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by zepearl 8y ago
Thx but well, this kind of goes frontally against the other 2 answers I got (I understood that nothing ever gets explicitly terminated by the OS and I felt happy with that approach as it kind of made sense to me, but some now strong doubts
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by zepearl 8y ago
Thx >>and it was our job to ensure it finished in time for the next tick and also left enough CPU for all the other threads Then, for the realtime program to run correctly, it would involve as well an understanding of all other proces
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by zepearl 8y ago
Thx >>The point of a realtime OS is not to make your programs run in real-time, but to make it possible for your programs to run in real-time. So basically, if I program something and somehow set it to be "realtime" then I c
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by zepearl 8y ago
>>In the future, Kotick said Activision-Blizzard will invest primarily in live services, Battle.net, and esports, with a focus on the following franchises: Candy Crush, Call of Duty, Overwatch, Warcraft, Diablo, and Hearthstone. For t
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by zepearl 8y ago
Reading the article made me think again about realtime software/hardware/OS, which I absolutely never understood. One one hand Wikipedia says "Real-time programs must guarantee response within specified time constraints, ofte
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by zepearl 8y ago
I'm swiss, so I guess that soon I'll have to vote about this voting system :) E.g. chapter 3.4.3 of the architecture PDF might be interesting to end-users/voters: >End-to-end verifiability: Voters should be able to verify
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by zepearl 8y ago
Thx - but yes, it's really Chrome and Gentoo (my distro) downloads of course Chrome's blob => weird that I have this problem, isn't it?
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by zepearl 8y ago
Am I the only one on Linux that has Firefox able to display any characters correctly (e.g. in this case the Japanese chars, arabic/russian chars on some other pages, etc...), but Chrome not being able to at all? (it's since months
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by zepearl 8y ago
Japan is probably the only country that keeps suprising me and is often (in my eyes) absolutely contradictory - I love many of their animes, some of their movies (e.g. the old samurai classics, "I am a hero", etc) some of their mu
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by zepearl 8y ago
I know that both Switzerland and Singapore have at least "soft" guidelines (no direct retaliation if you don't adhere to them, but frown upon if you don't) about the HW (including buildings & workplaces) & SW and
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by zepearl 8y ago
Maybe for airships/blimps the approach would have to be different than for airplanes, meaning more intermediate stops? (maybe their "landing/takeoff"-cycle is more efficient than the ones of airplanes?) Kind of bus/
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by zepearl 8y ago
Philips vs. OSRAM My flat has some sort of bad-quality switches and when switching on/off the lights I often used to have some failures when using classic light bulbs (I have no clue about electricity - in any case in some way when I p
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by zepearl 8y ago
Summarized, I understand that you mean that a malfunction in the "reverse-thrust-detector" (which switches off automatically the involved engine(s) when the reverse-thrust is not operating within its envelope => referenced as &
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by zepearl 8y ago
Well, even if the volume is very high, the scandals had planetary coverage, therefore I would still expect to see some kind of impact? Or would it still be too little to show a variance in the trend? Dumping here links of DAU/MAU chart
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by zepearl 8y ago
I share your fears, but I do have some doubts about their metrics (see the link to a chart in another thread). But maybe (just dumping some thoughts), after the scandals, DAU and MAU might not be anymore as relevant as in the past for Faceb
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by zepearl 8y ago
Thx In the meanwhile I found this (2015) about MAU: https://www.adweek.com/digital/monthly-active-users-definiti... >>We define a monthly active user as a registered Facebook user who logged in and visited Facebo
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by zepearl 8y ago
Do you think that this chart of historical DAU (Daily Active Users) is correct? https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d... Looks too stable to me (especially taking into account the scandals).
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by zepearl 8y ago
I see a huge empty area at the top (on all pages, tested on Firefox and Chrome on Linux, e.g. on https://osman.notepin.co and https://notepin.co/blog )
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by zepearl 8y ago
I had a (first version?) XPS 13 running first Gentoo and then later Linux Mint and I never had problems with it. Once I even let it run for 2 months without rebooting and making it go into suspend-to-RAM from time to time and it never crash
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by zepearl 8y ago
>>I just wanted to point this out... "this" what? >>As for proof, there are lots of sites.. Pls. post the direct links to the specific pages that allow us to see such a direct comparison or to at least see data which c
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by zepearl 8y ago
I'm a "n00b" in this sector, so pls. feel free to correct me: 1) RTX is meant to be linked to "raytracing". 2a) Raytracing in general computes a scene by computing how photons are affected by matter - e.g. a full re
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by zepearl 8y ago
You're fuzzy/vague and you assume that I did not perform a selection of what I decided to buy at that time and you state about huge differences of loudness between brands of the same chip without posting proof.
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by zepearl 8y ago
Thanks a lot - absolutely interesting/fascinating. You guys should think about writing a short eBook about e.g. general recommendations about setups/analysis/projections & stories about past failures/chain-of-events&
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by zepearl 8y ago
Thanks, once more, for the nice reply :) Interesting about the new European region, for sure at least from the point of view of "locality" (I assume that from the point of view of "data ownership" the US will still consi
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by zepearl 8y ago
Thank you! To summarize I understand: A) the local working copy (locally replicated in your case), B) the local backup and C) the cloud/very remote backup. B & C cover each other if any datacenter is completely wiped out.
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by zepearl 8y ago
Maybe this is true for desktop PCs, but in my case I always had to be very careful when buying a new laptop/notebook (which basically always had the newest HW because it just came with it).
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by zepearl 8y ago
Maybe? But then probably even AMD/ATI does not keep on tweaking their drivers more than nVidia to improve performance & OpenGL-compliance for all their 12 years old HW... (but I might be wrong). >>a server and a media center
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by zepearl 8y ago
Thx! Then, if the performance is "worse" or "better" for a specific OS, it's just because the code of the open-source part (kernel and/or userland progs) and/or the app (game/application/whatever
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by zepearl 8y ago
>>So when a drive is HALF-FAILED, we even have a procedure to pull the drive out, and then opportunistically copy whatever files we can recover onto a new drive, then put the new drive back into production. Do I understand correctly,
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by zepearl 8y ago
(thanks a lot - all extremely interesting) >> We can't have more than 3 drives fail in any one group of 20 drives... Wow, for me, subjectively, an low threshold - and I underderstand that each drive being hosted on a different ma

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