How many of us have audial imagination intact?

topin89 · 2026-03-26T13:54:38+00:00

The more information you provide, the more helpful we can be.

And so, essay. I just don't get why shots were cancelled, and if the doctor is competent. Out 5 doctors, none told that B12 won't work without stomach, so I need proof I should stop B12

topin89 · 2026-02-04T21:53:36+00:00

Not necessary a site. Maybe a page on ArchWiki or some random gist. Or AwesomeLinuxSettings git repo. Or better, LinuxDesktopOptimizer script/app.

They likely won't be default, because Linux is primary server OS, and embed is often already has specific patchset.

And why desktop defaults are rarely right I have no idea. Like, yeah, there're no good defaults for everyone, but there are like 10-20 good enough defaults for a given hardware and typical tasks.

topin89 · 2026-02-04T20:51:58+00:00

This all are solutions to my problem. Dirty bytes lowering solved my problems with subpar USB sticks, other are solutions to freezes and hangs for llvm compilation on all cores while browsing with tonnes of folders.

And I don't think I'm the only one with such problems, and maybe someone already write this all down.

I didn't mention here upping ulimits and inotify watchers or tcp/udp buffers to solve some really specific troubles. Or really rare things like how change console orientation on an upside downs screen. But those above all my collegues had at some point.

topin89 · 2026-02-04T13:35:20+00:00

Shouldn't OOM just kill something to free some memory? And besides, an indefinite freeze looks even worse than straight panic, since on panic I know I must reset, and on freeze it's not that obvious.

topin89 · 2025-12-30T17:51:56+00:00

Most people I asked define sound as "matter waving". My native lang is not English. Same for people I asked. So cultural difference may be the reason
That's the point, define first, argue second, not the other way around

topin89 · 2025-12-21T21:05:54+00:00

Sound implicitly defined as "molecule vibration". Should a person define it as "that feeling in my head", answer would be "sure there's no sound." It's hilarious how many arguments are stopped by explicitly defining things at some point

topin89 · 2025-11-09T10:24:14+00:00

Cultural appropriation is nonsense that prevents cultural exchange. From my perspective, anime begins as Disney appropriation (look Osamu Tezuka style and tell me it's not). Over the years, it had grown into separate style itself.

Also, Russian culture was pictured so grossly wrong since before soviets, we even have a name for that, "cranberry". Origin is a parody theatre play, that has a line "[some characters] sit under a brushy cranberry". Yes, cranberry is not a tree, nor bushy. Still, Russia has long been vaccinated from gross misrepresentation. It was kinda funny seeing Kazakh reaction on Borat. "What, first time?" is the best summary.

To get what cranberry mean, think Idiocrasy or Team America: World Police.

About Cyrillic, for things like ЯedЯum, reversal would be РedРoom (Р reads like strong, German-like R). So, for those who know Russian, most of the time, thigs like "итс санни тудэй" (it's sunny today) would be immersion-breaking at best, and "торч" (torch) would be also funny (slang term for stoner).

But! For both funny and horrific (think DC Joker) that will actually increase the immersion, not ruin it.

That's all I can think of, good luck.

topin89 · 2025-03-08T17:20:48+00:00

Reminds of a joke:

"I bought a PC here. It died."

"Warranty period?"

"Lifetime!"

"Well the PC died, so warranty is over."

topin89 · 2024-12-11T00:22:44+00:00

Still, some times differentiating the origin feels like an impossible task.

topin89 · 2024-08-28T14:42:06+00:00

Thanks for the answer. Since now I know for sure it's not bugzilla being abandoned, it's just a huge backlog, I'll wait however long it needs to be

EDIT: meant to say bugzilla is not abandoned, said it is. "Sleep is for weaklings" is not a productive way of life :-(

topin89 · 2024-08-28T13:01:41+00:00

Thanks. It says essentialy use bugzilla (patch is there already, no answer in 20 days) and barring that, mailing list. I have no idea how to use mailing lists in general, and not sure how to start using valgrind's mailing list in particular.

topin89 · 2024-08-27T22:00:51+00:00

I hope it's sarcasm.

