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by mastax 4y ago
I like using HAVING just to have conditions that reference expressions from the SELECT columns. e.g. rather than having to do SELECT COALESCE(extract_district(rm.district), extract_district(p.project_name), NULLIF(rm.district,
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by mastax 4y ago
I'm really sad to see optane go. Byte-addressable, high-endurance, consistent low latency. It was the platonic ideal of solid state storage. But flash is more than good enough and it's cheap. Even pretty good quality NVMe drives a
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by mastax 4y ago
Windows has a lot of tasks that are scheduled to run infrequently. Search indexing, checking for updates, TRIM and defragmenting, antivirus scans etc. However if you only boot Windows infrequently, then those tasks will run every time you b
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by mastax 4y ago
I'm surprised that Asus is still making phones after the market got so cutthroat and HTC and LG couldn't make it.
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by mastax 4y ago
> What you are talking about is making a compiler that would run on all Hosts, but it would take different work to make it be able to produce code for all Targets. This is already how rustc works, it is not like GCC. Any rustc can (cross
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by mastax 4y ago
I do know that if you have very fast NVMe SSDs (>6000MB/s or so) ZFS is not currently able to give you the whole performance, due to time spent memcpying to/from the ARC[0]. Direct IO support could eventually alleviate this[1].
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by mastax 4y ago
I'm no expert, but my understanding is that: 1. Low value of exports leads to a trade imbalance and long term decline in foreign currency reserves. 2. The government prints money to spend not on productive investments to solve 1. but o
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by mastax 4y ago
There's already been ransomware written in java and go. This doesn't help anything in that respect.
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by mastax 4y ago
I was able to get an eye exam appointment today and just got my eyes dilated so i r probably won't be going to the theater. Oh well.
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by mastax 4y ago
I just googled "Casablanca" intending to check my recollection that Casablanca is a city on the Moroccan coast. Of course all the results (but one) are about the film or the surprising number of local businesses named Casablanca.
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by mastax 4y ago
No there's an everything shortage in electronics. Fancy chips, old chips, power chips, capacitors, connectors, epoxy resin. https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/reports/lead-time-trend...
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by mastax 4y ago
You reminded me of Bethesda Softworks games, which always seem to have 1GB+ executables for some reason. I hope it isn't all code. Maybe they embed the most important assets that will always need to be loaded.
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by mastax 4y ago
Unusual platforms like DSPs usually have specific (usually proprietary) toolchains. Why can't those platforms implement extensions to support 32-bit bytes? Why must everyone else support them? In practice ~no C code is portable to mach
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by mastax 4y ago
Probably this article: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/whither-tartaria
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by mastax 4y ago
Thing is that distro packages rarely conflict with one another, and when they do they're produced by a single organization who has processes to manage the conflicts. Mods are very often hooking the same functions or editing the same fi
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by mastax 4y ago
I installed a Fallout 4 VR mod pack using wabbajack and the experience was not great. Wabbajack had a lot of difficulty downloading certain files along with various other bugginess. Wabbajack wasn't able to automate much of the install
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by mastax 4y ago
What happens if you lock objects then stop paying your bill?
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by mastax 4y ago
There are many existing trains in Switzerland, even high speed ones. Yet those trains are largely above ground. (I can't find any statistics quickly). This is supposed to be a low speed service - 30km/h - so they could meander aro
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by mastax 4y ago
But why tunnels? The article didn't justify it at all. Tunnels are extremely expensive, and usually avoided in all but the most extreme circumstances. Are we at the point now where its easier to just tunnel than buy and negotiate right
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by mastax 4y ago
I remember reading a report, I think by Bellingcat, which said that there was: 1. A lot of embezzlement by FSB agents in Ukraine, who thought they could get away with it since surely there wouldn't be an invasion. 2. Many targets would
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by mastax 4y ago
https://www.ford.com/cars/mustang/ > Hear the roar of a Mustang as the ground starts to tremble and your legs start to shake. As always, Mustang draws upon its performance roots with features for enhanced handl
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by mastax 4y ago
Private Equity is acquiring and combining small practice veterinarians and pet insurance is becoming more common. Soon vet care may feel much more like human care. https://www.axios.com/2022/03/04/pet-care-lur
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by mastax 4y ago
It is similar in that Spanish classes necessarily require learning a lot of vocabulary and grammar. However once you have a base level of knowledge you can take advantage of being near real people to practice conversation skills. By the end
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by mastax 4y ago
Your devices probably aren't responding to unsolicited network requests from the internet.
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by mastax 4y ago
It's extortion in the same way that "obey the law or go to prison" is extortion.
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by mastax 4y ago
Then the cabinets above the microwave get coated with a sticky layer of polymerized(?) oil - even quicker than they normally would. It's gross.
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by mastax 4y ago
I'm glad huge pages make a big difference because I just spent several hours setting them up. Also everyone says to disable transparent_hugepage, so I set it to `madvise`, but I'm skeptical that any programs outside databases will
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by mastax 4y ago
The fastest train currently in long-distance service is the Fuxing Hao CR400AF/BF which is currently in service at 350 km/h (220 mph). San Diego to Jacksonville is 3350km (2100mi) straight line. That gives a lower bound of 9.5 hou
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by mastax 4y ago
This website is on the McAfee blocklist for some reason.
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by mastax 4y ago
These supercomputer contracts typically have a large amount dedicated to software support. I remember reading on AnandTech (?) that AMD was explicitly putting a bunch of engineers on ROCm for this project. It's one of the reason compan

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