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maljx··on AMD Threadripper 3970X under heavy AVX2 load: Defective by design?
I ran the same test on my ryzen 3900X with no issues, MSI X570 ACE motherboard, seasonic PSU.
maljx··on Firefox 72.0
Unfortunately the font rendering is still not up to Chromes, a lot of sites look weird. Fastmail for instance is rendered with a visibly smaller font on FF, and it looks blurry on FF. (Win10).
maljx··on German for Programmers
In case no one told you "en" words usually map to masculine and feminine in German, and "ett" words are neutral.
maljx··on NASA's InSight lander has touched down on Mars
They were saying on the stream that they would first build a replica of the ground environment in the lab to test run the deployment. And I believe this also includes the time to drill a deep hole.
maljx··on How People Used to Download Games from the Radio (2014)
We used to copy C64 digital tapes on a double cassette deck, using analog copy, running at double speed. Most times it worked, sometimes not.
maljx··on You Can't Always Hash Pointers in C (2016)
Compiler/runtime can create two pointers with different integer values that point to same memory address. The article explains a few reasons why that might happen. It's very uncommon, but it's valid in the standard.
maljx··on Ditching Windows: 2 Weeks with Ubuntu Linux on the Dell XPS
You can disable these “features” on enterprise but you need to dig around in the settings and google how to do it.
maljx··on Simone Giertz – Back from brain surgery [video]
I can do the same in Germany with public insurance.
maljx··on ISPs Say They Don’t Make Enough Money
The difference to the US is that the companies that owns the cables have been forced (by lawmakers) to share that infrastructure with anyone who wants to start an ISP.

My parents in Sweden recently got fiber to their house in the countryside. There's a company that owns the fiber and you pay them ~10 EUR a month. Then you pick your ISP, whichever you want.

maljx··on Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'
Unless you follow a zero warning policy they are almost useless. If you have a warning that should be ignored add a pragma disable to that file. Or disable that type of warning if it's too spammy for your project.
maljx··on Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook
bahnhof.se is an example of this. (swedish isp).
maljx··on Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook
pretty much everywhere in europe.
maljx··on Windows chief Terry Myerson out as Microsoft reorganizes
got mine from bizspark
maljx··on iOS 11 bugs are so common they now appear in Apple ads
Game dev here - We usually make sure to have the ability to pause anywhere and step frame by frame forward.
maljx··on How Sweden is building the world’s second-longest road tunnel
There's one tunnel in each direction, the video mentions the total tunnel distance as 50km.
maljx··on Voyages in sentence space
I feel like the "middle" sentence is not intuitively what you'd normally think of something in between. Even for sentences that are quite close. "Eve walked home slowly" -> "Eve walked home quickly" gives a middle result of "As white hand smiled."
maljx··on How the Å came to be
I've been frustrated about this for years as well. Writing in three different languages daily, but always the same language to the same persons.
maljx··on Some PDP-7 source code
in 01-s1.pdf: jms halt " will not happen
maljx··on What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug
Go to /Library/LaunchDaemons/ and delete what you don't want to run at launch. (At your own risk of course.)
maljx··on Berlin social housing winning the residential race
Berlin has rent control, if you stay in the same apartment the rent can only go up a certain % every year. It's also almost impossible to throw out a tenant here.

The main downside to renting is lack of control over stuff like renovations, modifications in the apartment, etc.

maljx··on Berlin social housing winning the residential race
It has a shortage, but a very recent shortage. Compared to other cities in Europe - Stockholm, London, Paris it's still very easy to find somewhere to live here. Especially if you have money to pay.
maljx··on General purpose analog computer
Analog computer I saw in Berlin a few weeks ago, very cool stuff - https://twitter.com/maljx/status/650690241574080512
maljx··on Windows game developer about porting to and using OS X
I'm way more productive in Xcode. I've also used it more in the last years so that obviously influences my statement.

I find the UI in VS2013 very "unstable" - I constantly manage to drag stuff away and hide windows I need to use. I miss the .h/.cpp side by side view when I'm in VS.

It's very easy to setup a color scheme in Xcode that looks nice. I've used hours in VS to get something that is ok. And then it resets to the default about once a week randomly.

Debugging C++ template code actually works in Xcode. Running debug build of stl under win32 is extremely slow in my experience.

I almost never have crashes in Xcode, but I think this probably depends on your code base and project setup a lot.

LLVM compiler errors are much easier to understand. That said, VS have found bugs that LLVM don't see. So, compiling on both help keep code base in good state.

Our game code compiles in half the time on Xcode/LLVM compared to VS2013.

maljx··on Windows game developer about porting to and using OS X
We develop our game on Mac OS X and port to Win32 and Linux. Using CMake, SDL2 and C++11 there is very little code that actually needs to be rewritten. The windows build process is just a python script that pulls, cmake configure, compiles and zips the latest build.

The code that is completely different on the platforms is stuff like HTTPS requests, open file dialog, create/delete folders.

maljx··on Cerebral cortex in rats' brains is set up like the Internet
Isn't it the internet that's setup like a rat brain?
maljx··on How I missed an engineering interview after getting singled out by Münchner cops
I used to take these busses before because they were cheap going to and from Sweden from Germany. The only people ever questioned by the border police were non-white or eastern europeans.
maljx··on Hacking of Tax Returns More Extensive Than First Reported, I.R.S. Says
Sweden has a system similar to what you describe. It's called BankID and is issued by any bank. You can use it to file your taxes and sign various documents like address change online.
maljx··on Show HN: Play20Back – MTV as It Looked 20 Years Ago
netflix
maljx··on Is the Berlin Airport ready yet?
They want Berlin to be a hub. There are no direct flights from Berlin to SF or LA at the moment for instance.
maljx··on Hackers build a new Tor client designed to beat the NSA
Isn't the classical solution to this encryption problem to always send packages in the same size at regular intervals. If each host adds a layer of encryption you can't match the packages at the end points. Is this just too expensive? (I'm not an expert so genuine question from my naive POV.)
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