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by rab_oof 12y ago
Serial LVD buses make clock skew and interference mostly irrelevant. It's a reason besides cost that parallel ports and PATA and parallel SCSI are dead and USB, SATA/SAS dominates.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Most circuits works probabilistically and come up randomly because of timing and thermal noise, so it's basically impossible to get the same exact running state twice... It's just impossible. For a small example, Look at the simpl
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Yup. As clocks increased, traces began to more/less resemble waveguide designs a-la microwave. And if you've ever done microwave RF eng, it's all black magic.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Am I wrong (if you happen to work on processor microcode) or could microcode patches per processor insert a minimum delay where needed based on RAM parameters and organization to prevent this?
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by rab_oof 12y ago
You're more than right. In fact, the paper explicitly mentions 4 correct 5 detect (but fail) doesn't solve the issue because each victim row on either side of the attacker row attains varying levels of multibit (5+) errors. It do
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by rab_oof 12y ago
The point isn't to prematurely optimize for edge-cases, but to tackle real, "hair-on-fire" performance bottlenecks head-on. If that means asking large-scale users to run profiling and getting stats of what's using tons
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Perhaps because it's true, and it's rich academics that handwave the party-line of supposed tiny "benefits" when there are far greater structural problems: such as vast majority of people never being able to ever retire
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Yeah, right. Creative play rarely pays the bills and neither can actual artists because there is an oversupply of creative talent. The reality is most jobs are terrible because most people don't have the courage, ability or financing
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Let me explain the joke to you, since you seemed to have missed the cute emoticons. Satire - making fun of any alternative explanation that obviously isn't true. Maybe I should be more literal next time. Merry Xmasmukah and new year!
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Interesting: vfork support. Vfork in most older systems is like fork except it doesn't deeply duplicate all process state immediately (file handles, memory, such), so it can be faster if all the app wants to do is fork/exec. (We
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Neat. A friend in highschool (back in the ol' GUD days) was a mod tracker and composed using impulse tracker and acid tracker. He went on to win some intl contests.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
And guessing the tinfoil conspiracy about Sony hacking itself wouldn't stay secret long. :) My thought is we'll probably never know for certain unless perps reveal themselves, so saying NK definitely did it would be jumping to con
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by rab_oof 12y ago
A related issue: more people nowadays seem to enjoy working too much (at least in the United States) to just stop, go home and do something else. Maybe people, by and large, enjoy their work or don't think about doing something else.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
It's hard to get from Bromley to Victoria in 45 minutes.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
It's like survival of the least terrible... And then standards of a country plummets and it becomes less competitive compared to an upstart that then disrupts them completely. Upstart is banned.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Pretty much. That there are more people willing to do the same job for less because there's an oversupply of labor as a consequent of globalization's progression. Further, because of the optimizations of production, it's c
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Voice mail is too often used by windbags to hear themselves talk instead of getting to the point. In protest of those that seek to waste your time and mine on unnecessary formalities, I purposely don't leave nor listen to any voicemai
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Unambiguous rankings of explosions is basically impossible, so claiming it was the biggest man-made explosion in history is nonsense. This overly-bold claim was promulgated by former Air Force secretary Thomas C. Reed. http://se
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by rab_oof 12y ago
In a lot of shops, some old crusty box is used until it fails. It could be running xp or win2k. At least that was how an ivy-league's student housing maintance shop and also a nuclear engineering service shop were run.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Spelling feedback is bike-shedding. The content is fine.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Oxygen on a stick.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
There's two major types of furnaces: blast (coal) and induction (electrical).
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Thanks. Apparently a chilled furnace can take months to "rake out." I bet that's a slow, manual process of heating up some bits with a hand oxygen lance, gradually nibbling until the passages and so forth are cleared. By c
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by rab_oof 12y ago
How do workers melt solid steel once it's cooled in places?
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by rab_oof 12y ago
OSX uses sntp which is open source, but it sucks because it doesn't stay running so it doesn't establish a PLL feedback loop that ntimed and ntp do. Q: Does openntpd hook into PLL infrastructure?
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by rab_oof 12y ago
That's taking things literally too far. Common sense says take some giant unsigned long long constant used in multiple places that cannot be vertically aligned and give it the semantic meaning it deserves. The goal of reducing LoC is
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Homo sapiens sapiens inadvertently or deliberately kill every creature to extinction that isn't cute... Hence dodo and river dolphins (baiji / 白鱀豚). Not to mention the multibillion dollar hocus pocus trades in ivory and other rar
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Early on, I asked that images be signed similar to Debian packages, but was met with skepticism and resistance. To me, none of the Docker core devs had a handle on security implications of allowing anyone and everyone to share random bits
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Sigh... They'll still buy it if it looks perfect but tastes like unripened cardboard. :/ (Homegrown, imperfect tomatoes rock.). "Imperfect" but edible food goes on to canning, pies and other manufactured items.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Eric showed off their mobile-based "app store" before it was released. The cool part is it could download a new watch personality over BT without internet access . So it could operate with cached watch apps if you're out o

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