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Re:Hard Drive Stats for 2019 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:07PM (#22300084)
What are you using as TCP congestion controller? BBR should provide better utilization on long pipes (e.g. transoceanic transfers if stuff isn't geo-replicated). Totally anecdotal, but it helped me FTPing data from the US to europe.
Re:Hacking GitHub's Auth with Unicode's Turkish Dotless 'I' on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @11:58AM (#21815544)
Unicode has a dedicated case folding[0][1] (as opposed to upper/lower case mapping) algorithm to cover these cases.

[0] https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr21/tr21-3.html#Caseless%20... [1] http://userguide.icu-project.org/transforms/casemappings#TOC...

Re:Debuggers Suck on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @06:24AM (#21647012)
One issue is that that sysctl is not a namespaced one.
Re:Debuggers Suck on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @06:19AM (#21646988)
> Which means open source tools have an advantage over proprietary tools in addition to price.

In principle proprietary tools could also provide the source.

In the context of GPT2 someone coined the expression "Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences"
Note that that is about BBRv1 (as available in recent linux kernels), BBRv2 is going to address the fairness issues

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/105/materials/slides-10...

Re:Update on await syntax in Rust on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @12:10PM (#20031505)
Await is a keyword, syntax highlighters will most likely paint it differently.
Re:Use mmap with care on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:06AM (#19806605)
If you roughly know your access patterns in advance you can reduce the page fault costs with madvise.
you can install a treadmill under a standing desk and walk while you work.