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The word "just" in the above sentence implies there is some kind of advantage to using scrot over /usr/bin/import. What advantage is it?...

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/usr/bin/import - a strong alternative to KSnapshot/Spectacle/etc:

$ cat ~/bin/screenshot
DATE=$(date --rfc-3339=seconds)

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Justifiable prices: Any price of any product or service, including the zero price and including a negative price, contains a component that is completely...

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GNU assembler AMD64 instruction naming (mnemonic):

• "b" suffix means 8 bits (byte)
• "w" suffix means 16 bits (word)
• "l"

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I suppose the terminology clash is that by "reflection" you and eigenlambda implicitly mean simple reflections. Simple reflections are simple,...

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The instructions:

imulq $1374389535, %rbp, %rbp # imm = 0x51EB851F 
shrq $38, %rbp

are implementing division by...

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It depends on where the reflection parameters are coming from. If they are coming from program input (such as: stdin, file, network) then it is impossible...

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The statement "all code using reflection can be rewritten to be faster" isn't true....

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For example, reflection enables the program to keep information (such as identifiers/names) in a single place while without reflection the information...

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True, the bug prevented me from playing the game and thus improved my productivity elsewhere.

The game is scary and annoying, especially...

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It is mathematically impossible to compile complex reflection expressions ahead-of-time, for the same reason why it is impossible to compile self-modifying...

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I tried jdk9 AoT some time ago, but it wasn't fully reliable at the time. Does somebody here know whether AoT works ok now?...

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There is a new Alien:Isolation bug in mesa-git (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100963). I don't know whether it also translates to mesa...

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- In the long term, it is likely for Mesa to support OpenGL compatibility mode. It is likely that it will materialize during a vacuum in Mesa implementation...

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In my opinion, a better solution would be a single amdgpu.ko kernel module and multiple competing OpenGL/Vulkan/OpenCL implementations on top of the single...

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Is there another way of bootstrapping Linux gaming? Given Linux market share, it is from economics viewpoint impossible for AAA titles to be released...

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The C file in question is artificially inflated. It is basically decompressed/instanced/unfolded data....

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- I have been using GCC 6.3.0 for a long time and don't understand why 6.3.0 is still masked by Gentoo
- 7.0.0_pre9999 is available in the gentoo-gpu...

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Windows could be defined as "everything except Mac and Linux" ......

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A solution might be to create a symbolic link to the root directory containing the thousands of small files. The symbolic link is quickly deletable and...