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I doubt that anything could have changed, because OpenBSD has not implemented any new file system and a few years ago they have even removed the support for "UFS with soft updates"…

File system fragility was indeed still an embarassment of many UNIX-derived file systems, up to twenty years ago and perhaps until more recently, but this is no longer true today. …

Nothing can be as power efficient as an ASIC, which is designed for a specific purpose, instead of being a programmable device intended to be suitable for a large class of applicat…

Not every tail call is for a loop. You can have a set of mutually recursive functions, which tail call each other. In C you can write state machines using "goto" (the implementatio…

That has become no longer true since last year. 20 years is too long in the past, so indeed computers were more expensive then. But if we go only 15 years in the past, to 2011, we …

When you look on HuggingFace.co at the files of a model, for each model you will see a file "tokenizer.json". In that file you can see all tokens and their corresponding numeric co…

US companies started by publishing their research, but then they have stopped abruptly, seduced by the mirage of heaps of money that could be obtained by having a monopoly on AI. D…

That is not exactly true, because for a long time tail call optimizations had a lot of restrictions in gcc, so they could be used only seldom. What is said in TFA is correct in the…

As a family name, it seems to be: 後藤 where the first character means "behind" or "back" and the second character refers to wisteria vines. (The first character is familiar to some …

While the first public release of Fortran was in 1956, its design started in 1954 and the GOTO statement was already included in the preliminary Fortran from 1954. Besides the inve…

Elliott 803 used mostly transistors, but it indeed also used magnetic cores for some of its logic gates. The operating principle was different than that of the parametron, but the …

During WWII, Germany used magnetic amplifiers in many different kinds of military equipment, because they had the advantage of being much more rugged and reliable than the electron…

Also with liburing you have zero-copy send and receive operations for normal protocols like UDP or TCP, but this requires a NIC that supports scatter/gather DMA (so that the packet…

You may like more food that is cooked on an open flame, if you like frying or if you like burned crusts, but precision is not the reason. I eat only food that I cook myself from ra…

That is correct, DDR5 today is in real US$ slightly cheaper than DRAM was in 2011, 15 years ago. For more than 15 years in the past, the price in real US$ of DRAM per GB was always…

In 1999, AMD Athlon became the first x86 CPU that was able to do both an addition and a multiplication during one clock cycle, for the 80-bit x87 floating-point numbers. The previo…

Engineering never went completely to Windows NT. Between 1997 and 2007, I worked at 3 different companies, in 3 different countries (2 in Europe + Israel) as Design Engineer in ele…

The fact that sterile mosquito drops were stopped due to the pandemic, was the cause, together with the fact that after the pandemic no measures were taken to compensate this, even…

The author might be a moron, but this is not evidence of it. The 44.1 kHz sampling frequency is theoretically able to ensure a 20 kHz pass-band for audio signals. But this does not…

Virgin vinyls always had a good enough audio quality. Their unavoidable defect was that the quality degraded continuously with the number of times you played them. When played on a…

No other sampling rate was used, but before sampling the audio signal had to pass through anti-aliasing low-pass filters. In the beginning, it was extremely expensive to make analo…

According to your link, DDR5 today has the same price in real US $ as DDR3 was in 2014, during a brief spike towards high prices. Since that peak in 2014 until today, the prices we…

Firefox and Vivaldi browsers on Gentoo, NVIDIA GPU, both work normally with that link. So it must be something very specific to what software you have installed, unless it is an AM…

No. AMD K5 did not have successors. AMD bought the company NexGen and K6, K6-2 and K6-III were based on the NexGen design. I had been the happy owner of a K6-2, which did not have …

The cheaper alternative to having 2 spacecrafts connected by a cable is to replace one spacecraft with a counterweight. However, having 2 identical spacecrafts would be more reliab…