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New comment by lastgeniusua in "MacBook Air M4"

lastgeniusua — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:20:05 +0000

most non-Mac laptops have a spare slot for an SSD (and the original one is likely replaceable), with RAM being replaceable too. Why wouldn't the desktop prices apply here too?

New comment by lastgeniusua in "Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC"

lastgeniusua — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:50:46 +0000

I know a core developer (Marek) recently got a Framework 16 and submitted some fixes after early testing iirc - might be worthwhile chasing it with him

New comment by lastgeniusua in "CPU Energy Meter: A tool for measuring energy consumption of Intel CPUs"

lastgeniusua — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 08:47:09 +0000

They've been verified to be fairly accurate:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2989081.2989088

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3177754

New comment by lastgeniusua in "Speeding up C++ build times"

lastgeniusua — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:21:14 +0000

Thank you very much for this resource! Reading through the article and the discussion here I was really surprised why nobody discussed using actually existing modules, this clarifies how far that is from a solution.

You should really post this as a separate Show HN story!

"Estimated finish by the year 5134" made me chuckle

New comment by lastgeniusua in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"

lastgeniusua — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:46:55 +0000

> The most fundamental issue is that the borrow checker forces a refactor at the most inconvenient times. Rust users consider this to be a positive, because it makes them "write good code", but the more time I spend with the language the more I doubt how much of this is true. Good code is written by iterating on an idea and trying things out, and while the borrow checker can force more iterations, that does not mean that this is a desirable way to write code. I've often found that being unable to just move on for now and solve my problem and fix it later was what was truly hurting my ability to write good code.

The latter part of this is true for any strongly statically typed language (with Rust expanding this to lifetimes), which negates the beginning of this paragraph -- once you get things compiled, you won't need to refactor, unless you are changing major parts of your interfaces. There are plenty of languages that do not have this problem because it is a design choice, hardly something Rust can "fix", it's what makes it Rust.

New comment by lastgeniusua in "The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword"

lastgeniusua — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 20:25:52 +0000

having recently done similar day-and-night long suites of benchmarks (on a laptop in heat dissipation conditions worse than on any decent desktop), I've found that there is no correlation between the order the benchmarks are run in and their performance (or energy consumption!). i would therefore assume that a non-overclocked processor would not exhibit the patterns you are thinking of here

New comment by lastgeniusua in "Dataflow Analyses and Compiler Optimizations That Use Them, for Free"

lastgeniusua — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 14:46:07 +0000

The LLM confusion (aside from the similar name) might also have come from the "Transformers" discussed in one of the papers linked.

New comment by lastgeniusua in "Nova, new Rust-based driver for Nvidia GPUs"

lastgeniusua — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:52:24 +0000

Red Hat have just announced Nova, a GSP-only driver for Nvidia GPUs, intended as a successor to Nouveau.

Nova, new Rust-based driver for Nvidia GPUs

lastgeniusua — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:52:24 +0000

Article URL: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/Zfsj0_tb-0-tNrJy@cassiopeiae/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39773426

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by lastgeniusua in "Algorithms for Modern Hardware"

lastgeniusua — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 14:38:34 +0000

he is also loudly anti-war: https://twitter.com/sergey_slotin

New comment by lastgeniusua in "The Itanic Saga: The History of VLIW and Itanium"

lastgeniusua — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:14:50 +0000

the total lack of sources and references (other than to the articles on this very blog) is annoying to say the least. is there anything at all to read on this alleged Elbrus influence on Itanium plans, in Russian or English?

New comment by lastgeniusua in "Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch"

lastgeniusua — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:54:46 +0000

I'm not sure the Mig Switch will allow you to play homebrew, it is designed to replicate the (apparently reverse-engineered) security protocol of game cards signed by Nintendo. The Github repos you've seen previously are probably your best bet, they're designed for homebrew development, but to launch these you'd need to mod your Switch: with an unpatched original model (could easily be verified on https://ismyswitchpatched.com/) it's as easy as connecting two pins with a paperclip and injecting a USB payload with your PC, with patched later models this requires a modchip soldered onto the board.

New comment by lastgeniusua in "Poland may seek extradition of Ukrainian Nazi WW2 veteran Hunka from Canada"

lastgeniusua — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 14:28:41 +0000

from Olesya Khromeychuk's "‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians: Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ Division" on the Deschenes Commission:

"These conclusions were based partly on the assumption that the Division underwent a thorough screening by the UK authorities while in SEP/POW camps in Europe, although that screening, as will be discussed in Chapter 3, was far from thorough. This, however, did not discourage the Deschênes Commission from relying on it, as is evident from the conclusions which cite the screening report of 1947"

"The confidence of the Deschênes Commission in the British screening report’s conclusions seems to imply that the Commission was either ill-informed as to the meticulousness of the screening of the ‘Galicia’ performed by the UK authorities in the aftermath of the Second World War, or that it chose not to subject the report to close scrutiny. According to Rodal, a key explanation for the Deschênes Commission’s collective exoneration of the Division is what she refers to as the ‘ethnic factor’,28 and ‘persistent lobbying efforts and backing from a demographically significant Ukrainian ethnic constituency.’29"

"While lacking conclusive documentary evidence, the assumption that those Ukrainians who joined the ‘Galicia’ Division in its post-Brody recruitment phase might have participated in war crimes in the earlier years of the war is highly credible."

New comment by lastgeniusua in "Desktop Linux has a Firefox problem"

lastgeniusua — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 21:26:42 +0000

not only can you easily turn off any ads or suggestions, but you can set custom urls in easily-accessible settings at about:preferences#home

New comment by lastgeniusua in "The Milky Way according to Anton Pannekoek"

lastgeniusua — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 21:56:28 +0000

the "doesn't" camp, of course. Brenner in the context of the larger debates or on his own? Have you read Jairus Banaji?

What's particularly interesting in Sapolsky's work for you?

New comment by lastgeniusua in "The Milky Way according to Anton Pannekoek"

lastgeniusua — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 18:30:10 +0000

what are you reading now if you read Pannekoek when you were younger, I wonder?

New comment by lastgeniusua in "Ask HN: Book Recommendations"

lastgeniusua — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 13:30:26 +0000

- Smart Machines and Service Work, Jason E. Smith

- The Cybernetic Hypothesis, Tiqqun

New comment by lastgeniusua in "The most underused browser feature: reader mode"

lastgeniusua — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 17:50:44 +0000

don't really have much experience with JS or TS, but might try this later, thanks!

New comment by lastgeniusua in "The most underused browser feature: reader mode"

lastgeniusua — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 12:29:06 +0000

Sadly Tridactyl (vim keybindings for Firefox) doesn't work in reader mode, which really breaks the flow of my usual scrolling/tab-switching with vim keys. This, and the pdf reader tabs kill me because of it

New comment by lastgeniusua in "Experiment, powered by RSS, to allow following of creators in Chrome"

lastgeniusua — Thu, 20 May 2021 06:26:50 +0000

So, RSS?