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suncore

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    Comment #49220066

    Not sure there is much actual profit in LLMs. It will be interesting to see promise meet reality, indeed.

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    Comment #48158852

    How about an I-native org?

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    Comment #47959761

    Marketing grab

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    Comment #47781135

    If "dead" things look this much alive, imagine how hard it is to determine life on other planets. Real life could look much more dull than these things :-)

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    Comment #47517633

    Cheap QLC drives become super slow when it is starting to get fairly full and starts garbage collecting (collecting SLC writes into QLC at maybe 10MB/s). IMHO this is not good enou…

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    Comment #47517574

    Very easy to reproduce: 1. Buy cheap QLC drive. 2. Fill with Steam games. 3. Delete some steam games and download new games. 4. Watch write speeds tank to zero for long periods whe…

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    Comment #47245250

    About the Lobster language used: The first thing I do when encountering a new language is look at the memory management, since what I want to do with a piece of code is usually bui…

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    Comment #46912109

    Build what you know you need now. Refactor when things grow. Doesn't have to be rocket science.

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    Comment #46711583

    According to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b66ZZ05wKC0 this might end very badly very soon.

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    Comment #46432598

    I turned off HDR. Much happier now that I can see what's going on on the screen.

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    Comment #46431850

    24 fps looks like shit. Hurts my brain. Ain't turning off smooth motion :-)

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    Comment #45360021

    There is an interesting discussion about the need for ray tracing in one of the later Digital Foundry videos. The argument goes that sometimes baked lighting is impractical due to …

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    Comment #44222625

    Maybe the buyers started migrating to IPv6 when they saw how expensive IPv4 addresses are and there is a delay before they actually migrate. IPv4 addresses are way more expensive t…

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    Comment #41408812

    Splitting a piece of software into multiple pieces and shipping the pieces (dependencies) independently is sometimes a good idea, but it has its limits. Maybe the limit should be f…

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    Comment #39258517

    That should be 16 IPv6 /64 networks, right? Which means Azure gives you a /60 prefix, I guess?

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    Comment #34690934

    Data (state, context, whatever) is more important to structure than code. Make sure your programming language lets you structure data the way you feel is natural. The code comes la…

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    Comment #34368531

    DPDK/SRIOV eats the interface so Linux kernel does not see it at all. The above diagram is kind of irrelevant as it would look like a giant bypass.

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    Comment #34165807

    I loved directory opus so much on the Amiga that I eventuelly wrote not one but three variants of it for Linux, albeit much simpler. The latest one I still use and maintain and you…

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    Comment #32721825

    Email issued by your government, in addition to authentication services needed for online banking etc.

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    Comment #30151025

    Here's a few observations (after long time experience and involvement in research around technical debt): 1) It is impossible to avoid gathering technical debt. The code will deter…