tame3902

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by tame3902 5mo ago
In the past Vivaldi used their own user agent string and they ran into a bunch of issues. And they are a chrome derivative! They had to default to the chrome user agent. Here are the examples they cite in their announcement of the decision:
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by tame3902 6mo ago
It depends on what you are looking for. My recommendation for learning "how is X done in a shell" is the OpenBSD ksh: https://github.com/ibara/oksh It's what they use for /bin/sh, it has everyt
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by tame3902 7mo ago
I just would get a different teacher. Not every teacher is a good fit for every student. To me it sounds like you were not using the proper technique or didn't warm up enough and your teacher wasn't able to guide into the right di
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by tame3902 9mo ago
I don't know much about Turkey, but I assume they are referring to Erdogan. Turkey was a pretty solid democracy and he turned it into an authoritarian regime. Erdogan also has some interesting ideas about the economy. A quote from his
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by tame3902 1y ago
There currently is a patch for adding '-S' to OpenBSD and in the discussion, the one who came originally up with it commented on how he added it to FreeBSD: "IIRC, the catalyst for it was that early FreeBSD (1990's?) did
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by tame3902 1y ago
I agree completely. I also know that distros patch packages. But for unzip the situation is particularly bad because it has no maintainer. Normally, you would raise feature requests for basic functionality upstream and once added, the maint
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by tame3902 1y ago
I wasn't trying to imply that unzip is the only one. But the way I learned that unzip is unmaintained was pretty horrible. I found an old zip file I created ages ago on Windows. Extracting it on Arch caused no problem. But on FreeBSD,
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by tame3902 1y ago
unzip is a special case: upstream development has basically stopped. The last release was in 2009[0]. (That's the version 6.0.) Since then there were multiple issues discovered and it lacks some features. So everybody patches the hell
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by tame3902 2y ago
Somebody once tried to clarify the situation with a similar stunt, but failed spectacularly. From the NOLF Wikipedia page: In May 2014, Nightdive Studios, a publisher of classic PC titles, filed trademarks for "No One Lives Forever&quo
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by tame3902 2y ago
There was a court case about this. Project Gutenberg got sued by a German publishing house for hosting works still copyrighted in Germany. "Although they were in the public domain in the United States, the German court (Frankfurt am Ma
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by tame3902 2y ago
What I learnt is that there is a rest mass and a relativistic mass. The m in your formula is the rest mass. But when you use the relativistic mass E=mc² still holds. And for the rest mass I always used m_0 to make clear what it is.
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by tame3902 2y ago
In my company the official policy is that nobody but the admins gets administrator privileges. If you need them the workflow is that you go to IT and they do what is necessary. Or they just might say no. People had to complain that makes wo
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by tame3902 2y ago
Yes, per core power consumption or better performance per Watt is usually more relevant than the total power consumption. And 1 high-core CPU is usually better than the same number of cores on multiple CPUs. (That is unless you are trying t
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by tame3902 2y ago
Core counts have increased dramatically. The latest AMD server CPUs have up to 192 cores. The Zen1 top model had only 32 cores and that was already a lot compared to Intel. However, the power consumption has also increased: the current top
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by tame3902 2y ago
Of course, it becomes tricky to decide what belongs to a factory or not if you look closely enough. And comparing factory sizes is something inherently silly. But I think that in a capitalistic society the land area owned by the company is
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by tame3902 2y ago
Volkswagen's main factory is also pretty large: "Spanning more than 6.5 km², the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg is now the largest automotive plant in Europe, employing more than 60,000 people."[0] [0]: https://ww
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by tame3902 2y ago
> Worrying what others think resonates with me a lot. - There are lots of blog posts and youtube videos about this topic. Try whether any will help you. - If you post, go down the rabbit hole of your thoughts. What will happen? Keep goin
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by tame3902 2y ago
> I have to admit though that the automatic is way faster than me at changing gears, which helps keeping a constant acceleration and avoid head bobbing. That's because a DSG gearbox has two clutches. It is basically a traditional ge
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by tame3902 2y ago
That's because the selection of numbers is a little bit weird. The 70 billion on the cost side are composed of 38 billion for construction and maintenance, 14 billion for traffic police and 18 billion for public funds spent for acciden
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by tame3902 2y ago
There also is https://www.ulyssesguide.com . It has episode guides, which explain what actually happens in each chapter (this can sometimes be difficult to decifer), the cross references to other chapters, and sometimes possible
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by tame3902 2y ago
It depends what you are looking for. This provides a good overview: https://hpc.llnl.gov/documentation/tutorials/introduction-pa... This is a very detailed free book focusing on programming: https://the
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by tame3902 2y ago
It isn't comparable to the sound barrier, but it was still a challenge. It took significantly longer than it should have if it was just business as usual: "At a supercomputing conference in 2009, Computerworld projected exascale i
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by tame3902 2y ago
This article has some more details: https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/01/26/riken-deploys-virtual-fug... It looks like they want to make the transition between Fugaku and AWS and vice versa easier.
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by tame3902 2y ago
Colin Champman's own words: 1. A racing car has only ONE objective: to WIN motor races. If it does not do this it is nothing but a waste of time, money, and effort. This may sound obvious but remember it does not matter how clever it i
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by tame3902 3y ago
I just wanted to make sure that it's clear for everybody. People seem to think that melting iron is easy. All the time I see smiths in movies and TV shows running around with molten iron in a medieval setting and even casting swords. I
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by tame3902 3y ago
Nitpick: Bloomeries generally don't melt iron. They are just hot enough to reduce iron oxide to iron. Melting iron is a relatively young technology. From Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomery ): "I
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by tame3902 3y ago
Let's look at a specific example: The Aurora Argonne National Laboratory.It has an estimated cost of US$500 million and a power draw of 24.6 MW.[1] Even 1% less hardware means saving several million dollars. And that is just a single s
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by tame3902 3y ago
The Intel compiler has a long history, at least going back to 2003.[1] At some point they realized that instead of maintaining their own frontend they can just use LLVM. So they ported their optimizers and backend over. And on their own har
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by tame3902 4y ago
1. I got excited when I saw arm64 mentioned. How competitive is it? Do you think it will be a viable alternative for Netflix in the future? 2. On amd, did you play around with BIOS settings? Like turbo, sub-numa clustering or cTDP?