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[Michael_S]

If you don't use NoScript and AdBlock Plus or Ublock Origin, older versions of Firefox were literally 2, 3, or in some cases 10 times slower than Chromium...

[Michael_S]

I've chimed in with this before, but I'll say it again: Firefox Nightly 56 and 57 finally make Firefox feel close enough to Chrome for speed that it's...

[Michael_S]

Thanks. I didn't know....

[Michael_S]

I agree. But if my budget was limited (or I was just feeling like being cheap) I would be inclined to trawl Ebay and Craigslist for good deals from someone...

[Michael_S]

I had to search what eBPF means, I think it's extended Berkeley Packet Filter. If everyone else knew that already, then sorry for my ignorance.
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[Michael_S]

caligula was agreeing with me, and I was replying to comments by wizard69 like:

"Well Sparc was dying so that made sense, they switched...

[Michael_S]

But what's to stop you from using the fully open source version, or MariaDB?

I'm not saying Postgres is bad. We use Postgres and MariaDB...

[Michael_S]

Is that really true? I haven't seen anything about MySQL or MariaDB trending down in popularity....

[Michael_S]

I think it's a bit premature to call Java, one of the most widely used programming languages in the world, dead or dying. Most software developers may...

[Michael_S]

Oracle has been doing some interesting work on Java and the JVM with the Graal project. But in typical Oracle fashion, the best bits are proprietary...

[Michael_S]

I have two desktops, and both have mid-range AMD GPUs. On Linux, the last time I checked GPU-enhanced video encoding for AMD GPUs was a pain to set up....

[Michael_S]

My pleasure. I play it more for the fun of building up my town and enjoying the artwork than serious strategy challenges....

[Michael_S]

I agree. However, I would be replacing the old motherboard and RAM along with the processor.

I might save 0.5 kwh (wild guess) per day just...

[Michael_S]

I have mixed feelings too. My own current processors are old AMD ones, though not quite this old or low end. So I would get on the order of a 50% single-threaded...

[Michael_S]

I wish the Redox - and Magenta and Mezzano (Lisp based) OS projects all the success in the world. But corporations love the MIT license because it lets...

[Michael_S]

My big problem with Redox and Magenta (and Mezzano, an OS written in Lisp) are that they use an MIT license. That's great for the community, the developers,...

[Michael_S]

And if he can't find more interesting topics to include, then what? Advertising revenue and memberships drive the site, and no matter how much we hate...

[Michael_S]

I can't wait to fire up Nethack on a Threadripper....

[Michael_S]

Java is prone to bloaty abstractions because of the language core features. Take dependency injection - a very useful feature for making flexible code....

[Michael_S]

I'm not trusting your assertions or his until I see Power9 benchmarks....