lonjil

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by lonjil 5y ago
No, no malicious code passed. All malicious code was rejected before making it into the kernel.
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by lonjil 5y ago
> The performance, poor as it is, requires the most expensive model at $630. Why does it require the most expensive model?
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by lonjil 5y ago
near hour long discussions with game performance tests, thermal imaging, airflow testing, etc, don't seem to be the kind of stuff you're talking about
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by lonjil 5y ago
There's no privately known way of writing to it either. Mask ROMs are set in stone.
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by lonjil 5y ago
"thumb-2" isn't really a thing. It's just an informal name from when more instructions were being added to thumb. it's still just thumb.
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by lonjil 5y ago
Thumb has both 16-bit and 32-bit instructions.
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by lonjil 5y ago
> Genuinely asking, why? Do we think RISC-V should, or even could, try to compete against the AMD/Intel/ARM behemoths on their playing field? Well, it's exactly what many RISC-V folks are trying to do. There's news ab
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by lonjil 5y ago
Most commonly used x86_64 instructions decode to only 1 or 2 µops, thus often also just as "complex" as the original instructions.
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by lonjil 5y ago
The ARMv8-M profile is Thumb-only, so on ARM microcontroller platforms there is no switching at all, and it does do everything, or at least everything you might want to do on a microcontroller, and has of course gotten a very large amount o
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by lonjil 5y ago
The fix has now been pushed to the 3.15 branch.
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by lonjil 5y ago
> The main advantage is the absence of bloat, e.g. components like DBus ? Like most distros that start you off but nothing but a minimal base, you can choose whether to install DBus or not. Almost everyone using Alpine as a daily driver
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by lonjil 5y ago
As long as you're OK with the limitations imposed by using musl, I think it's great on the desktop. I recently switched from Void Linux (glibc variant) and it's working very well. I run proprietary applications like Spotify,
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by lonjil 5y ago
It is designed for desktop use, actually. Many of Alpine's developers use it as their primary PC distro :)
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by lonjil 5y ago
It seems like Alpine's attempt at upgrading to OpenSSL 3.0 caused them a fair bit of stress, only a bit of which was caused by applications still using ancient deprecated APIs.
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by lonjil 5y ago
Ehh, it doesn't seem very hasty to me. The proposal is for Alpine 3.17 or 3.18, which are 1 and 1.5 years away respectively. That's plenty of time to consider the pros and cons, try it, and revert if it ends up being a poor choice
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by lonjil 5y ago
It's not about comparing quality, it's about comparing consistency. Brands want their blends to be consistent from year to year. So every year they might create hundreds or thousands of different combinations of the specific teas
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by lonjil 5y ago
For most kinds of tea, boiling is fine or even preferred if the tea is of good quality. I would never steep any of the white teas I own below 90°C, and most days I prefer boiling. Likewise with green (and yellow) tea, unless Japanese. Oolon
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by lonjil 5y ago
For Cycles, Vulkan is simply not an option. Metal compute is capable of everything OpenCL is, but is more modern / nicer / whatever, while Vulkan Compute is pretty crap and definitely can't be used as a replacement for OpenCL
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by lonjil 5y ago
> doesn't understand the operation perfectly IS going to be black-bagged by their local black-ops group More likely, they simply aren't noteworthy targets. If you rely on PGP to secure your emails, those emails will probably en
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by lonjil 5y ago
Because then you'd need to make literally everything you use support the unikernel. Containers, and VMs running Linux, are nice because everything already works on Linux. Also, I don't see what you would actually gain. Like what l
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by lonjil 5y ago
JPEG XL is really new, so it would be a lot more surprising if it did have support anywhere yet. Hell, AVIF is pretty new too.
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by lonjil 5y ago
Just put an index on whatever nice sortable unique field you happen to have, then?
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by lonjil 5y ago
Steam Link and Steam Controller were dropped because they weren't selling very well, but the steam link application continues to be updated, and the Steam Controller continued to get firmware updates until 2018. If this Steam Deck thin
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by lonjil 5y ago
I think it's about as fast as a regular hard drive. So I guess use that as a point of reference.
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by lonjil 5y ago
SD class UHS-I is about as fast as a SATA HDD, so it will be quite a bit slower than your SATA SSD.
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TigerBeetle – A Million Financial Transactions per Second in Zig(youtube.com)
41 points by lonjil 5y ago|18 comments
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by lonjil 5y ago
Note also that the SQLite devs, chasing 1% perf improvements every year, continually rewrite huge chunks of the entire library, sometimes replacing entire components. Their comprehensive testing ensures that there's no API or ABI break
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by lonjil 5y ago
If you need a bigger stack, you can get one. This stuff is merely the default.
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by lonjil 5y ago
> What, then, is the guaranteed thread stack size? If you need a big stack, you can just ask pthread to give you one.
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by lonjil 5y ago
So in your view, having even a single GNU tool installed, or even available for installation, means you're using "GNU/Linux"? Alpine uses musl and busybox rather than the more common GNU equivalents. Kernel overcommit ha

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