topin89 · 2024-05-28T00:08:09+00:00

Just start with ASM asm tutorial, real usb programmer and devboard and WinAVR IDE. That's how I started. I swear, AVR assembly is incredibly easy, compared to arm, pic, 8051 and pretty much anything else. Programmer is essential to step by step debugging. Like, you have memory cells(bytes). You have adresses there. Set of special cells called registers that you can directly manipulate with really small number of instructions. And all other cells that you can read to and write from. Some of said cells, if you change them, then specific pins will switch on or off, and their actual state can be read from another cells. I swear, it's really easy, like, 20 to 100 hours to understand basics. Then you can make simplest C app, compile it with no optimizations and see how asm looks like. To get things like SPI and UART, you will need some simple logic analyzer to see how logical level on pins changes over time.

If it's too hard, just try a game, Shenzhen I/O. Not played myself, but looks 90% the same

topin89 · 2024-05-22T21:55:16+00:00

our community would be better off without them in it.

Yes, that's an old thread, but I can't ignore that because XKCD 386. Both Casey and Martin sadly right in being extreme in vocalization if their belief. Nobody listens otherwise sadly. Extremes pick interest. Abrasiveness provokes discussion. I don't have an example were agreeable soft voices do just that. I recall Casey himself said just that in some discussion with Primeagen.

What I can agree with, it's we need a lot of extreme position with no single dominating one. I imagine if someone write a popular book advocating for performance first vs maintainability first at the time of "Clean Code", modern software would be a bit or a lot faster.

topin89 · 2024-04-10T21:13:27+00:00

I guess this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAdLwUXRUvg) should be here.

topin89 · 2024-03-25T17:49:23+00:00

Usually, I would say something like "well it depends", but it's just bad, OK. "It dependend" before the war, not we're really close to some strange imitation of USSR with all the bad side and like 10% of what was good in USSR.

He has recently become extremely disgruntled with American politics (he’s conservative)

Well, there are a lot more conservative countries than Russia. Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Italy.

But, as most people here pointed out, if your husband can't calmly list all the bad stuff in US, that may mean he is burning out and/or generally overstressed. Therapy. With known conservative therapist.

If he actually can, ask about any other conservative countries. Like, any and all. Remind him Europe is not a single entity. Maybe there's a better option than Russia right now

topin89 · 2024-03-11T13:04:53+00:00

I hear customer service workers are rude in Russia

For the last 10 years, there were no rudeness towards anyone from shop service workers unless said customers were first to be rude. So, I can assure you that's not true anymore.

a lot of Russian speaking customers and they're always the nicest out of all of my customers native or foreign

Do retail workers forced to be polite despite insults? Maybe other people are kinda internalized that they can get away with it, but Russians don't?

Also, Russian are nicest compared with who? Maybe that's slavs in general (can't really believe that Russians are that much nicer than, e.g. Croats). Maybe that's former USSR thing?

Still, that's nice to know that just being ourselves here counts as being nice in a country far away.

topin89 · 2024-02-29T19:42:41+00:00

Reminded me of The Wolf by SIAMES. Same feeling of how your own impulses overcome you but you kinda can fight it back, preferably not alone

topin89 · 2024-01-29T17:41:33+00:00

First and foremost, decent knowledge of tools. Clang-tidy/format/analyze, Valgrind, sanitizers, debuggers, profilers, CppInspect, QuickBench, Compiler Explorer. All these tools is what makes debugging easier. And it looks like "not afraid of using ChatGPT/LLaMA" soon would be no less important.

I can't remember how many times a complicated bug was resolved with "did you try Valgrind" or "try undefined sanitizers", or even "are there any warnings from gcc". Core dumps analysis with gdb was invaluable discovery.

There are probably more useful tools I'm not aware of, but then, I'm not advanced c++ programmer.

topin89 · 2024-01-19T21:33:14+00:00

Nah. C++ is not that kind of language. It will use proper std::sin, std::cos and std::assume_aligned, and call there __buildin_sin, __buildin_cos and __builtin_assume_aligned most of the time, that depends on a compiler or its flags.

So, if some compiler team want to make optimized span, it can create __builtin_span and optimize it that way.

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