xroche

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by xroche 4y ago
Everything is radioactive. https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/everything-emits-rad...
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by xroche 4y ago
It is somehow addressed, but with unreliable wind power sources that ca'n't be controled: > We’re closing coal plants and building wind farms and it all just has to add up in the end. It’s not a one-to-one And of course this wo
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by xroche 4y ago
> The morale of the story is that I wouldn't trust ANY exchange Or, more generally, don't trust unregulated financial businesses and/or operating in shady offshore countries. FTX was both unregulated and based in Bahamas.
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by xroche 4y ago
> What kind of workloads spawn so many processes that saving microseconds becomes relevant? With a huge process, you have a timeframe between the child is spawned and it executes exec*() where you typically "do stuff" (such as
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by xroche 4y ago
> As some people say in Brazil, as an architect, Niemeyer was a very good sculptor. We indeed have a lot of those fancy buildings from famous architects, mostly from the 70s. They all share a common pattern: - a repressed artist who beca
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by xroche 4y ago
> Because nuclear plants are expensive, and they take a long time to build, financing their construction can also be a significant fraction of their cost, typically around 15-20% of the cost of the plant. For plants that have severe cons
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by xroche 5y ago
The issue with posix_spawn is that you can't close all descriptors before exec. This is especially an issue as most libraries are still unaware they need to open every single handle with the close-on-exec flag set.
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by xroche 5y ago
It's inherently inefficient because while the child process does its initialization (pre-exec) stuff, the parent gets page faults for every thread writing into the memory due to COW. This will basically stall the parent and can cause f
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by xroche 5y ago
You simply can't. The constexpr environment won't let you have uninitialized variables/memory anywhere. It won't let you access dangling/out-of-bounds pointers either, overflow two-complement types, etc.
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by xroche 5y ago
> And if you really want it, it's not terribly hard to write Sure, but basically it means rewriting all structures that rely on a bucket of stuff. By the way maps often use a large bucket, and rehash in-place can be preferable. >
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by xroche 5y ago
> C++ was discussed as having too many undesirable characteristics. I tend to agree, as a C++ developer. There are many core issues in the language that haven't been resolved and that are unacceptable for kernel code. My personal pe
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by xroche 5y ago
> You can with storage systems There is no such thing as storage systems at wide scale unfortunately > well also run out of fuel within a few generations Absolutely. But hopefully fusion will be around then.
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by xroche 5y ago
> The biggest retaliation the West can make right now is a commitment to a rapid exit at unprecedented speed from the oil economy, in favor of renewables. You can't exit from the oil economy with renewable such as wind or solar due
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by xroche 5y ago
Removed from Google Play. But what about the users who fell in the trap ? Will the app be removed automatically ?
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by xroche 5y ago
Same experience with a bunch of Aquantia AQC-107 (ASUS XG-C100C). Had to remove them from a Linux server, it just won't work and botch IPv6 traffic (especially routing advertisement notices ?!). Got Intel x550t2 and all the issues mira
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by xroche 5y ago
> The first time you load many common filetypes (like Java for example), a box pops up saying "Do you want me to install a nice set of standard Java plugins?" This. Used Emacs for fifteen years professionally, and I gave up whe
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by xroche 5y ago
> I'm really sorry you feel this way The corporate wording for "Fuck you!".
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by xroche 5y ago
> more qualified candidate Also knows as "the candidate we can pay less"
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by xroche 5y ago
> I don’t think we should prevent any country from doing so. Even countries ruled by theocratic leaders who promote hate and obscurity ?
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by xroche 5y ago
> Nineteenth-century musical works were the product of an imperial society. The classical musical canon must be decolonised. I can't wait to decolonize mathematics, physics, etc. and banish those arbitrary colonialists laws such as
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by xroche 5y ago
This really depended on the university. Some of them were not affected at all, some other had sections where you could not do any research or teaching without being from the "right obedience" (communist, Maoist, etc.) The most ext
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by xroche 5y ago
> They'll eventually come for you too no matter how much you generally agree with them. Reminds of the Maoism movement in European universities (such as in France) a few decades ago, where people critical of Mao were harassed and tr
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by xroche 5y ago
My first experience with MS Exchange long time ago was that the team responsible for the infrastructure (company with more than 100k employees) committed to reboot the server once a week, because otherwise it would blow up. So yes, this is
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by xroche 5y ago
Glad the project helped a bit a few people :) I don't have much time unfortunately to enhance the engine nowadays, and the code is dirty and broken beyond any repair. Yet I'm still puzzled to see how many people are still using th
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by xroche 5y ago
So the idea is that: (1) Nuclear is cheap and makes renewable like solar and wind useless (2) Solar and wind require fossile fuels My take is that intermittent renewable are a scam and will never help us fighting climate change. More of the
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by xroche 5y ago
> cheap solar and wind energy You don't have a baseline energy with wind and solar, which are not on-demand. That's the big issue. And nuclear _can_ be cheap if (and only if) funded by states, that can borrow zero-interest loan
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by xroche 5y ago
> Chernobyl was a traumatic event And yet the number of casualties is lower than the number of casualties caused every year in Europe by coal: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/12/europe
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by xroche 5y ago
This is even more hilarious: Germany oppose nuclear, which is the greenest energy source in terme of emissions, but managed to get funding to use "green" gas: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/d
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by xroche 5y ago
> Apple solve this by making spares super expensive and only available from partners. This is even more hilarious: they sell you a "spare part" which is the logic board, for nearly the price of the laptop. But they (1) do provi
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by xroche 5y ago
> Which makes it problematic when we make HR people do the initial screening Here's your mistake. Don't involve HR except to sign paperwork.

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