aluaces @aluaces@qoto.org

Use comments after shell commands for easily retrieving them from the history:

wakeonlan aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff # start computer 1

CTRL+R in bash or up arrow key on other shells like #fishshell

Whenever I see

dd if=this of=that

I usually prefer to

ddrescue this that

(usually --force is required to write to a partition)

Not only it displays many more information than dd's default and it doesn't require blocksize tinkering, but #ddrescue is also capable of resuming and recovering from errors.

Currently reading "Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs" by Denis Bakhvalov and liking it very much.

It explains many of the arcane details of current desktop CPUs and it also has many tips about #perf #linux tool usage, plus many mentions to other useful tools as #rr.

It's a free download from https://book.easyperf.net/perf_book

@hund I'm still using it for the notifications of every of my scheduled jobs, mainly backups.

@Acer Typical memory problem. Valgrind to the rescue!

@2ck @coldwave https://old.reddit.com for browsing with the old interface without logging in.

@skyblond you are right, but you are still way before hitting hardware limits, so you can afford to perform precise computations. Only if you are hard pressed you could resort to approximations and tricks as precomputing those values you need into textures.

@skyblond I'm not sure if I'm correctly following you, but if I had to pass anything to the fragment shader, I would pass mainly variables that can be interpolated that way, like the x, y coordinates and then compute theta and cos(theta) in the fragment shader.

@omicron to solve that I'd probably use randomly generated (but valid) phone numbers instead.

@shockrah emacs has a package for controlling mpv from the editor.

It is used for music plugins or even subtitling.

@skyblond vars specified per vertex are linearly interpolated per fragment.

You should also check your normals and see if you are correctly transforming them.

@valleyforge #blender of course.

@yarmo Even if you test the voltage levels, that does not rule out a faulty power supply. The easiest route is to replace it for checking. It is much more cheaper than RAM.

@sgryphon Indeed I had the time to try it, and it works very well, I can now access that ipv6 server from my ipv4 network. Thanks!

#notetoself for patching windows files on linux using windows patches, use --binary.