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This is Windows 10 specific. I was alarmed today when Nvidia GeForce turned off persistent screen recording (called ShadowPlay/Instant Replay) as soon as I accessed "netflix.com" o…

I have learnt a lot from Maizure's blog. One of my early favorites: http://www.maizure.org/projects/printf/index.html

> I would not normally be quite so much of a jerk about the numerous syntax errors, except that this ends with a suggestion that people, you know, pay for this writing. I don't exp…

Tangential, but every time I read "macOS" in FF release notes, I hope that this fundamental bug gets fixed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1600153 Gist: You click a l…

> I know at least a few people in their 30s and 40s with harldy anything in their name, that quit a shitty (but steady) job and travelled the world on a whim, with almost nothing i…

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Note that it is a 4-core CPU which employs simultaneous multithreading[1] (hyper-threading in this case) to achieve a higher throughput while executing independent instruction stre…

> Can your neighbor, who shares your L3 cache, be using memory so much more aggressively than you that it causes you to evict your L2/L1 cache? I'm curious. How could the "neighbor…

Second day of my first ever internship, I dented the aluminium lid of my brand new, very expensive, work Macbook. So I had an idea - I slapped a band-aid on the dent to hide it. Ca…

Appreciate the kind response. It's true that I get unexpectedly overwhelmed by life at times. Hope to gain more maturity as I progress. Thank you!

Those are very helpful insights for me. I'm fairly young and get overwhelmed sometimes -- resulting in a post like this. Thanks a bunch!

That's seems like a helpful approach, I will try and work on this. Thank you!

I've been reading a lot as of late. All sorts of things, but mostly technical posts and papers by a wide variety of programmers and researchers. Especially about the Rust Programmi…

Agree with your second statement. I work at a semiconductor startup. Both the CEO and the CTO are excellent folks. Kind, extremely competent, hardworking, and reasonable; I love my…

Truly! The NASA article on the probe mentions its autonomous course corrections abilities. Does anyone have an idea about what kind of onboard CPUs/SoCs do probes like this employ?…

You joke but this might have happened already

Your mention of Joel's post made me curious to find and read it. I assume this is the post in question: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid... I'd say much…

> These techniques cannot be used by a person who have to walk a dog early every morning, help his son to go to a school and work with complex code base. Of course they can. Just n…

I rely on Firefox for everything a browser does, and praise its many unique features and conveniences; I don't want to imagine using a garbage flavor of Chromium. But the folks at …