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Soylent Green ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/ ) "In 2022, Earth is overpopulated and totally polluted; the natural resources have been exhausted and the nourishment of the …

Is it really necessary to add this header to each and every response?! I feel like it might be sufficent to add this header just to documents like *.html.

True, but I do not consider nearline archiving to be a workload that requires lots of IOPS.

If I understood it correctly, then they are using simple physical disk mirrors for redundancy. To me that seems like a huge waste of disk space. Parity based redundancy schemes lik…

In case one is using LineageOS, what keyboard is used then? Is it the vanilla AOSP keyboard? How does the LineageOS keyboard compare to privacy conscious keyboards like this one or…

I'm sorry, if I wasn't making this clear enough. I'm not proposing to remove DIMMs. I'm merely suggesting to run the Java VM with the same amount of memory/heap for all the platfor…

I have a little doubt about the results of the Java benchmarks. I think the JVM tests should have been executed with the same amount of heap allocated for each platform in order to…

just want to quickly share an IMHO interesting sorting algorithm visualization video: https://youtu.be/kPRA0W1kECg "Visualization and "audibilization" of 15 Sorting Algorithms in 6…

Great article! I acknowledge that this is an honest mistake that might happen to me anytime. I guess human error is the likeliest cause of data loss nowadays... :( Anyways for my e…

Using ZFS is no replacement for backups. Still, this would have been a non-issue on a ZFS system: /var/recordings $ ll .zfs/snapshot/ total 72 drwxr-x---+ 7 root root 7 Apr 9 2019 …

I do not play 3D games in the browser. If that is a usecase, then webGL has to be enabled of curse. If browser games were a usecase of mine, then I'd keep my safe "daily driver" Fi…

I'd suggest to disable webRTC and webGL (unrelated to this particular issue but still) in the browser for fingerprinting reasons alone. e.g. firefox > about:config: * media.peercon…

Seems plausible to me. I guess it would be pretty hard to maintain a TPD of about 200W for 80 3GHz ARM cores [1]. The bus traffic to synchronize 80 CPU caches can probably be signi…

TBH I think so, too. I guess this is just a glorified global network drive to put all the different, country-specific documents like Excel sheets, Word docs, PDFs and some such. ht…

Yep, workload matters. Generational garbage collectors are fundamentally at odds with caching/pooling of objects. They are based on the assumption that objects die young. Typically…

Explanation by the director of F@H on twitter: https://twitter.com/drGregBowman/status/1238930030585143297

docker images: https://hub.docker.com/search?q=foldingathome&type=image kubernetes: https://github.com/richstokes/k8s-fah

Many crypto miners are indeed doing F@H at the moment. Either via curecoin[1] or by lending/joining their rigs to one of the teams[2]. [1] https://curecoin.net [2] https://folding.…

They have an announcement on their web site[1] and on twitter[2]. Also the web client shows information about the executing tasks (e.g. [3][4]). The COVID19 tasks are prioritized a…

Reddit's r/COVID19[1] has gathered big teams for Folding@Home and Rosetta@Home to crowd-source computing power against COVID19. The F@H team COVID19@REDDIT[2] has ID 236269, if you…

One can improve the JAVA result by allowing the JIT compiler to inline the recursive calls. -XX:MaxRecursiveInlineLevel=1 (default): 6.667 s -XX:MaxRecursiveInlineLevel=2: 6.141 s …

The fact that there is no native JAVA encoder for Brotli is an obstacle for the adoption in the enterprise segment.

JMeter is just terrible. To me it's the IE8 of the load testing tools. I'd not consider using it unless there are no other options. And there are better options (e.g. https://gatli…