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by mastax 1y ago
It’s still shocking to me that there’s no official kernel CI.
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by mastax 1y ago
Also System-Versioned Tables in MariaDB: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/system-versioned-tables/
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by mastax 1y ago
One of the use cases of Old Twitter was official announcements from public figures and organizations. It is useful to know if the announcement that “life has been found on mars” from “NASA” is actually from the real National Aeronautics and
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by mastax 1y ago
Intel acquired Altera in December 2015 for $16.7 billion in cash.
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by mastax 2y ago
new Node<TStruct>[16]; new TStructContainingNode[16]; What’s the difference?
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by mastax 2y ago
> The new version isn't generic. Rather, you embed the linked list node with your data. This is known as an intrusive linked list and tends to perform better and require fewer allocations. I don’t get this. In the generic version th
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by mastax 2y ago
MySQL logical replication isn’t quite foolproof but it’s vastly easier than anything PostgreSQL offers out of the box. (I hope I’m wrong!)
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by mastax 2y ago
ASCII has characters more or less designed for this 0x1C - File Separator 0x1D - Group Separator 0x1E - Record Separator 0x1F - Unit Separator So I guess 1F would be the "comma" and 1E would be the "newline."
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by mastax 2y ago
So they decided to just ignore the patent problem? Fair, I guess, that’s what other open source projects do. Why hasn’t canonical been sued by MPEG-LA et.al? Are they no redistributing compiled FFMPEG for commercial purpose?
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by mastax 2y ago
Unity, surely.
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63 Chinese Cuisines: The Complete Guide (2024)(chinesecookingdemystified.substack.com)
202 points by mastax 2y ago|60 comments
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by mastax 2y ago
I’ve seen this argument play out many times. I believe the next line is: “QNX proved that micro kernels can be fast given clever message passing syscall design.” “I remember running the QNX demo disc: an entire graphical operating system on
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by mastax 2y ago
chattr +i /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Sounds tempting.
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by mastax 2y ago
X86 has a strong memory model, so tearing isn’t an issue for 64-bit or smaller quantities. Other architectures (ARM) are different. AIUi
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by mastax 2y ago
thejpster, where do I know that username from... Ah, he wrote most of embedded-sdmmc-rs which I used quite a bit. Jonathan, if you see this, thanks!
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by mastax 2y ago
The benchmarks in the parent post are comparing to zlib-ng, which is substantially faster than zlib. The zippy claims are against "zlib found on a fresh Linux install" which at least for Debian is classic zlib.
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by mastax 2y ago
It just looks like a strong sharpening filter.
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by mastax 2y ago
That’s how it is at DigiKey and some other B2B focused distributors.
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by mastax 2y ago
Not to put too fine a point on it but if there are blind trials showing no effect and non-blind trials showing an effect, my conclusion would be the effect is a placebo.
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by mastax 2y ago
Tariffs perhaps?
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by mastax 2y ago
From what I remember of the windows video apis there is a system for decoding DRM content where you need to use special types of buffers which can’t be mapped to the CPU. There’s special interfaces in MediaFoundation (decoding) DXGI (buffer
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by mastax 2y ago
If you have a decent connection I find just using Windows Remote Desktop (RDP) over VPN (Tailscale) works really well. The value prop for the proprietary services like TeamViewer for me is they work much better over poor connections and cro
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by mastax 2y ago
It seems very silly to me to change the naming scheme just for the 9000 series when they're going to have to change it again for the next series. Well I suppose they could pull an Intel and go with RX 10070 XT next time. I guess we can
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by mastax 2y ago
https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/lates... Looks like on Linux the only GPUs which are currently officially supported are the 7900 series. https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projec
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by mastax 2y ago
So about 20% better value than Nvidia comparing MSRPs. Not terrible but that’s what they offered last generation and got 10% market share as a result. If the market price of Nvidia cards remains 20-50% above MSRP while AMD can hit their p
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by mastax 2y ago
I wasn’t aware that on non-x86 platforms long double is often implemented with quadruple precision. I had assumed it was an x87-specific hack. On ARM64 windows/macos long double is apparently 64-bits which could be a problem. Personall
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by mastax 2y ago
IIRC at the last PC trade show (the one in Taipei) one of the GPU+Motherboard makers was showing a prototype system where the PCIe slot had an additional slot behind it just for power, so no cables were required. Of course then that additio
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by mastax 2y ago
I bought a bunch of 28 TB Seagate Exos drives refurbished for not that much money. I still can't believe that 28TB drives are even possible.
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by mastax 2y ago
It is tricky but possible. It is being done in the data center for certain hyperscalers. I wonder if Oxide Computer is doing it also, they mentioned a high voltage DC bus I think. https://epc-co.com/epc/about-epc/g
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by mastax 2y ago
If the new 12V-2x6 connector was incompatible with the old 12VHPWR connector, they should have (and would have) made it physically incompatible. They didn’t. You cannot blame the user for doing something which is specifically allowed by des

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