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by xxs 5mo ago
xbox is a catch-it-umbrella that includes all the studios bought, and game pass. The xbox hardware sales are beyond appalling[0], $220m a quarter, and it'd be below $1b yearly. That's revenue - the consoles have pretty terrible pr
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by xxs 5mo ago
there are (will be) lots of calls on the muscle memory slacking off. I can't think of anything that is not reproducible on Mint. I have tons of Windows experience (starting off by manually installing windows w/o installation flopp
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by xxs 6mo ago
>Case fans pull what 4 watts? 5 watts? That's really high. Like usually they are 100-150mA (so sub 2W) Lots of controllers would be 1A max. The tolerances are for noise mostly. I'd consider the noise (and longevity) the single
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by xxs 6mo ago
>the standard notation is the equivalent of Roman numerals. But the Roman numerals are easy. I was able to use them before 1st grade and I can't touch any "standard notation" to this day.
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by xxs 6mo ago
Quite a few major issues with the post: - Drinking wine solo is odd. Whiskey, vodka, or beer (and if you Russian) is the standard. Spelling mistakes like 'ever thing' support the idea of alcohol induced unordered thoughts, tha
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by xxs 6mo ago
It was about getting fired (your manager stuff) and then moving to another job very shortly afterwards (the two weeks is correct)
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by xxs 6mo ago
> "$PROJECT bans AI" is just ridiculous why so? If they don't feel like reviewing code (or ensure copyright compliance) they are free to reject that. If you feel strong about it, go fork and maintain it on your own.
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by xxs 6mo ago
>reviewed by humans can be perfectly good, maintainable, and indistinguishable from regular old code That depends on the 'regular old code' but most stuff I have seen doesn't come close to 'maintainable'. The amo
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by xxs 6mo ago
Generally if I see 'this' to refer to some unknown part in any title, I'd consider it low quality.
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by xxs 6mo ago
trucks? Or they still considered cars?
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by xxs 6mo ago
which part would you consider overengineered?
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by xxs 6mo ago
realistically the only part at half a gb/s I'd care is latency. Latency is a lot more important than the throughput.
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by xxs 7mo ago
I read the article before the abbreviate definition inclusion as its very opening. I had never met the abbreviation before. It'd be quite surprising the WITH statement in top a query to be the first feature to learn/use past basic
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by xxs 7mo ago
According to the article that's what 25% of people think.
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by xxs 7mo ago
That's java code, though... bit weird, esp. i % 8 (which is just i & 7). The compiler should be able to optimize it since 'i' is guaranteed to be non-negative, still awkward. Java CRC32 nowadays uses intrinsics and avx128
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by xxs 7mo ago
Crc32 can be written in handful lines of code. Although it'd be better to use the vector instruction set - e.g. AVX when available.
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by xxs 7mo ago
as parser: keep only indexes to the original file (input), dont copy strings or parse numbers at all (unless the strings fit in the index width, e.g. 32bit) That would make parsing faster and there will be very little in terms on tree (json
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by xxs 7mo ago
what do you mean by little data, most communication protocols are not one off
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by xxs 7mo ago
That's a proper late 90s reference, props!
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by xxs 7mo ago
it's a reply to: "To an outsider, that looks like the JVM heap just steadily growing, which is easy to mistake for a memory leak." I cut the part that it's possible to make JVM return memory heap after compaction but usu
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by xxs 7mo ago
Overall if java hits the swap, it's a bad case. Windows is a like special beast when it comes to 'swapping', even if you don't truly needed it. On linux all (server) services run with swapoff.
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by xxs 7mo ago
Well, indeed - I thought that part was obvious reading it.
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by xxs 7mo ago
Java has a quite strict max heap setting, it's very uncommon to let it allocate up to 25% of the system memory (the default). It won't grow past that point, though. Baring bugs/native leaks - Java has a very predictable memor
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by xxs 7mo ago
What do you mean - if Java returns memory to the OS? Which one - Java heap of the malloc/free by the JVM?
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by xxs 7mo ago
Refactor doesn't mean just artificial puff-up jobs, it's very likely internal changes and reorganization (hence 100s of hours). There are not many engineers capable of working on memory allocators, so adding more burden by agentic
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by xxs 7mo ago
Few months back, some of the services switched to jemalloc for the Java VM. It took months (of memory dumps and tracing sys-calls) to blame the JVM, itself, for getting killed by the oom_killer. Initially the idea was diagnostics, instead t
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by xxs 7mo ago
Of course, any UUIDv4 would do it (or any random stuff in general). I suppose the idea was having a naming scheme, instead of sharing the paths explicitly (and having an internal mapping for them)
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by xxs 7mo ago
that doesn't help either. 'Salt' is public and usually different/unique per entry/name. If you mean to use a "secret" prefix (i.e. pepper) then, that would generate effectively globally unique names each t
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by xxs 7mo ago
>For every "20 min max" take home assignment, there will be people who are willing to spend 4+ hours doing it to outshine candidates who have jobs, families and lives. The ones we use have a clear scoring system and prepared in
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by xxs 7mo ago
If you cant do the sarcasm yourself (and be witty enough), it's just not fun or improved in any way. Use of corporate speak is sarcasms on its own right, of course - but it only makes sense if it's something your are exposed to (a

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