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Tux3 Report: How fast can we fsync?(spinics.net)
73 points by webaholic 11y ago|8 comments
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by webaholic 11y ago
like putting lipstick on a pig...
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by webaholic 11y ago
Got it. Been on my wish list for a very long time now.
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by webaholic 12y ago
Is there anything which might catch the eye of a regular linux user? (FreeBSD users would like to point out ZFS, jails etc., OpenBSD users usually point out pf/security and DragonFlyBSD users point out Hammer FS and an inviting communi
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The Georgia Legislature Just Pulled the Plug on Electric Cars(news.vice.com)
2 points by webaholic 12y ago|0 comments
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by webaholic 12y ago
You know what would put the authors point across really well? Data. I wish the author had written some benchmarks to show the performance degradation.
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by webaholic 12y ago
Is this the fastest freeze-to-release of Debian or what?
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by webaholic 12y ago
Too many buzzfeed links from people who I have nothing in common with. It takes a lot of effort to scroll through pictures of people you hardly knew back in college. Being socially aloof does not help either ;)
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by webaholic 12y ago
Can someone with access please run some cpu benchmarks ala anandtech? Thanks!
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What I learned building a parallel processor from scratch(parallella.org)
42 points by webaholic 12y ago|18 comments
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by webaholic 12y ago
It is not in the C standard but the way GCC implements it is that it is hands-off with optimizations to any volatile variables and pointers. And since Linux is only compiled with GCC, it works.
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by webaholic 12y ago
Well, it is hard to sell this to a friend of mine who got mugged in broad day light on a weekend on campus. If it was not for a surveillance camera, the thugs would still be roaming free. Not only did the surveillance help in nabbing the cr
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by webaholic 12y ago
It is not recommended to post articles which are behind a paywall... please post a direct link if possible!
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by webaholic 12y ago
If you had invested a year ago, you would have lost 70% of the money you invested. Consider yourself lucky that you didn't.
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by webaholic 12y ago
Not surprising given the focus of OS X is on usability first, performance next. While the focus of Linux is on performance and features alone. Usability is in the hands of distributions.
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by webaholic 12y ago
AccelerEyes recently did the same with their product arrayfire(github.com/arrayfire), though I cannot tell if they are successful or not.
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by webaholic 12y ago
This is a bit misleading. If you really want to create something 'proprietary' which is to the standards of Linux, you would not start from scratch. You will take one of the many BSD licensed OS's out there and build on top o