danvet

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by danvet 6y ago
42 billions total now, the 32 billions just announced is on top of the 10 billions already put aside last week. And yes with these measures essentially any income is now assured: Salaries, salaries of SMB owners (normally excluded from unem
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by danvet 8y ago
At first I thought like "hey Carmel doesn't look so bad". Then I realized all the grey stuff is parking lots, not houses.
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by danvet 8y ago
There's no one keeping track of that as far as I know, but the group picture of kernel maintainers (just picked the first one google brought up) is fairly informative on your questions. https://lwn.net/Articles/705
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DRM/FreeDesktop Code of Conduct Submitted to Linux 4.12(phoronix.com)
2 points by danvet 9y ago|0 comments
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by danvet 10y ago
The OpenGL threading model is completely screwed up. You essentially have a global lock per GL context, which means you're restricted to 1 thread for issuing rendering. And in GL a context is for everything, including shaders, texture
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by danvet 10y ago
I commented a summary on the phoronix forums already, copypasting here. I'm the good cop in the good cop/bad coop game Dave&I have been playing in this. Maybe this helps clear up some of the confusion and anger here. This is m
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by danvet 10y ago
Complying or not complying to a foreing judges orders is a pretty common problem for any multinational company. Even if they have local presensence, the thing requested (data, object, whatever) might be somewhere else. And simply fetching i
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by danvet 11y ago
PSR on skl is still disabled by default, because there's some corner cases we haven't fixed yet. In case you wonder: more recent platforms shut down more of the chip in PSR, and we haven't yet wired up the power management ca
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by danvet 11y ago
Open source gpu drivers on Linux clear all allocations the kernel driver hands to userspace. And where it exists, different clients are also isolated from each another through the gpu MMU. On top of that all drivers guarantee that no gpu cl
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by danvet 11y ago
To all the armchair domain admins commenting here: It's a single-letter domain in one of the traditional non-country TLDs. It only exists because it was grandfathered in in 1993 [1] I'm pretty sure no one here ever dealed with suc
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by danvet 14y ago
It's used to teach CS undergrads programming basics at ETH Zürich. At least a few years ago ...
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by danvet 15y ago
Entropy _is_ statistics ... it's just another measure for the probability of a given state.
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by danvet 15y ago
Iirc DVD subtitles are actually a pre-rendered overlay stream. YUV (with uv subsampling) works great for pictures, not so much for text (and has only ever the original DVD resolution and hence fails at upscaling). VLC does indeed grab subti
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by danvet 15y ago
In the linux kernel community, you'd get shot for this attitude. Now granted there are not many projects out there with this scale and complexity, but still: A one-liner commit-message for anything else than a trivial refactor is stupid. Yo
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by danvet 15y ago
This. Math is a tool (and sometimes abused for pure pleasure, 200 years later applied to make hard crypto work). If your definition doesn't make sense for the application, fix your definition and get over it. Another example I've recently o
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by danvet 15y ago
Highly unlikely that three runs of the same test are fully independant, i.e. they might match all on the same antibody which is similar to an HIV one but not due to a HIV. You likely only prevent operation goof-ups like "oops, spilled a bit
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by danvet 15y ago
Exactly. All this massive discussions about creating new money somehow ingnores the elephant in the room: If banks with too much leverage would actually be able to default people will suddenly notice the problem and check their bank's reser
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by danvet 15y ago
In my experience people tend to be zealots only in certain very specific areas and quite reasonable everywhere else. I.e. your proposal's running the serious risk of muting and awful loot of folks here on hn just because the might get a bit
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by danvet 15y ago
You've made my day. This is one of the tricks to I often forget about again but just smile upon reencountering. Step 1: Transform to the eigenbasis of your operator. Step 2: Enjoy the beaty.
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by danvet 15y ago
The problem with that approach is that tuning it is hard, i.e. it's rather harder to ensure that the knob somewhat linearly adjust from "not toasted" to "black" and the useable control range isn't just a tiny part at one end of the full ran
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by danvet 15y ago
What would really happen is that a second trader would enter the market, offer to buy the laptop for 110$, hold onto it and then sell it on for 140$. Actual prices vary and with enough competition, will settle to something that gives the tr
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by danvet 15y ago
I've studied math. The most recent mathematician I can recall by name (due to a few important theorems) has been doing his great work in the 1930s. Most of the stuff is older. I don't care squat about the gender, but they're likely all male
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by danvet 15y ago
.2 is way to short. Only works when you're anticipating something and have all your muscles prepped for action. The realistic figure is 1 second for an attentative driver, a bit less if there is some signal ahead to anticipate the situation
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by danvet 15y ago
It doesn't because it isn't ;-) In real sword fights the defenders jobs is to deflect the attackers stroke (more or less). If you'd just try to stop it (physically reversing the attacker's impulse) that would either not work at all (because
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by danvet 15y ago
In all the discussion here, I think yours is the absolutely best analogy. Perfectly illustrates the cost of brute-forcing versus the accused just revealing the crucial little information. Even informed guessing of the password is covered (t
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by danvet 15y ago
Add to that that at least my muscle memory is especially flaky when I try hard to remember what I'm actually supposed to type and/or I'm otherwise under stress/nervous. Usually just not thinking about the password for 5 minutes works, poten
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by danvet 15y ago
Actually this is about one of the first things you learn in in a probability theory course, and the probability that bogosort completes in finite time is 1. Now of course, there's infinitely many conceivable scenarios where bogosort never c
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by danvet 15y ago
It's the "by default" that's important. You can still use lvm to resize your partitions. But resizing volumes within the btrfs partition will be done by the btrfs tools.
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by danvet 15y ago
Assuming your sitting in front of a terminal that has the subscription. I'm still loathing my university's vpn solution for being soooo dog-slow, but it was the only way to read intersting papers from home or gather all the references for a
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by danvet 15y ago
It's not that they're blissfully unaware. It's being thaught in school and almost all official writing is done in the so called 'written German'. But it's simply not the language you speak (safe for a reason to the contrary, like not everyb

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