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New comment by anchovy_ in "Writing a Hypervisor in 1k Lines"

anchovy_ — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:32:39 +0000

Tangentially related: can anyone here recommend some good resources (preferably even books) on hypervisors? Back in university we got a brief introduction into the topic but I was always interested in learning about it more in depth.

New comment by anchovy_ in "ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades"

anchovy_ — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:13:47 +0000

Cool idea! Is there a way to go to the arxiv page (https://arxiv.org/abs/...) of a paper instead of only going to the PDF (https://arxiv.org/pdf/...) without manually manipulating the URL?

New comment by anchovy_ in "Google vs. the Open Web"

anchovy_ — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:18:05 +0000

Don't nail me down on this but I think since nowadays' websites are often dynamic, you most likely have to employ headless browsers in order to do whatever it is you want to do. This should then result in fake impressions.

New comment by anchovy_ in "Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?"

anchovy_ — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:37:28 +0000

>However, an O(n^3) algorithm will always loose out to an O(n^2*log(n)) algorithm, when the input gets big enough.

Sure, this might be the case from a theoretical point of view (as per definition) but this completely disregards the hidden constants that come to light when actually implementing an algorithm. There's a reason why for instance a state-of-the-art matrix multiplication algorithm [0] can be completely useless in practice: The input data will never become large enough in order to amortize the introduced overhead.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10173

New comment by anchovy_ in "German researchers figure out how lager first developed in Bavaria"

anchovy_ — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:32:08 +0000

I don't know about Swabia and Franconia but if you are in Upper Bavaria (or probably any part of Altbayern [0]) and order a beer (without specifying anything else), you will definitely get a Helles.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altbayern