RX14

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Comment · 1 month ago
Personally I've had 0 issues with the bcachefs dkms packages from distro repos. Unlike zfs it keeps up with upstream kernel releases so it's far less hassle than running zfs dkms.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's had consistent contributions for 5 years now, with the latest being about a month ago.
Comment · 4 years ago
Hunting in modern rail vehicles is largely a solved problem using axle yaw dampers and other systems. I struggle to see why BART doesnt use a standard wheel profile and buy from a rolling stock supplier with experience of designing for good ride quality.
Comment · 4 years ago
There are some trains which use independent wheels, but they need complicated mechanical centering mechanisms to replace the self-centering effect, and these are more expensive to maintain.
Comment · 4 years ago
Long-distance trains in the UK manage about the same, with 200km/h max, but for more of the track (and higher accel/decel)
Comment · 6 years ago
The -ls flag to find prints the same as ls
Comment · 6 years ago
I would greatly greatly appreciate an effort to benchmark builds without optimizations too. We've seen some LLVM-related slowdowns in Crystal, and --release compile times are far less important than non-release builds to us.
Comment · 6 years ago
DBMSes always keep their database in the file system in a consistent state to be able to recover from system crashes. Taking a file system snapshot is equivalent to pulling the power on the database server in terms of data recovery, but databases are designed to support this.
Comment · 6 years ago
It seems a lot of people have these stories, and then people like me and OP who have had btrfs survive the most fucked up situations (I've had a btrfs nas built on "random drives I've had lying around" and abused it for 5 years and had 0 bugs at all).

I'm not sure what causes it, but there seems to be an effect where btrfs loves you or hates you and few people with mixed experiences regarding data loss. One possible cause is distro choice tends to be per person and how up to date said distro keeps it's kernel. But, I'm not sure.

Comment · 6 years ago
My secondary motive is that I'm a girl :)

I certainly wasn't much more than sleepy and wanting to break the stereotypes on that particular expression when I wrote it.

Comment · 6 years ago
First class? About a girl-year or two I'd guess. Fully usable? About half that.
Comment · 6 years ago
If you reach out to manas directly, I'm sure they will be happy to have a sponsor for a particular feature.
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes, you can do the same optimizations in Crystal, and Nim. Someone should write these and post the code for comparison.
Comment · 6 years ago
Hopefully wasm's gc proposals will be implemented and get LLVM support, allowing languages like Crystal to sanely support wasm.
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes, we do so for more complex formats like YAML and XML. However, for JSON, reimplementing is worth it for binary portability.

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