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Try the relatively new top-down microarchitectural analysis in perf: https://perfwiki.github.io/main/top-down-analysis/

I got a Spectre TV (pretty cheap, they sell it at Walmart). It's a little more expensive than other TVs in the same class, but has no smart features: you plug HDMI into it and it d…

Back in the day when Xeon Phi was around, I'd run `make -j 256` to run on the ~240 available hyperthreads. Those things were build machine beasts, assuming there weren't too many d…

“So they don’t have to experience insects whatsoever” You don’t live in an area where mosquitoes are a problem, do you? They can get so bad that you simply don’t want to go outside…

I see it as "power user" meaning "a power user of Windows."

I bought a first-generation Framework a couple of years ago, and it's been perfect for me. I don't especially need a thin/light laptop, but what I care about is that it's snappy an…

I agree with using a single car for a household: my wife and I have done that for the past six years (living in Tennessee, Oregon, and Arizona) with a 2006 Toyota Highlander that w…

It's a shame the torrents don't seem to have any seeders; they're very good lectures, and fairly small file sizes.

As with all things, this definitely deserves some context. His daughter later said that she used some rose mist before visiting him, and admitted that she did smell like a toilet (…

No, I’m going to write everything in C.

Yeah, this is what I use, and I've not been banned or anything. I have been locked out of my account, though. There was a week during which I got locked out, and had to re-authenti…

They are building fabs, in Arizona and Ohio.

No, he's talking about an obvious latency to almost any action, on a multi core multi GB computer.

Defeats the purpose of the project.

The vast majority of Christians in the United States believe in salvation by faith alone, not by works.

That's almost exactly what the Xeon Phi was, both in coprocessor form and in machine form. It included MCDRAM, too, which was a high-bandwidth memory. Very efficient, but lacked sa…

Very likely, this was not done intentionally. I think we can simply imagine a common scenario: some employee working for Company X, developing a compiler suite, and adding necessar…

This post reads like a preachy Reddit post. Don’t tell me what to do!

That's talking about the grocery stores, though, and the post is about the bookstores and 4-star stores.

Oh, for some reason I read that bit as "the Linux kernel non-consensually personalizes." You're right, though: it's definitely referring to userspace libraries, not the kernel itse…

The author of that blog post sees that states like Tennessee and Texas had a high number of school closures, but that plot is simply plotting raw numbers of school closures. Not on…

As with all things, AVX512 involves a tradeoff: core frequency can decrease when it's in use; if properly utilized, it can realize significant performance gains, but if not, can re…

This is hilarious: someone comments about a real problem that requires a practical solution in a programming language, and someone invariably rushes to add their subset of “nice to…

Why not stay off of social media entirely? If you think that Reddit is even more toxic than Facebook (which I agree with), then why visit the site?

What do you expect them to do, instead? Simply not mention any alternatives? It's absurdly clear from the article that downgrading will leave you vulnerable, so anyone who actually…