Arnavion

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by Arnavion 11mo ago
They're talking about Windows Bitlocker. It used to be able to use hardware encryption if the drive supported it, then there were sufficient vulnerabilities in implementations that it now always does software encryption.
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by Arnavion 11mo ago
I can't say anything about dual-booting Windows. I have heard that Windows Updates will frequently overwrite your custom EFI vars setup and reinstate the Windows bootloader etc. Other than that, FDE and Secure Boot are unrelated. The b
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by Arnavion 11mo ago
You're right, I missed the article specifically mentions Meltdown in that sentence, not Spectre.
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by Arnavion 11mo ago
The fetch stage of the pipeline will have needed to predict the branch N cycles before the execute stage of the pipeline actually gets around to evaluating it, in order to continue fetching the post-branch instructions. Without branch predi
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by Arnavion 11mo ago
Speculative execution does not require out-of-order execution. When you predict a branch, you're speculatively executing the predicted branch. Whether you're doing it in the same order as instruction order or out of order is indep
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by Arnavion 11mo ago
Yes, I run Waydroid (LineageOS in a Linux container) in an Ubuntu x86_64 VM on my home PC using their default installation method, plus libhoudini via https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script to be able to run arm
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by Arnavion 11mo ago
Ah yes, in that case the relevant limit would be one on total handles, which doesn't seem to exist.
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by Arnavion 11mo ago
There are job objects which are similar to Linux cgroups, including the ability to set a limit on the number of processes. But I'm not sure if that limit will be tripped in this case or not because the child processes have exited, wher
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by Arnavion 11mo ago
Somewhat related is the situation with Shingeki no Kyojin / Attack on Titan. "Attack on Titan" was the manga author's chosen English title, except the story does not take place on the moon of Titan but is instead about g
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by Arnavion 11mo ago
No need for a new format, just use ASS itself! https://github.com/libass/JavascriptSubtitlesOctopus
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by Arnavion 1y ago
The answers to negative questions are the other way around in Japanese compared to English. "Are you not a student?" In English, the non-student speaker would respond with "No", short for "No, I am not." In Jap
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by Arnavion 1y ago
>A character may say "I've missed you so much. It's been so long." The subtitles will read "Hey. Long time. " (both quotes would be Japanese) This is standard in closed captions and is not specific to Japan.
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by Arnavion 1y ago
See also unanimated's typesetting guide: https://unanimated.github.io/ts/index.htm
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by Arnavion 1y ago
CR rips (like SubsPlease, mentioned in the article) have jp audio and softsubs for en+signs, so I assume you can turn them off on CR's website too.
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by Arnavion 1y ago
I don't see anything wrong or confusing in them. On running the merge-usr script, the contents of /lib will be moved to /usr/lib, and /lib will become a symlink to /usr/lib. The same will happen with &#x2F
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by Arnavion 1y ago
They didn't understand the version numbers (notice they were complaining that the blog post jumped the gun because there is no merge-usr in 3.22) and wanted dates. I explained the version numbers to them. Yes, there are no dates; Alpin
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by Arnavion 1y ago
>>the Merge Request that finalizes the initial work will be merged. Any new __edge__ installations will be /usr-merged from this point onwards. >>Release of Alpine Linux __3.23: [...] From this point onwards,__ users are en
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by Arnavion 1y ago
And updating Alpine to a new release is already a manual action.
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by Arnavion 1y ago
There's no need to interpret anything. It's spelled out in the list in the Timeline section already. Point 1 tells you it's in Edge. Point 2 tells you that stable will be able to start migrating with 3.23, ie when current Edg
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by Arnavion 1y ago
As TFA says, currently the usr-merge and the script for it is only in Edge, and it will come to stable in 3.23
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by Arnavion 1y ago
If I was sufficiently motivated to leave GH for such idealistic reasons, it wouldn't be worth moving to another third-party host. That just means a few years later there will be some new idealistic reason to leave the new host, and I&#
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by Arnavion 1y ago
>Hold on. This wasn't a wrapper around a loop pattern - this was a first-class atomic operation, sitting right there next to fetch_add and fetch_or. Java doesn't have this. C++ doesn't have this. How could Rust just... hav
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by Arnavion 1y ago
I checked Godbolt, with RISC-V instead of ARM since I'm more familiar with that, and it doesn't look like it. https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/b5s4WjnTG (amomax is the atomic fetch-max instruction. lr and sc are loa
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by Arnavion 1y ago
>You can't build and application with the specialized thread-per core or single-threaded runtime thing if you wanted to because of pervasive incidental complexity. [...] It's frustrating and I go out of my way to avoid Tokio be
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by Arnavion 1y ago
>Garbage collection generally refers to more complex systems that periodically identify and free unused objects in a less deterministic manner. No, this is a subset of garbage collection called tracing garbage collection. "Garbage c
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by Arnavion 1y ago
Doing things based on exe filename is quite standard in Windows land. There's literally a registry key called "Image File Execution Options" where you can add a subkey with the name of the exe and then add values to control t
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by Arnavion 1y ago
The ShowError() API they're talking about doesn't take a format string. It takes a resource ID which is an integer that's essentially an index in the resource table. So running the message compiler produces a C header that de
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by Arnavion 1y ago
>(in fact, no device at all is reported as having a fully functioning camera, let alone everything else) Nit: The Pine64 PinePhone's cameras at least have been fully functional since 2021. It's a very shitty pair of cameras, bu
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by Arnavion 1y ago
Two days ago, in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45240682 This one by the original author was submitted earlier but got no engagement, and is now back with falsified timestamps because of the "second chance pool&q
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by Arnavion 1y ago
>getaddrinfo_a is available, but not widely adopted (*BSD and Linux), probably because you can't guarantee it'll be available on every computer/phone/modem. This is only an issue if you're targeting POSIX rather

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