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by kasabali 6y ago
> Gone are the days when gamers only cares about single core performance Unfortunately that's not true. I closely follow popular hardware subreddits (which are disproportionally gaming oriented) and read a fair share of comments eve
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by kasabali 6y ago
Windows XP 64 bit edition was based on Server 2003, as it was released after it. You can even say it was 64 bit, client edition of server 2003. Windows XP service packs were based on, well, Windows XP. Because that's what service packs
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by kasabali 6y ago
Developer scripts (checkpatch etc.) are written in perl, though it's not required for builds.
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by kasabali 6y ago
> The fact that an air intake borders our brain is a massive security weakness in our "intelligent" design That, and you can be choked to death while eating always reminds me it's more a cruel joke than an intelligent desi
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by kasabali 6y ago
... I'm sorry about typos with 1+ year -> with 1+ year of bug fixes giving bugs -> fixing bugs
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by kasabali 6y ago
That doesn't prove anything. People said it was crap because it was. Then SP1 was released with 1+ year and it became pretty good. By SP3 it was rock solid because that's 7 years of bug fixes keeping other changes to minimum. That
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by kasabali 6y ago
2014-2008=6 It's "close enough" only because you're trying to save face from your incorrect implication/claim you've repeated several times across different comments in this thread that he was the CEO when he d
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by kasabali 6y ago
If you're trying to implement stuff in shell you're doing it wrong. It's a glue language. and yes, parsing XML or JSON in "linux shell" is very easy. For JSON use jq, for XML use xml2 or xmlstarlet.
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by kasabali 6y ago
There's actually such a program and it's called Windows. Due to a Windows Update bug, temp folder is filled with error logs which aren't deleted afterwards. https://support.microsoft.com/en-za/help/4
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by kasabali 6y ago
> NVMe controller might be more computationally heavy Which is ironic because NVMe was supposed to be more efficient and doing less work because it's design wasn't bound with SATA&spinning assumptions and controller doesn&#
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by kasabali 6y ago
Better if you like MLC
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by kasabali 6y ago
> Workloads just aren't often large and sequential enough Another important thing to mention is that even on sequential write workloads where NVMe shines they actually have limited benefit. Because after the SLC cache fills up seqen
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by kasabali 6y ago
Wine runs older Office versions fine. I heard Crossover works even better if you're willing to pay for it.
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by kasabali 6y ago
> forces them to FRAND licensing of ARM IP FRAND licensing is worthless, if Qualcomm taught us anything.
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by kasabali 6y ago
No. They have architectural licenses but they use ARM designs.
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by kasabali 6y ago
No wonder, they have the largest red tape on maintainer application process. Until very recently they were expecting GPG keys signed by 2 Debian developers, and that could be only done by being developers face to face, or by attending a key
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by kasabali 6y ago
I'd guess our machine overlords didn't like it
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by kasabali 6y ago
It works just fine on Opera on Android thanks to text reflow. Most of the time it's not web sites but browsers, who are unfriendly.
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by kasabali 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24383819
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by kasabali 6y ago
> if the data was laid out sequentially on disk, and the computer was not accessing any other files on the disk in question (spinning disks for movies and other data, SSD or m.2 for OS itself), then it would be very silent That's no
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by kasabali 6y ago
That's simply not possible. Tolerances are too tight on a modern drive.
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by kasabali 6y ago
Note that the 28W TDP number is for 3.0 GHz base clock. 4.8GHz turbo would be 50W.
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by kasabali 6y ago
> giving a customer a faster than spec product IIRC from older threads - seek times are faster but sequential speed is capped.
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by kasabali 6y ago
I guess it's about having a direct commit access to their CVS tree.
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by kasabali 6y ago
> The case insensitivity is just a horribly bad idea, and Applie could have pushed fixing it. They didn't. Instead, they doubled down on a bad idea, and actively extended it - very very badly - to unicode. And it's not even UTF
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by kasabali 6y ago
> Yet when a one-person team tries to provide relevant examples on the issues of dealing with Microsoft, pitching a potential solution, and offering their take on it -- fully open-sourced -- they get discounted as advertisement -- even t
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by kasabali 6y ago
> For a lot of people, probably the large majority of people, GitHub's (or GitLab's) UI is simpler to work with than a terminal. The topic isn't about majority of users. It is specifically about Linux kernel developers.
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Jensen Huang’s vision for data center dominance may destroy the Arm ecosystem(semianalysis.com)
135 points by kasabali 6y ago|117 comments
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by kasabali 6y ago
It isn't a 1st class fs in any OS so it lacks some polish tooling-wise etc., but it should work fine for basic file transfer jobs. I'm using it on an external HDD for copying/watching video files between Linux and Windows box
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by kasabali 6y ago
> because I don’t know how else to have a cross-platform filesystem without a stupidly-low file-size limit UDF is natively supported on all major OS. I haven't used it in macOS but on paper macOS seems to be having even better suppo

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