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look at that photo on the top, simply a piece of art. just incredible.

yes, 1m for every 3.3ns error, we all know that. the problem is those GPS vendors only provide long term average error for their products, there is upper bound guarantee at all.

My preyer are with those brave rats who died for the peace of mankind.

wondering is there any upper bound on the error, e.g. is it possible to ever have a timing error of say 100 microsecond seconds.

A quick question related to this blog - they mentioned that most modern NICs have hardware timestamp capabilities, that is consistent with what I saw. The question is what is the a…

Nice tech blog, really love it. From my understanding, basically this new iteration is better then their previous generation chrony based one because the uncertainty in the One Way…

> Wait until you hear about the leap years! They insert a whole day, often right in the middle of the work week! That is pretty fine tuned given they only insert a full day. ;) In …

In 2022, there are not many international matters that can be agreed upon by US, EU and China at the same time. Getting rid of this stupid leap second disaster is one of those rare…

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/borland/tur... Turbo C 2.0 user manual from the same site - it is just a gold mine.

glad you mentioned meituan, it is prefect example on how low you can go to survive in business. let's be honest, meituan is mostly used by not well educated & low income people who…

Incredible, hope your sister's remission to be a complete & permanent one. Literally curing cancer, just incredible.

great story, for me another interesting part is that lots of those tools/utils used in their dev work were copied from that dude's home, surely that is very reproducible & auditabl…

I used to pay $800-1,000 a pair, then I heard that the exact same glasses from the exact same factory just without that fancy logo costs you about $100 a pair. Bought a few of them…

> like millions of others Including Xi Jinping.

Other than the annual university entrance exam and buying properties, Hukou is no longer enforced. The real difference only exists for tier-1 mega cities like Beijing and Shanghai,…

I don't see any problem here as long as workers get freely to choose whether they want to live in factory dorms or in any other arrangements they can afford. Clearly such choice is…

do they use bash and vim as the default shell & editor?

Is there anyway to get it from the outside of the US?

covid zero is getting more and more like economy zero.

> During a Chinese launch I see super strict hierarchy. People looking damn serious. How can you ever succeed without having motivated , out of the box thinking people. first, some…

this is a sad news. adoption of ARM just started to pick up in server & laptop market, it could be a nice alternative to x86, yet short sighted decisions like this from ARM is goin…

this is not just source code, it is much better to be called magic. also love the story behind it.

very interesting stuff. wondering is there any in-depth walkthrough of the time keeping mechanisms in Linux?

realizing that I would be long gone by 2603, your reply made me really sad. then I realized that your calculation is obviously wrong. can I sue you for such such emotional distress…

1. NT kernel is neither novel nor used by anyone other than MS. Open sourcing the NT kernel would effectively kill the project as its security issues would be fully exploited with …