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Probably some RISC-V stuff, but hopefully other things too ;)

WE DID IT. My new zine “How Git Works" is out now!

You can get it here for $12: https://wizardzines.com/zines/git

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$ARM > $INTC for the first time this morning

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Edited 10 months ago

A single picture taken in the

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Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal. Photo made by @robhoeijmakers

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Wilcox had no presentation to give; instead, he put up an editor window containing a new documentation file for page flags, then told the audience "shout at me, I'll write it down".

A true hero of our time.

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@vbabka @monsieuricon not for me. It's not even smart enough to understand that the login request it just made works for the page it just redirected to. I frequently get stuck in infinite login loops and need to just close the tab and open the page again. Maybe I've got something wacky going on?
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@vbabka @monsieuricon IDK, I just do whatever the computers tell me to ;)
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@monsieuricon and for good measure, just redirect me right back to the real Google login page (which Google does half the time anyway) aiming at something boring like my calendar or the meet home screen, as I've usually got those open all over the place...
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People who bought these m4 threaded rods also frequently bought these m3 lock nuts

these people were very disappointed

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Entirely at random I just gave a micro-lecture (to an audience of 1) on IEEE 754, hexadecimal floating point constants, unit-of-least-precision, representations and type systems, and alternative forms of measuring error. I should do it again for a bigger audience.

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Who called it “code review” instead of “objection-oriented programming”

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@yosh if it helps any, I bought a Rabbit Air Minus A2 and I really like it. I just bought it based on a recommendation from a friend who had done some efficiency testing and said it was the best, but I it quotes some good numbers and it's very quiet on the low settings. Mine's measuring 42dbA at arm's length on medium (not sure what the airflow is, though, as I don't have tools for that).
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Remember that blog post "How I got robbed of my first kernel contribution" where a maintainer slightly rewrote a patch and took credit for it? Well, I decided to do something about it.

I co-authored a guide with Maria Matějka and some other folks on documenting how your project gives credit and otherwise handles contributions. If your project's policy is to lightly rewrite contributions and take credit for them, say so! Subscriber link (free) to the LWN article:

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/971817/ae5fbbbc8cd1cf18/

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I'll be co-presenting tomorrow evening on our Bike Bus, including last week's ride with the brass band. If you're in the area, Somerville's Aeronaut Brewery, 6-7:30PM, come say hi! https://www.facebook.com/events/453905903669468

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@LWN launched kernel source database! This is cool! Another reason to subscribe to LWN! https://lwn.net/ksdb/
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Now you might wonder: how often does this actually happen? The common wisdom on this topic is that hardware failures are so rare that software bugs will always dwarf them. As I found out this is demonstrably false.

While investigating Firefox crashes I've come to the conclusion that several of the most common issues we were dealing with were likely caused by flaky hardware. This led me to come up with a simple heuristic to detect crashes potentially caused by bit-flips. 10/17

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@gabrielesvelto IIRC the design point failure rate for consumer storage/memory was that it just had to be reliable enough that customers assumed it was Windows crashing and not the HW being broken.
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@trini @lapis I've found washing soda is really good at getting some flavors of grime off, it's super good for tea/coffee residue. PBW is a mix of that and TSP, which is a super strong combo but isn't so good for the environment so I try and start with just the washing soda.
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