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by nwallin 5y ago
Moore's law for RAM capacity has begun slowing over the past few years. The 64 TB system you mention is from six years ago, right about when Moore's law began tapering. If Moore's law had continued doubling RAM capacity every
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by nwallin 5y ago
If I recall correctly, the 3.1 file picker isn't resizable. And it's very small. The small size wasn't such a problem when the filesystem enforced 8.3 file name lengths, but these days it's reasonable to expect names for
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by nwallin 5y ago
What does linaro.org have to do with linux? I've been using linux since a decade before linaro.org was founded, and this is the first I've heard of it. Did you mean the Linux Foundation?
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by nwallin 5y ago
Don't forget the ransomware attack at hospitals in Florida last week. (AFAIK they paid the ransom)
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by nwallin 5y ago
Southwest's stock price seems to be unaffected by the outage. Southwest is down 0.28% on the day, but most of that drop happened at market open, before this incident, and is probably related to the S&P 500 being down 0.21% over a s
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by nwallin 5y ago
When an airline has a crash, its stock price drops 1.58% that day on average. [0] Southwest's stock is down 0.28% today, and it looks like most of that drop happened immediately after the market opened, well before this incident, and m
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by nwallin 5y ago
Brings to mind the sinking of the El Faro. The captain was relying on the free version of a paid weather app that gated up to date information. The 12 hours out of date information showed the planned/filed path to be safe, but in reali
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by nwallin 5y ago
Not sure if the author's edit changed which calculus he's talking about, but at the time of this posting, they say Calculus 2, which meshes with my experience. Lots of schools break up calculus in different ways, and that's f
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by nwallin 5y ago
See also the Cornfield Bomber, an F-106 Delta Dart, which is a mach 2.3 interceptor. The pilot was doing a training flight, entered a flat spin, and ejected. The pilotless, out of control aircraft proceeded to stop its spin, entered straigh
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by nwallin 5y ago
Interceptors in general were made obsolete by the time the A-12 and F-108 programs were being considered and ultimately canceled. The first reason was ICBMs becoming the dominant form of nuclear deterrent. The A-12 was never going to be bui
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by nwallin 5y ago
You don't need to have an understanding of 3d space, positioning, range to target, trajectories etc to create an intercept course. The underlying principle of proportional navigation, which is what the first few generations of IR missi
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by nwallin 5y ago
If I understand your objection correctly, you're saying that there are two directions that maintain constant bearing between the missile and the target, one bearing that brings the missile closer to the target, and one bearing that sen
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by nwallin 5y ago
> My trick is to make sure the printer actually can be plugged in (USB or Ethernet) This article is specifically about dropping support for USB printers. Which is bananas . I've never had any trouble with my USB-only Brother printe
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by nwallin 5y ago
> CO2 levels vary by season, lowest in spring, highest in fall. Read the article. Look at the chart. The seasonal fluctuations are much, much less significant than the rising trend. > Cause plants breath it in during sprint and exha
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by nwallin 5y ago
The uniform distribution is the wrong distribution for this. A normal distribution is better, but also wrong- the normal distribution significantly under-predicts extreme events relative to the stock market. Can you try it with the Laplace
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by nwallin 5y ago
Visual Studio 2019 and MSVC 16 are 32 bit applications, even on 64 bit Windows. They have a 3GB process limit. Hopefully VS 2022 will be 64 bit.
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by nwallin 5y ago
No. Starting with the Pentium Pro, 32 bit x86 could leverage up to 64GB of physical RAM using PAE. (Physical Address Extension) x86-64 was created to address the 3GB (or 3.5GB, or 2GB, depending on the OS configuration) process limit.
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by nwallin 5y ago
I will not buy any device that does not give me control of the device. If I can't sideload apps, can't install a 3rd party store, do not have the ability to root my own device, I won't buy it. Apple has decided that's no
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by nwallin 5y ago
What kind of theft, and from whom? My understanding is that a person with decision making power at these factories are negotiating with third party repair shops, agreeing on a price, and selling authentic Apple badged components or Apple sc
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by nwallin 5y ago
Feature phones are distinct from dumb phones. Feature phone usually implies there is a suite of built in programs. It will have a note keeping application, an image viewer/gallery view, sometimes (rarely) email, a mp3 player, a handful
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by nwallin 5y ago
> Since modern computers have 10000x more memory to clean up, The thing I don't understand is that the application presumably isn't using any more or less memory than it did when it ran on a 1/10,000x computer. You'
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by nwallin 5y ago
> what basis is there for universal healthcare other than 'we should help each other'? Uninsured, underinsured, or people with high deductibles are much, much more likely to let a health issue linger for much longer than some
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by nwallin 5y ago
https://lwn.net/Articles/342330/ https://lwn.net/Articles/342420/
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by nwallin 5y ago
> For example, if signed integer overflow yielded an unspecified result rather than causing undefined behavior, I wonder if any implementations would be adversely affected. Yes. There are several architectures where signed integer overfl
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by nwallin 5y ago
> - "Undefined behavior" means that C implementations are allowed to assume that the respective runtime condition does not ever occur, and for example can generate optimized code based on that assumption. Please note that the a
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by nwallin 5y ago
> Would the USSR have won against Germany if the US was not involved? It's impossible to say for sure, but in my opinion, probably not. 1/3 of the trucks in the Red Army were built in America and supplied via lend lease, as wer
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by nwallin 5y ago
Windows/MSVC has _byteswap_ushort(), _byteswap_ulong(), _byteswap_uint64(). (note that unsigned long is 32 bits on Windows) It's ugly but it works. Boost provides boost::endian which allows converting between native and big or lit
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by nwallin 5y ago
I would much rather have a realtek or intel controller than a broadcom one. My thinkpad has a realtek, my last laptop (an xps13) had an intel controller, and they just worked without issue. Admittedly it's been a while since I had a br
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by nwallin 6y ago
Four of those were to catch formatting errors. IMHO it's best to just use an automatic code formatter. clang-format is extremely good. When I write code for personal projects I don't even bother trying to format it correctly. The
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by nwallin 6y ago
The Sega Saturn was ridiculous. "Chip salad" is a good way to start characterizing it, but I feel the need to drive it home. * Two SH-2s. These CPUs occupied different places on the buses (plural) and were generally running differ

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