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I've switched to DDG and I've hardly looked back. Google's search has been seriously declined in quality. Most search operators [1] are no longer supported. Even those directly in …

RHEL is free (use CentOS or Fedora) Support is not free. If you want software updates, security patches, bug fixes, or somebody to call when shit hits the fan you pay Red Hat. If n…

For High Throughput compute, and cache correctness. Here are the primers I can give. None of these are required. Strong langauge, cs, interpersonal skills, team inter-interoperabil…

Not necessarily true. C89 only requires that static values be initialized. A modern C standard (section: 6.7.8(10)) requires static values be initialized, but what the value is ini…

The only reason I'd seriously consider upgrading is if they fixed the typing speed. The input latency on iPhone has just _horrible_, and I know after another iOS update it'll be ju…

10 years ago there was less file system integration, user land virus scanning, kernel level virus scanning, os-hooks, OS-compatibility re-direction, and 32/64bit compatibility chec…

I'd really like to thank Cyan for their contributions. `zstd` and `lz4` are great. I'm pretty much exclusively using `zstd` for my tarball needs in the present day as it beats the …

GNU/Xenix is making a come back !! for those you who don't remember Xenix was Microsoft's UNIX that it marketted prior to releasing DOS. Originally the idea was Xenix was the multi…

get their office suite to LibreOffice I'm with you until that. I'm a die hard FOSS advocate but Microsoft Office is seriously a great tool. I've yet to find a replacement for Excel…

`cargo new $project_name` literally generates a hello world program so it is misleading to say you need to understand ownership to write `hello world`. That being said ownership is…

I don't see how/why? Generally speaking it is exceptionally rare for a star to point directly at us. This is to an acurracy of millionth's of a degree, as the straight line travel …

I think if more people took the time to understand them and practice writing them (when appropriate), they wouldn't have such a stigma. I think this is part of the movement to a mo…

1. Blizzard uses torrents where people downloading the patch also act like P2P seeders (you can control the download/upload speeds). 2. Assets are bundled via the zip like mechanis…

I built a similar model over the weekend: https://twitter.com/valarauca1/status/1061362369702445056 Used an existing box fan. I had to buy duct tape ($3) and the filter I used one …

If you are interested in learning more the general name for this drug (outside of the US) is ARX-04. The maker has some data that compares it to Fentanyl [1]. Their numbering state…

large corporations often block users from setting executable permissions on files they created as a way curbing malware. Or at least I've encountered this in my career.

dog it’s a PHP shop, nobody re-uses code

this challenge cannot be circumvented. Division of tasks, and specialization naturally trend to hierarchical organization for the same reason divide and conquer algorithms are so e…

Not really. The fundamental limit of clock speed is power draw. As clocks increase the wattage ~ frequency relation goes from frequency = Constant * Power Draw It starts becoming f…

The correctness I'd argue is worth it. My company has been shipping a service in rust for >1 year and its really nice knowing when the tests pass, and the app gets deployed it'll d…

So the node scaling was standardized (before ~28nm). It very literally meant MOSfet density (as 28 nm was 1 MOSfet + gap for the next MOSfet). The IEEE had a road map about what to…

I wonder when the rapid erosion of Intel's technical lead in fabrication technology be represented in decreasing evaluation of its market cap. It was rumored TSMC's 7nm wouldn't be…

if consumers had to pay full freight on their dies prices would be several times higher than they are. This is doubtful, Intel's margins are amazing as they're fully integrated ver…