gaul

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x86 prefixes and escape opcodes flowchart(soc.me)
98 points by gaul 8mo ago|51 comments
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Pigeon's Device (2009)(pigeonsnest.co.uk)
16 points by gaul 8mo ago|0 comments
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Vendor Kernels, Bugs and Stability(ciq.com)
2 points by gaul 2y ago|0 comments
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Retiring the Mozilla Location Service(github.com)
1 points by gaul 3y ago|0 comments
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GrapheneOS finds Bluetooth memory corruption via ARM MTE(grapheneos.social)
328 points by gaul 3y ago|199 comments
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Open Web Advocacy 2023 in Review(open-web-advocacy.org)
9 points by gaul 3y ago|0 comments
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Understanding Uber's Share of Driver Earnings(uberpubpolicy.medium.com)
1 points by gaul 3y ago|0 comments
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Gboard Stick Version(landing.google.co.jp)
3 points by gaul 4y ago|1 comments
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Nutanix Objects violates MinIO’s open source license(blog.min.io)
425 points by gaul 4y ago|142 comments
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by gaul 4y ago
https://tt-rss.org/ is a free software, self-hosted alternative and https://ttrss.info/ is a paid hosted offering.
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by gaul 5y ago
Vaurien can do this: https://github.com/community-libs/vaurien
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Pyston Team Joins Anaconda(blog.pyston.org)
4 points by gaul 5y ago|0 comments
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by gaul 5y ago
clang's -Wshorten-64-to-32 can catch this: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html#wshort... The more general-purpose -Wconversion has many false positives, often around int to char conversion. Some
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by gaul 5y ago
This is not a NOP; it explicitly clears the upper 32 bits of EDI since the compiler does not know that they are zero in this situation. If you change cc from an int to size_t (long on x86-64) the compiler will generate: mov e
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by gaul 5y ago
Robert O'Callahan hashed some thoughts about Firefox that he revealed many years later: https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/01/ancient-browser-wars-hi...
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by gaul 6y ago
HP Dynamo is similar to what you suggest: https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-78.html Note that CPUs and compiler optimization have improved over the last 20 years and these results may not still hold
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by gaul 6y ago
The article mentions 32-bit Raspbian which is moving to 64-bit to better support the Raspberry Pi 4 with 8 GB of RAM. Both the RPi 3 and 4 have 64-bit support but earlier models, including the popular and still-on-sale Zero, do not support
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by gaul 6y ago
Thanks for testing! You may improve performance via increasing -o parallel_count (default="5"). Newer versions of s3fs have improved performance but please report any cliffs at https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s
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by gaul 6y ago
This is great news for application developers! And probably hard work for the AWS implementors. I will try to update this over the weekend: https://github.com/gaul/are-we-consistent-yet
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by gaul 6y ago
Could you expand on this comment? s3fs uses multiple threads for uploading and populating readdir metadata via S3fsMultiCurl::MultiPerform. Earlier versions used curl_multi_perform which may have hidden some of the parallelism from you.
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by gaul 6y ago
This is not expected behavior. An older version had pessimized locking which preventing concurrently adding a file to a directory and listing the directory simultaneously which is the most similar symptom. I recommend upgrading to the lat
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by gaul 6y ago
I maintain mbpfan and have contributed to a few other Linux on Mac tools. Linux on Mac is not worth the effort. I ran Ubuntu on a 2011 MacBook Air and now run Fedora on a 2014 MacBook Air. There were several papercuts even with these rela
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Firefox 83 Release(mozilla.org)
4 points by gaul 6y ago|1 comments
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by gaul 6y ago
Note that this laptop uses Kaby Lake based on the older Skylake design. Newer laptops use Sunny Cove based on Ice Lake and have improved single-core performance.
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by gaul 6y ago
MacBook Air with M1 vs. XPS 13 with Tiger Lake i7-1165G7: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/4306696?baselin... Single core similar and multicore 50% better for MacBook.
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Homebrew deprecates all FUSE formulae(github.com)
2 points by gaul 6y ago|0 comments
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by gaul 6y ago
Every talk should include a link to the slides at the beginning and end of the deck, preferably with a shortened URL. This allows live viewers random access but also improves recorded talks. I often want to evaluate the content of a talk
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JEP 381: Remove the Solaris and Sparc Ports(openjdk.java.net)
1 points by gaul 6y ago|0 comments
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by gaul 6y ago
This changed in 1.86 and I updated the README as follows: > random writes or appends to files require rewriting the entire object, optimized with multi-part upload copy Now changing one bit means re-uploading 5 MB, the minimum S3 part si
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by gaul 7y ago
Fixed; thanks for the feedback.

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