truefossil

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by truefossil 2y ago
Linux, FreeBSD seem to have memfd_create(). Mac OS seem to have shm_open() instead. Actually, the first two have that one as well. Interesting. The technique itself is indeed very elegant.
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by truefossil 2y ago
size_t is 64 bits on 64-bit CPUs
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Lenovo laptop's rollable screen uses motors to grow from 14 to 16.7 inches(arstechnica.com)
1 points by truefossil 2y ago|1 comments
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by truefossil 2y ago
I remember that some Garmin employees gave talks on CRDTs at some event. That was 2015 or 2016, so I can not recall any details.
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A noospheric bomb and its effects(replicated.wiki)
1 points by truefossil 2y ago|0 comments
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Early Bitcoin investor first to get prison time for crypto-related tax evasion(arstechnica.com)
4 points by truefossil 2y ago|0 comments
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by truefossil 2y ago
My bet is on a BGP glitch at the moment.
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by truefossil 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42362781 Nope, observed in different places. Was fixed in an hour or so, but it was something big.
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Anyone Noticed the Outage?
10 points by truefossil 2y ago|6 comments
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by truefossil 2y ago
https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/ This one shows a global event as well.
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by truefossil 2y ago
https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ A good "Internet dashboard" from Cloudflare. Something happened indeed, globally. China looks unaffected.
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Chinese hack of global telecom providers is 'ongoing'(politico.com)
2 points by truefossil 2y ago|1 comments
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$1 phone scanner finds seven Pegasus spyware infections(wired.com)
4 points by truefossil 2y ago|1 comments
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by truefossil 2y ago
Agree. So far "the progress" implied understanding (discovering) previously unknown things. AI is exactly the opposite: "I don't understand how, but it sorta works!"
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Tesla’s Potent AMD Ryzen Upgrade Arrives Stateside for Model 3, Model Y(tomshardware.com)
2 points by truefossil 5y ago|0 comments
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by truefossil 6y ago
The safest path is to consider it a blob. There is some library that can render it magically and that's the only wise thing you can do. The internal structure is hard to understand. Also, definitions change over time. So, you better le
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by truefossil 6y ago
I wonder why Mediterranean nations switched from ideograms to alphabet as soon as one was invented. Probably they did not have enough surplus grain to feed something like the Unicode consortium?