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New comment by markus92 in "For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas"

markus92 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:05:17 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2_Coalition

New comment by markus92 in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

markus92 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:52:28 +0000

Better than expected as it's mixing userlands. We didn't put the entire /usr/lib of the old system in LD_LIBRARY_PATH but just some stuff like old libpng, libjpeg and the shebang. Taking an image of an old compute node still on RHEL 7 and then dumping it a container naturally worked, but at that point it's only the kernel interface you have to worry about, not different glibc, gtk, qt and that kind of stuff.

New comment by markus92 in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

markus92 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:11:34 +0000

This looks like Rotterdam ten years ago

New comment by markus92 in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

markus92 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:31:06 +0000

We (small HPC system) just upgraded our OS from RHEL 7 to RHEL 9. Most user apps are dynamically linked, too.

You don't want to believe how many old binaries broke. Lot of ABI upgrades like libpng, ncurses, heck even stuff like readline and libtiff all changed just enough for linker errors to occur.

Ironically all the statically compiled stuff was fine. Some small things like you mention only linking to glibc and X11 was fine too. Funnily enough grabbing some old .so files from the RHEL 7 install and dumping them into LD_LIBRARY_PATH also worked better than expected.

But yeah, now that I'm writing this out, glibc was never the problem in terms of forwards compatibility. Now running stuff compiled on modern Ubuntu or RHEL 10 on the older OS, now that's a whole different story...

New comment by markus92 in "Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics"

markus92 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:40:20 +0000

Your capacity drops dramatically, by at least an order of magnitude if not more. The Jubilee line can do 30 trains per hour, 875 people per train is 26250 people per hour. Say an average minibus can hold 26 people, you'll literally need a thousand busses an hour to move everyone. And yes it all runs at capacity especially during rush hour.

New comment by markus92 in "EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars"

markus92 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:00:57 +0000

Hit by A/C is negligible in most EVs. What you're saying is more that there is a current charger shortage, supply/demand will take care of that in the future.

New comment by markus92 in "NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system"

markus92 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:57:14 +0000

Exactly, they can’t just pay the 5 million and call it a day.

New comment by markus92 in "NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system"

markus92 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:19:25 +0000

Na, but under the Dutch legal you can go back to the court if they pay the 5 million without changing anything and ask if they can increase it cus it clearly wasn’t enough. They’ll just keep tacking zeroes on.

New comment by markus92 in "Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20"

markus92 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:09:32 +0000

Per dollar sure but they’re quite a bit off per watt. Plus the software ecosystem is still not there.

New comment by markus92 in "Apptainer: Application Containers for Linux"

markus92 — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:33:02 +0000

Luckily they’re still compatible with each others containers. Can use Apptainer to build the container then run it on Singularity and vice-versa.

New comment by markus92 in ""Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B"

markus92 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:19:48 +0000

I can see the California or maybe even Texas AG go after them, wouldn’t be the first time.

New comment by markus92 in "Moderna's Super-Vaccine for Flu and Covid Works–Now Politics Could Sink It"

markus92 — Sun, 11 May 2025 18:29:09 +0000

USA is where the money is..

New comment by markus92 in "Can you lose your native tongue? (2024)"

markus92 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:36:43 +0000

Languages need a lot of upkeep if you want to keep speaking them fluently. On the other hand, just like muscle, once you've had it it's a lot easier to get back than having to put it on for the first time.

New comment by markus92 in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

markus92 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:55:22 +0000

Nope, used a Samsung CPU with PowerVR GPU.

New comment by markus92 in "H-1B visa lottery is shutting out top talent"

markus92 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:24:31 +0000

Don't you officially have to prove there is no American fit for the job? It's being so much abused, seems that also needs some rework.

New comment by markus92 in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

markus92 — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 11:24:28 +0000

World Cup final, if you add up all streams worldwide?

New comment by markus92 in "A simple to use Java 8 JWT Library"

markus92 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:03:03 +0000

The javax stuff really got us.

New comment by markus92 in "A simple to use Java 8 JWT Library"

markus92 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:02:09 +0000

We run a ton of legacy cruft that's still on Java 8. Extended support is available until at least 2030. It's rock solid for us and migration is not easy unfortunately, even Java 11 is a challenge.

New comment by markus92 in "Study finds intense exercise may suppress appetite in healthy humans"

markus92 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:15:33 +0000

Same here. When I was into running, I never really ate much when I got back unless it was some big race. Unfortunately injured now :(

New comment by markus92 in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

markus92 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:00:39 +0000

Long waiting lists for chemo? You don't know a whole lot about oncological care in Europa do you.