throwawayish

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by throwawayish 9y ago
That Obelisk thing and the house with the Lincoln figure in it that is in the same park (or whatever).
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by throwawayish 9y ago
I have a Linux-based router/firewall, but it's all configuration files and stuff. Something with fancy graphs and statistics would be nice :)
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by throwawayish 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXHlTMKyse8 (Heaven Unigine and Prime95 at the same time)
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by throwawayish 9y ago
> But I guess the money you saved on buying the CPU will outweigh the electricity costs even in countries where electricity is expensive. Unless he's running 24/7 and paying way too much, yeah, by a large margin. Even these old
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by throwawayish 9y ago
I had a similar chip since 2011 and only recently upgraded. For thread-heavy workloads even one of the fastest E3 Xeons is only like 40-50 % faster (if no special insns like AES can be used). Safe to say it had superb price/performance
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by throwawayish 9y ago
Is there a router/firewall distro or administration tool for OpenBSD that's recommendable (e.g. like pfsense without all the enterprisey bloat, or like securityrouter without the licensing stuff)?
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by throwawayish 10y ago
I recently powered an old Acer laptop on that I didn't use for a while. It informed me that "/dev/sda2 has gone 941 days without being checked", after it finished that and booting fully up (a quick affair, even on t
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Intel probably intentionally advertises with their weirdo socket names (1156 -> 1155 -> 1150 -> 1151) just to confuse people more. Heck, they probably choose the pin counts in such a strange order just to be more confusing. It&#x27
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by throwawayish 10y ago
IA64 failed because it was a bad answer to a question no one asked. AMD got it right, that's why AMD64 won.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
CPU intensive != single threaded
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> Intel's quad cores are only really required for the pro Counter-Strike players who want 600fps at 1080p just to get the absolute latest frame. The source engine isn't exactly the pinnacle of engine development. It doesn'
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Or when Intel HT first appeared. Or when Intel HT reappeared. Or when the first dual core appeared. Every time Windows needed updates to perform properly; Linux also needed patches to adjust scheduling for Zen and also received patches in m
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by throwawayish 10y ago
The bigger E7 scratch the 200 W mark pretty hard and IBM already had POWER chips go beyond 200 W. However, cooling and power density are ... problematic. The same goes for accelerators. Supermicro will happily deliver you a 1U box with four
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by throwawayish 10y ago
"IBM did it first" Well not with HBM (which is DRAM), but huge amounts of L3 SRAM on a MCM... POWER5 I believe.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
ARM cores are much weaker, crypto performance without NEON is absymal across the board. Of course, compared to hardware-acceleration software always seems slow; Haswell manages AES-OCB at <1 cpb.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
This is not part of AES-NI and has never been released in a mid-range+ server/desktop CPU, only part of some Atom parts (Goldmont). Therefore software support is poor (I think OpenSSL does not support it). It is said to be included in
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by throwawayish 10y ago
n-P / n-S / n-way = how many sockets/processors a system has. A 1S system has one socket / processor, a 2S system two, a 4S four and so on. x U (or x HE, if you're talking with a German manufacturer, they like to ma
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by throwawayish 10y ago
I think Naples is a very exciting development, because: - 1S/2S is obviously where the pie is. Few servers are 4S. - 8 DDR4 channels per socket is twice the memory bandwidth of 2011, and still more than LGA-36712312whateverthenumberwas
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by throwawayish 10y ago
If I'm not mistaken then the NYT has shown in the past that it can get basic tech/security facts like these straight.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Copyright is an intrinsic property of a work in every legislation I have ever heard of.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
And why is that worth a HN submission?
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by throwawayish 10y ago
In case someone else is wondering: What is being called "mid-stack inlining" here is what is generally understood by the term "inlining".
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Actually Windows can and does use NTFS transactions (TxF) in the Installer and Updater code, so the probability of non-recoverable damage should be lower (which is also my experience; power off a Linux machine during updates and you are p
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by throwawayish 10y ago
I don't see the "does at length argue about the health risks of X-Rays emitted" in the article. It discusses them and concludes that they are widely considered safe. > CRTs can emit a small amount of X-ray radiation as a r
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by throwawayish 10y ago
The CPU isn't actually very powerful, they use low-power Jaguar cores at 1.6 GHz or so.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
There are also a handful of "rejuvenation" processes. For example: - Filament-cathode shorts can be burned out (by discharging a capacitor across the short) - Cathode poisoning can be reversed (e.g. http://www.ke5fx.com
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> there was an inventory glut that covered the world demand for CRTs for nearly a decade after the last one was made. I collect and restore analogue oscilloscopes and even today you can still get original NOS scope tubes for many models
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> And CRT are just a giant light bulb, bombarding you with not so good radiation. In other words, you do not know how a CRT works. Educate yerself, it's free: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray_tube
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by throwawayish 10y ago
My casual observation: most commuters don't use a laptop in the train. Those who do, mostly Windows. Apples seem fairly rare, as in, every 20th unit or so.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
A PC (yes, true, technically Macs are now PCs, but they're still special PCs, or at least Apple says that) has mainly the advantage that it's cheaper while being faster. Now, to be fair, I don't like to use laptops (they&

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