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New comment by beached_whale in "Tailslayer: Library for reducing tail latency in RAM reads"

beached_whale — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:46:59 +0000

Out of my area, but yeah, I have never heard of an optimized read using that. On the surface, it seems like a task much better suited for HW and there are companies that would probably pay for the ram per core penalty to get that low jitter in latency.

New comment by beached_whale in "Tailslayer: Library for reducing tail latency in RAM reads"

beached_whale — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:04:16 +0000

I wonder if there will be a hardware solution in the future that duplicates memory over multiple channels and gives the first result back transparently without threads and racing.

New comment by beached_whale in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

beached_whale — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:35:51 +0000

This is one of my fears with this, losing ones voice. Everyone's expression distilled to the mean. This has ramifications in things like recognizing if a person is who they say they are too. At least currently, it is punished/shunned to sound like an LLM, but it's well within reason to see that shift to individuality being penalized.

New comment by beached_whale in "US deploying nearly all stealthy long-range JASSM-ER cruise missiles to Iran war"

beached_whale — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:52:05 +0000

There is a lesson in Ukraine and Iran being that invading a prepared country isn't easy and takes full commitment. Taiwan is most likely very prepared to defend itself.

New comment by beached_whale in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

beached_whale — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:42:13 +0000

I've used docker buildx to do this in the past. Easier to work with than qemu directly(it does so under the hood).

New comment by beached_whale in "Why Don't You Use String Views Instead of Passing Std:Wstring by Const&"

beached_whale — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:07:15 +0000

std::string since C++ 11 guarantees the buffer is zero terminated. The reasoning being thread safety of const members. https://eel.is/c++draft/basic.string#general-3

New comment by beached_whale in "Honda is killing its EVs"

beached_whale — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:22:42 +0000

I don't want my vehicle connected at all. It's an open invitation to privacy reducing tech and exploits.

New comment by beached_whale in "Using Thunderbird for RSS"

beached_whale — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:57:19 +0000

The issue I have with Thunderbird and RSS is that there's no good way to do a show me the unread only and keep the feed folders. You can do a search folder or show unread folders but that affects mail too.

Or I don't know how

New comment by beached_whale in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

beached_whale — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:56:44 +0000

I'm reading this on my RSS reader right now :)

New comment by beached_whale in "What if the Hormuz closure will not be brief?"

beached_whale — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:10:52 +0000

I don't think the oil exports from Canada ever stopped. If anything, they have grown.

New comment by beached_whale in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

beached_whale — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:16:54 +0000

I think that it comes down to that people often like to talk about their interests but worry that the recipient may not be. So we end up with two people who want to talk but worried about the others feelings.

New comment by beached_whale in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

beached_whale — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:51:19 +0000

The US exec probably doesn't want to order them either. So the game would be played and they did their best. There's another article about the US fighting data sovereignty requirements/laws in other countries, but that relies on their quickly dwindling soft power.

New comment by beached_whale in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

beached_whale — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:52:47 +0000

Not sure Canada has the leverage/market to get them to sway here. But a body like the EU has the leverage to force local operation and control.

New comment by beached_whale in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

beached_whale — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:10:05 +0000

It isn't usually an American company doing the local operations, but a local subsidiary. Like Walmart Canada telling Walmart corporate to pound sand in the 1990's over Cuban pajamas. It's illegal for Canadian companies to participate in the US embargo of Cuba.

This is all well within the realm of what governments can and do regulate. Want to do business in a country with their laws or not is the choice.

New comment by beached_whale in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

beached_whale — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:27:35 +0000

Countries hosting the data centres can make it illegal to allow access from outside their area/EU... or specifically to US entities along with making it illegal to move any data out without customer/local gov approval... This isn't rocket science. The company cannot do business if it doesn't follow the law. There are laws like this in places already. The company's local subsidiary tells the American company to politely pound sand and the American company says sorry, we tried, but do not have the capability to do as asked.

New comment by beached_whale in "Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]"

beached_whale — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:03:26 +0000

The AI generated thumbnail, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/wp-content/uploads/..., is that of young Harry and friend with a prominent MS logo. Wow

New comment by beached_whale in "Man who videotaped himself BASE jumping in Yosemite arrested, says it was AI"

beached_whale — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:09:07 +0000

lying to federal officers is what nailed Martha Stewart

New comment by beached_whale in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

beached_whale — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:50:19 +0000

lol, im on 7.3.x for extra safety

New comment by beached_whale in "Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++"

beached_whale — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:06:21 +0000

I am so happy that MSVC added 128 bit integers to their standard library in order to do ranges distance of uint64_t iota views. One type alias away from int128's on most machines running gcc/clang/msvc

New comment by beached_whale in "Canada"

beached_whale — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:59:19 +0000

Oh wow, thanks. I thought they moved to the US.