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Comment · 5 months ago
Is it just me, or the article structure and subtitles feel very AI?
Comment · 10 months ago
Thanks for linking Arcan, looks interesting.

After a quick scan, Arcan seems to be pushing a microkernel approach, with some clients providing display server capabilities and others talking to them via shared memory. This will have the same problem as all other microkernels - nice for research, but the extra completely outweights the marginal benefits over a monolithic thing that generally has a smaller API surface to maintain.

Comment · 10 months ago
Wayland design choices are heavily influenced by automotive and TV where it has been industry standard way before it became mostly usable as a desktop. And that has lead to design compromises that look odd on desktop.

But hey, you can probably run automotive UIs with your desktop compositor.

And Gnome devs are just being silly at this point.

Comment · 10 months ago
I'm not following the logic why contrails cause net warming.

Why nuclear blasts - that also introduce lots of particles in atmosphere cause a cooling effect - "nuclear winter"?

Comment · 1 year ago
This is what Chrome OS does, works pretty well IMHO.
Comment · 1 year ago
The NAT firewalls do not like P2P UDP traffic. Majoritoy of the routers lack the smarts to passtrough QUIC correctly, they need to treat it the same as TCP essentially.
Comment · 2 years ago
Possible. Depends how the contract is structured, they may be able to claw back some money from Aerojet.

Boeing still takes all the blame.

Comment · 3 years ago
The minimum run time of a tread before it's potentially preempted when load is high is computed based on number of cores available giving more time when there are more cores since rescheduling latency is apparently longer with more cores.

And the function that does this uses the same value for 8 and more cores.

So the performance impact is likely <<1%.

Comment · 3 years ago
Bicycles fail safe unless a wheel falls off or both brakes fail simultaneously.

Balancing onewheelers - if the control or power system fails, you immediately go down, hard. And since the cruising position is weight shifted forwards, it's 100% nose dive.

Comment · 3 years ago
There is a significant overap - fuel up, find the restroom, grab some snacks.

EV chargers have the benefits of being cheap, take little space, and permitting is raesonably simple. Expecting them to be way more widespread than fuel stations ever can be.

Comment · 3 years ago
That GPU firmware is generally just a blob that has never been open sourced. The driver is the part that talks to the GPU, not the OS that runs inside the GPU. Unless I'm mistaken in which case this would be a huge deal.
Comment · 3 years ago
I suspect the part that is failing is not the connector itself, but rather a controller chip somewhere upstream.

Given the skills you could def DIY repair it for cheaper, the high price is likely including uncertainty of what's broken and some form of warranty.

Comment · 3 years ago
For most use cases shortest path is super simple and fast problem on modern PCs. So might be useful on extra large synthetic networks. Neural nets?, Trading logs?, Image processing?

Also negative weights are rare in real life applications. And def not in what you would consider normal path planning.

Comment · 3 years ago
This. Also the bigger the company is, the less the long term loyalty and people are generally there for the money.

So top performers will get moving quickly.

Comment · 3 years ago
Opportunity to generate cheap hydrogen?

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