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by pm215 1y ago
Same principle as why many people prefer not to own shares in the company that employs them -- you're already heavily exposed to that specific risk and don't want to add more. If you live in Florida then a hurricane in Florida alr
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by pm215 1y ago
Yes, especially as CPUs have got faster and put in more clever tricks to improve performance (bear in mind that this blog post is 15 years old). Modern architectures have introduced modes to allow you to turn this off so that for your crypt
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by pm215 1y ago
PyPy intermediate representation. I assume this is what PyPy turns Python "abs(x)" into in codepaths where it knows x is a float.
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by pm215 1y ago
By having knowledge baked into it about its properties (which it can validly do because the behaviour of the float_abs operation is specified by the language; it's not calling an arbitrary external function). The blog post sketches out
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by pm215 1y ago
I think the other thing that often muddies the waters in discussions of code review is that open source projects and internal codebases are generally in rather different situations. An internal codebase is usually worked on by a fairly smal
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by pm215 1y ago
Proper focus-follows-mouse does not autoraise the window when it gives it focus. I see that that app does offer "don't raise the window" (which I think is an improvement from last time I was researching this some years back),
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by pm215 1y ago
The one I have always missed is proper focus-follows-mouse support. The mac desktop always feels really clunky without that when working with multiple windows.
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by pm215 1y ago
If you want to watch the talk that these are the slides for, it's now up on youtube along with the other KVM Forum talks: https://youtu.be/gSB5sn3ZN3w
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by pm215 1y ago
At least in the UK I think you can at a high level map out some system level reasons why this sort of "public realm" problem doesn't get solved: * the UK's economic growth has been poor since the 2008 financial crisis, s
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by pm215 1y ago
Resources-wise there's not really any "stealing" going on. The people/companies who care about KVM and the virtualization use cases work on that, and the people/companies who care about emulation work on those parts
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by pm215 1y ago
Correctly assessing the risk doesn't mean "I don't do anything that has an unlikely possibility of a horrible outcome", it can mean "I decide that I'm OK with that possibility and do it anyway, because I think
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by pm215 1y ago
I think that falls into the "did not correctly assess the risk beforehand" bucket (and as you say and as the post I was replying to said, this is quite common). If they had correctly assessed "this is going to be really awful
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by pm215 1y ago
In that case they would not change their mind, though.
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by pm215 1y ago
It might alternatively be an indication that they can't properly assess the risk and the outcome afterwards.... (More likely both: we are as a species absolutely terrible about assessing low-probability risks.)
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by pm215 1y ago
memcpy (and the other string routines) are some of the library functions that most benefit from heavy optimisation and tuning for specific CPUs -- they get hit a lot, and careful adjustment of the code can get major performance wins by ensu
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by pm215 1y ago
I used a SparcStation 2 as an X terminal for several years in the late 1990s, having picked it up free as a student. Eventually PC monitors and my budget improved to the point that I retired it, but it was massively better than the cheap 14
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by pm215 1y ago
The older Sun monitors were fixed frequency (not multisync like a typical PC CRT monitor), so you only got one resolution, it couldn't sync to anything else :)
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by pm215 1y ago
Sure, but if the fetcher is generating "39,000 requests per minute" then surely something has gone wrong somewhere ?
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by pm215 1y ago
If you can already subvert the flow of execution enough to jump somewhere you shouldn't be, you probably have better targets elsewhere in the binary than a conditional branch.
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by pm215 1y ago
There's a little free-entry one-or-two-room museum on the site: https://www.crystalpalacemuseum.org.uk/ (though ironically it is currently closed due to fire damage; normally open on Sunday afternoons) which has some p
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by pm215 1y ago
(I work on a project that uses an email workflow. "Should we switch to something else?" is a perennial topic.) I think the main pain points are: * unfamiliarity -- if you're not already set up then it's extra admin work.
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by pm215 1y ago
No, the problem I describe is "I am thinking of a Japanese sentence (which I know the meaning of), and I could write it in hiragana but not in kanji". This is analogous to "I want to write an English sentence, but I can'
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by pm215 1y ago
I think the thing that makes it a problem for most people is that they can't memorise them as "once and done" the way Heisig says he did. So as well as the initial time spent looking at the kanji and coming up with a good mem
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by pm215 1y ago
I knew the word (including how it is spoken and what it means), so I would have no difficulty of understanding if it was said to me in conversation, I could read the word whether in kanji or hiragana, I could compose sentences in my head
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by pm215 1y ago
Yes, I agree that trying to learn kanji upfront is a silly idea. Heisig says in the introduction to RTK I that he learned 1900 characters "before the month was out". If like him you can do the whole set in a month and then have no
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by pm215 1y ago
I think the thing about academic open source is that the government is not "funding open source" -- they're funding research, and all the incentives and measurements and funding criteria are set up (give-or-take) to drive tow
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by pm215 1y ago
Presumably the LLM reads your accidental double negative ("when no high quality sources are not available") and interprets it as what you obviously meant to say...
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by pm215 1y ago
There's an example of this in railway electrification: if you scroll down to the graph in https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmselect/cmtran... it shows that the UK tends to do electrification
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by pm215 1y ago
In particular listed buildings are subject to special planning rules and need permission for any extension, alteration or deletion; the planning authorities can mandate that you do any alterations in particular ways (e.g. use of traditional
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by pm215 1y ago
The listing says it has "a 250,000 litre rain harvest system and storage with a reverse osmosis system providing potable water".

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