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Re:Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest on Sunday August 03, 2025 @12:16PM (#44777573)
Guessing they meant K&R style C?
Re:Zig breaking change – initial Writergate on Friday July 04, 2025 @04:06AM (#44462293)
Zig uses ZeroVer so don't expect it to ever hit 1.0.

https://0ver.org/

Re:Visualize and debug Rust programs with a new lens on Thursday May 29, 2025 @06:21AM (#44124609)
Something like the SQL Server Management Studio execution plan view?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/p...

Re:Maps are faster in Go 1.24 on Monday January 27, 2025 @04:37AM (#42839153)
Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @03:31PM (#42703421)
Agreed Chrome is good on mobile. But I can't stand browsing without uBlockOrigin or dark reader. Plus URL bar on the bottom in Firefox is brilliant.
Re:A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @02:02PM (#41503701)
Given it's such a hot part of their code, I'm genuinely surprised they didn't go down the state machine route for as optimal a solution, or even further and made use of vector instructions. Maybe Rust can autovectorise the code though.
Re:Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @05:49AM (#41443755)
> 100k lines of multithreaded C++ Just for a JPEG library. Damn!
Yeah, this is just wrong about Flutter/Dart.
Now think on the scale of a restaurant/bar. Could save them a lot if none of the glasses broke!
Re:Building rqlite 9.0: Cutting disk usage by half on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @02:06AM (#41168206)
I've not heard of rqlite, but raft is a popular consensus algorithm used by several quite a few notable systems including CockroachDB, MongoDB, RabbitMQ. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raft_(algorithm)
Re:Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @03:26AM (#41043514)
Not WeeWii?
Re:Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously on Monday July 22, 2024 @09:35AM (#41034199)
I mainly use Plex, but the key benefits are that it remembers what you've watched, allows for multiple accounts, allows for easily continuation of a film or series without having to remember what time/episode you were on. Also allows for easy remote viewing.
At this point why not create an alias or function in bashrc? Then is also portable to other setups?
Re:Intel's Humbling on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @01:55AM (#39200831)
A 500 mile radius circle has a diameter of 1000 miles, so you're both correct.
Re:UK 2022 rail station flow images on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @06:04AM (#38852771)
Re:Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPU on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @09:32AM (#38263726)
NPU is the term normally used
Re:Microsoft says GPT 3.5 has 20B parameters? on Monday October 30, 2023 @12:58PM (#38072128)
So 800B + a router network, so not far off a trillion?
Re:Evolution of the Samsung Exynos CPU Microarchitecture [pdf] on Friday September 01, 2023 @04:46AM (#37348295)
That's a lot of info. Bit over my head. I hope Samsung will continue with Exynos, feels bad having mainly Qualcomm with little competition.
Re:PicoLisp Tutorials on Friday August 04, 2023 @06:47AM (#36998082)
C family here refers to syntax style. In this case the general use of curly braces to denote blocks and often semicolons to denote end of statements. Another example of such a family would be the ML language family with languages like Haskell and F Sharp.
Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @09:22AM (#36771728)
I use tree style tabs, what don't you like about it?
Re:Rocky strikes back at Red Hat on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:20AM (#36547610)
This is a weird take. Nothing Oracle did was wrong. RedHat's model can be used by anyone, why shouldn't another company make use of the source's? It's the risk of the model RedHat has gone for and also RedHat has added clauses to they're terms preventing resharing of sources which is against GPL.
They're also using it for the new Cosmic DE for Pop! OS
Looks like there is youki [1] for that.

[1] https://github.com/containers/youki

Re:DDR5 RAM prices crashed by 20% in May on Sunday June 05, 2022 @03:49AM (#31628883)
The cost of a new mobo and RAM can't be worth it for the minimal improvements surely?
Re:AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks on Thursday March 24, 2022 @03:56AM (#30787251)
Given Google have made their TPUs for machine learning and Tensor processors for phones it may be possible they are investigating it. AMD is killing it though from the server side so it's hard to justify your own CPUs right now.
Re:If 6G becomes just 5G+ we’ll have made a big mistake on Monday December 20, 2021 @09:44AM (#29625419)
Just staying on 4G doesn't sell new phones.
Agreed, it would be an interesting idea to make a new coreutils with everything modernised/cleaned up to be easier to use and more consistent.
Re:Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app on Sunday December 05, 2021 @04:47PM (#29453649)
Grep is for simple text, jq allows much more powerful searching/selection. Don't get me wrong, I believe it should be a choice and not force JSON on users, but for some it's useful.

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