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seminatl··on Raspberry Pi 4 WiFi stops working at 2560 x 1440 screen resolution
Why do all the proposed avenues of future investigation, and all of the current comments on this thread, focus on voodoo instead of the far more likely explanation that the display driver is just stomping on the memory of the network interface? If there's software anywhere in a system, 99% of the time that's the problem.
seminatl··on AVX register corruption from signal delivery
Usually but not always. You may get SIGILL if your machine has error detection and correction and your program is executing from a bad page.
seminatl··on Are We Wayland Yet?
A good way to think about Wayland is the screen manager brought to you by the people who thought xrandr, Mesa, Cairo, the Linux FireWire stack, and freetype were good things. If you come in with appropriate expectations you’ll be amazed that any of it works at all.

Is you think it over for a bit you’ll realize that the real Linux graphics protocol is Android SurfaceFlinger. Wayland is like five orders of magnitude less popular.

seminatl··on Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results
Part of search quality is serving nothing when there are no results. Putting a bunch of irrelevant Pinterest pages in the results, just because there are no good results, isn’t good for users.
seminatl··on Debugging Network Stalls on Kubernetes
It has literally nothing to do with K8s. An equally suitable title would have been "Debugging network stalls on the Intel Xeon processor" or "Debugging network stalls on planet Earth".
seminatl··on Tesla Cybertruck
Yes and nobody lives there. Are you always this obtuse? Ford is not selling 1.5 million trucks per year to the residents of Inyo county.
seminatl··on Debugging Network Stalls on Kubernetes
This does not really have anything to do with either kubernetes or networks. If your computer is busy, it won't be able to process packets. Accessing certain kernel stats via proc, sys, or other special files may be really expensive. For example /proc/pid/smaps of a running mysqld takes 2 seconds on a computer I happen to have on hand. Sometimes when you have many cores it is expensive to produce some of the fields of /proc/pid/stat because the kernel has to visit numerous per-cpu data structures. /proc/pid/statm is better for this reason, if it contains what you are looking for.

TL;DR reading kernel stats can take a long time and cost a lot of CPU cycles. It costs more for more containers, and more on bigger machines.

seminatl··on Tesla Cybertruck
Unless you are suggesting that the typical American pickup truck trip is across Lake Michigan and back your comparisons of scale are irrelevant.
seminatl··on Tesla Cybertruck
Ohio has the same population density as Spain. American exceptionalism is just American ignorance of geography.
seminatl··on Designing Windows 95's User Interface (2018)
Can we talk about the ethics of just reposting, verbatim, a paper written by others, but with an advertisement inserted between every paragraph? How did that become OK?
seminatl··on Tesla Cybertruck
I wonder how this sounds to people who live in, say, Switzerland, where it is very mountainous, snows frequently, and literally nobody drives a truck, and even the cars are not AWD.

I mean, I _know_ how it sounds because I am one of those people. But I wonder how Americans think this sounds.

seminatl··on Losing the News: The Decimation of Local News and the Search for Solutions
Nextdoor is bad because your neighbors are bad people, and it only takes a few to wreck it. Somewhere on your block lives a life-long racist, a chemtrail crackpot, and an insufferable busybody. Normally these people hide but for some reason they think Nextdoor is their safe space.
seminatl··on The impact of direct air carbon capture on climate change
Wait. Does the average American shower more than once daily? Is water consumption/heating for showering even a measurable component of GHG emissions?
seminatl··on JMAP: Modern Mail Standard
How do various mail clients talk to their respective backends? I.e. what does iOS Mail use to talk to iCloud? The GMail iOS app speaks a bespoke binary protocol to Google's servers, not IMAP.
seminatl··on The world’s climate goals are not sufficient. They are also unlikely to be met
This does not really apply to individual Americans. The American carbon footprint boils down to driving and meat. Individual decisions made by super-consumers can be impactful.
seminatl··on Losing the News: The Decimation of Local News and the Search for Solutions
The ability of local agencies to just post to your feed has been a feature of Nextdoor for years. They can also close their posts to discussion, which is pretty irritating.
seminatl··on Heliogen’s new tech could unlock renewable energy for industrial manufacturing
I thought the problem with CSP was excessive concentration, e.g. when tonopah plant blasted a hole in the side of their tower.
seminatl··on Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed on Thursday
Yeah I thought it was about smashing facecrabs with a crowbar.
seminatl··on How Containers Work: Overlayfs
Yeah the title should be "unionfs: a kernel feature having nothing whatever to do with containers, and some ways to use it" but I guess that's too long :-) . Problem is there is not some central marketing department for Linux that can even tell us what "containers" means. There are lots of people who think they are "using containers" who do not use this style of mount, and there are lots of people using this style of mount who do not consider themselves container users.
seminatl··on Black Tide in Brazil
The guy has been in office for 10 months. The projected 2019 GDP growth is less than actual 2018 growth. Latest available unemployment rate was the same as the rate from the year prior. Which aspect of the Brazilian economy strikes you as considerably better?
seminatl··on SimplyNUC Unveils Sequoia: AMD Ryzen V-Series-Based UCFF PC
They are not very competitive for the price. They are about 50% slower than same-priced quad core Core i3 CPUs on Chrome Octane 2 benchmarks, 25% slower on video encoding, etc. AMD is free-riding the good reviews of their latest parts by giving these APUs very similar model numbers. In reality these are obsolete parts.
seminatl··on How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contractors for search results
Is it possible that the sites that outrank yours are preferred by search users?
seminatl··on How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contractors for search results
Wait, what is the basis of ranking that you expect for your site? Is it based on Planck's constant or ???
seminatl··on SimplyNUC Unveils Sequoia: AMD Ryzen V-Series-Based UCFF PC
I hope people realize these are 1st-generation Zen CPUs that are Not Very Fast(tm), not the respectable Zen2 parts you've been reading good things about. AMD's marketing is very confusing right now. There are not any Zen2 APUs.
seminatl··on Lyft is ceasing scooter operations in six cities and laying off 20 employees
The bike stuff was basically breaking even when it was Motivate. The real tragedy here will be if Lyft bought Motivate just so they could mismanage it into non-existence.
seminatl··on AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review
None of your statements are correct.

1) Intel has per-core frequency and voltage control. To the extent that AVX-512 inhibits higher clock speeds that effect is local to the core or cores on which AVX-512 is active, and only those cores.

2) Not all AVX-512 instructions have this effect. `vpermb` for example does not.

3) Some other AVX instructions that are not AVX-512 have this effect. Also anything else that makes a core hot has this effect.

4) Most importantly, Cannon Lake microarch and later don't have this effect.

seminatl··on AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review
"Failed to compile Chrome" is a pretty huge caveat in which, I guess, your readers might take an interest.
seminatl··on AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review
Look I'm not arguing about which CPU is better. I'm arguing that taking the geometric mean of a bunch of completely unrelated benchmarks doesn't make any sense. There are clearly workloads in this very article where a cheaper part is better, sometimes even a cheaper AMD part.
seminatl··on AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review
So aside from your irrelevant comments about AVX2 being about even between the two parts, what is a reasonable explanation for the second chart on page 4 of the article, assuming you can bother yourself to go read it. Their analysis seems to be essentially that if the Intel part wasn't 300% faster, then the AMD part would be 15% faster. But it is a fact that the Intel part is really three times faster on this benchmark, because of AVX-512. The only reason to include the chart with AVX disabled is to fit the article into a prejudiced narrative.
seminatl··on AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review
AVX-512 is not AVX2.
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