jgalar

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by jgalar 3mo ago
> proved Electron-apps could have near native performance I don't think that's true at all. Try running Zed or Sublime.
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by jgalar 4mo ago
That's not the reason why I publish OSS. I also publish that software under specific licenses that impose specific obligations (e.g., making the source available to users and attribution being given to the original author(s)).
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by jgalar 3y ago
My worst close-calls were a result of ABS engaging at very low speed. In all cases, I reduced the speed to 2-3 MPH approaching a snowy intersection, but the car refused to let the wheels lock and "sink" in the snow. Instead, it&#x
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by jgalar 3y ago
In my experience, having to explain a software's design in plain English often reveals that some aspects were poorly thought-out in the first place.
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by jgalar 5y ago
To provide some context for this release announcement, the LTTng documentation has a nice intro to tracing and an explanation of how LTTng relates to other Linux tracers. https://lttng.org/docs/v2.13/#doc-nuts-and-
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by jgalar 5y ago
That's not true. For example, the microphone of the X1 Carbon 7th generation still doesn't work out of the box. You need to blacklist a handful of kernel modules and edit your PulseAudio configuration to force the loading of an AL
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by jgalar 6y ago
I would guess memory map the whole file, then do the equivalent of: memmove(beginning_of_file, beginning_of_file + 300_m_line_offset, file_size - 300_m_line_offset);
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by jgalar 6y ago
We have very different experiences; I hear baladodiffusion (or balado) very often in Montreal.
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by jgalar 6y ago
I'm from Montreal. It's not "chambre-a-montrer", it's "salle de montre". Also "coussin-a-gonfler" is "coussin glonflable". As for computer-science related words, I think the OQLF (Frenc
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by jgalar 7y ago
It's very ugly, but at least it doesn't seem to limit you to 15 characters like on Linux (prctl/pthread_set_name_np). That limit makes it pretty hard to provide meaningful identifiers in a non-trivial application.
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by jgalar 7y ago
Yes, and they will also move the goal posts when you explain why their solution doesn't work. I feel there is something missing in this whole discussion and that's the question of unsolicited advice. I don't think anyone will
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by jgalar 8y ago
k8s feels much more like an effort to commoditize this space through standardization. It's a pretty common business strategy [1]. [1] https://www.gwern.net/Complement
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by jgalar 8y ago
Full disclosure, I work on LTTng and a 20% improvement is a huge deal to our users, so I'm certainly biased here. As far as I know, the thread-local write only occurs if a rseq region is set. The added cost to a context switch seems es
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by jgalar 8y ago
Not necessarily. Applications may choose to retry a certain number of times and fallback to another mechanism if the critical section can't complete. A problematic case that was brought up on LKML was the interaction with debuggers and
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by jgalar 8y ago
Mathieu's (patch author) main motivation was removing atomic operation from the LTTng userspace tracer's hot path. In that case, the per-cpu data is the 'reserve' and 'commit' counters that must be updated when
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by jgalar 8y ago
Then why not ban friendships in the workplace? Surely they could result in the same kind of perceived biases (e.g. cliques).
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by jgalar 8y ago
I would guess cable video is multicasted once to many customers while online streaming has to be served one-to-one. From the viewer's standpoint, the bandwidth usage is roughly the same, but the broadcaster and CDNs have a lot more dat
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by jgalar 8y ago
Even the kernel occasionally breaks interfaces. Case in point, FUTEX_FD was introduced in 2.6.0 and retired in 2.6.26 [1]. I don't think anyone working on glibc is intent on breaking user space. Sometimes it's just the most pragma
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by jgalar 9y ago
Pure speculation on my part, but could this be a way for Apple to segregate Chinese account data from the rest of their customers' data? That would seem to limit the scope of what Chinese authorities can access.
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by jgalar 9y ago
Are there good DOM "bindings" available for other languages compiled to wasm?
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by jgalar 9y ago
IMO, it really depends on the context. If you are working with people who share your assessment of the current situation (both business and technical folks) and want to improve it, you'll have a great chance to learn from others'
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Announcing the release of LTTng 2.7(lttng.org)
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