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by nly 8d ago
Am I missing something? Max boost went up by only 15% but the base frequency went up 38% Better thermals maybe? Less throttling?
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by nly 8d ago
I mean, they're basically just client SSL certs, but used for auth instead of transport It's entirely possible for server side app to tie a client certificate to a user account and offer one click login and it has been since the 9
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by nly 8d ago
I mean, if the session token basically never expires it's kind of fine?
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by nly 11d ago
If you're expecting heavy contention, and there's no risk of any of the threads being descheduled, then FIFO spinlocks are probably best. In a FIFO threads register themselves into a linked list, and the thread calling unlock() di
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by nly 11d ago
If you have an application where your threads are pinned to dedicated cores, and those cores are all isolated from general OS scheduling, then it's the lowest latency means to synchronize arbitrary things between threads Entering the k
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by nly 18d ago
I used to work on market data feeds, which occasionally require a reference data file from an FTP to be delivered before market open before you can do anything useful with the feed. Nothing like being on-call when the file doesn't get
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by nly 18d ago
A read() on /dev/urandom on every packet isn't economical, so there's going to be some user space element to RNGion
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by nly 21d ago
So true..had my parents over for Christmas one year and they stayed for 4 days. 3 would have been perfect.
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by nly 1mo ago
As long as the debt is in its own currency printing to repay is always an option.
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by nly 2mo ago
Fun fact: Worms Armageddon saw patches for ~18 years after official updates stopped. https://worms2d.info/Updates_(Worms_Armageddon)
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by nly 2mo ago
Internet Connection Records is the key phrase to search for
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by nly 2mo ago
These businesses chose lower staffing costs knowing full well the price would be higher theft.
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by nly 2mo ago
Don't 99% of people just use face or fingerprint unlocking?
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by nly 2mo ago
Crazy how different healthcare is in different countries. In the UK once you've had your childhood vaccinations it's entirely possible you'd simply never see a doctor again in your life until you're ready for your prosta
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by nly 2mo ago
Ah OK, this was in London
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by nly 2mo ago
That's odd. I just looked at what I thought was a pretty standard piss and blood STI test results of my own, and it covered: - Syphilis - Hep B - Hep C - HIV 1 and 2 and P24 - Chlamydia - Gonorrhoea
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by nly 2mo ago
2 out of my last 3 jobs were the result of LinkedIn recruiter spam
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by nly 2mo ago
Recursive descent isnt guaranteed linear time In the face of backtracking the time depends on the complexity of the grammar, since it's basically a brute force search through all the rules.
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by nly 2mo ago
It's "fine" is you ignore adversarial situations. If someone is taking malicious stabs at your API then you have a problem
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by nly 2mo ago
They can...swim away
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by nly 2mo ago
The problem is a lot of people book Ryanair thinking they're going to save money and end up sucked in to these dark patterns. I once flew from London Stansted (or maybe it was Luton?) to Dublin instead of from Heathrow with Aer Lingus
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by nly 2mo ago
Presumably that depends on the context in which your 'real life' friends see you
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by nly 2mo ago
Unfortunately this means crypto will just take over completely.
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by nly 2mo ago
0.03 seconds is an eternity in high frequency trading You need to be 4 orders of magnitude faster at least
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by nly 2mo ago
Opus says Ann is 18
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by nly 2mo ago
cmpxchg can fail spuriously on some platforms
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by nly 2mo ago
Once you get to using custom lock free queues you should be picking something that matches your workload/broader design anyway.
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by nly 2mo ago
Once you use atomic cmpxchg you've lost a great deal of scalability because it implies a retry loop (internal or by the user) The last thing you want is all of the threads failing to cmpxchg (spuriously or otherwise ) spinning on a sh
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by nly 2mo ago
WhatsApp is primarily 1 to 1 messaging. Why would this be hard to scale? Scaling horizontally, sharding, and message routing is all it takes, surely?
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by nly 2mo ago
In the UK deeds no longer really exist and do not take precedence over the land registry. Property that isn't registered can remain unregistered but must be registered before it is sold.

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