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by lower 6y ago
But be aware that it does not guarantee the presence of a memory fence. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26307071/does-the-c-vola...
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by lower 6y ago
Here is a presentation with more technical details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2mnbyRgXkY&t=7975
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by lower 6y ago
The old To/Cc design was really bad. If you have more than three addresses, then these three lines scroll. The only indication that there are more than three addresses is a tiny scrollbar all the way to the right. I recently sent an
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by lower 6y ago
Zak McKracken: The FM Towns version is the only one with 256 colours.
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by lower 6y ago
Our office is in the process of opening again and we have an arrangement that, at any time, half of the people come to the office and the other half stays at home. It's one person per room, basically. Some groups have organised themsel
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by lower 6y ago
I have the same configuration and leave display scaling at 100%, but set the font scaling factor to 1.5 in the Gnome Tweak Tool. In this way, all fonts in Wayland and XWayland apps have the right size and nothing is blurry. Only controls li
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by lower 6y ago
> It seems the obvious way to do this was to have SMB mounts on either side and optimize the hell out of the already existing SMB implementations on both OSes to get the performance close enough to disk. That's basically what they&#
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by lower 6y ago
> (& *BSDs) You must be a C++ programmer [1]. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25224958/dereference-a-p...
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by lower 6y ago
Open a new one, it's empty anyway. I only have it so that Android can track me.
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by lower 6y ago
Spießrutenlaufen was used by the military and was a severe, often fatal punishment. It was certainly not a great educational tool.
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by lower 7y ago
The UK is still bound to the EU rules until the end of the year. Here is an article stating this explicitly in connection to the "ghost flight" rules: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/10
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by lower 7y ago
> My understanding is that if airlines stop running flights they may lose their access to a given airport or terminal. This used to be the case, but the relevant rule has now been suspended. https://www.euractiv.com/secti
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by lower 7y ago
I like this set of graphs with commentary: http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/
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by lower 7y ago
Right, both papers are mainly what should be done right now. They both conclude that a hard lockdown is the only realistic option that won't overload the health system in the next few months. It's not so clear what to do afterward
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by lower 7y ago
> Which experts are proposing the way forward is actually a total lockdown? The Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, for example: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s... In Germ
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by lower 7y ago
Get out of academia
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by lower 7y ago
I usually say überkompliziert.
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by lower 7y ago
I think it's a mistranslation, though. The "mut" in "wehmut" does not mean courage. Looking up the etymology, the word "wehmut" seems to come from "wehmütig", which literally means something like
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by lower 7y ago
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/36c3
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by lower 7y ago
All Android One phones get security updates for at least three years. Samsung decreases the frequency of security updates after two years, but still provides some. Google updates its phones for quite a bit longer. Of all the phones I'v
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by lower 7y ago
The problem with Motorola is the complete lack of software support. I have a G5+ and Motorola announced in March that it will not receive security updates anymore. That's just two years after the phone's release. It seems that Mot
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by lower 7y ago
You should try ed sometime :).
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by lower 7y ago
In Europe, Budapest, Berlin, Paris and Madrid have been in the same time zone for over 80 years. The day in Paris is currently shifted by almost an hour compared to Berlin. If the time shift has serious implications, then it ought to be pos
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by lower 7y ago
> it does NOT work in said presentation. You mean like the Vorführeffekt when you're trying to show the bug and then it isn't there? :)
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by lower 7y ago
Possibly, but one of the examples was a link to Springer IP.
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by lower 7y ago
> You can't update the bios through Linux, the update tool is windows only. I run Fedora on a T480s and BIOS updates come automatically through the software update channel (in fact, the frequency of BIOS updates is a little annoying
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by lower 7y ago
> They are so important that even a language like Haskell is willing to accept utterly nonsensical semantics (hello, Traversable) to better support sequences. I've mostly ignored Haskell for the past decade. What happened with Trave
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by lower 7y ago
Ipe is great not just for figures, but also presentations. It supports multi-page documents, incremental build-up of slides, presentation style-sheets, and so on. Showcase: https://github.com/otfried/ipe-wiki/wiki&
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by lower 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19474280
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by lower 8y ago
Thanks! I just replaced FnvHashMap with hashbrown::HashMap and get a 20% overall performance improvement in my workload (which is rather HashMap-heavy).

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