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Re:Using black magic to make a fast circular buffer
on Saturday January 11, 2025 @08:07AM (#42665607)
Linux, FreeBSD seem to have memfd_create().
Mac OS seem to have shm_open() instead.
Actually, the first two have that one as well.
Interesting.
The technique itself is indeed very elegant.
Re:Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken
on Saturday January 11, 2025 @03:50AM (#42664412)
size_t is 64 bits on 64-bit CPUs
Re:All Garmin Connect services are down
on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @07:40AM (#42633557)
I remember that some Garmin employees gave talks on CRDTs at some event. That was 2015 or 2016, so I can not recall any details.
A noospheric bomb and its effects
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Re:Anyone Noticed the Outage?
on Monday December 09, 2024 @12:58AM (#42363400)
My bet is on a BGP glitch at the moment.
Re:Anyone Noticed the Outage?
on Monday December 09, 2024 @12:56AM (#42363393)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42362781
Nope, observed in different places. Was fixed in an hour or so, but it was something big.
Anyone Noticed the Outage?
https://radar.cloudflare.com/trafficCloudflare radar shows 50% global traffic drop. Like, instantly, about UTC 02:00 8 Dec. Apparently, all continents affected. Downdetector.com has a spike on all graphs about the same time. The internet is pretty centralized these days, so a sudden 50% drop is explainable. Still, I see no commentary on the media.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone else experience an internet outage?
on Sunday December 08, 2024 @11:55PM (#42363177)
https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/
This one shows a global event as well.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone else experience an internet outage?
on Sunday December 08, 2024 @11:51PM (#42363163)
https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/
A good "Internet dashboard" from Cloudflare. Something happened indeed, globally. China looks unaffected.
Chinese hack of global telecom providers is 'ongoing'
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Re:The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding
on Friday December 06, 2024 @07:20AM (#42339117)
Agree.
So far "the progress" implied understanding (discovering) previously unknown things. AI is exactly the opposite: "I don't understand how, but it sorta works!"
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Re:Emoji Under the Hood
on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:23AM (#26589869)
The safest path is to consider it a blob. There is some library that can render it magically and that's the only wise thing you can do. The internal structure is hard to understand. Also, definitions change over time. So, you better leave it all to professionals.
Re:Emoji Under the Hood
on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:04AM (#26589763)
I wonder why Mediterranean nations switched from ideograms to alphabet as soon as one was invented. Probably they did not have enough surplus grain to feed something like the Unicode consortium?