sumtechguy

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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Even something simple like www.google.com serves from 5 different DNS names. I have seen as high as 50. It is surprisingly snappier. Especially on older browsers that would only have 2 connections at a time open. It adds up faster than
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
My ISP one got kicked to the curb once they started returning results for anything including invalid sites. Basically to try to steer you towards their search.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
> Booting it up about half an hour before the meeting... Installing updates... I have that exact workflow with any computer I do not use on a regular basis. If I use the thing every day it is ok. But if I let something sit for like 6 m
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Basically if the thing you are doing can be precomputed. Then you can use a lookup table. Then at that point do you have the space for it? Is the time to get it out of memory less than the operation you are caching in the lookup table.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
You may enjoy this page then. https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html Bunches of bit twiddling things people like to do in different places for either speed/space.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
When I worked at qcom it took 2 devs 3 managers and 2 directors to get another group to let us fix a single race condition in their code. Once I got a copy of the code I started handing off tons of memory overwrites and underruns back for
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
I just ended up there because I ended up with yet another 'standard' that wraps the wildly different 'APIs' that devices present to the OS. I set it up so the application layer could just say 'I want to change/
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
with xslt it probably could be.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
That data transform thing xslt could do was so cool. You could twist it into emitting just about any other format and XML was the top layer. You want it in tab delimited yaml. Feed it the right style sheet and there you go. Other system
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
On a previous project I spent a lot of time trying to figure out a 'generic device driver'. That is actually a decently hard space to crack. As each device has randomly different ways of talking. Some are serial/local bus.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Add some meat sauce and more spaghetti :)
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
The same thing sort of happened in the compression realm. ZIP is the pretty much the defacto winner for that type of file movement. Oh people use others in a lot of cases. But even when pkzip 2.04 came out there were better ones. Yet he
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
I would like to see where that 4.5 Trillion per year comes from. Just for the US alone.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Exactly. However, that would mean the boss thought the same, as he was hired specifically for that team. By the time it had happened the boss had not even noticed. Despite the team basically telling him every day in 50 different nice way
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
I have had my share of fun things I added to code/environment. Yet then we add 'the new guy'. They spend a long time arguing why that humor should not be there. One project it was a single line comment about new beginnings
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
yes probably. but it already is. there is also an assumption that meta would turn it off. not saying they will or will not just that there an assumption here.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
For cover art you can control it from options->options->cover art. There are also a couple of plugins for other sources. There are a few items in there to control if it scans external or overwrite. Recently went thru this as apparen
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
The integration with sourcesafe and all of the tools was pretty cool back then. Nothing else really had that level of integration at the time. However, VSS was seriously flakey. It would corrupt randomly for no real reason. Daily back
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Yeah. The base problem is redump doesnt have parent clone. Some of MAME has it, retool has the currently basically static version. The name inference is ok for some of them because they are just basically the same name but diff regions.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Have to dig and see if it handles retool items. Unfortunately retool has been basically abandoned. IGIR looked interesting until I realized it could not do parent/clone for redump like retool.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Edward Bernays created a method to get people to buy/hate/like things. It is used all the time. Its manipulative and shockingly effective. You will never see it coming. It is used all the time on everyone for any plethora of s
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
The 'win32' way, layers. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winmsg/windo...
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Do I give it out? Not so much. Do I expect it to be private? No. You can for a small fee on some websites get my number. Heck if you find a phone book from ~2000 where I use to live then you could just look it up in the phone book. Numbe
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
> I think we are in the middle of this transformation. Totally. Had a bit to think on my second point. Lets say I used to do something like 'who was the king of england in 1732'. That would in the past may lead me thru at le
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Basically if you serve information or content. AI or even just some smart coding google can do that too. If you do something with that information Google has not been doing so good at that. Microsoft in the early 2000s did that very well.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
It is also one of the key tools people use for swatting. Just the style of my writing gives me away. Even if that method just gets you down to 5 people it is way easier to go thru 5 peoples information than thousands. Even something as sim
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
As someone looking for a piano. It seems to be the same there. Prices from 'get this thing away from me' to 'care to take out a small 50k loan?'.
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
LP is a shockingly good way to optimize a system. If you can put inputs/outputs into the correct form. Had an econ prof that loved these things for doing supply/demand maxima and minimum finding. He didnt outright say it but I
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
> Did the distributor really have sufficient ownership of the movie to release a minor altered version into the public domain? Probably yes. The way movies are financed is quite the byzantine joy ride if you want to look into it. With
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by sumtechguy 1y ago
Ah you have used spring/spring boot I see. That thing. It has humbled me. I didnt know you could do that much abstraction.

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