nwallin

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by nwallin 2y ago
> on large datasets, once loaded into GPU memory, You're yada-yada-yadaing the best part. If the disk can process the data at 1GB/s, the CPU can process the data at 2GB/s, the GPU can process the data at 32GB/s, then
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by nwallin 3y ago
> Prebuilt binary blobs [1]? My understanding is that the binary blobs were test data. Find a bug that happens on certain input. Craft a payload that both triggers the bug and does the malicious thing you want to do. Add the binary blob
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by nwallin 3y ago
In general, my gut feeling is that I expect the majority ClamAV installations to be configured to scan for Windows viruses in user submitted content. Email, hosting sites, etc.
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by nwallin 3y ago
> Maybe some distributions that don't use systemd strip the libxz code from the upstream OpenSSH release, but I wouldn't bet on it if a fix is available. OpenSSH is developed by the OpenBSD project, and systemd is not compatibl
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by nwallin 3y ago
DVD audio frequency is 48,000Hz. When people talk about 48kHz audio they're virtually always talking about 48,000Hz.
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by nwallin 3y ago
I don't claim to never make memory safety mistakes in C++. I just claim that it's very rare. The overwhelming majority of my bugs are bugs in business logic. At my day job, I work on a project that's 75% C++ and 25% C#. In th
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by nwallin 3y ago
Sounds like a fork with extra steps.
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by nwallin 3y ago
Rust is a frustrating language for me too. I never saw the need for it, really. I just stuck with the language constructs in C++ that makes it basically impossible for memory leaks/use after free/use outside of bounds to occur or
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by nwallin 3y ago
X.Org. (if you know what X is, you are familiar with X.Org, which is a fork of XFree86) Chromium is a fork of Webkit which is a fork of KHTML. If you use a web browser, that browser is either Firefox or a fork (of a fork) of KHTML. I don&#x
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by nwallin 3y ago
I would imagine that they just log everything. Serial number, temperature, which cycle is used, time of day, how long it takes to fill the washer, how long it takes to drain the washer. Everything. Put all data in a great big database. When
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by nwallin 3y ago
The Communications Act of 1934 stipulated that one entity could own one and only one radio station. Every radio station was an independent business. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 eliminated this limit, and instead stipulated that one e
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by nwallin 3y ago
Matrix factoring as in LU, Cholesky, QR, SVD etc? 6 orders of magnitude from mid-70s to mid-90s? Unless I'm misunderstanding I'm shocked that there was that much left on the table.
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by nwallin 3y ago
Not reassuring indeed. "most scrutinized world leader in history"
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by nwallin 3y ago
> I highly doubt Wizards of the Coast or whoever is going to want their premium products to lose copyright protections, so they'll need to keep paying artists. WotC's latest round of layoffs (within the past month or so) hit th
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by nwallin 3y ago
Heapsort is best and worst case O(n log n), does not require a stack, and the code is simple; more complicated than shellsort but no so much that you'd notice. I feel like heapsort is always a better choice than shellsort, no? If I w
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by nwallin 3y ago
Printing. Printing is done in the CMYK color space. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK. When you print in color, it is basically four different printers printing onto the same piece of paper. Ideally everything is all lined up correctly, but if y
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by nwallin 3y ago
What percentage globally? I have no idea. I'm not a pollster but I'd hate to try to design a poll that could figure that out. It seems like the sort of thing people will lie about. When I was young, I pirated because I was broke.
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by nwallin 3y ago
I think you've rediscovered Mar's law. "Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker."
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by nwallin 3y ago
Imagemagick is like curl or openssl or ffmpeg or zlib. It's almost certainly living as a shared library on your computer somewhere.
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by nwallin 3y ago
Depends on the rocket fuel. Oxygen, methane, hydrogen are basically completely non-toxic. RP-1 is a pure form of kerosene and is non-toxic enough that it doesn't need special handling. Hydrazine, fuming nitric acid, nitrogen tetroxide.
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by nwallin 3y ago
About 900k according to Wikipedia.
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by nwallin 3y ago
The problem with being on-call isn't that you're working, the problem with being on-call is that you aren't not working. You can't be on-call and go to a place you're not allowed to have your cell phone on. You can&
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by nwallin 3y ago
Dark matter is more complicated than that. It would be nice if it were as simple as you claim it is, but it isn't. From the '30s through to the '70s, evidence was piling up that what we saw and what our models predict were in
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by nwallin 3y ago
> cooking lamb well is an art and takes alot of practice. You can't just go cook lamb any old way and think it will be delicious. If you want to learn how to cook lamb well then focus on slow cooking and slow roasting Hold on, are w
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by nwallin 3y ago
That was, for the most part, just a problem with LLVM governance and development priorities. When the bugs were found in LLVM, GCC was examined and found to have a few similar bugs. GCC fixed these issues relatively quickly, but LLVM sat on
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by nwallin 3y ago
> Updating a large C++ program to newest version of Visual C++, for example, can be a mess. That's an MSVC problem. MSVC ignored the C++ specification for decades. Now it does follow the spec. So a lot of non-standard code broke. Th
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by nwallin 3y ago
It's a lot easier, I think, to switch from D&D 5E to Pathfinder 2e than it is to switch from Unity to Unreal/Godot or whatever. The stakes are a lot lower, that's for sure.
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by nwallin 3y ago
1. Pilots occasionally have to fat finger them into ruggedized I/O devices and read them off to ATC over radios. 2. These are defined by the various regional aviation authorities. The US FAA will define one list, (and they'll be u
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by nwallin 3y ago
A corporation is a thing that money goes into and money comes out of. Let's say a human being--a flesh and blood one, not a corporation--is convicted of negligent homicide and is sentenced to 4 years in prison. 100% of that person&#x27
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by nwallin 3y ago
Note that GCC will vectorize the first version if you add `-ftree-vectorize` to your optimization arguments. In order to vectorize the same loop with floats, (particularly relevant for gamedev) you need to add `-ftree-vectorize -fassociativ

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