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AHTERIX5000··on Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues
I experienced problems with 5950X as well and nobody (including myself) seemed to believe it was the CPU before I got another 5950X which just worked with the same setup.

The issue wasn't easy to reproduce, all standard checks and torture tests ran just fine but much more random workload crashed the unit when all cores were maxed for few seconds at a time instead (eg. during compiling). Sometimes it happened twice a day sometimes once a week.

AHTERIX5000··on Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Data Set for Academic Use
It's useful to have AAA tier sample game level assets available for engine development or for apps like Blender.
AHTERIX5000··on Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar (2021)
I'd be surprised if China has anything to do with this operation.
AHTERIX5000··on Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game
CS2 uses Source 2 engine with DX11 or Vulkan renderer in contrast to old, Source 1 based CS:GO.
AHTERIX5000··on Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws
Sandbox friendly?

It's not exactly a simple task to make safe interpreter for bytecode as some other languages have shown. It's a trade-off which also simplifies the reference implementation.

I wouldn't trust most of these interpreters when it comes to third party code execution, I barely trust my browser even with all the R&D money and attention web browsers receive.

AHTERIX5000··on CentOS Linux 7 will reach EOL on Sunday
What a mess. Centos Stream 8 seemed to work at first but then after upgrade to 9 secure boot didn't work at all, I couldn't even boot the 9 install media.
AHTERIX5000··on Rusty.hpp: A Borrow Checker and Memory Ownership System for C++20
Funny how this just keeps happening in the C++ world. I've seen ten different promise/task frameworks successfully used in production with neat APIs but somehow std::future is still just a toy. Even std::expected was released without the usual map/then.
AHTERIX5000··on OpenBSD is a cozy operating system
I guess WPA3 and bluetooth are not "core systems" either.
AHTERIX5000··on Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad?
They used to have simpler UI which supported default key bindings etc but then kept forcing redesigns which made the UI worse and removed things like ^F search. I switched to Apple Music few iterations ago. It's not as good as the old Spotify UI but still leagues ahead the current one.

I wish Spotify/Deezer/Apple had an SDK like libspotify used to be so that one could just write a simpler & faster client.

AHTERIX5000··on Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
I've been looking for an alternative to Postman since its enshittification. Postman does not even work anymore if it can't reach internet. This looks actually useful and seems to have support for OAuth2 (which is the main reason I use something separate app instead of python/curl + sh etc)
AHTERIX5000··on JavaScript Bloat in 2024
But the experience is not smooth as it can get if you're running a bit older HW. Gmail and Slack are notorious for bad performance even when the content displayed is rather simple plain text. As a user I don't really get anything in return when developers decide to use complex JS solutions for simple use cases.
AHTERIX5000··on Game Programming Patterns (2014)
It's not necessary though. For every /r/gamedev ECS project there are many actually shipping products using whatever OO system and doing just fine, also in AAA space. If you are working on state of the art AAA product the situation is a bit different. But for the most games being sold on marketplaces like Steam it really doesn't matter as much as people on gamedev communities like to think.
AHTERIX5000··on Forgejo forks its own path forward
Gitea + Drone has been a great combination. I have a somewhat complex project with CI pipelines running on x86/arm64 Linux and x86 Windows and from time to time considered switching to Forgejo + actions or Forgejo + Woodpecker CI but they don't seem to support Windows runners or offer anything worth the hassle really.
AHTERIX5000··on Zigbee and Z-Wave are the best part of my smart home
I used ZHA until I encountered devices ZHA didn't support or the support was broken yet they worked with Zigbee2MQTT.

That said Zigbee2MQTT isn't without its problems, it's still hobby-grade and not hard to crash with cheap and badly behaving devices.

AHTERIX5000··on Saving Linux
Debian at least offers old ISOs: https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/
AHTERIX5000··on My daily driver is older than I thought; it's positively vintage
Indeed. My old Intel Atom netbook just doesn't handle modern web at all. Even sites with just text such as Medium are unusable. I guess all this at least makes modern web developer experience great since as an user I don't get any benefits?
AHTERIX5000··on Inside the Steam Deck's APU
But Valve contributes directly to AMD drivers, they employ people working on both on Mesa and DX => vk layers. And kernel. It's very neatly integrated system.
AHTERIX5000··on There has never been a better time to game on Linux
Most of the games using anti cheat systems. It even affects Windows VMs with GPU passthrough.
AHTERIX5000··on Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine
Neat list of features but what about asset pipeline? How can I take stuff from material editor or Maya into Nebula? There are lots of engines with interesting features but with very thin content pipeline. Having worked on engines and games it's often the pipeline and tooling in general which makes engines great even when there are others more capable in terms of renderer features.
AHTERIX5000··on Gokrazy – Go Appliances
gokrazy does use Linux kernel though.
AHTERIX5000··on Windows Protected Print Mode
And you can even get AirPrint compatibility. My Samsung laser printer driver wasn't working on Apple Silicon anymore (the printer is from 2007) but since CUPS supports it and AirPrint doesn't seem to require too much from a printer I was able to get it working fine with a Pi. And it's handier to use than ever before.

I guess Windows/Android have something similar.

AHTERIX5000··on Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queries per second on MySQL
Such as?
AHTERIX5000··on No-Bullshit Games
Subscribing to Apple Arcade is another solution to the same problem. You probably end up paying for games anyway if you want to avoid microtransactions, ads and dark patterns.
AHTERIX5000··on O3DE
Lumberyard was still heavily CryEngine based though, this version looks wildly different.
AHTERIX5000··on 32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine
But the limit of 32 MB is arbitrary and undocumented which is a huge problem.
AHTERIX5000··on Tell HN: Please don't print –-help to stderr in your CLI tools
Exceptional events yes like when the help output is printed due to incorrect usage. But when calling with --help directly it's the expected output.
AHTERIX5000··on macOS Sonoma is available today
Xcode is a mess in many fronts. For example my Xcode updated automatically to a version which couldn't support Ventura anymore, the OS I'm still running. I had to uninstall the app store version and manually download older one to fix the situation.
AHTERIX5000··on macOS Containers v0.0.1
I'm getting early PulseAudio vibes with PipeWire though. BT audio devices stuttering and sometimes losing audio completely regardless of output devices unless I restart the daemon. I guess it stabilizes again during next few years.
AHTERIX5000··on Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006)
And O3DE is mostly a rewrite. It's really interesting to compare the last public CryEngine releases and O3DE for example how the rendering architecture is laid out.
AHTERIX5000··on Lua: The Little Language That Could
Luarocks works quite well if the lib is pure Lua.

For native libs it's a wild west and success depends a lot on your environment. Sometimes the lib is being built with -Werror and fails if you're using more recent compiler, sometimes include paths are not resolved correctly using pkgconfig or similar and so on.

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