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trønderen wrote: A friend of mine regularly vacuum cleans his (tower type) PC, to keep it from slowing down. He claims that dust will hinder the ventilation airflow, causing the OS to reduce the clock speed to avoid CPU overheating, which would slow down program execution. So he vacuums it every few weeks to keep speed up.
Badly ventilated PCs (to include desktops from a number of major OEMs ) will benefit from regular de-dusting because their baseline thermals are already awful enough to throttle regularly so even a marginal decline will start throttling sooner. OTOH the proper solution is better cooling so that +5-10C of dust doesn't throttle you more and you can be lazy about cleaning your system out.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Yep,
Pavel Yosifovich[^] has been awarded MVP status many times over the last decade. He made some great contributions to the Windows Internals books. Good to see his blog here in the news.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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What he didn't do is take all but 4GB out of his system and then relook. The number of "idle/waiting" threads will drop dramatically as there is memory overhead associated with them. Many system services are written to scale to memory availability and logical processor cores (includes Hyper-Thread cores in the count).
For instance, right now I have 230 processes and fewer than 2800 threads on the system I'm using.
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Based on its Project Z-Code, which uses a “spare Mixture of Experts” approach, these new models now often score between 3% and 15% better than the company’s previous models during blind evaluations. Zat iz where you zwitch all the z'z for z'z
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Map of the Internet 2021 visualizes the most popular websites in the style of an old historical map "Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Beware the Straits of Stonks. Fair winds and following seas.
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I believe the map has been bowdlerized.
Your map upholds good morals by omitting naughty websites.
--Oh, so you're familiar with them?
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Unless you are very careful from day one, any shell script above a certain complexity level is almost guaranteed to be buggy… and retrofitting the correctness features is quite difficult. If you use them wrong, you can have problems!
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So the more complex your script, the more chance it has of having bugs and issues? Lucky for me that is strictly a shell scripting thing. Heaven help us all if that were to trickle down to other coding languages.
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Quote: any shell script above a certain complexity level is almost guaranteed to be buggy Applies to more than just scripts.
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Skilled coders are receiving almost double the number of interview requests as demand for software soars, with specialist programming languages commanding top salaries. You only need one
Unless you're me, in which case it seems to take 30 or more.
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Go
Ruby on Rails
React
I guess I'm not interview material. I refuse to use those three (and there are many more languages/frameworks/libraries as well!)
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I was going to say, this is just another BS article. RonR is ancient, and to push it as a tech skill is just weird. It's like old school HR people are writing these articles.
Give me a developer full of piss and vinegar any day. I don't care about your frameworks, can you learn?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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In a new update to Windows 11, a watermark has appeared on the desktop wallpaper for unsupported systems, alongside a similar warning in the landing page of the settings app. Did the old warning have a bad icon?
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this is so much MS bs, it's time to go to the fight club.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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The result demonstrates one way to avoid the massive amount of computation typically required to tune an AI system, an issue that could become more of a roadblock as such programs grow increasingly complex. Sorry, no DOOM
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if petal length between a and b
and petal width between c and d
and sepal length between e and f
and sepal width between g and h
then iris species 1.
repeat for the other two iris species.
vs. gigabytes of training data and a complicated neural net and hours of CPU training time.
Yup, AI is definitely NOT the solution for certain types of problems. But, lacking any I in the general population, programmers included, let's all code everything in AI!
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Marc Clifton wrote: But, lacking any I in the general population,
Found the I in "general population".
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sorry, no DOOM
... yet!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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With Java 18, Oracle is introducing a series of incremental features, many of which focus on easing application development. It's now old enough to drink (in Canada), just like it's developers will need to
In many parts of the US, you'll just need to fear that Java can now vote.
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A novel phishing technique called browser-in-the-browser (BitB) attack can be exploited to simulate a browser window within the browser in order to spoof a legitimate domain, thereby making it possible to stage convincing phishing attacks. Browserception!
And I find yet another reason to detest iFrame
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Microsoft has issued a reminder that it is mere months until the desktop app for the browser is retired. "I'm comin' up so you better get this party started"
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Quote: Microsoft has issued a reminder that it is mere months until the desktop app for the browser is retired. Ooh, they are so cutting edge.
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No, they're only cutting IE. Edge will remain.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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There is one code readability trap that is easy to avoid once you are aware of it, yet the trap is pervasive: omitting units. Hello, I'm Bobfurlongs
Maybe I'm missing something...
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I would rather have someone implement a proper type system where the "thing", whether it's a unit of measurement or a "label" like "first name" or "last name" could be strong typed.
Nothing like:
ConcatName(string firstName, string lastName) => $"{firstName} {lastName}";
string firstName = "Marc";
string lastName = "Clifton";
ConcatName(lastName, firstName);
But then again, I live in a different universe of wishes and desires.
And technically, one can actually do what I want in some languages (C# and F#) it's just that one has to go through hoops depending on the language.
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