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by zozbot123 8y ago
Energy/power efficiency might be a more relevant concern than mere size - OOO execution is fast but energy intensive, for a given workload. (Granted, the latest process nodes might be a tad different, with "size" also impact
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by zozbot123 8y ago
Yup, reading from disk will trigger a context switch from the OS, whether it happens explicitly or via a page fault involving virtual memory. (The closest parallel to that at the hardware level would be SMT.) As an aside, another rational
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by zozbot123 8y ago
I could quip that "Here's what Trump tweeted today" is the evergreen content, because you always know what Trump tweets are going to be like. But that wouldn't be a HN-worthy comment, so I won't.
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by zozbot123 8y ago
"Windows Classic"-like widgets are also gone from GTK3 in Linux (whereas GTK2 still has its "Redmond" widget mode). Luckily the default 'Adwaita' theme is quite close in appearance, even more than what's
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by zozbot123 8y ago
> I remember marveling at how smooth the gradient was! Ironically, you used to be able to run KDE1 in 8 bits per pixel color mode (256-color palette - quite important for performance back then) and that did support titlebar gradients,
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by zozbot123 8y ago
> I don't buy into donation matching. Think of it not as "donating", but as crowdfunding for an enterprise that both you and other people might care about. If you donation match, you incent others to pitch in for the effor
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by zozbot123 8y ago
"Expensive Typewriter" required a PDP-1, a million-dollar machine (in current dollars). That was too expensive to be viable in a real-world business environment. The Redactron was a dedicated hardware device which of course was
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by zozbot123 8y ago
Maybe I am wrong, but as far as I remember IXsystems is pushing TrueOS and some other appliances like FreeNas. My point was simply aiming to underline that there is no analogue of RHEL or Centos in the BSD world. If you decide to endorse BS
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by zozbot123 8y ago
Finally! I knew that the whole modal editing thing and the `hjkl` commands would become useful some day!
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by zozbot123 8y ago
The only resource you need is here: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ This is the first and only resource you have to hit when the question is: "how do I do that in FreeBSD?" Section 4. answers your
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by zozbot123 8y ago
$80 seems a bit steep. Can anyone who has read the book share some info on whether it is worth the cost?
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by zozbot123 8y ago
Ok I'll refrain myself next time. I'm hoping you monitor suspicious activities and accounts on here, including where the trails ends up, because I assure you weird things are happening. There's an unnatural tendency to favor
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by zozbot123 8y ago
> scarred a whole generation That's a rather optimistic way of putting it, unfortunately. The senseless destruction of cultural heritage that went on during the CR, combined with the sheer scale of it, makes it a civilizational-scal
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by zozbot123 8y ago
> There's no sane way to add support for this header and make older servers behave correctly, so now we have better facilities for this KISS. Endow the "400 Bad Request" server response with a special header that acts like
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by zozbot123 8y ago
Racism, mainly. They say the same thing about Turkish hazelnuts while failing to acknowledge that Turkey is the homeland of hazelnuts and way way older than Italian ones.
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by zozbot123 8y ago
I played around with this one I found on Reddit's "daily programmer" subreddit a few months back, never found a great approach other than brute force (along with trying to identify unique/expensive sequences). Do you see
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by zozbot123 8y ago
How about just globally blocking AS4134 and AS9318?
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by zozbot123 8y ago
To any hiring managers that might be reading this, please watch this alternative method of interviewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfyWvJdsDRI
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by zozbot123 8y ago
> You can't show any weakness solving a problem, less they offer you a "helpful hint" and record a black mark against you. This is really the crux of the problem. And the definition of 'hint' becomes real blurry