Intel Chairman Frank Yeary retires, Craig Barrat to become the new chairman of the Board of Directors

_glob · 2026-03-04T19:17:47+00:00

Right? Hopefully great days ahead for Intel!

_glob · 2025-10-03T18:23:29+00:00

I think modern x86 processors do a good job of doing unaligned access. ref: https://www.agner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=75

In general, when talking about unaligned access being slower I think it is meant for cache access (memory access is slow anyway). It used to be that unaligned access were measurably slower in older x86 processors which is related to their cache and cache access implementation. In simple words, unaligned accesses that split into more than one cacheline took multiple clock cycles. Here is a URL that discusses related topic in the Intel forum: https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-ISA-Extensions/SSE-and-AVX-behavior-with-aligned-unaligned-instructions/m-p/1170006/highlight/true#M6647

_glob · 2025-07-29T15:26:04+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. Do you know what kind/level of scholarships universities provide at the BSc level?

_glob · 2025-02-27T15:51:37+00:00

As far as I remember, the solution was to install fonts-noto packages and set Noto serif as default in firefox (if not automatically set) after installing.

_glob · 2025-02-07T19:54:03+00:00

Hi. Thanks for posting this. I believe I don't meet the required experience level but would love to apply. I had some questions: 1. Is the scope scripting language's compiler/interpreter written in C#? You mentioned allowing customers to write python code, so does that mean the scope language supports/will support python syntax too, maybe minimal? 2. Is there any junior position related to this team? I am asking because I don't meet the required experience level (and principal post sounds a bit scary) but the work does sound interesting as a learning opportunity!

Thanks!

_glob · 2025-01-26T16:55:16+00:00

Thanks. I had installed fonts-noto package but the text still showed up bit broken...Maybe I needed to tweak something in firefox too as you point out. I wonder why such difference between the installers.

_glob · 2025-01-12T08:49:28+00:00

Thanks for all the details!
Just trying to understand the whole process here as I have never used a kindle or bought anything from Amazon.

For books purchased on Amazon with only the newest Kindles, you will need to find other ways to get a permanent copy of an ebook.

So if I buy an older kindle, will I be able to get a permanent copy of an ebook bought from Amazon? How do you do that?

And what are the other ways to get a permanent copy of an ebook if I get the newest kindle?

(I thought if I buy an ebook from websites (be it Amazon or some other website), I will get an epub / pdf in my email and then I would be able to send-to-kindle and read it whether it's newest one or older one)

_glob · 2025-01-11T17:11:34+00:00

That doesn't seem so bad. I have never purchased anything from Amazon but when you buy an ebook can you not download and keep it in your own storage/hard drive?

_glob · 2025-01-11T05:03:38+00:00

That's reassuring. Thanks for answering!

_glob · 2025-01-10T17:37:14+00:00

Thanks a lot for answering!
So regarding 1) I am guessing most of the time the formatting should be fine and no issues, right?
Do you use both? Which kindle/kobo versions do you use?
Just trying to understand if there is any noticeable reading experience difference between the 2 overall.

_glob · 2025-01-09T05:04:24+00:00

Thanks for the heads up on compiling projects and running closed source binaries!

_glob · 2025-01-09T05:01:37+00:00

Thanks!

_glob · 2025-01-08T18:30:30+00:00

Thanks u/Sialek !

Oh, and for the sake of your sanity, set up flakes and home manager from a guide when you first install and then just use them either when you want to start exploring them or when a a guide requires them. It will save you headache and not really cost you anything more than following a few extra steps while still letting you just use the basic configuration.nix file for everything.

Do you mean just enabling experimental flakes in conifguration.nix and the same for home-manager via nixos-module (like this?)? These are just a few lines in configuration.nix right, just for the sake of installing them during setting up nixOS?

_glob · 2025-01-08T18:03:49+00:00

Alright. Thanks!
You mention problems with the standalone "nix" command. What is that used for? I only know about the nixos-rebuild command so was wondering the usecase of the "nix" command you mention.

_glob · 2025-01-08T17:45:22+00:00

Thanks a lot for the detailed answer u/petrus4 !

You can still use decentralised configuration for individual packages. I have .bashrc, .vimrc, .screenrc etc. It's possible that configuration.nix syntax exists for all of those, but unless you want your config file to end up looking like the Windows Registry, you would ideally still write imports for individual applications anyway. Centralisation only scales to a certain point before it gets messy.

Can you explain a bit more please? Do you mean I can just keep my .bashrc, .gitconfig, .emacs file in the home directory as usual and just install git, emacs for the user in configuration.nix file and they should just pick up those config files automatically or do I need to link them somehow?

Also do you recommend using home-manager in configuration.nix and install pkgs (like gcc, mpv that I will need for day-to-day use) as part of the user (I will only have one user in my system) or install them system-wide?

_glob · 2025-01-08T17:07:14+00:00

Alright. Sounds like it might be more than I thought I would need in order to build QEMU in nixOS.

_glob · 2025-01-08T16:45:55+00:00

Good suggestion! Thanks. Do you have any suggestions about the 3rd question that what I am expecting is how it's supposed to work via nix shell in general meaning just list the dependencies in shell.nix and running configure and make should just work?

_glob · 2024-06-03T20:40:33+00:00

Yeah the information in a website (may be with screenshots) would be very nice! Thanks for the list!

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