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by xenadu02 5y ago
These two drives never lost FLUSH'd writes in any test I ran.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
The semantics of a FLUSH command (per NVMe spec) is that all previously sent write commands along with any internal metadata must be written to durable storage before returning success. Basically the drive is saying "yup, it's all
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Sorry, it was the 970 Evo Plus. Here are the exact model and date codes from the drives: Samsung 970 Evo Plus: MZ-V7S2T0, 2021.10 WD Red: WDS100T1R0C-68BDK0, 04Sept2021
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by xenadu02 5y ago
This is not even the first or second time Google has rolled out changes that allowed SEO spam sites copying Stackoverflow or Wikipedia to rank higher than the original. They did fix this at one point in time by figuring out which site poste
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by xenadu02 5y ago
It's irrelevant. Even if the authority existed to reclaim all the /8s handed out to private companies (it doesn't) you'd kick the can down the road a few years at best. Then we'd be right back in the same boat. Ther
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Zealot or not he's also a huge asshole, petty, rude, and extremely inconsiderate. I think most people who enjoy dunking on him enjoy it because he's such an unpleasant person.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Every conference since forever has maintained a "that person is an asshole, they aren't allowed to attend" list. Prior to COCs the list was unofficial, the rules unwritten, and often the rejection masked (sorry "sold out
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by xenadu02 5y ago
No, cells have active DNA repair mechanisms working all the time. They also have transcription ECC that attempts to detect and/or correct transcription errors. Some critical protein coding sequences are arranged to make some errors har
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by xenadu02 5y ago
> The trouble is, you've created another C variant, one with checking. There are many of those, and none have caught on. Because none of these approaches have been adopted by the standards committee – of which most of the members th
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Everything that uses NAND flash, which ranges from computers to phones to TVs. WD and Kioxia supply chips to the commodity market, not just for their own branded products. For example 40% of "Brand X" SSD drives might have WD chip
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by xenadu02 5y ago
This is not usually true. Memory compression prioritizes speed not compression ratio so even something like a bitmap from a JPEG source is not likely to be very compressed. Freeing the buffer is still a net win. Further the pages themselves
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by xenadu02 5y ago
The background QoS is telling the system to optimize for both other more important work and battery life. Even if other cores are available the system may still choose to run that work on efficiency cores to reduce power consumption. This m
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by xenadu02 5y ago
A bunch of shorts 100% closed their positions. That was the original smaller push that made the stock take off. The rest of it was momentum from retail investors, algorithms, etc. There was never going to be a flag day though... shorts cove
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by xenadu02 5y ago
My personal opinion is we should be clear about why many companies are not contributing to or shipping GPLv3 software. The schism over GPLv3 was widely known and discussed at the time the license was being drafted. Many companies told the F
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by xenadu02 5y ago
I mean... original UNIX was multi-process but single-thread. It time shared by swapping the current process out to disk entirely and swapping in the next runnable task. When you get to ignore concurrency that makes life simpler but I don&#x
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Never talk to the media. That goes double for right-wing media. They aren't your friends, all they care about is pushing their narrative. They will steam-roll you and ruin your life for ratings / views.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Internal politics is the usual root cause. For example hardware may come from the CFO's budget or IT may want fewer configs for their own convenience. It doesn't make sense to save 0.2-1.0% of the fully loaded cost of a developer.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Besides improving air quality you should use the vent hood anyway otherwise your kitchen will get a nice coating of grease on everything over the years. This applies to the oven too, not just the stovetop. I wish residential vent hoods came
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by xenadu02 5y ago
> FAANG pays a lot for you to join them and give good raises, but they don't pay extra to make you stay instead of leaving for another FAANG No, they just choose who to reward according to whatever their metrics are and how someone&
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by xenadu02 5y ago
This also greatly contributed to the preservation of the Pyramids themselves. The great North African deserts come and go in extremely long cycles however. At some point a wet period will return and much of the preserved artifacts will be s
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by xenadu02 5y ago
As noted elsewhere the Pyramids were not built by slaves, they were built by the best craftsmen in the kingdom. Second thing to note is the Great Pyramids didn't spring up from nowhere. The Egyptians spent hundreds of years building bi
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by xenadu02 5y ago
We can be reasonably certain there were no such civilizations on Earth prior to modern human history, otherwise we'd see evidence in the archeological record or even fossil record. I don't mean finding silicon chips in a fossil or
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Sometimes it is only in the last 10-30% of the changes that any significant benefit is realized, yet the preceding work is a necessary foundation. That makes it a very difficult sell to the rest of the organization (whether OSS contributors
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by xenadu02 5y ago
The video is just of that one test but multiple Model Ys are crash-tested in different scenarios before the rating is assigned. I think you're talking about the moderate overlap test. > To qualify for either of the Institute’s two a
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by xenadu02 5y ago
TIL Europeans called them "Arabic" numerals because they were in use in parts of the Arab world and popularized by a Persian mathematician (who called them "Hindu numerals") I also wasn't aware that they are a relat
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Not all unions are like that but some definitely are. Some unions seem to be connected to organized crime or powerful political players and protect their turf very strongly. eg Longshoremen in New York. The union is used as a make-work orga
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by xenadu02 5y ago
It is common in such commercial agreements to provide source code or to escrow source code with a third party service with conditions that trigger release of the sources (eg bankruptcy or sale to another company that discontinues the produc
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by xenadu02 5y ago
In the USA a large percentage of private schools (possibly a slight majority) are religious and/or ideological in nature. Having experienced this first hand I would challenge everyone to question the assumption that private schools pro
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Scam? Tesla is manufacturing and delivering vehicles. The model Y is by all accounts the best vehicle they've made and so far doesn't have any of the problems seen with others. FWIW ours arrived in perfect condition and hasn'
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Everyone keeps repeating this assumed idea that it's "just" a payment processing fee which is simply not true and never has been. The fee is for: - access to install base and customer relationship - funds development of the p

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