matja

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by matja 2y ago
And then you accidently add a use-after-free bug by trying to satisfy a "correctness" tool...
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by matja 2y ago
By running it in an ephemeral container with no network access for each file you want to check?
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by matja 2y ago
Most Linux distros still package jdk8-openjdk which has appletviewer.
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by matja 2y ago
> never connected it up to anything other than a HDMI cable, so it can't phone home Well, you're lucky that your equipment doesn't use the Ethernet channel in HDMI 1.4 then :) you can put a piece of Kapton tape over the HE
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by matja 2y ago
Until the brake pedal falls off as well
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by matja 3y ago
Probably you are using zsh and need: MULTIOS=1 > file - zsh isn't POSIX compatible by default
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by matja 3y ago
Ok, we'll leave that a mystery then!
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by matja 3y ago
<ext4> I have no proof it was false data <zfs> YOU HAVE NO PROOF IT WAS CORRECT DATA!
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by matja 3y ago
Simple to verify with strace -f bash -c "> file": openat(AT_FDCWD, "file", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 3 man 2 openat: O_TRUNC If the file already exists and is a regular file and the
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by matja 3y ago
This movie blew my mind as a kid and a serves warning of things to come with AI that kinda became a movie trope, but had some memorable scenes in Dark Star: <Commander Powell> Talk to the bomb. <Doolittle> But I have been talkin
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by matja 3y ago
> This would be transformed by the compiler into something like this: Even modern C compilers for "modern" 8051-derived MCUs work like this :)
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by matja 3y ago
> Oversize your card so that the card can properly perform wear-levelling I think this is half of the problem: SDHC does not require wear-leveling at all, I am unsure of SDXC. But regardless, the wear-levelling algorithm the SD card fir
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by matja 3y ago
Yes: json = {}; json["foo.bar"] = true; json["foo[0]"] = true;
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by matja 3y ago
> running again smoothly for 5 years So did you bite the bullet and get ECC, or are you just waiting for the next corruption caused by memory errors? :)
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by matja 3y ago
> I don't want to deal with keeping ZFS up to date That's what DKMS is for, which most distros use for ZFS. Install and forget.
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by matja 3y ago
Was it proven that the issue still occurred with ECC RAM?
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by matja 3y ago
What's an "every day user"? Maybe some P2P applications will magically start working or have lower startup time because of no need for STUN/TURN/ICE for NAT traversal.
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by matja 3y ago
Eerily similar to molecular nanotechnology rod logic proposed by Eric Drexler back in the 80's
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by matja 3y ago
More magic numbers: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/11/26/magic/
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by matja 3y ago
Is that why other distros break? :)
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by matja 3y ago
clang/clang++ read from /etc/env.d/gcc to get the target flags/profile, it's up to the OS to maintain them and make sure they're correct, looks like that didn't happen for this OS. My Gentoo ARM SBC b
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by matja 3y ago
> pushing downward on the top of my head with my hands I've never tried or noticed this before until you mentioned it, but this makes my tinitus noticeably worse. It's not really louder, but seems to add "harmonics".
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by matja 3y ago
IEEE754 64-bit representation already has infinity: uint64_t x = 0x7ff0000000000000ULL; printf("%f\n", *(double *)&x); output: inf But you could use a representation where 0 is 0, and 1 is infinity, savin
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by matja 3y ago
Also, every "class" has TXT records, not just the "IN" (internet class): $ host -c ch -t txt version.bind glass.its.utexas.edu version.bind descriptive text "9.11.36-RedHat-9.11.36-11.el8" $ host
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by matja 3y ago
Actual file data ends up in the same transaction group (txg) as metadata if both are changed within the same txg commit (either flushed explicitly, due to recordsize/buffer limit being reached, or txg commit timeout - 5 seconds by defa
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by matja 3y ago
> which should prevent this problem if the hardware doesn't lie. Or, one can take the ZFS approach and assume the hardware often lies :)
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by matja 3y ago
Journaling filesystems (including NTFS, and ext3/ext4 using default mount options) typically only track file structure metadata in the journal, so that is WAI - the filesystem structure was not corrupted, but all bets are off when it c
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by matja 3y ago
There was a line of products called EtherDrive made by Coraid in the early 2000's that was basically a SATA to ATAoE bridge on the most basic devices, up to rack-mount solutions that used a Linux OS and Dell HBA to run vblade ( https
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by matja 3y ago
> your computer’s internal clock doesn’t actually go forward or back one hour Kind of, there's multiple "internal clock"s. Windows (in)famously uses localtime instead of UTC by default for the RTC (stored in CMOS) which h
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by matja 3y ago
I have an AMD CPU and I get in my kernel logs during boot: [ 0.338594] Memory Encryption Features active: AMD SME

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