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Kent Sharkey wrote: Black on black is never a good colour scheme?
Unless your name is Hotblack Desiato
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Opening that page in my browser shows a blank page.
Yeah, that is the real user interface!
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Next summer, courts will decide whether Google is guilty of “misleading” millions of Google Play users by warning them against using any other app stores or services to download apps. The pennies they get from the result may almost pay for more apps!
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High-ranking members of Europe’s preeminent central bank said that trading the world’s most-used cryptocurrency is more like gambling. And they would know
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Wait a bit until Elon comes with a new idea...
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Disk I/O may have been slow 10 or 20 years ago, but in 2022, reading a file sequentially from disk is very fast. The program will always find a new bottleneck
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The ideal program system has bottlenecks all over! If all your resources are 100% utilized, you have no reason to complain!
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Mr. Hoyt found the special case of a single process reading a single file at a time. Random access IO is still slower and network IO is even slower than this. Also, as soon as you start running IO in parallel it becomes a bottleneck again. This is why when I write programs that need to do a lot of parallel IO I throttle the number of IOs being requested at a time as this will result in faster overall throughput.
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Even on spinning rust, sequential IO is fast.
Non-sequential IO is going to be meh even on a high end SSD. Network IO is going to be meh even if sequential due to latency. Non-sequential network IO is going to be slow no matter what.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Mangle is a programming language for deductive database programming. It is an extension of Datalog, with various extensions like aggregation, function calls and optional type-checking. Because who doesn't want to mangle their databases?
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Should we send bobby tables?
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Saying no is hard. It's an admission you can't do something. And worse still, you're disappointing someone else who wants you to say yes. Yes?
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Microsoft has addressed a known issue leading to significant performance hits when copying large files over SMB after installing the Windows 11 2022 update. Now taking guesses as to what this breaks
Maybe copying small files is slower now?
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To train the MineDojo framework to play Minecraft, researchers fed it 730,000 Minecraft YouTube videos (with more than 2.2 billion words transcribed), 7,000 scraped webpages from the Minecraft wiki, and 340,000 Reddit posts and 6.6 million Reddit comments describing Minecraft gameplay. Then they came for ... whatever Minecraft is, but I did nothing as I still don't understand it
A game? A simulation tool? Online LEGO?
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The aim is to let you track your body to create videos or operate avatars in real time with metaverse apps like VRChat. For everyone waiting to "jack into cyberspace" as an anime heroine
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Wait, wait.... here we goooo[^]
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Recently, our industry’s lack of care for efficiency, simplicity, and excellence started really getting to me, to the point of me getting depressed by my own career and IT in general. Evergreen article: Things aren't as good as they were in the old days
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I like the comics in that post.
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The text less so?
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The text less so? I think he definitely makes some good points.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I think he definitely makes some good points. Yeah, he does.
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Many of his complaints are valid. However, he ignores the parts of the software world where performance and small size are competitive advantages - the firmware world.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Evergreen article: Things aren't as good as they were in the old days
And if it is true, we should panic about the future...
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." ― Albert Einstein
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If we're lucky, we'll be retired before all our software comes crashing down...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Online gaming behavior can encourage gamers to gain a variety of soft skills which could assist them with training to support their career aspirations, according to new research from the University of Surrey. Frag your opponents for a promotion?
Soft skills: yelling slurs at team mates, yelling slurs at opponents, throwing controllers across the room
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