc more as necessary (say 2^n). Good mallocs do that themselves already. It's built in, they use a pool. Really good mallocs use a fa
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by jlokier 3y ago
> As long as there are no writes during those reads... everything should be stable, no? Yes, but how do you ensure there are no writes during those reads? You have to protect the reads against concurrent writes. The simplest way is to
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by jlokier 3y ago
Slashdot, one of the oldest big tech/nerdy news and comment web forums (like HN) on the net. In many ways it pioneered voting and moderation systems we see today. https://slashdot.org/ https://en.wikipedia.o
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by jlokier 3y ago
iTerm2 on the Mac has this. It's a "minimum contrast" slider from 0 to 100% which does what you'd expect. It's nice that it's adjustable. Windows Terminal has something like this, but finds a way to screw it
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by jlokier 3y ago
> A lot of Perl can be readable. But sometimes you get a backend where someone with , let's say, a "unique" view of software development writes I agree. Perhaps Perl culture encouraged that kinds of development. But I&
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by jlokier 3y ago
It doesn't mean anything in Perl. The comment is a demonstration of why some criticisms of Perl are unjustified, as people love to make up little things like that, then other people such as yourself end up with the impression that sor
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by jlokier 3y ago
It's marketing in action, though Chris Lattner's reputation from LLVM and Swift has a lot to do with why it quickly gained a high profile in these circles. Maybe it's true, maybe it isn't. But who do you think has a ves
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by jlokier 3y ago
Thanks for the clarification, I appreciate it. I knew about the 13" M2 MBP (although it seems very easy to forget somehow), but maybe due to marketing materials I encountered, I'd incorrectly thought that product line started with
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by jlokier 3y ago
Windows isn't unusual for the CRLF translation part. Unix based operating systems, such as Linux, MacOS and the BSDs, do something similar. When writing to a terminal device, which can be a console device, the terminal driver perform
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by jlokier 3y ago
The tweet says "M1 MBP". That is short for Macbook Pro and means the CPU is an M1 Pro or M1 Max. Not the entry level M1.
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Why is std:pair broken?(danlark.org)
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I have done so for years on my 2013 x86 MBP, using VMware Fusion. It's really nice being able to four-finger swipe between Macos and Linux full-screen desktops when I want that. But usually I SSH into the Linux VM so that I can use iTe
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by jlokier 3y ago
A local ice-cream and bagels café had extremely loud music. It was also the only place you could go at night which wasn't a drinking establishment, so it was packed with students and people like me reading books or with their laptops,
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by jlokier 3y ago
> I assume there must be an order of magnitude mistake somewhere here, either in the currency conversion or in the timeframe. I guess the GP meant "USD per year". With that the numbers work out. To clarify. 1M ISK ≈ 7,150 US
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by jlokier 3y ago
I was asked to estimate how much time remained to complete all the components for a 3d game engine to make it perform excellently according to the design in my head. This was back in the days when you rendered every pixel on the CPU using
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by jlokier 3y ago
You'll mangle the string if you index and search by code points too, when the string contains the emoji this article is about, or for that matter an "e" following by combining acute accent. The string will be fine if you only

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