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by shellac 5y ago
Variants of the FSYNC story have been going on for decades now. The framing varies, but typically somebody is benchmarking IO (often in the context of database benchmarking) and discovers a curious variance by OS. On NVMes I wonder whether
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by shellac 5y ago
> I have no doubt that the 'archived' version is retained. Working in the preservation area, and being aware of what the BBC has lost over time, the title immediately had my interest. But this isn't a serious piece of jour
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by shellac 5y ago
Yes, this doesn't sound quite right to me but it may be an economies-of-scale thing. I work on an HPC system and we budget an order of magnitude less for tape storage, and that has held for quite a few years.
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by shellac 5y ago
Part of the URI standard: return a string consisting of the reference's path component appended to all but the last segment of the base URI's path (i.e., excluding any characters after the right-most "&#x2
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by shellac 5y ago
There seems to be rather more evidence that they are pawns of the "Dutch Postcode Lottery", who are a major source of income.
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by shellac 5y ago
Ruby spec has been going for a long time. It came from rubinius originally.
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by shellac 5y ago
He was a bit anti-semitic, and caused the film 'Cats' to exist.
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by shellac 5y ago
C# is an excellent contrast. It has always moved quicker than java (not hard), but that has left some features that in retrospect seem half baked. For example they needed some sort of function reference thing, so we had 'delegates&#x27
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by shellac 5y ago
It uses a usb 3 connector, although, given bandwidth and power requirements, I guess it has to be rated for the task.
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by shellac 5y ago
It's a good question. The interference pattern is a result of two things: 1) Quantum mechanics: the pilot wave or whatever you want to call it. 2) Incoming particles' positions having a broad statistical distribution. With a cunni
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by shellac 5y ago
Termius is a mobile ssh client, which might explain the renaming. Edit: damn you autocorrect. However, this is correct https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby/issues/4088
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by shellac 5y ago
Sibling comments have explained the detail. The pithier explanation perhaps is that rust is intended as a 'systems language', and it interprets that as meaning there should be no runtime. Or, more simply, it ought to be possible t
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by shellac 5y ago
> This narrative reminds me of the similar program in the UK to teach a whole generation computer literacy Probably the "BBC Computer Literacy Project" https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BBC_Compute
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by shellac 5y ago
It certainly has done, but currently the differences are pretty tiny: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/17all-relnot... It's really just 'usage logging', which is for Oracle'
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by shellac 5y ago
You mean Watson was never blocked. Sherlock was the Apple tool that (in version 3) took heavy inspiration from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson . Allegedly etc etc.
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by shellac 5y ago
> the important thing is that Java 17 is an LTS That's not _strictly_ true. Java 17 is a release of the reference implementation, but there are a number of distributions from a variety of vendors. Oracle are going to provide long te
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by shellac 5y ago
The police raided someone's house after a complaint. The government had nothing to do with this.
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by shellac 5y ago
Yes, this is the only place I see alternative compilers used much. We have Intel and Nvidia compilers available to our users.
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by shellac 5y ago
Since asafoetida is mentioned as a cheap substitute, I am sceptical! (Perhaps the substitute wasn't the root?)
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by shellac 5y ago
Petty and hysterical. The part where the developer puts the word 'privacy' in scare quotes is a bit of a red flag for me. Suggesting that "accept[ing] two "social logins": Google and Facebook. All was well." do
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by shellac 5y ago
It's unusual, but not the only recent case in the UK. A notorious right wing campaigner called Tommy Robinson was jailed a few years ago (but released), and there was a very unusual case with a juror. These were both in England, which
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by shellac 5y ago
I did read some of the (now offending) posts. He didn't name anyone, but at the time I thought he provided more than enough information to identify one one of the complainants. Although I'm not au fait with the SNP there were deta
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by shellac 5y ago
> eerily similar to mushrooms that contain psilocybin. [1] The link says "Psilocybin mushrooms don’t look a lot like poisonous mushrooms. [...] So while it is possible, even a small amount of research will help you not to confuse th
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by shellac 5y ago
Liberty caps are very distinctive and, at least where I live, don't grow near any dangerous mushrooms (open grassland / moor). Unless you were very indiscriminate the risks are very low, and since presumably pickers want the _corr
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by shellac 5y ago
You're (understandably) conflating GraalVM, a JVM using Graal to jit, with Graal Native which compiles java to native code ahead of time. The latter needs some help with runtime features that obscure which code is run. This is about th
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by shellac 5y ago
If you look up the many settlements made by newspapers in the UK concerning hacking phones etc you will see 'damages'. To give one example: "Rather than fight the claims against the Sun in court, when they would have been set
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by shellac 5y ago
England?
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by shellac 5y ago
The only language / framework I've used that seemed to get this right is OpenStep / Cocoa, which is presumably why Swift is mentioned as being 'notable'. NSString would occasionally come up in performance analysis a
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by shellac 5y ago
There is (of course!) more than one way to pass multiple display streams through thunderbolt. MST (multi-stream transport) is a DisplayPort thing, which Windows uses. So you have DisplayPort over thunderbolt, and (presumably?) the multiple
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by shellac 5y ago
No, never. And I use it all the time.

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