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by paol 2y ago
Seems to be some normalization problem with the data, right in the 1st page of the default query there's a duplicate entry.
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by paol 2y ago
Well we're about to find out now that CDPR have announced Cyberpunk 2077 will get a native Metal port. I for one am extremely curious with the result. Apple have made very lofty claims about their GPU performance, but without any high-
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by paol 2y ago
No, they are the same according to SQL semantics. In other words it's not just that this particular case returns the same result, but that in all cases the result must be the same.
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by paol 2y ago
This would have made a good addition to the (in)famous WAT talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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by paol 2y ago
I know the article is just using the noise thing as an excuse to deep dive into zfs and proxmox, which is cool, but if what you really care about is reducing noise I thought I'd leave some practical advice here: 1. Most hard drive nois
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by paol 2y ago
I think I've ranted about this in HN before, but UEFI is so pointlessly complex. Modern OSes don't rely on the BIOS for basically anything. When choosing the successor to the old PC BIOS we could have made something extremely mini
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by paol 2y ago
An article to the same effect, but with more example images: https://wackoid.com/game/10-pictures-that-show-why-crt-tvs-a... There are several instances where you can clearly see the artists not merely "living wit
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by paol 2y ago
I second the book recommendation. It's great.
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by paol 2y ago
Of the 3 I wouldn't have expected Cisco to be the first to take a stand. Well done them. DNS blocking bullshit is especially bad in Portugal because the law is set up in a way that has copyright interest groups just send their block li
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by paol 2y ago
If you enjoy fiction I urge you to read Blindsight by Peter Watts. One of the central concepts in the plot is "what if consciousness were unnecessary for intelligence"? Along the way it explores all sorts of angles on consciousnes
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by paol 2y ago
> Hyperthreading is turned off on m7a/c7a/r7a. You made me go check and you're right! Thanks for the correction.
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by paol 2y ago
You're slightly off in your understanding of VCPUs. All AWS instances "get" VCPUs. A VCPU is a single thread in architectures with SMT and a single core in architectures without. So for example c7a instances which are AMD EPY
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by paol 2y ago
You're missing my point. Servers are very expensive and are sized to task. If your NICs (or whatever) bottleneck the server with 32 cores worth of load, then you buy a server with 32 cores, not one with 64 cores.
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by paol 2y ago
Not in AWS. 1 VCPU = 1 thread (so half a core in architectures with 2-way SMT, which is most of them).
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by paol 2y ago
You may be right in general about my take being too cynical, but I have to counter this in particular: > and typically they stay idle while waiting for IO That's just not how you size servers. If most of your cores are idle you will
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by paol 2y ago
But the decision to make server chips entirely of E cores must come from some customers demanding core count density above all else. I'm suggesting where that demand comes from.
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by paol 2y ago
Funny enough c7a is just what we chose recently for our CI runners precisely because of the better CPU performance. It's only better relatively to the terribleness of the t* types though. And it definitely costs hundreds of dollars per
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by paol 2y ago
I have a pet theory that the recent focus on CPUs with a high count of low-perf cores (this article is about intel but AMD has an equivalent offering) is being driven by hyperscalers like Amazon and the perverse incentive caused by their pr
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by paol 2y ago
Ha! I was subscribed to this bug for most of those 25 years. Note that Firefox didn't exist at the time, this was filed against Netscape Navigator. Don't remember why I was subscribed to the bug, must have commented on it or somet
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by paol 3y ago
> Power. You need quite a solid PSU to withstand the power-up of a couple multi-TB drives. This is overstated. You need a lot more than "a couple" of drives to trouble even the most modest ATX power supply. Now if you were tryi
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by paol 3y ago
It doesn't need it, it's simply in a position where it can get it. From their perspective it's free money. It's the same situation with car manufacturers, they do this all the time. They get massive subsidies (usually
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by paol 3y ago
Oooh boy you touched a pet peeve. I mean who needs authentication on the modern Web right? /s The even more irritating thing is that there is nothing preventing this, and every server I've tried supports it. It's only the br
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by paol 3y ago
I can't either. wget reports "Read error at byte 7843894" every time.
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by paol 3y ago
Sounds like mockserver[0] might be what you want. [0] https://www.mock-server.com/
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by paol 3y ago
I don't think it's that simple. For one thing emulation has been ruled legal in the US. By all reports Nintendo had an unusually strong case against Yuzu because the developers behind it didn't sufficiently distance themselve
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by paol 3y ago
It's open source. If there are people interested in continuing development it won't go away. And even if there aren't the current version will still work fine, just maybe not for future games.
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by paol 3y ago
I think the initial design principles of Stack Overflow - basically that the balance of incentives will determine the outcome - is still sound. And the initial years of the site showed the people in control were very smart and thoughtful ab
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by paol 3y ago
Does it have an ampelmann glyph? If not I call fake.
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by paol 3y ago
You don't have to wait it's already here.
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by paol 3y ago
The Lepton theme looks good. If I'd known about it I may not have bothered to cook up my own userchrome hacks. I'm pretty happy with the current results[0] though so I'll be sticking with them for the time being. [0] https:&

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