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Matt Godbolt's talk on ray tracers, shows how effective that change can be. Think it was that talk anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG6c4Kwbv4I

With C in the embedded world it is very common to write entire applications that never only use static memory and the stack. Sometime programmers will allow dynamic memory during i…

Looks like this other article goes into the details. https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/self-contained-lone-...

It's very common that both historical artifacts and natural wonders have been consumed by reservoirs, I suspect it would be almost impossible to avoid this.

Do you have a link to that paper?

Do you have a link to that podcast?

For the codebase I was working on today (in C). At first it was just } so filtered those out, then it was /* (no comment detail on that line) so again filter them. Then it was a bu…

FPGA's also have billions of transistors now, but adding more block memory means removing transistors from something else, such as LUT's, registers, DSP blocks etc. As always it is…

Recently at work I developed a small suite tools (in a mixture of python and shell, running in WSL) that left my boss impressed when he saw me debugging a customers system (IOT). T…

Different volcano, but back in the 50's the natural tephra damn on the crater lake of Mount Ruapehu (New Zealand) collapsed triggering a lahar, that ultimately took out the piers o…

And the collision of the RMS Olympic (the first of the three in that family) with the HMS Hawke. As did the coal stoker Arthur Priest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_John_Prie…

That is correct, if the first few records (a virtual block size sorta) (not sure how many off the top of my head) don't compress well, it assumes that the file is not compressible …

That quote doesn't contradict what mkl said, towards the end of the article it does say this thou, "The cloak will be on display in the new museum developed in Perth, set to open i…

That clip never gets old, Sirocco (the birds name) sure has some attitude.

Well most of the politicians don't have a clue that any of that stuff is possible either.

3 attempts to get a hit for me, in NZ

Can hot-code reloading coexist well with inlined functions?

It isn't required (in the strict sense) to keep the dedup table in memory, the problem is that performance is dire when it doesn't. It would be pretty similar to virtual memory thr…

Solid plastic might, but would moving water and impacts result in the bricks separating?

What happened to Germany (territory shrinkage and economic sanctions) after WW1 incidentally shows this story pretty well.

The drive can infer that the LBA hasn't been mapped, since it won't be present in the FTL, there is no need for the OS to inform the drive of this.

You could use some sort of disk quota system, to make the filesystem artificially smaller than it actually is (trim after applying this change). Or simply insure that you don't exc…

The SSD maintains a translation table for all the virtual addresses exposed by the drive, that maps to the underlying flash physical addresses. Any physical address not in that tab…

My old T420 couldn't sleep overnight in Windows 7 (something would trigger a resume), but would sleep fine under Linux and FreeBSD.