towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In my experience, a Scheduler is something that schedules time on the CPU for processes (threads).

So 10 processes (threads) say "I need to do something":
2 of those threads are "ready to continue" because they were previously waiting on some Disk IO (and responsibly released thread control while data was fetched).
1 of the threads says "this is critical for GPU operations".
1 of those threads self declares it is elevated priority.

The scheduler decides which of those threads actually gets time on an available CPU core to be processed.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

In simple terms, this means that the image is now built so that it produces exactly the same result every time. If the image is rebuilt later using the same source, it will be identical down to the last bit.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Thank you for reminding me

[–] towerful@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago

Wtf is GNU/Linux? You mean SystemD/KDE?

[–] towerful@programming.dev 23 points 1 week ago

And then OneDrive comes along, someone accidentally saved "to the cloud" (IE the default windows location of OneDrive). And of course someone (you) has to fix all the desync bullshit.
Fuck excel, fuck Microsoft, fuck OneDrive!

Thank god my company is transitioning to a decent no code solution (nocobase plus literally anything that can interact with postgres - currently n8n but not yet limited to that. It's a transition from excel, literally anything is better! (Tho, nocobase is awesome, non has it's perks)).
Many parentheses, soz.
Fuck excel, use a database!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 23 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Something about porn leading the way, something about DVDs winning, something about VHS winning.

All of that doesn't matter.
Because Linux desktop (in my experience, KDE Plasma and Wayland) along with distros that do sensible things (I use EndeavourOS btw) are just SO much better that Windows.
I only boot windows for software I have to run windows with fullscreen or GPU based software that doesn't exist on linux

[–] towerful@programming.dev 66 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Professionals do seem to use excel.
Holy fuck is it painful for anyone that knows what they are doing.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I also hope Embark do the right thing and get VAs back in to voice quests and cut scenes.
Use the generated voice for items and locations only. Maybe, as an emergency, for continuity.

I guess it gives them unbelievable leverage over the VAs: "We are offering you $10 to do 4 hours of voice lines. Or we will just use the model we have already trained".
Which then puts even more downwards pressure on VA wages.

I bet Embark has made bank, and it would be a massive PR win to get the VAs back in at an industry standard rate to do the quests and cutscenes.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Pretty much any mikrotik is a fantastic piece of kit to have.
It is so unbelievably versatile.
I love the various mikrotik routers, switches and APs I have. I use them all the time for little ad-hoc networks and projects and stuff.
You will learn a lot about networking when using them.

But Unifi is a hell of a lot easier to use, and I have not found anything I can't do on unifi (but I don't do bgp, mlag, etc at home).

[–] towerful@programming.dev 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mine is named "Searching..."

It's caught a few friends out

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

sudo is a command that "does" something as "super user"

Fun fact, it originally stood for "superuser do", however it now stands for "substitute user do" as it can "do" as any user - it's just that the default user argument is root (IE super user)

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty sure all ram manufacturers are Korean? I guess China puts chips on PCBs, maybe? But South Korea has the knowledge . And it had met domestic demand. RAM prices have been acceptable for many many years.
It's the AI sector that is inflating demand (maybe by circular investment and contracts).
So, I don't see anyone investing 10 years into the future to make ddr6 ram where their business plan relies on current trends.

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