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by rubicks 3y ago
The preemptrt patchset (now making its way into mainline) has excellent support for realtime scheduling. The problem is (as it has always been) undocumented NMIs in bog-standard COTS board firmwares. See the `hwlatdetect` man page for detai
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by rubicks 3y ago
Yes, glucocorticoids are extremely effective in the treatment of respiratory inflammation diseases such as asthma and copd. I'm genuinely surprized this number isn't higher. Update: Whoops. Apparently, the submitter neglected to m
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by rubicks 3y ago
I feel this in my bones. Every. Single. Time.
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by rubicks 3y ago
No, thank you. I prefer to keep those concerns separate. -- an avid `mutt` user.
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by rubicks 3y ago
I flinch just a little bit every time I open a CMakeLists.txt in my editor.
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by rubicks 3y ago
Use whatever your chosen platform supports "natively". If you're on Linux like me, then use GNU Make or even a Bash script. I'm sure Windows users have something different. Here's the important part: move to a more
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by rubicks 3y ago
That's the most insightful description of cmake featurism I've ever read. Kitware seems to work tirelessly to reach technical mediocrity.
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by rubicks 3y ago
A good chunk of my day job is beating sense into CMakeLists.txt files. It's exhausting in every meaningful dimension. In my literal decades of working with cmake, no amount of familiarity has ever brought me contentment. Rather, with e
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by rubicks 3y ago
This. `pip` is the package manager that almost works. Python is the language that almost supports package distribution. I'll keep using `apt` on vanilla Debian.
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by rubicks 3y ago
Strongly concur. I really wanted this to be a `rsync` work-alike with `zstd` features built in.
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by rubicks 3y ago
Because no one deserves the onus of the opt-out, least of all the colorblind.
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by rubicks 3y ago
Good. I have too many scars from upstart and snapd to remain on Ubuntu. I'm glad to see others making similar decisions for other reasons.
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by rubicks 3y ago
GNU Make is shockingly versatile and unreasonably effective. I have used Makefiles to build, check, and install projects in C, C++, golang, and python. I have abused Makefiles to generate websites, Docker images, PDFs (from LaTeX), and even
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by rubicks 4y ago
I understood that reference.
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by rubicks 4y ago
It sure can: alias pbcopy='xsel --clipboard --input' alias pbpaste='xsel --clipboard --output'
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by rubicks 4y ago
Please, $DEITY, deliver us from this hell wrought by Canonical.
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by rubicks 4y ago
Among the many other things already listed here, you would need to increase the rotational velocity of the planet. The earliest dinosaurs experienced 22-hour days. https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/
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by rubicks 4y ago
sed 's/running out of/unwilling to pay for/'
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by rubicks 4y ago
Seconded. Blisteringly fast to compile. No weird dependencies. A functional and sane choice in a broken world gone mad.
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by rubicks 4y ago
GH setup scripts cache dependencies in a way that is hard to replicate --- full stop.
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by rubicks 4y ago
Strongly concur. I'll concede some cons: * GNU make is sometimes unavailable * syntax is an acquired taste * not everything fits in a rule body Imho, these are far outweighed by the flexibility, portability, and "least surprise&qu
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by rubicks 4y ago
I have seen banking regulators getting upset because they (effectively) assumed infinite precision until the "final rounding" (their verbiage). This was at a major financial services provider with exactly zero numerical stability
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by rubicks 4y ago
til: "ceil" is a verb
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by rubicks 4y ago
This was the story I was expecting.
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by rubicks 4y ago
Can I boot this from uefi? The qemu instructions don't mention ovmf.
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by rubicks 4y ago
It's only a "young man's game" in the sense that the demographics heavily skew that way. This "wisdom" serves the interests of software conglomerates that like to hire the young fresh out of university, use the
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by rubicks 4y ago
I once brought down a major financial services application (in production, because of course) by adding _logging_ to a certain tight loop. The assignment was to log every iteration of that loop. Worst job of my life.
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by rubicks 4y ago
1. install hwlatdetect 2. use hwlatdetect 3. give up when you realize you can't buy commodity hardware with documented NMIs or open-source firmware
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by rubicks 4y ago
Where can I purchase this fine text in dead-tree media?
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by rubicks 4y ago
I did this. I'm paid well. I also catch all the Hell Tickets. It works for me.

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