nrdvana

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by nrdvana 7d ago
Yeah but the one they decided the AI was close to solving may have been so because the researchers' progress on this problem became part of the training data for that AI...
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by nrdvana 2mo ago
It turns out an astroturf American football field probably weighs 1700 tons, mostly from the 6 inches of stone base under the astroturf. So 3300lbs is .00097 football fields.
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by nrdvana 3mo ago
Well, I'd say cross-compiling is at least a little problematic... if nothing else, it is a hurdle to running automated tests. And cross-compiling still needs to exist for the people building the package repositories. I'm just so
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by nrdvana 3mo ago
> There are no beefy 32-bit ARM servers. "Ampere processors natively support both 32 & 64 bit Android applications and require no binary translation for maximum instance density" ... "Run up to 120+ 3D cloud game insta
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by nrdvana 3mo ago
It was true in 2005, but still? As I described in another post here, a modern strategy is to get a beefy server than can run the same ABI, then start a docker container and assemble a system from Alpine's package repo, then compile a
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by nrdvana 3mo ago
I'm not familiar with the problems that would cause "target build environment often differs significantly from your server environment". If you have an ARM server, then you should be able to download and run Alpine docker im
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by nrdvana 3mo ago
I share some of the same observations that seem to have motivated this project, but my solution was to just use Alpine on the same architecture as the target (possibly via qemu) and then export a subset of it to a filesystem image. I imp
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by nrdvana 5mo ago
Implementing a WoW classic server is actually fairly easy. The game client comes with the entire engine, art, music, and quest content. The server is basically a fancy IRC server, taking client events and rebroadcasting them to other clie
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by nrdvana 5mo ago
We're talking about hit games created specifically as a sequel to a hit mod of another game, and communication to the community of the hit mod that this is where the developers are going, and that they should move to the standalone gam
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by nrdvana 5mo ago
It was a "hit game" while it was still a mod. They were able to find investment to graduate to a standalone game because they already had a player base in the tens of thousands.
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by nrdvana 5mo ago
Yeah but for $6/mo you can get a tiny linode or digital ocean droplet, and not worry about hardware failing. It's true that a laptop probably has more resources than the smallest VMs, but no remote management interface and can&#x
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by nrdvana 11mo ago
Maybe at rendering menus and documents, but flash had graphic routines written in optimized assembly that simply weren't possible with JavaScript on that era of hardware. I feel like people are talking past each other a bit here. Flas
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by nrdvana 11mo ago
I still hate touch and would still buy a keyboard phone if anyone was making a good one
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by nrdvana 1y ago
Maybe the large number of standard library functions that operate on globals and require you to remember the "_r" variant of that function exists, or the mess with handling signals, or the fact that Win32 and Posix use significant
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by nrdvana 1y ago
The third mitigating feature the article forgot to mention is that tmpfs can get paged out to the swap partition. If you drop a large file there and forget it, it will all end up in the swap partition if applications are demanding more me
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by nrdvana 1y ago
But then, ICQ also died of spam...
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by nrdvana 1y ago
But then you can just ask it to write that missing library! Some day in the future you can probably ask it to author the whole package and publish it itself. "Oh sorry, that package doesn't exist yet, but it ought to. One moment
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by nrdvana 1y ago
You're using 100GbE ... in an end-user PC? What would you even saturate that with?
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by nrdvana 1y ago
In most of the video clips I saw, he was saying "I don't know anything about that", which could be entirely true. Often I see hints that he's attempting to play the Aes Sedai game of "speak no word that is untrue&q
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by nrdvana 2y ago
If they cared about fiscal responsibility they wouldn't have passed the 2017 tax cuts, or be trying to renew them now. IMHO taxes were fine in the 2010-2017 era and if we'd just kept that, we'd be close to a balanced budget.
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by nrdvana 2y ago
He said where untrusted parties aren't able to run rsync. If I was running an rsync daemon facing the public, it would be in a chroot with dropped privileges.
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by nrdvana 2y ago
If you're hosting it yourself, I would expect that you also make backups of your whole server and/or database if one is involved. A custom backup feature built into the app seems redundant.
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by nrdvana 2y ago
O(n) is generally indistinguishable from O(log n) so if there is any chance of different behavior than the expected optimum, go with the better algorithm.
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by nrdvana 2y ago
Why was the solution not to get rid of the linked list and replace it with a red/black tree?
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by nrdvana 2y ago
Its true that rich people often (always?) "have debts", but not true that they are "in debt" overall, otherwise they wouldn't really be rich anymore. Poor and middle-class people are often in debt in the sense that
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by nrdvana 2y ago
I think every single thing Trump did during the last 3 months hurt his campaign, actually. It had just already gotten to the point where nothing he said mattered, because people were choosing him based on their experience in 2019
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by nrdvana 2y ago
The most common design for a Web app on Linux in the last 20 years is to have a pool of worker processes, each single-threaded and ready to serve one request. The processes might be apache ready to invoke PHP, or mod-perl, or a pool of rub
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by nrdvana 2y ago
I might not be understanding what you're pointing out here. It sounds to me like sqlalchemy is talking about a pool of connections within one process, in which case releasing back to that pool does not close the connection by that p
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by nrdvana 2y ago
Try s6 or runit, and mdev from busybox. Mdev is not a "full featured" udev replacement, but that's sort of the point. It does just enough to get the job done and is extensible with scripts. If you want to do the size of emb
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by nrdvana 2y ago
Actually pub/sub works best when you can commit it in a transaction along with your data changes. When they are separate systems, you get a race condition where you could commit the change but crash before the event gets published.

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