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Layman POV: - TSMC are the only company currently shipping real products at 7nm, and 5nm is a full generation ahead beyond that - nobody else is anywhere close to 5nm. - Samsung will have a 7nm later this year that is broadly equivalent to
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What are the benefits of this approach compared to a ligature at the font-level?
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> VMs are slower than bare metal. News at 10. The other interesting part of the benchmark is the i7-8559U (Coffee Lake, 4C8T, 2.7GHz) macOS vs i7-8750H (Coffee Lake, 6C12T, 2.2GHz) Ubuntu, on a single-threaded benchmark ("We are g
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I assume real live websites are detecting "Edge/" and applying workarounds for the old rendering engine.
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Goroutine stacks start out small (2KB), are heap-allocated and copyable (unlike most Go memory).
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Go previously used segmented stacks, but stopped in the 1.4 release (2014)
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If your addon works entirely locally, you only need to be "verified as non-malicious software", but if there is any network component then you need the "full assessment" from an independent 3rd-party auditor: > The a
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Debian? For upthread comparison, the debian:stable-slim container is 22MB. That includes perl, tzdata, apt, bash, coreutils/util-linux and... basically nothing else. It's a very minimal rootfs that can still be easily extended. (T
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Phones have completely replaced the use case of PCs for most people, we've accidentally reached a point where it's normal to grow up without a PC in the house. A friend of mine is a university tutor and complained about students s
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I ran all your commands above on Debian Buster (4-core i5 2500 from 2011, 8GB ram, SATA SSD). My /tmp apparently isn't a tmpfs mount. Results: http://paste.debian.net/1072430/ It took 54s to sort|uniq and 38s
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I'm glad to see setting the env var in init() is enough to trigger this on - I'll be doing the same at $DAYJOB.
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Is it possible to use the builtin 9P client with non-WSL servers?
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The standards are just economically prohibitive to implement all over again.
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Further reading: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2018?action=AttachFile&do=g... (e.g. slide 22)
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IIRC this is because under memory pressure, files can be paged out to their existing disk location, rather than taking up extra space in swap.
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Distributing Standalone Python Applications
(gregoryszorc.com)
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Fireworks (Adobe/Macromedia) was in this category of mixed vector/raster editors. I'd love to see it return, but a 2019 version would have to be somewhat different to survive. Krita is making serious moves in this direction.
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> worst that can happen is you accidentally start a download There's a potential DLL hijacking attack: 1. Accidental download of kernel32.dll 2. Ignore, who cares, do something else 3. Download actually_wanted_installer.exe, which
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> Thus, two different function pointers may have the same bit pattern. Is this likely/guaranteed to happen by the wasm standard itself, or, could runtimes/emcc fill in stub table entries to avoid this?
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Lineage is great, but that's 14.1 (Android 7, not "the latest" 9) and Lineage can't patch vulnerabilities in binary driver blobs. Still - much better than being left in the cold by your OEM
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> Is OpenBSD supposed to comply with secret terms that they are purposely not made aware of, nor have agreed to? You discovered the secret, but recognize that embargoes still have value even if you weren't part of it. Be the bette
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Quality of SATA ports, too. Not so great to find your 4 SATA ports are all hanging off a USB2 bus.
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Comparison to Avisynth / Vapoursynth ?
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This is a pretty important category for me. Users are actually pretty happy to migrate to new chat systems (with clear benefits) if you can pull off a gradual migration with seamless chat linking. I did a gradual migration of our group chat
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> an obviously weird action, like finding and checkout out a commit hash instead of a branch But this isn't an obviously weird action? It happens all the time when you need to branch off from a previous point. Maybe you're un
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> If it were, then VMX drivers would not be able to coexist with each other. Most VMX drivers are unable to coexist (in the sense that VirtualBox, HAXM, Hyper-V, and VMWare Player are mutually incompatible / can't be used in
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The old key was hosted inside a proprietary appliance and can't be extracted. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/anandb/the-future-of-dnssec-at... https://labs.ripe.net/Members/anandb/dns
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I evaluated phabricator today for Hg hosting at $DAYJOB. Issues in Maniphest aren't "attached" to a Diffusion repo, so you can't use it as a Gitea/Github-style one-repo-one-project system; it's one-phabricator-
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Yes! Thank you.
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I remember a DOS (or early Windows) game like this. A top-down, 2D game for two players or 1 + CPU. There were no obstacles, but every time you moved through the background fluid, more fluid was created in your colour (purple / pink),
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