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Pahr3yah

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Pahr3yah··on Hard Drive Stats for 2019
What are you using as TCP congestion controller? BBR should provide better utilization on long pipes (e.g. transoceanic transfers if stuff isn't geo-replicated). Totally anecdotal, but it helped me FTPing data from the US to europe.
Pahr3yah··on Hacking GitHub's Auth with Unicode's Turkish Dotless 'I'
Unicode has a dedicated case folding[0][1] (as opposed to upper/lower case mapping) algorithm to cover these cases.

[0] https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr21/tr21-3.html#Caseless%20... [1] http://userguide.icu-project.org/transforms/casemappings#TOC...

Pahr3yah··on Debuggers Suck
One issue is that that sysctl is not a namespaced one.
Pahr3yah··on Debuggers Suck
> Which means open source tools have an advantage over proprietary tools in addition to price.

In principle proprietary tools could also provide the source.

Pahr3yah··on Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline
In the context of GPT2 someone coined the expression "Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences"
Pahr3yah··on Modeling BBR’s Interactions with Loss-Based Congestion Control [pdf]
Note that that is about BBRv1 (as available in recent linux kernels), BBRv2 is going to address the fairness issues

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/105/materials/slides-10...

Pahr3yah··on Update on await syntax in Rust
Await is a keyword, syntax highlighters will most likely paint it differently.
Pahr3yah··on Use mmap with care
If you roughly know your access patterns in advance you can reduce the page fault costs with madvise.
Pahr3yah··on Blood platelets activated during exercise increase neurogensis: mouse study
you can install a treadmill under a standing desk and walk while you work.