krylon

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by krylon 7y ago
I was not saying 16 or 32 cores should be "enough for anyone", I was just curious about the specific workloads people might want such a beast for. ;-)
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by krylon 7y ago
This might sound like a silly question, but what would one use a 64-code CPU on a desktop machine for? Or more precisely, in what situations is a 32-core ThreadRipper2 insufficient?
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by krylon 7y ago
Yes, but if you happen to speak into the general direction of a burning candle, things can get very exciting.
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by krylon 7y ago
> Now that installing wine in Linux on windows is possible, the next step becomes clear. We must compile and run cygwin on wine in Linux on Windows. That would be so awesome! :)
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by krylon 7y ago
But they do. I have gotten calls from users complaining their mail had not arrived after 30 seconds . Many people seem to treat email as a kind of elaborate IM. (EDIT: Note that I do agree with your sentiment!)
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by krylon 8y ago
I know this is not for everyone, but I strongly prefer to run my own recursive resolver at home. Performance is great, plus I get regular DNS for the machines on my home network. Also, it was a fun little project. :)
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by krylon 8y ago
Thank you for the explanation!
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by krylon 8y ago
I have been thinking about this for a while now - on the one had, as somebody who has never tried anything like this and has no intention of ever doing so, it sounds like a really good idea. On the other hand, if it was such a good idea, wh
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by krylon 8y ago
Part of me feels kind of bad about this when I think about it too much, but I have substantially improved my well-being by drastically cutting down my news consumption. It's not about time management per se, but so much of the news eit
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by krylon 8y ago
I have seen one case like this, too. Every week, the customer put a tape into the drive, the machine did something with the tape, but apparently not what it was supposed to do. So when the application running on that machine managed to sc
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by krylon 8y ago
I was under the impression that GPU drivers run in userspace since ... Vista? At least I have seen the GPU driver crash on Windows 7 machines - the screen went blank for a second or two, then it showed the same desktop as before, with a pop
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by krylon 8y ago
That was a real eye-opener for me. In most languages (Java, C#, ...) the standard library is like a mountain range - you can climb it, but you cannot change or move it. In Smalltalk, it is like a living room, where I change or move the furn
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by krylon 8y ago
It means that you can switch the kernel beneath the userspace and hardly notice. So the Linux in GNU/Linux can be replaced, giving you GNU/NT, I guess. Debian actually tried this a while ago with FreeBSD, but I think it was discon
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by krylon 8y ago
Some people have strange hobbies... But it is cool that it is possible at all to bring such software back to life. I wonder if we should start to design operating systems and software so that future generations can do this easier. I guess t
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by krylon 8y ago
Does that include openSuse Tumbleweed?
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by krylon 8y ago
I do not use a hex editor/viewer often. Not at all. But when I do, I am painfully aware of how sparse my toolbelt just became. This little program should fit nicely into that category. An area I would like to explore, but have little-t
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by krylon 8y ago
There is an uppercase ß, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_%E1%BA%9E Not that it has any impact on your point. But as a German who only learned about it fairly recently, I have rather ambivalent feelings
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by krylon 8y ago
This makes me think of PowerShell. Individual Cmdlets can be written in PowerShell itself or in any language that compiles to .Net IL, plus one has dire t access to the entire .Net framework.
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by krylon 8y ago
I can tell the difference between my prefix changing and adresses within a prefix changing.
860.
by krylon 8y ago
Most operating systems these days support IPv6 privacy extensions where a device will pick a semi-random address every 24 hours. IIRC, it is the default on macOS. You can have a static prefix and random addresses per device.
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by krylon 8y ago
I spent the past couple of months working with C#, and I like its approach to deterministic resource handling in a GC language. I think it is very similar to what Python does. Basically, one implements an Interface (IDisposable) and there i
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by krylon 8y ago
I have been getting native IPv6 from my ISP for nearly six years now. It is not quite as cool as it could be, because I get assigned a new prefix every 24 hours, but still, IPv6 is there, and it "just works". When I connect to mac
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by krylon 8y ago
> There are surgery residents working 24h+ shifts. We have laws against overworking truck drivers, but somehow the medical profession gets a pass. That is so true. During my Zivildienst[0], for nurses were required either by law or by co
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by krylon 8y ago
I used to think the term "emacs pinky" was a joke, until I had the opportunity to use it full-time. Within a few weeks, my pinky started to hurt, and pressing the Ctrl-key was especially painful. Not unbearable, but still, pretty
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by krylon 8y ago
It never gets old. ;-)
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by krylon 8y ago
I have been telling people this for a while now, but I either fail to get my point across properly, or people think I am just making excuses. Either way, I wholeheartedly agree with you!
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by krylon 8y ago
> PHP shipbreaking yard Sometimes truth is indeed stranger than fiction. > PHP — in full Peace Happiness Prosperity I really cannot tell if this is an expression of extreme cynicism or starry-eyed idealism.
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by krylon 8y ago
In Germany, we have "Verkehrsberuhigte Zonen"[0] (Wikipedia says the english term is "living street"), where the speed limit is very low, and drivers are expected to look out for playing children. It works relatively w
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by krylon 8y ago
I do like LaTeX very much, but I do not think it is fair to expect the average person to learn LaTeX.
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by krylon 8y ago
Thank you ! That sounds like a fascinating read, I'll get right on it!

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