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gaul

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About gaul

Chief simulacrum officer, chronicler of hipster museums, and Potemkin geek. https://gaul.org/

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/gaul; my proof: https://keybase.io/gaul/sigs/DtswoGs6HGcXb01P9qsR9TH65rJFSUZ0SuqiSV7ZXKY ]

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    https://tt-rss.org/ is a free software, self-hosted alternative and https://ttrss.info/ is a paid hosted offering.

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    Comment #29101767

    Vaurien can do this: https://github.com/community-libs/vaurien

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    clang's -Wshorten-64-to-32 can catch this: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html#wshort... The more general-purpose -Wconversion has many false positives, often aro…

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    This is not a NOP; it explicitly clears the upper 32 bits of EDI since the compiler does not know that they are zero in this situation. If you change cc from an int to size_t (long…

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    Robert O'Callahan hashed some thoughts about Firefox that he revealed many years later: https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/01/ancient-browser-wars-hi...

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    HP Dynamo is similar to what you suggest: https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-78.html Note that CPUs and compiler optimization have improved over the last 20 years and…

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    The article mentions 32-bit Raspbian which is moving to 64-bit to better support the Raspberry Pi 4 with 8 GB of RAM. Both the RPi 3 and 4 have 64-bit support but earlier models, i…

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    Thanks for testing! You may improve performance via increasing -o parallel_count (default="5"). Newer versions of s3fs have improved performance but please report any cliffs at htt…

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    This is great news for application developers! And probably hard work for the AWS implementors. I will try to update this over the weekend: https://github.com/gaul/are-we-consisten…

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    Could you expand on this comment? s3fs uses multiple threads for uploading and populating readdir metadata via S3fsMultiCurl::MultiPerform. Earlier versions used curl_multi_perform…

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    This is not expected behavior. An older version had pessimized locking which preventing concurrently adding a file to a directory and listing the directory simultaneously which is …

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    I maintain mbpfan and have contributed to a few other Linux on Mac tools. Linux on Mac is not worth the effort. I ran Ubuntu on a 2011 MacBook Air and now run Fedora on a 2014 MacB…

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    Note that this laptop uses Kaby Lake based on the older Skylake design. Newer laptops use Sunny Cove based on Ice Lake and have improved single-core performance.

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    MacBook Air with M1 vs. XPS 13 with Tiger Lake i7-1165G7: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/4306696?baselin... Single core similar and multicore 50% better for MacBook.