FRED is the mission editor for Descent: FreeSpace

I first tried Zen about a month ago and actually like it. I had been using Vivaldi, but was looking for something that used the Firefox engine. I dislike the stock Firefox UI, and the other alternatives weren't up my alley either (ok, I'll admit I didn't try Pale Moon). However, once I got used to Zen's interface, I find it to be a bit refreshing.

That said, it's definitely not for everyone, but there are other options out there if you don't like this one.

Which is amusing because it was created by Linus Torvalds to manage the Linux kernel source code

There are articles about finding microplastics in testicles, semen, and now penises, but these are of course all male body parts. (No disrespect intended to trans/nonbinary people) However, medical research has historically been male-oriented, for example test labs using male mice for medical research because they're more consistent.

I can only assume that microplastics would be found in most body parts on most people, but it's intriguing to me that I've only seen articles about male body parts. Maybe they're just trying to convince the (mostly male) politicians to do something, so telling them their gentlemen parts are tainted may be a targeted call to action?

This post is clearly subversion from the conversation and is raising the Mercurial of the room. git out of here before it gets darcs.

I assume it's heavily task-dependent. The only benchmarking I've done was with CFD, where we found that enabling hyperthreading would provide a wall-clock speedup of about 15-20%. Hyperthreading might also provide well better than a 15-20% speedup for other tasks, or even negative under the worst conditions.

And this in no way compares hyperthreading to simply adding more cores, which has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Microsoft would never fire the team who came up with this idea. It is, after all, the same company that employs the creator of systemd.

An individual brewer should have no problem coming up with a recipe that is somewhat close to their target. I would also imagine they can score a recipe numerically based on their own tastes. To me, it sounds like they should then be able to define all of the inputs (amounts of each barley/malt, hop type, other flavors, and times during each stage) and run it through an optimizer routine. Sure, the process would be iterative and may take a couple years, but with a good initial input and bounds on the inputs, it should be pretty straightforward to improve the taste to an ideal.

So why use AI? Oh yeah, buzzwords. Carry on!

My company has an extension for Lenny just so we can forward junk calls to him. It's also fun to prank new employees and tell them they need to talk with Lenny in HR about some onboarding paperwork.

People in Mexico could be killed if they don't buy $25-30/month internet service. Meanwhile, people in the United States would kill for $25-30/month internet service!

While you may or may not be joking, I know I've actually had it happen before where I've spent a week or more on a problem at work and eventually had a dream about coding the solution. After typing it up the next day, it worked. I'd be surprised if that didn't happen to other people.

Personally, I don't care too much about the X11 vs Wayland debate, so long as whatever I'm using works. However, like many people, I'm quite picky about the user interface and have spent a couple decades customizing everything to my liking. From what I've seen, Wayland simply doesn't support most old X11 window managers, and there aren't any decent ones for Wayland yet. GNOME is the only one I've heard that seems to work, but I find it to be completely unusable. Sway is at least tolerable, but it's still a bit disappointing in comparison.

I haven't seen any traction on cloning any of the good old window managers to support Wayland, so I'm curious as to whether there's a way now to use an X11 window manager in Wayland, or is there any plan for that in the future?

Just like FreeBSD?

Unless they've radically changed how they solicit the public for comments, I foresee this ending about the same way as it did when they asked for public comments about net neutrality. Hopefully they learned their lesson from that, or at least know how to sort through the bogus responses to get an accurate picture of the actual prevailing public opinion.

x ^= y ^= x ^= y;

That works for integral types and takes three instruction cycles. That said, the following code can sometimes be faster:

a = x;
b = y;
x = b;
y = a;

Sure, it's four instructions plus some extra stack space, but the first pair of instructions can be completed simultaneously, as can the second, which results in a two cycle swap. It can be faster, or it can be slower, depending on many things, such as the extra stack/registers/L1I overhead and the number of times it's called.

In short, universally optimal code doesn't really exist, so benchmark everything! Also, only optimize where you need to.