The kernel option is mitigations=off, if you want to try adding it to your Grub command line? From the testing I’ve done, provides no benefits whatsoever - no more frames in games, compilation runs no quicker, battery life on a laptop is no better.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improving_performance#Turn_off_CPU_exploit_mitigations
If you made memory access lines twice as wide, they’d take up more space. More space means (a) chips run slower, because it takes time for the electricity to get there (b) they’d be bigger and more expensive.
The main problem with 32-bit, as others have noticed, is that that’s not really so much RAM. CPUs do addition and subtraction the way we were taught at school - ‘carry the one’, they’ve an overflow bit that’s set when your sum doesn’t fit in the columns. On 8-bit CPUs, we were always checking back when adding up large numbers. On 64-bit CPUs, we can deal with truly massive numbers anyway, it’s not such a hassle. And they’re so fast at doing sums anyway and usually waiting for memory, it’s barely a hassle.
Moving to 128-bit would give us a truly minuscule, probably unmeasurable, benefit in exchange for significant downsides. We could make them, but it would be pointless.
Yeah; as a native and fairly well-educated speaker, I’m fucked if I can form the past participles of some of our verbs
If I swim across a river, is it now the swimmed river? Swum river? Swam river?
If I sneak into a room, have I sneaked? Snuck? Both sound wrong.
Didn’t find anything ambiguous about ‘costed’, it works for me.
Thought the text said that they were going to do Grimes. I’m up for some crimes, tho.
Nah, that there’s an armsadillo. You can tell, because he has two.
Any decent conductor is going to to vary the beat based on how long it takes for sound to fill the venue in question. Beethoven’s choices for the music halls in Vienna might have made sense then, but not so much today.
One of the things that’s always annoyed the conductors that I’ve worked with is that we always ignore the dynamics in his music. Beethoven’s markings are expressive, subtle. And we always play his stuff louder than indicated.
Think you’re understating it there. Network call takes milliseconds at best. Function call, if the CPU has correctly predicted the indirect branch, is basically free, but even if it hasn’t then you’re talking nanoseconds. It’s slower by millions of times.
That’s Amaranthe you’re thinking of. If you’re a fan of the Swedish metal ‘soprano and gravel’ sound they’re well worth a listen.
You’ve missed out the shitfest that is ITV Player, which just adds injury to the insult that is their rugby coverage. Obviously I’d rather listen to your uninformed muppets blathering over a replay then actually see a line-out. Why do they get to broadcast half the 6N games?
And in order to get the ‘all emotes’ cheevo, you need to summon all of these useless bastards. Two thumbs up, John.
Not that I’m the biggest fan of CMake’s syntax, but they are fairly concise and standardised. The XZ backdoor hid in amongst thousands of lines of autotools jank that very few people would be able to audit. A short CMakeList that generates a Makefile is a much harder place to hide something nefarious.
End of the day, you can only cast people who are still working in any upcoming film. Ain’t going to be casting Cary Grant or Liz Taylor in any of these roles. But I’d agree this selection is, eh, superficial - it’s as if he’d been asked to make the least interesting choices possible.
Going back a bit, but that old Bruce Willis ‘classic’ Hudson Hawk. The projector film broke about an hour in, and everyone cheered and about half the people in the cinema took the opportunity to walk out, never to return.
Absolutely. On the one hand, having ~26% of the known universe consisting of a substance that we cannot detect directly leaves a lot of questions open. On the other hand; dark matter is postulated because otherwise things like galaxy rotation curves don’t match what we believe they should be from general relativity, and this theory doesn’t seem to address that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster#Significance_to_dark_matter
Also, light ‘losing energy’ would be a violation of the first law of thermodynamics, unless it loses it ‘to’ somewhere.
There’s also the financial risk to be considered. A mainstream film release from 1970 might have been produced by fifty people, cast and crew combined. The crew for Barbie as per the image above was close to a thousand people. That’s expensive. Have to put in twenty times the ante to be in the game, and all the payoff is in established properties that you already know have an audience? It would be foolish to do otherwise.
Like you say, if people actual did what they said they wanted, and go and take a punt on the new stuff rather than going to watch the same-old, then it would be different. But you can’t complain about it when that’s what you spend your money on.
As a programmer, Vulkan is like OpenGL has decided to stop holding your hand and let you spread your wings. Learning curve is utterly brutal, but no more assumptions - you’ve complete control and everything is open to you.
As a user? Install Wine and DXVK, or just Proton that brings everything with it, enjoy everything just working better. Not really a tough decision.
Have given up on reading Baalbuddy now that Nitter is dead :-( Only thing I want to check on that whole damn platform, too…
I prefer the must of white grapes for wine making than the must of red grapes.
Cat food is enriched with the amino acid taurine, which they can’t produce themselves. Dog food is not. Feeding cats exclusively on dog food will kill them eventually, via blindness and heart disease.
Not a disaster if they steal it from the dog once or twice, but it cannot be their long-term diet.
Oh, one of our customers’ users deleted the
/vardirectory on one of the servers we provided to them, because it was “taking up too much space on disk”. That’s where Postgres saves its DBs as well; wiped out weeks of work in production for them. This hits very close to home.