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by alblue 4y ago
Oracle’s OpenJDK is the only one that is built without supporting Shenandoah GC.
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by alblue 5y ago
Did you mean to have the `tmp.name` as the library passed into `CDDL`? If not, what’s the purpose of the copy?
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by alblue 5y ago
If you’re more into watching a presentation, I recorded “A Brief History of Unicode” last year, And there’s a YouTube recording of it as well as the slides: https://speakerdeck.com/alblue/a-brief-history-of-unicode-45..
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by alblue 5y ago
iOS auto incorrect. It’s just ducking awful.
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by alblue 5y ago
You might also like my recent presentation on understanding micro architecture: https://speakerdeck.com/alblue/understanding-cpu-microarchit... The presentation was recorded and is on YouTube https://youtu.b
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by alblue 5y ago
The link is supposed to be https://speakerdeck.com/alblue/understanding-cpu-microarchit... but for some reason HN has stripped the last parameter off, which means it is more pointing to the beginning of the deck instea
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Beer Cache Hierarchy(speakerdeck.com)
3 points by alblue 5y ago|1 comments
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by alblue 5y ago
True, but as it turns out in 2022 we are in exactly the same problem, as our bitterly incompetent Prime Minister is trying to save his own job at the cost of thousands of lives (152k and rising) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news&#x
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by alblue 5y ago
I gave this presentation; if you have any questions, I’d be happy to answer them as best I can.
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by alblue 5y ago
From the abstract: Microprocessors have evolved over decades to eke out performance from existing code. But the microarchitecture of the CPU leaks into the assumptions of a flat memory model, with the result that equivalent code can run sig
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Understanding CPU micro architecture for performance(speakerdeck.com)
6 points by alblue 5y ago|2 comments
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by alblue 5y ago
> and now do little for the latest variant. Actually, the current vaccines still seem to be doing a pretty good job, even with the latest variant (and there are always more variants). While none of the vaccines have ever claimed to preve
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by alblue 5y ago
TL;DR Microsoft released a virus definition file with a timestamp/serial 220101001, and is unable to parse it into a (signed) long value since the largest value is 2,147,483,647 and it’s possible that there’s a factor of 10 in the dese
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by alblue 5y ago
This is the only git manpage you’ll ever need: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
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by alblue 5y ago
Then set up an alias to do it for you. https://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/04/git-tip-of-week-aliases.h...
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by alblue 5y ago
It’s known as the Konami code, although it’s got BA Start at the end :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code
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by alblue 5y ago
Note that GC makes explicit the costs associated with memory allocation and freeing; languages that use manual memory management (or semi automated memory management as in Swift/Rust) simply un-amortise the cost and distribute it all o
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by alblue 5y ago
Is it this one? https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44228
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by alblue 5y ago
Where’s the CVE?
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by alblue 5y ago
There’s a few reasons, but mostly is due to economics and the way Apple builds its own software. Swift came out of the iOS side of the company, and was sponsored to make writing iOS apps easier. It was therefore constrained to fit into a pa
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by alblue 5y ago
The most annoying aspect of this for us was that the AWS Organizations API only has a single endpoint, in us-east-1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/ao.html As a result, even if you weren’t usin
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by alblue 5y ago
The talk itself is great, but the background to the slides and speakers is constantly moving from side to side and is pretty distracting. I would have preferred to see the video of the slide deck itself without any extraneous background or
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by alblue 5y ago
I’ve used Mythic Beasts for over a decade now, and they are a great company for all sorts of hosting, not only raspberry Pis. Plus, they actually serve the Raspberry Pi foundation website and the raspian images /from Raspberry Pis&#x2F
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by alblue 5y ago
Another approach, if you are using terraform directly and running in AWS, is to get GitHub Actions to log on to AWS. While you can do this by embedding an AWS IAM secret as a GitHub secret, it may lead to the secret escaping. Instead, you c
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by alblue 5y ago
I was working for a FAANG company and had negotiated internally with another department for a job which I would have been perfect for. My management chain veto’d the transfer, which was the day I decided to quit. I started looking for oppor
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by alblue 5y ago
Since the language is based on JavaScript, you can also concatenate strings together with “”+”” as part of your output, eg ‘.Name + “(“ + .Email + “)”
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by alblue 5y ago
Jaguar F-Pace is a fossil fuel car. The electric version is the I-Pace.
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by alblue 5y ago
Downloading timetables from stations. They are available in dead tree format but next to them is a QR code that takes you direct to the PDF you need which you can save to your phone.
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by alblue 5y ago
The live stream starts in 4 hours time at http://www.virgingalactic.com/
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by alblue 5y ago
Not really. Lotus Notes was an MS-Access system that would attempt to do database synchronization between a server copy of the database and the local client. It was built in an age where road warriors were expected to take their laptops wit

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