terlisimo

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by terlisimo 5mo ago
The whole process was deep magic to me before I watched that video. It didn't seem less magical after I've watched it. More so, if anything. Asianometry[0] has a number of videos on EUV lithography that cover some of the mind-blow
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by terlisimo 10mo ago
well... 1) GoL is turing complete 2) there are algorithms that calculate digits of Pi or e. so... yes? but if I just took any old Pi-digits algorithm and encoded it on GoL, its appearance would not be meaningful or "elegant" to ou
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by terlisimo 1y ago
One step closer to Managed Democracy. It's an idea from a video game where AI is spying on your life 24/7 and infers who you would vote for so you never actually need to (or can) vote.
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by terlisimo 1y ago
why not solve it with bash then, just put #!/path/to/your/venv/bin/python as first the line of your script, done/done
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by terlisimo 1y ago
> ZFS is notorious for corrupting itself when bit flips That is a notorious myth. https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-y...
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by terlisimo 2y ago
Nvidia drivers are not open source. Nvidia has open-sourced the kernel module "driver", which recently have been declared stable enough for general consumption. But the kernel-mode driver is only a small part of what you would cal
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by terlisimo 2y ago
I hear ya, that sounds familiar. The amount of deliberate damage anyone on my team can do is pretty much catastrophic. But we accept this as risk. It is appropriate for the environment. If we were running a bank, it would be inappropriate,
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by terlisimo 2y ago
The abbreviated story I told was perhaps more dramatic-sounding than it really played out. I didn't just say "Nothing." mic drop walk out :) The client was satisfied after we owned the mistake, explained that we have a nu
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by terlisimo 2y ago
I agree. I didn't want to add a wall of text for context :) And that was the only time I've said something like that to a client. I was not being confrontational, just telling them how it is. I suppose my point was that there&#x27
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by terlisimo 2y ago
A personal anecdote: One of my guys made a mistake while deploying some config changes to Production and caused a short outage for a Client. There's a post-incident meeting and the client asks "what are we going to do to prevent t
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by terlisimo 2y ago
Honorable mention of ATI Radeon 9600 that was soft-upgradeable (via hacked drivers) to 9800 PRO for a 200% perf boost. Good times.
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by terlisimo 2y ago
Apparently not. In my first attempt I've actually deleted the directories altogether but later wanted to scan a system manually and I couldn't repair the installation and get WD to run again.
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by terlisimo 2y ago
I've tried once but windows tries really hard not to let you do that. My Windows kung-fu is rusty these days so the Linux method seemed neater.
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by terlisimo 2y ago
My preferred way of disabling Windows Defender is to boot Linux, mount windows partition and rename windows defender directories to *.disabled or whatever. Example (assuming it is mounted at /mnt/ntfs): mv "/mnt/ntf
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by terlisimo 2y ago
There is a name for this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
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by terlisimo 3y ago
Mandelbrot set calculation is a curious intersection of math and computer science. I went down that rabbit hole once :) Naive implementation is easy, but there are many ways to improve performance.
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by terlisimo 3y ago
Oh, wow. This is beautiful. Thank you for this music discovery.
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by terlisimo 3y ago
I had these two dual-18-core xeon web servers with seemingly identical hardware and software setup but one was doing 1100 req/s and the other 500-600. After some digging, I've realized that one had 8x8GB ram modules and the slower
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by terlisimo 3y ago
Wow. That's pretty insane. In a positive way :)
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by terlisimo 3y ago
He probably meant this fork https://dosbox-x.com/
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by terlisimo 3y ago
I've witnessed a few sustained (hours/days long) DDOS attacks that were straight up extortion: owners contacted with "give us money or we will keep your site offline". Most of the time I see attacks lasting 15-20 minutes
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by terlisimo 3y ago
cheesecutter apparently also supports dual sids: http://chordian.net/c64editors.htm
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by terlisimo 3y ago
Oh, wow! Such a compact cpu routine! Thanks for the link. I wrote mine in C too and it's basically a 1k line switch statement for every 6510 instruction :) I went the extra mile and made it cycle-accurate though. libsidplayfp is prob
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by terlisimo 3y ago
To be fair, nobody called c64 music "chip music", it was just "music/tunes" because c64 music is really just code so in a way all of it was chip music (excepting some digi tunes). The term chip music was coined on a
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by terlisimo 3y ago
> also the 6510 CPU and even some of the C64's CIA timers yes, but also the VIC timers and the PLA. So basically you need all of the c64 chips emulated, at least in part :) I wrote a simple SID player for fun and I feel like it&#x27
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by terlisimo 3y ago
Yep. A ton of proprietary software (like anything from IBM) supports only RHEL or SLES. If you open a support ticket and say "Hi I'm using Debian/Arch/Nix" they will just laugh and close the ticket.
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by terlisimo 3y ago
The main difference is that creating a 100% perfect copy of a game costs next to nothing, and creating a new 100% perfect copy of model T is almost impossible, even if you have one to copy it from.
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by terlisimo 3y ago
> you’ll never count to “orange” - “orange” Ok but I don't see how that relates to the idea of storing sequences of numbers (the basic function of a filesystem) in Pi. Orange is not a number so it doesn't make sense to look for
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by terlisimo 3y ago
DSSV Pressure Drop sounded like a Culture ship name to me so I looked that up. It's not, but the name of the DDSV, "Limiting Factor", is. Apparently they also named their utility boats after Culture ships. To those who don&#x
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by terlisimo 4y ago
I saw a big one in the evening during army bootcamp. For a second or two it was as bright as day. One of the guys says "wtf was that?" and another replied "it's a falling star" (literal term we use for shooting star

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