gonzo

Alex is free to work at the local car wash.

IDK. The results of the US election could change this, too.

It was the 12 Monkeys Army (movie and book) who’s only “terroristic act” was releasing a lot of animals from a zoo.

> Qualcomm is almost certainly ARM's biggest customer.

You think Qualcomm is larger than Apple?

Most OFDM receivers are EVM-limited though

A token ring like protocol was in an early proposal for what became 802.11

RPi Pico NAS at nearly 600Mbps!

What could go wrong?

This is a lazy definition and won’t get you past “Go” when making network equipment. Why not use 9000 byte “Jumbo” frames? You’ll only need to process 1,383 packets per second to fill the link!

A 1500 byte (octet) MTU frame is 1538 bytes “on the wire”.

7 byte preamble

1 byte SFD

6 byte dst MAC

6 byte src MAC

2 byte ethertype or length

46-1500 bytes of payload (ignoring “Jumbo” frames and 802.1q tags)

4 byte CRC

12 byte IFG (which is silence, but still counts for time on the wire)

Add it up and you have 1538 bytes “on the wire”.

TCP overhead for IPv4 is 20 bytes for IP(v4) (no options) and 20 bytes for TCP (again, no options).

So 1460 bytes of data for 1538 bytes on the wire. 1460/1538 = 0.949284

So for 100M Ethernet, 94.9284Mbps is “perfect”.

“Line rate” is not “fill the link with TCP”. Line rate is “fill the link with 84 octet (including all overhead) frames.”

For 100M Ethernet this requires 148,809 packets per second.

Edit: for 1538 octet frames, one need only process 8,127 packets per second.

Given the official stance of moving to pkg-base, updating freebsd-update with an incompatible rewrite in Rust seems like yak shaving.

… and the C-stores, and the bars (which are open 24/7).

30 years ago I had one that said, “Fuck you, we’re from Texas.”

Until the wind blows you over the side.

https://www.kxan.com/news/motorcyclist-killed-after-falling-...

She was nice. Worked at a local Taco Deli.

Intel’s hyperthreading is really a write pipe hack.

It’s not so much cache misses as allowing the core to run something else while the write completes.

This is why some code scales poorly and other code achieves near linear speed ups.

I didn’t know Chatfield, but I knew Ron McDowell (also mentioned).

Ron passed away in 2012. The last thing he worked on was FreeBSD’s bsdconfig(8).

The second building wasn’t bespoke, it had formerly been a used to manufacture fiberglass pools.

The third building (near the UT Dallas campus) was built for Convex.

Everything was in Richardson, TX, as this was a funding requirement by Sevin-Rosen-Bayless.

Steve’s son Dan is a CS prof at Rice.

Parkinson's disease-associated SNP4 is correlated (r2=0.95) with variants that are associated with HLA-DQA2 expression.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/3118#:~:text=HLA%2DDQA2%20....

Why pay for something that was never agreed to be so?

The Royal “we”.

so they sell the husk of VMware back to Dell when they're done.

You can even get a (2-stroke) Detroit Diesel to run in reverse.

You don’t want to do it very long, because they don’t make oil pressure in reverse.

VPP (tnsr) and FreeBSD (pfsense) user / dev here.

The FreeBSD scheduler is at fault here. It’s that simple.

Pedantically, Unix time measures the number of non-leap seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970.

This is Dec 31 1969 at 7:00 PM in Eastern Standard Time.

> We're not at war with China!

yet. (?) Seems to be a ton of money being spent to 'defend Taiwan' https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202312230004

She’s not wrong

ERCOT seems to be well-prepared (pun intended) for this cold snap.

So Texas / ERCOT isn’t alone, and PG&E isn’t an anomaly.

This is everywhere.

> with the first machine, the SPARCstation1 (a.k.a. Sun 4/60, a.k.a Campus), being delivered in 1987.

Quoting WiKipedia:

The original Sun-4 series were VMEbus-based systems similar to the earlier Sun-3 series, but employing microprocessors based on Sun's own SPARC V7 RISC architecture in place of the 68k family processors of previous Sun models.

These all proceeded the 4/60 aka SPARCstation (1), which wasn’t introduced until April 1989.

TI Explorer LX machines ran Unix with LISP on top. Very different.