iv42's comments

On: Ghidra by NSA

[iv42]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/quotes/?item=qt0448592#...

On: Discussion on why SQLite is gaining popularity [audio]

[iv42]

I was kinda wondering too, and did a (very shallow) dive into the JavaScript on that page. I'm almost positive they are using Deepgram(dot com)'s speech-to-text service. I ran whisper.cpp on that audio file on my laptop, and it does a reasonably well job too.

On: The Magical Mystery Merge Or Why we run FreeBSD-current at Netflix (2023) [pdf]

[iv42]

Yes. Because sendfile(2) is not zero-copy on ZFS.

On: Chrome still hasn't changed its opinion about dropping JPEG XL support

[iv42]

and here's one: https://github.com/niutech/jxl.js

On: The Slotted Counter Pattern

[iv42]

Also, it's basically identical to the pattern described as Counter Tables in "High Performance MySQL" (3rd edition), published in 2012.

[tantalor → iv42]

Indeed, it also calls them "slots":

> You can get higher concurrency by keeping more than one row and updating a random row... just choose a random slot and update it

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/high-performance-mysql/...

On: A tool to render and upscale Sierra adventure game background images

[iv42]

Yep, it's from the first one. Manhunter: New York.

On: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity and lifecycle (2012)

[iv42]

Linux, as part of integration with Facebook's infrastructure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028689

On: Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears

[iv42]

Standard audiometry, usually, only produces a test that goes up to 8 kHz (functional speech recognition). An extended high frequency audiometry may, or may not be more revealing as it can go higher. It would have no bearing on your medical treatment though.

On: The Zen of Go

[iv42]

Yes, it does: -Werror=unused-variable

[monktastic1 → iv42]

Presumably by "unconditional" they mean not conditioned on you using a flag.

On: "Google Stadia is not a product that exists because people want it"

[iv42]

https://projectstream.google.com/speedtest

Bandwidth test only though; latency not reported.