Yes, it was the generation of the X360 and PS3. X360 was 3 core and the PS3 was 1+7 core (sort of a big.little setup).
Although it took many, many more years until games started to actually use multi-core properly. With rendering being on a 16.67ms / 8.33ms budget and rendering tied to world state, it was just really hard to not tie everything into eachother.
Even today you'll usually only see 2-4 cores actually getting significant load.
The problem with NixOS (Nix?) is that it is currently embroiled in a culture war. Just to give an example, someone made an April's Fools joke about Elon Musk sponsoring NixOS and they got their post muted and (almost?) caught a suspension.
There is currently a gazillion forks, some being forks of forks because they weren't considered culturally pure enough for the culturally purged fork.
Hopefully Determinate Systems or Ekela can get some real maturity and corporate funding into the system and pull the whole thing out of the quagmire.
Yes Nix is forked. There were some attempts to fork nixpkgs, but they failed because it's far too much work to maintain something like nixpkgs. Nix being forked is less of an issue, because at the very least everyone needs to be compatible with nixpkgs. I think it's ok to have multiple implementations, they lead to exploration of new directions (e.g. one of the projects attempts to reimplement Nix in Rust). Well and of course, Guix started as a fork.
I agree that the infighting is not nice. But to be honest, when you just use NixOS and submit PRs, you do not really notice them. It's not like people are fighting them in the actual PRs to nixpkgs.
Some of the more drawn-out arguments are in or about the RFCs repo, though, so it's not just chat platforms or forum where the fights break out. To your point the RFC repo is also something that not every would-be contributor would touch or need to.
I agree, but it makes me feel supremely uneasy to use something where the main team does Soviet-style purges where they mute/exile/ban community members not because they were being offensive but because they committed wrongthink. Even worse is that they're often prolific devs.
Ironically enough the closest comparison I could make is driving a Tesla. Even if the product is great, you're supporting an organisation that is the opposite.
I think the Nix team will continue to slowly chase away competent people until the rot makes the whole thing wither, at which point everyone switches their upstream over to Determinate Systems' their open core. Although I'm hoping DS will ultimately go the RHEL-Fedora route.
>Just to give an example, someone made an April's Fools joke about Elon Musk sponsoring NixOS and they got their post muted and (almost?) caught a suspension.
This can't be real. Are you sure it was something innocuous and not something bigoted?
Real as you or me, though I disagree with almost everything else the quoted poster expressed other than that forks are happening and the dividing lines include cultural norms rather than strictly technical disagreements.
I personally found it incredibly distasteful and also fairly representative of the quality of conversation you often get from some of the Nix community. I'm not offensive, you're just thin skinned, can't you take a joke, etc. is extremely common. You'll have to judge for yourself whether it's bigoted or dog whistle or neither.
I'm a former casual community member with modest open source work in that ecosystem (projects and handful of nixpkgs PRs) before I left permanently last spring. I no longer endorse its use for any purpose and I seek to replace every piece of it that I was using.
I still hear about the ways they continue to royally fuck up their governance and make negligible progress on detoxifying the culture. It took them until last fucking week to ban Anduril from making hiring posts on the same official forum.
Am I supposed to seriously believe people found that so offensive that the poster was banned for that? Were those crying, feigning offence, being satirical themselves? Truly Poe's Law at work here.
>I personally found it incredibly distasteful
How? Why? It's clearly satire, written in the style of The Onion.
>and also fairly representative of the quality of conversation you often get from some of the Nix community
Good satire? At least some members aren't brainrotted out to the point of no return.
> I'm not offensive, you're just thin skinned, can't you take a joke, etc.
It's clearly not offensive and if that upset you, you clearly have thin skin and can't take the blandest of jokes. Histrionic.
>I no longer endorse its use for any purpose and I seek to replace every piece of it that I was using.
I will also tell others not to use Nix after reading that. The community is indeed too toxic.
>I still hear about the ways they continue to royally fuck up their governance and make negligible progress on detoxifying the culture.
They won't detoxify until they remove all the weak neurotic leftist activists with weird fetishes for "underrepresented minorities."
>It took them until last fucking week to ban Anduril from making hiring posts on the same official forum.
I'm not sure who that is or why it's an issue, but I assume it's something only leftists cry about.
They do not. Even the vast majority of Arch users thinks the policy of "integrate breakage anyway and post the warning on the web changelog" is pants-on-head insane, especially compared to something like SUSE Tumbleweed (also a rolling distro) where things get tested and will stay staged if broken.
You're the one who has added "breaking." The original claim was just that integrators get hate for not keeping up with upstreams, which is true. Many changes aren't breaking; and users don't know which ones are or aren't anyway.
No, your claim was that integrators get hate for not immediately integrating upstream changes. Which is patently false, because users would rather have the packages tested for breaking changes and either patched or have a deprecation warning, rather than having the changes blindly integrated and having their legs pulled out from under them by a breaking change. No one is hating on distro packagers for taking a slight delay to verify and test things.
I brought up Arch because they get a lot of hate for exactly doing that and consequently pulling people's legs out from under them.
The existence of some users desiring stability does not in any way contradict the claim that maintainers get hate for not immediately integrating upstream changes. In particular, distros have more than 2 users -- they can do different things.
Thank you for mentioning AutoEQ, I didn't know about it and it looks like a great resource :)
I wonder why laptops don't come with an internal speaker DSP profile loaded onto the EEPROM. This seems like one of those things that you really just want to do in firmware.
IEMs and headphones come EQed out of the factory AFAIK, but apparently quite poorly. I ran the autoEQ profile on my Moondrop Aria beater IEMs and it both cut through the muddiness and opened up the soundstage quite dramatically.
It's funny how I can sort-of read the Dutch word in "τύν": spit "tuf" and spitting "tuffen". I can't find the etymology of it so it might be a false cognate
If it isn't a false cognate, I wonder what the function of "φ" and "ω" are..
I mean, the model the current soon-to-be old people (boomers) operated on is exactly "screw everyone coming after me", so considered on the whole they deserve every bit of cold shoulder.
That doesn't mean that every boomer is bad of course, so if you have good (grand)parents, be good to them!
Are they? At least in Europe they are usually blue collar guys that pick a neighborhood at random to hold a car meet, terrorizing that neighborhood until deep into the night, including street races. And if they aren't accommodated they'll aggressively clash with the police.
They're easy to spot too, pumped up douches with tribal tattoos and gemstone earrings that behave like they're prone to pick a bar fight with you.
I am, which is why I specifically said drag, meetups, and track events. The only group I detest are the ones that takeover roads/highways and race in densely populated zones. I like hooners, 99% stick to parking lots and make a bit of noise. You'll be very hard pressed to find "racers" who embrace endangering regular people.
What do you expect when tracks are closing left and right? That energy has to go somewhere. But yes those guys are also nerds.
The meets I'm talking about are like this [0][1]. There's a lot of the tattoo gemstone guys in [1]'s timestamp. Is this what you mean? I'd love some examples.
In South Korea, ActiveX is still required for many things like banking and government stuff. So they're stuck with both IE and the gaping security hole in it that is ActiveX.
Not really. You can access any Korean bank or government website using Chrome, and they actually recommend Chrome these days.
They still want to install a bunch of programs on your computer, though. It's more or less the same stuff that used to be written as ActiveX extensions, but rewritten using modern browser APIs. :(
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