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It's funny that I said "evacuate" and did not mention air travel. In that part of the world, trains are the default, with nuclear green power powering the majority of consumers. Ma…

I've seen dozens of videos and articles about this strongest ever event. And I still have no clue if the next year I should evacuate from Paris for the summer because heatwaves may…

I had plans to buy two Airs, was not sure if I needed 13 or 15, 24 or 32, which was better for my wife and what's the best strategy to buy one for her first and then understand my …

In the context of a proxy one should mention epoll_wait busy poll. I've recently dived into this when reviewing low-latency options, and found that it's almost possible to do user …

Picollo is a new library for serious performance work in .NET. Picollo stands for Performance Instrumentation and Continuous Observation for Low-Level Optimization. The initial pub…

No, it should be a required (by law) opt-in TRACK_ME_I_DO_NOT_CARE_OR_AM_A_TEAPOT=418. The proposed way just normalizes tracking.

TrueNAS works perfectly as a VM eg on Proxmox with passing through a SATA controller from the motherboard. It may not work always with bad IOMMU groups, but I have this on an old X…

For some time recently, I was zooming in on Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. The floor's level of interactivity would be so nice there. At least on this floor, I can guess w…

Group Policy Edit is the way to restrict many things. Disabling automatic updates helps. I have had forced reboots very rarely, I believe that were severe vulnerability fixes. But …

Agreed. I had to run Windows recovery only once over the last 5+ years, after running some debloating script with many thousands stars on GitHub. I think the Pro version is enough …

Then at a lower level and smaller latencies it's often interrupt moderation that must be disabled. Conceptually similar idea to the Nagle algo - coalesce overheads by waiting, but …

The Spiderman would be better. If anyone used formulas' precedents/dependents that would be instantly visual.

I could do half-screen nested array formulas when Excel was before the ribbon (and screen resolutions were smaller), out of necessity and because I could. It was in quite demanding…

Just yesterday B1M published an interesting video about the future longest tunnel between Lyon, France and Turin, Italy. It will be more than 50km, deeply below the Alps. The proje…

The main bike rental Velib in Paris has the app not working, but the bikes can be taken with NFC. However, my station, which is always full at this time, is now empty, with only 2 …

Unsafety means different things. In C#, SIMD is possible via `ref`s, which maintains GC safety (no GC holes), but removes bounds safety (array length check). The API is called appr…

It looks suspicious at 25x. Even 2.5x would be suspicious unless reading very small records. I assume both cases have the file cached in RAM already fully, with a tiny size of 100M…

Microsoft is notoriously bad with naming. In this case likely intentionally. The SKUs: Home = Crap, Pro = OKish Windows, Enterprise = Pro. But people who do not care about lack of …

I wonder if most complaints are about pre-installed OEM Windows Home (the one with Candy Crush and 10s of other crap, including from a vendor) and bundled crappy cut-off OneDrive? …

It just looks like you are much more fluent in C/C++ than in C#.

I have mostly GC holes in mind when say "safer". Or heap fragmentation, even if it's POH