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by ploxiln 4y ago
Yeah, good point, in any case I would expect the "most recent stable" branch to get _all_ the "potential fixes" (that otherwise would only be available in RC releases).
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by ploxiln 4y ago
It's a long-standing issue/debate at this point. The maintainers of long-term stable kernels have for some years now used scripts to automatically pick as many appropriate-looking stand-alone patches as possible, looking at what&#
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by ploxiln 4y ago
The Ryzen 7000 mobile lineup includes chips based on Zen4, Zen 3+, Zen 3, and even Zen 2 cpu cores, and using RDNA3, RDNA2, and even Vega graphics! An Acer with a Ryzen 7000 series chip could easily have the same or older cpu core or graphi
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by ploxiln 4y ago
I didn't know the SRB components were also re-used! It's a useful clarification that the Space Shuttle program had a large amount of reuse in the design ... but it still cost over a billion dollars for each reuse, many multiples o
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by ploxiln 4y ago
It's a legacy type of windows executable that it uses as part of its multi-OS trick, and other OSes don't care about that extension.
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by ploxiln 4y ago
Honestly this is a bit of a fantasy. If you love Rust and hate C, and haven't looked into kernel development before ... it's a whole different ball-game than user-space Rust. With a variety of real-world hardware, and the complexi
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by ploxiln 4y ago
squatting on competitor-named domains!
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by ploxiln 4y ago
That seems like overkill for this particular case, but it's a very interesting technique, thanks for the link!
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by ploxiln 4y ago
(without having read the article) after-update filesystem rollback sounds like what Suse has offered for about 10 years: https://www.suse.com/c/introduction-system-rollbacks-btrfs-a... There just hasn't been much
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by ploxiln 4y ago
It can be very hard to get memory error reporting these days. Bryan Cantrill mentions in one of his talks that Joyent had a datacenter where uncorrectable errors were sporadically halting servers, but no correctable errors were ever counted
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by ploxiln 4y ago
C in software stacks is more like flame in kitchens. Fire is dangerous and bad for your health. Kitchen fires kill people, gas leaks kill people. It's possible to do without. But billions of people around the world cook with flame and
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by ploxiln 4y ago
The thing is, the 4090 is the pushed-past-the-limit supercar of the generation, these things always have issues. It's just due to market conditions that they didn't release all the somewhat reasonable cards (4070, 4080) yet. They
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by ploxiln 4y ago
You don't have to use a counterfeit charger with your after-market usb-c to magsafe-2 cable. I use it with a newer real apple charger with usb-c (... since this is an older magsafe-2 macbook, not a new magsafe-3 one, and I don't w
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by ploxiln 4y ago
That is my initial reaction, but ... a minimal linux VM in a minimal hypervisor, might not be that bad, for a network adapter. Perhaps -40MB- 128MB of memory? Double the context switching? Sounds kinda like a micro-kernel driver. Have you e
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by ploxiln 4y ago
Nope. It sounds like it refers to the "franchise" "lineage" of xboxes. It's really like that old Abbott and Costello skit "Who's on first" (especially the "Xbox One" and the "X" su
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by ploxiln 4y ago
It's more akin to pulling the shoelace, and the door closes on your fingers. Oh no, doors are unsafe, how utterly broken. Or, more like, if there's an attacker hiding in your house, while you're setting up the shoelace door t
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by ploxiln 4y ago
In the modern world, the demand seems to be that every tool be perfectly safe in every situation no matter what you do (and it seems practically nothing lives up to this demand, given the ever increasing river of silly CVEs for almost every
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by ploxiln 4y ago
> refactors, performance improvements, etc, are almost never appropriately rewarded or prioritized Another variant that I've seen: actual refinements and improvements just aren't simple enough to sell to management, or to new j
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by ploxiln 4y ago
Yes, context switching specifically. It's well known that if spawning thousands of child processes, or if walking a directory of 100k small files to get metadata, linux can be much faster than windows. You might consider these just bad
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by ploxiln 4y ago
Food for thought: lead-acid batteries are the most recycled things on earth, at around 99%. Probably because they tend to be large, so they have a high volume to surface ratio, and are relatively simple and easy to recycle compared to more
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by ploxiln 4y ago
I don't like the idea of CoPilot ... and I'm happy it's not free :) I'm enjoying reading some comments where people consider how much it's actually worth for their usage. Dollars brings some sober analysis. I'm
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by ploxiln 4y ago
You're not supposed to configure routing or dns for your operating system anymore, apps don't like it when you do that. Thus the rise of DoH and: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/jetiok/a
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by ploxiln 4y ago
... but if I'm installing curl or jq or similar, I'm quite familiar with the provenance of the project, and of the tarball I'm running a configure script from. And maybe I need to install one or two dependencies, similarl
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by ploxiln 4y ago
./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && sudo make install (I consider it a feature that this doesn't automatically download and install hundreds to thousands of things I haven't even hea
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by ploxiln 4y ago
> who would research anything or spend anything on R&D if it was not protected? Most people that do real R&D do it because they want to, not because they're rewarded with patents. They want to make a better camera, a better
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by ploxiln 4y ago
The vast bulk of it is a dump mmio register addresses, that have been cleared for public disclosure. This is driven by some kind of legal/IP requirement. The vast majority are unused, and they are expressed in a rather inefficient way,
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by ploxiln 4y ago
Check out monkeytype.com it's a fantastic typing speed/accuracy test with a plethora of config options, including an option to require opposite shift key.
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by ploxiln 4y ago
xterm, or urxvt, or bash, or nginx, never removed any advanced features, and they managed to do it without telemetry, and did it over the past few decades. amazing, how is it possible
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by ploxiln 4y ago
I'm a counter-example to that. My parents paid full-price tuition for me 4 years of university (CMU class of 2010) and 4 years of private high school (which has the same "need blind" admission policy). But, they were not mill
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by ploxiln 4y ago
Let's not pretend that some flagging of this article represents all or most developers who use Go, and also not pretend that this post represents all or most developers who use Rust. What kinda gets me from this genre of post, is that

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