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by StillBored 22d ago
Yes, but the contended case is often the critical part of an application’s performance. Weakly ordered CPUs therefore need fast barrier mechanisms, which in turn means re-creating much of the store-ordering, writeback buffering, and commit
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by StillBored 22d ago
Odin fails on a number of fronts. For example, integer overflow is simply defined behavior rather than some form of trapping/notification systems. This is no better than C really, its just defining what C tends to do anyway, and its a
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by StillBored 1mo ago
Recently dabbled in zig because I, like many people, want a "better C" that solves many of the footguns that C has (ex: null terminated strings, lack of integer overflow trapping, slightly higher level data structures) without all
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by StillBored 2mo ago
I might be hallucinating, but IIRC this is now dependent on PCIe revision. More recent revisions have removed the slot power limits line, and so it works out that in theory a x4 slot (or any other size) can have a 75W load. IIRC this is sta
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by StillBored 3mo ago
How accurate is it that the DoD has a handful of class A networks? And WTF do they need them for these days, they aren't actually advertising internal networks on the public internet are they?
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by StillBored 3mo ago
Part of this is simply fixed by a tweak to copyright that if the IP isn't available for sale at a reasonable price the copyright no longer applies. Games, books, movies, music, etc.
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by StillBored 4mo ago
I'm surprised that these articles never method Orthokeratology (Ortho-K), which are basically retainers for your eyes and reshape the cornea at night and wear off if not worn regularly. I've considered it just based on that basis
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by StillBored 5mo ago
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
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by StillBored 5mo ago
POE and existing wiring, and terminating copper on the lower end is dead simple for the kinds of people who wire houses, being able to run on cat3 phone cable would be even more of a bonus. There is a market for attaching APs, security came
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by StillBored 5mo ago
As an American who recently moved and can now get 1/2/5Gbit XGS-PON, in a location which is borderline rural/suburban and was originally platted out 50 years ago, at the same price I was paying for shitty 400/20... I don
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by StillBored 5mo ago
I think the larger point is that dumping baseband and going with OFDM/etc over wider spectrum allows those cat5e runs that are rolling off at 600Mhz (or whatever) and the super clean cat8/whatever to coexist with bad cables, bad t
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by StillBored 5mo ago
Does the mac still lack a SMB/CIFS browser? I was shocked years ago that the mac, famous for its early network peer discovery and zeroconf and all, couldn't present a list of SMB servers and shares despite that kind of function be
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by StillBored 5mo ago
8051! I love it. Its like running web stacks on these ESP8266's without the crypto acceleration. But at the same time, we have to stop pretending that 1Gbit Ethernet isn't utterly obsolete in the same way that RS-232 is. Useful ma
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by StillBored 5mo ago
Its more than that, its that x86 vendors know how to maintain hardware backwards compatibility, they don't throw out the entire USB subsystem every time a new phy/whatever shows up because there is a standardized mailbox interface
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by StillBored 5mo ago
I don't even think that is the problem. It seems more an engineering cultural one, that has sadly infected most of the software industry at this point. Instead of incremental improvement it seems the old ATI drivers (and seemingly much
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by StillBored 5mo ago
I just wish they would make another pass at cleaning up the stack. It should be easy to `git clone --recurse-submodules rocm` followed by a configure/make that both prints out missing dependencies and configures without them, along wit
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by StillBored 6mo ago
I recently dumped opnsense because they took a stand against a few things I was trying to do (ex, webUI on wan port IIRC) which make sense at a high level. But I _HATE_ devices that think they know better than me. I was trying to configure
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by StillBored 6mo ago
I've got one of those N100+10Gbit router devices with a handful of ports. It seems a pretty reasonable device with one of the router distros running on it, but it doesn't seem nearly as efficient as my ucg-fiber/route10 devic
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by StillBored 7mo ago
RIP, truly one of the greats. His early stuff contains some real masterworks. Hyperion is still to this day, going to show up at the top of my scifi recommended reading list, most of his horror novels were also great in their own ways. PS:
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by StillBored 7mo ago
Its not against the law in any US state (a quick search seems to back this up) to pass on the right. With one huge gotcha, it must be "safe" defined in various ways. OTOH, most states have a stay right except to pass, slower traff
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by StillBored 7mo ago
In Austin too, and probably just caused a driver to think the same thing. They were in the left lane on a frontage road which was suddenly turning left even though there was an entire lane opposite the intersection blocked off by those plas
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by StillBored 7mo ago
Why? If everyone followed the rules the lanes would segment into slowest on the right, with gradually increasing speed to the left and people moving between the lanes as needed to overtake. It would be far far far better than the chaos of h
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by StillBored 8mo ago
At first glance that seems to be true, but when you look at the arguments at the time, who made them and how much of it was walked back, it just looks like the usual legislative panic, same as 911. It doesn't make the original intentio
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by StillBored 8mo ago
The constitution doesn't provide a "common sense" loophole. Much of it is written in absolutist language because that was the actual intention. The amendment process is provided to open "common sense" loopholes if e
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by StillBored 8mo ago
There are whole catagories of people without "ID" as such, like say underage children or people unable to drive. ID's in the USA have traditionally been either drivers licenses or passports. Many states have added non-drivers
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by StillBored 8mo ago
But the airlines don't really give a crap, southwest started basically as an air bus, show up buy a ticket get on. No reservation, no id, nothing. The airlines don't even check ID most of the time with these electronic boarding pa
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by StillBored 8mo ago
Frankly, the entire agency is unconstitutional. From the fact that they basically exist under a general warrant issued by the supreme court (although they invented a new catagory, "administrative search", which doesn't fundam
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by StillBored 8mo ago
I wouldn't really call 100Gbit overkill, if you compare it to modern disk drives is about where we should be relative to shared storage/NAS/etc infrastructure people used to run. So yes, being able to share my /home dire
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by StillBored 8mo ago
I think my point revolves more around what the HW designers were enabling. If they thought that the flat model was the right one, they would have just kept doing what the 286 did, and fixed the segment sizes at 4G.
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by StillBored 8mo ago
<i>So with the 80386, Intel finally abandoned their failed approach of segmented address spaces and joined the linear rest of the world. (Of course the 386 is technically still segmented, but let's ignore that).</i> Th

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