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by throwawayish 10y ago
Usually this happens when the system crashes/otherwise terminates during system upgrades. Kinda hard to boot if /sbin/init is a link to an empty file.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
"win 7 and older"? There are still plenty of configuration dialogues that have only seen the slightest of changes since Windows NT 4.0; I'm not exaggregating. Windows is easily the most visually inconsistent OS out there -- e
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Ok, but what about having a S.H.I.E.L.D. for earth? Wouldn't that work?
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by throwawayish 10y ago
These numbers match so accurately that I'd say they are throttled.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
In most parts of Europe 3-phase is the standard. Neither high-leg delta nor split phase have significant deployment outside North America. That being said, in household use the per-household balancing between the phases is usually very poor
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by throwawayish 10y ago
The hash tree (Merkle Tree) is only part of it. The proof-of-work and consensus / voting protocols are the other (main) part.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
There are also the Elbrus processors which I believe are entirely designed in Russia, although some models are manufactured by TSMC (and some are manufactured in Russia). The early models implemented a proprietary VLIW architecture with ent
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Some UEFI implementations even call themselves BIOS :-)
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Anyone trusting a computer - any computer - is a giant fool in my book. Trust is a strong word, and computers suck balls fundamentally at keeping information safe.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> Obviously, Java has shown that you can survive without a macro pre-processor. That was even a point Gosling+Co made in a white paper I read way back in the day. But I do believe that if you are going to have a macro processor, it shoul
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by throwawayish 10y ago
You a very much mistaken in your assessment. System76 is neither OEM nor ODM. In fact, they are not a manufacturer at all - they assemble and ship systems designed by others.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Exactly the opposite is correct. ICC generated code whose runtime dispatch looked at "Are we running on Intel? Select fast path. Not running Intel? Select generic i386 path." http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Actually no, enabling external cache coherency (eg. QPI) incurs a significant cost in terms of pin count, power, die space and clock speeds. The same does not transfer to ECC memory.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
The IMC in almost any Intel CPU also could do ECC, but on most consumer SKUs there's that pesky little configuration flag set by the factory telling it not to. Why? Because Intel can, that's why.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, your comment is accurate. Consumer hardware traditionally does not support registered memory, which is (reg ECC) the standard for server hardware hence cheap, while unbuf, unreg ECC is rath
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by throwawayish 10y ago
ECC is not complex to implement.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> So the board seems to accept ECC memory, hopefully that means the memory controller actually performs ECC? I found a reddit comment claiming that the boards accept ECC memory but don't perform error correction[1]. This is set up b
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> GovCloud is open to non-governmental customers Some excellent naming there ;)
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by throwawayish 10y ago
FreeBASIC is actually still around ... and used ... ... for whatever reason ...
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Depending on legislation it's also not legal for lawyers to give specific advice for free. E.g. in Germany lawyering is a rather heavily regulated business - for obvious reasons - and while there's a whole bunch of exceptions (as
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> They also sell a step-up model whose main difference seems to be that it is made of stainless steel. What will the Germans think of next? Only stainless steel tools on stainless steel work pieces and vice versa. Don't mix stainle
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Not a myth: Kotlin is the better Java Although Kotlin does have a lot of stuff that technically allows to write weird code, most of that (eg. extensions) is around for better interfacing with Java, and normally not used in pure K code.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
JavaScript is typed as well.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> But the amortized O(1) lookup of hash tables is hard to beat. On the other hand: the performance characteristics of trees are much easier to predict. And in many cases a HT lookup isn't distinguishable from a tree lookup, at least
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> Is there a good, general, incremental rehashing scheme? Trees.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
If you think regular GPU drivers are shitty, then wait until you try to install both AMD and nVidia drivers at the same time. It's not very stable, to say the least (Windows 7). Never tried it since. Not worth the hassle.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Resistive losses are only a part of the total loss on a transmission line.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
The Phenom X6 had great performance both in terms of price and actual performance for developer / thread-heavy workloads. Although this is now ~seven years ago.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Oh. I'm European and I always wondered why in practically every American criminal-spy-scifi-investigative-themed TV show or movie there are people sitting at magical, proprietary computers able to find strange pieces of (personal) info
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Well you have up to 16 cores fighting over one 64 bit memory bus.. so this is mostly aimed at packet-processing and filer workloads I'd say.

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