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541.
by mastax 4y ago
Yes, Intel is letting customers use their IP. Up to and including their CPU cores.
542.
by mastax 4y ago
Adding allocator support does add a bit more noise: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/103093/files#diff-8bd...
543.
by mastax 4y ago
C++'s STL linked list for comparison (libcxx). https://github.com/llvm-mirror/libcxx/blob/master/include/li...
544.
by mastax 4y ago
Imagine writing Linux From Scratch and someone from Microsoft reads it and uses it to make a Linux distribution that goes on to power dozens of that trillion-dollar company's products. To be clear, I'm not saying that "you
545.
by mastax 4y ago
`let else` looks strange to my eyes on first glance, but I can remember many cases when it would have been nice to have. (Not to mention, all Rust syntax used to look strange to my eyes so that's not a very useful criterion). Break f
546.
by mastax 4y ago
> One final significant benefit of JPEG XL is that it has a broad scope: while it is a great format for web delivery, this is not the only use case it was designed for. JPEG XL can also be used as a capture format, where it can play a ro
547.
by mastax 4y ago
I had regarded the lossless re-compression as an interesting parlor trick, but I get it now. Coincidentally today I was testing how much we can shrink our archived videos. We have lots of videos recorded with the Intel hardware encoder in H
548.
by mastax 4y ago
I can't tell you how many large-power-of-two stride loops I've seen. I'm going to propose that CPU (or compiler) makers make sure they aren't 10x slower.
549.
by mastax 4y ago
The HN game: - Was it editorialized by the submitter? - Was it changed by dang to de-clickbait it? (probably not in this case) - Did one of HN's title filters remove some words?
550.
by mastax 4y ago
I used nushell's data frame support a year ago to do some data munging. It was a pretty pleasant experience. That was before I learned pandas, though, so I don't know if I'd reach for it again.
551.
by mastax 4y ago
Well in nushell you wouldn't be using the coreutils commands, you'd be using the nushell builtin replacements. Those builtins return structured data. Now for the 1000 other non-coreutils commands on your system, that's not ve
552.
by mastax 4y ago
I guess the name HermitCrab was already taken?
553.
by mastax 4y ago
ZFS doesn't do it as you phase in disks, but once you've replaced all of them you get the extra capacity.
554.
by mastax 4y ago
The talk linked at the end is really interesting, even as someone who doesn't know anything about filesystems outside of the classic Unix they teach in school and reading a lot of deep discussions about tuning ZFS. (None of my ZFS user
555.
by mastax 4y ago
I find it hard to believe that highly regulated German gas production, even fracking, could be as bad as notoriously leaky Russian gas infrastructure.
556.
by mastax 4y ago
For a long time many of the .NET Runtime's most fundamental and performance-sensitive functions were written in C++. In the beginning the JIT wasn't fast enough, or C# didn't have good enough native interoperability, or it di
557.
by mastax 4y ago
"Molex" connectors (the 4-pin ones used for fans and DVD drives etc.) are notorious for melting, and molex-to-sata adapters especially. It wasn't unheard-of for PCIe connectors to melt either.
558.
by mastax 4y ago
The Nvidia Founders Edition cards have tiny PCBs, due to their relatively small coolers and the flow through design. There isn't space for 3 8-pin connectors. And yes, that was definitely a choice but they're sticking to it.
559.
by mastax 4y ago
I've been planning to use that case for my next build for months now, but I'm not sure anymore. These hot new components make it look like liquid cooling is mandatory if you value your ears, and the Torrent isn't the best c
560.
by mastax 4y ago
I was looking at the CSV parser Cursively recently, and I think it is a good simple example of a high performance C# parser and API design. https://github.com/airbreather/Cursively
561.
by mastax 4y ago
Well DDR SDRAM hadn't been invented yet, and since everyone calls DDR SDRAM "DDR" it's not particularly confusing in context.
562.
by mastax 4y ago
I wonder what this changelog entry means: > Add support for SDRAM Surely it had support for SDRAM before, since DDR, DDR2, ... are all SDRAM. Edit: I figured it out. The JEDEC SPD spec calls SPD type 4 "SDRAM", referring to Sin
563.
by mastax 4y ago
Their blogpost about translating Quake 3 was interesting: https://immunant.com/blog/2020/01/quake3/
564.
by mastax 4y ago
No :)
565.
by mastax 4y ago
From what I remember it was primarily funded by a DoD project of some sort. There probably isn't a lot of info about that. There have been a few conference talks or blogposts about it (I'm trying to remember) that talked about the
566.
by mastax 4y ago
Works for me
567.
by mastax 4y ago
http://wingolog.org/archives/2018/05/21/correct-or-inotify-p...
568.
by mastax 4y ago
Has anyone else had issues with audio jumping forward/backward while playing episodes? I think it has to do with dynamically inserted ads causing a different version of the file to be served. As pocket casts streams by sending a range
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by mastax 4y ago
Tldr: PGO https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/96978/
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by mastax 4y ago
I feel for all those game devs, making something realistic is a lot of work but it's hard to be impressed. Something has to be hyper-real to compete with reality; it's why over-saturated images are so common, a more realistic rend

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