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New comment by las_balas_tres in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

las_balas_tres — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:22:08 +0000

I developed for windows before moving to linux. I was surprised to find that was no system call similar to windows WaitForMultipleObjects. Sure you can implement something similar using poll() or using condition variables. but WaitForMultipleObjects seems so much simpler and more versatile

New comment by las_balas_tres in "Linux Kernel Exploitation: Attack of the Vsock"

las_balas_tres — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:24:49 +0000

For the love of god please change the blue on black text to something more readable

New comment by las_balas_tres in "Fuck Run Club, Join Sit Club"

las_balas_tres — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:55:39 +0000

I own a stationary indoor exercise bicycle. Its quite fancy.. has a magnetically coupled flywheel to adjust the difficulty setting and has all the electronic counters etc. I try use it every day/second day and on those days I really have to motivate myself to get on it and do my 40 min cycle. The first 10 mins is really tough for me and I find I have to put in a lot of mental effort to enter a meditative frame of mind that helps me finish the workout but, by the end of those 40 mins and for the rest of the day I feel on top of the world... its the one thing that helps to motivate me to get back on it everyday.

I suspect its the same thing with most endurance type sports which include running. Most people don't actually like the idea of it but the feeling of well-being makes them keep on doing it.

New comment by las_balas_tres in "I stopped everything and started writing C again"

las_balas_tres — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:13:11 +0000

I started writing C code again because i started using gstreamer and needed to write a modem plugin for ModemManager. This meant i had to get familiar with glib. Even thought the learning curve has been steep it been worth and I am really enjoying writing in C again, even going so far as to refactor some existing code of mine use glib and make it GObject based. The end goal here is to use gir to use my code from scriptable languages like python.

New comment by las_balas_tres in "Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020)"

las_balas_tres — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 15:29:19 +0000

We have hundreds of raspberry pi s out in the field that experience sdcard failures far too often even though the filesystems are setup as readonly using a ram based overlay filesystem. I suspect something happens during reboot of these pi's and that the SoC generates spurious signals on the bus lines causing havoc with some of the sdcards. It doesn't seem to happen with high end cards or the same setup but with a compute module (which we now use exclusively) with an on board emmc chip.

New comment by las_balas_tres in "A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon"

las_balas_tres — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:58:26 +0000

That's not the original content on the site

New comment by las_balas_tres in "Marshall Brain has died"

las_balas_tres — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 19:38:33 +0000

What guard rails could anyone with an unrestrained high IQ possibly have?

New comment by las_balas_tres in "Logging all C++ destructors, poor mans run-time tracing"

las_balas_tres — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:58:46 +0000

That github repo contains the sources. You can also compile tracy by cloning the repo.

New comment by las_balas_tres in "Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus"

las_balas_tres — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 19:58:55 +0000

I have had tinnitus since I was about 20 and I am now 50. Its always been there until last year when I had a slight reprieve for about 10 seconds. I was sick, the sickest I had been for years. I came down a with bad flu and was on a cocktail of drugs... antibiotics, painkillers etc. So there I was, lying in bed staring out the window when suddenly everything went peaceful and very quite. I then realised that i could no longer hear the ringing in my ears. I was sick but not delirious. Try hard as I could, i couldn't hear the ringing in my ears for about 10 seconds when suddenly as quickly as the ringing appeared, it re-appeared again.

New comment by las_balas_tres in "Quantum entangled photons react to Earth's spin"

las_balas_tres — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:55:26 +0000

So almost like an optical wheatstone bridge ?

New comment by las_balas_tres in "Why diets backfire: A year after weight loss, the desire to eat grows (2018)"

las_balas_tres — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 06:12:21 +0000

My relationship with food seems to mirror yours. You have some good advice on how to deal with it.

New comment by las_balas_tres in "Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook"

las_balas_tres — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 11:53:37 +0000

What about the book. "How to take a shit in the woods" https://www.amazon.com/How-Shit-Woods-3rd-Environmentally/dp...

New comment by las_balas_tres in "OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster"

las_balas_tres — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 08:07:48 +0000

Sure... but that machine learning PhD has a vested interest in being optimistically biased in his observations.

New comment by las_balas_tres in "Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO"

las_balas_tres — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 06:50:13 +0000

100% agree. I have a coding job and although co-pilot comes in handy for auto completing function calls and generating code that would be an obvious progression of what needs to be written, I would never let it generate swaths of code based on some specification or even let it implement a moderately complex method or function because, as I have experienced, what it spits out is absolute garbage.

New comment by las_balas_tres in "Simulation of tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid that brought 2.5 mile waves"

las_balas_tres — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 06:05:00 +0000

As far as i know, the earth's crust below and around the impact gets displaced by a fair amount. I think the crust acts like a rubber sheet bouncing backwards and forwards. This most likely contributes toward the displacement of water above.

New comment by las_balas_tres in "The strength of the strong force"

las_balas_tres — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:45:44 +0000

At what distance does the strong force start to level off and become constant ?

New comment by las_balas_tres in "Sci-Fi Films Everyone Should Watch Once"

las_balas_tres — Sun, 22 May 2022 20:53:56 +0000

I can't believe Contact wasn't mentioned

New comment by las_balas_tres in "Inkscape 1.2 released"

las_balas_tres — Tue, 17 May 2022 07:02:53 +0000

Do you ever think a project like Blender will end up like this. I don't think there is anything remotely similar to it online and I doubt there ever will be.

New comment by las_balas_tres in "South Africa is running out of Marmite"

las_balas_tres — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 18:57:24 +0000

Thank God I only like Bovril

New comment by las_balas_tres in "The flood that filled the Mediterranean Sea - in one year"

las_balas_tres — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 07:10:48 +0000

Here's more of a textbook style of the account if that's your style. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood .Or here is a creative way of describing the account (which I happen to like) https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/in-search-of-a-fl...