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by krylon 5y ago
You can run into the same problem in C, using malloc/realloc. realloc, in fact, makes for a nasty footgun, too (and remains, of course, available in C++).
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by krylon 5y ago
A while ago, there was an announcement by, I think, Western Digital, that they were going to replace the ARMs in their HDDs with RISC V.
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by krylon 5y ago
Sumatra is my favorite PDF viewer on Windows. The fact that it can display all these other formats as well is a nice bonus. It's much more lightweight and unobtrusive than Adobe's Reader or Foxit, both in terms of resources and UI
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by krylon 5y ago
I doubt you can just move out of North Korea, especially if your significant other or close relative has just defected.
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by krylon 5y ago
I got an Asus ZenBook UX305 that cost ca. €850 in 2016. 8GB RAM, Intel Core m3, 13-ish inch 1080p display. It runs openSuse Tumbleweed, and I am very happy with it. Bluetooth is a tiny bit flaky sometimes, and the backlight for the keyboa
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by krylon 5y ago
Thank you for that link, this is so much fun! I feel like a ten-year old playing with this.
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by krylon 5y ago
It took me a couple of years and several attempts to really get there. Don't give up! ;-)
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by krylon 5y ago
To be fair, every single Acer device I've ever had contact with other than my display was conspicuously unreliable, and their support/service has not been that great, either. I have good experience with Asus laptops, though, I sti
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by krylon 5y ago
It's not just "a" 32-bit extender. If you played video games on DOS in the 1990s and saw the output starting with "DOS/4GW" before the game took over the graphics hardware, the game developers had been using Wa
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by krylon 5y ago
I've never thought about this, but how big are the performance penalties for Spectre mitigations vs not having Javascript JIT? (Just to be clear, I'm perfectly happy with the performance of my old-ish machine, so I have no motivat
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by krylon 5y ago
If I understand the article correctly, the CPU itself would take care of moving tasks between BIG and little cores, so the operating system would not need to know about it. I'm not sure that's the best way to handle this, but I do
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by krylon 5y ago
AAAAAH! Had I only bothered to finish reading TFA, it would have answered my question: "Ten years ago, I asked Intel’s smartphone SoC designers why they were relying on DVFS — Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling — to keep Atom’s powe
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by krylon 5y ago
I honestly don't know anything about the big.LITTLE approach beyond the name and the basic idea. As I understand it, it makes sense in battery-powered devices. But does it advantages in desktop or server machines? I vaguely recall read
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by krylon 5y ago
Given how long-lived Apple hardware can be[0], I doubt that the percentage of M1 macs out there is close to 50% of all Macs. They will get there in the next couple of years, but I don't there there yet.
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by krylon 5y ago
I used to know a guy who collected C64s in 2009, and he was complaining back then that buying them on eBay was an exercise in trial-and-error, for the exact same reason that the SID chip was missing so often. :(
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by krylon 5y ago
I guess that was what I was trying to say. Make your code as obvious as possible, and use comments to explain what's not obvious. Although people have vastly different ideas of what is or isn't obvious.
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by krylon 5y ago
A comment like "This method opens a separate database connection so as not to mess with the ongoing transaction" or some such would be rather helpful, though.
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by krylon 5y ago
I remember reading that before SP1, performance was very unpredictable; I read one review where it performed okay on a mediocre machine but was abysmally slow on a high end machine. SP1, allegedly, fixed a lot of those problems, but by that
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by krylon 5y ago
SAP - I'm not making a statement re the quality of their software, but they seem to be doing pretty well for themselves. Siemens SiMatic - again, I won't say anything about the quality of their software, but they seem to be succes
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by krylon 5y ago
As far as I recall, it did not do that in Windows 7. I have not used Windows 10 that much.
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by krylon 5y ago
To be fair, some major changes are not directly user-visible. For example, Microsoft created a new programming language (called "P") to rewrite the USB stack in Windows 8 or 8.1 that allegedly made that part more secure/relia
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by krylon 5y ago
As much as I dislike Windows in general, the NT based Windows systems have been very stable for a very long time. I once saw a server running NT 4.0 with 6 years uptime. I don't know about Vista, but in my experience both XP and 7 have
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by krylon 5y ago
Regarding the argument that nuclear power plants "always work", I would like to point out that in France, a lot of them are built next to rivers and use river water for cooling. Except in summer, when the water in the rivers becom
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by krylon 5y ago
I think extraterrestrial porn is more likely. SCNR
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by krylon 6y ago
> zsh built-in pager (invoked with `<`) Huh, I did not know about this. Thank you!
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by krylon 6y ago
While I would not like to see her get off the hook this easily, she is correct for once. The thing is, if she really believed that, she might have attempted to set people straight who were unreasonable enough to believe her. That would have
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by krylon 6y ago
Oh my, I would completely freak out if my home was overrun by spiders. There is a vibrating spider living in my bedroom, and I already get slightly nervous whenever it moves away from its regular spot.
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by krylon 6y ago
That's nothing. I don't have thousands.
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by krylon 6y ago
I vaguely recall some kind of malware that upon infecting a system scanned the system for other malware and removed/disabled it. The motives were far from pure, obviously. (Although there also was a case, I think, of a piece of malware
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by krylon 6y ago
If I had read that comment just a few seconds earlier, you would probably owe me a new keyboard now. ;-)

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