Posts by chrisvest@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AZjauCNd27HWiwhWkK by chrisvest@mastodon.social
2023-09-13T16:57:29Z
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Good morning, today we're investigating why nobody wants to work even though covid is over. Let's see what this handy chart from the UK says.Hmm… beats me! 🤷♂️
(DIR) Post #AaPAkyXWBGeLTreTSK by chrisvest@mastodon.social
2023-10-02T17:37:23Z
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When COVID ward staff upgraded their masks from surgical to FFP3 (N99 equivalent), their infections acquired at work dropped to practically zero: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/29/cambridge-hospitals-mask-upgrade-appears-to-eliminate-covid-19-risk-to-staff
(DIR) Post #AiR3LBarOPvT6giPI0 by chrisvest@mastodon.social
2024-05-31T00:32:58Z
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A type 2 diabetes patient has been *cured* by Chinese scientists with a stem cell treatment, no longer needing insulin or any other medication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-024-00662-3
(DIR) Post #Ak1qwiYYtNeMVhLEfo by chrisvest@mastodon.social
2024-07-17T17:30:25Z
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What's a good tool for searching your man pages? (whatis and apropos are not cutting it)
(DIR) Post #Ak1qwl5bTVGiMkoeS8 by chrisvest@mastodon.social
2024-07-17T17:42:00Z
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@hyc `man -k sockaddr` only finds a perl page, for instance, so I'm not sure what's going on. But yeah, just grep'ing the man directory works
(DIR) Post #ArSDCOYlrkfNiFT9w8 by chrisvest@mastodon.social
2025-02-24T16:13:30Z
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Happy "Russian warship, go fuck yourself" day to all who celebrate.
(DIR) Post #Av5h42tIiLFZpE050i by chrisvest@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T03:17:29Z
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We got the conclusion to jemalloc. Jason Evans has written a post mortem: https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
(DIR) Post #Av679vmWemgQK1IYKW by chrisvest@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T16:32:35Z
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@bsdphk Nice read. It reminds me Bonwick's Slab allocator also placed debugging and error detection front and center.
(DIR) Post #AzEZXGSg0z9p1XFmV6 by chrisvest@mastodon.social
2025-10-14T22:18:37Z
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@whitequark yeah, I knew this. I … try not to think too much about it. The mail part is why the format has uh, opinions about line lengths.
(DIR) Post #AzaWxemQCG7HafV6Ce by chrisvest@mastodon.social
2025-10-26T03:17:48Z
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@whitequark but imagine if we did… if we took a look at laserdisc and were like “yeah, this is on the right track.” LD (aka. DiscoVision!) is analog, though, but CD is digital and encode 650 MiB in a 5.38km track. We’ll need 69430km for 8 TiB. With the 1.6um CD pitch, the spiral area jumps from 86.05 cm^2, to roughly 111.1 m^2, which is close to one fifth the wing surface area of a Boeing 747-400, or half of a singles tennis court, or 1.6 times the surface area of a human lung.