@Techmeme@techhub.socialValve says the Steam Deck OLED may be "intermittently" out of stock due to memory and storage shortages; it has been out of stock in the US for a few days (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/879845/valve-steam-dec…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI'm building webkit-gtk right now. It's one of these messy packages where a few source files need a lot of memory to compile, and ninja can randomly order jobs so that all of them suddenly start compiling simultaneously. So to keep things going smoothly without OOM-ing, I've been dynamically adjusting the available job count via steve the #jobserver.
While doing that, I've noticed that ninja isn't taking new jobs immediately after I increased the job count. So I've started debugging steve, and couldn't find out anything wrong with it. Finally, I've looked into ninja and realized how lazy their code is.
So, there are two main approaches to acquiring job tokens. Either you do blocking reads, and therefore wait for a token to become available, or you use polling to get noticed when it becomes available. Ninja instead does non-blocking reads, and if there are no more tokens available… it waits till one of its own jobs finish.
This roughly means that as other processes release tokens, ninja won't take them until one of its own jobs finish. And if ninja didn't manage to acquire any job tokens to begin with, it is just running a single process via implicit slot, and that process finishing provides it with the only chance to acquire additional tokens. So realistically speaking, as long as there are other build jobs running in parallel, ninja is going to need to be incredibly lucky to ever get a job token, since all other processes will grab the available tokens immediately.
This isn't something that steve can fix.
#Gentoo #NinjaBuild
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
What they don't tell you about demand paging in school.
https://offlinemark.com/2020/10/14/demand-paging/
saved 2020-10-17 ht…
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itVery handy to be able to add a note (for my own memory) when I block someone!
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaOnce I pulled my head out of my ass this wasn't horrible. Part 1 was straightforward, decided to do some set stuff and managed to get it right the first time. Part 2 made my brain hurt a bit because all of the ideas that came to me were very, very slow and memory intensive. Then decided to scrap it and just do what the directions told me to do: count the paths...so I replaced the dumb with a dictionary which was so much better as an idea.
Solution:
@cdarwin@c.imThe price of eggs has nothing on the price of computer memory right now.
Thanks to a supply crunch from the “AI” bubble,
RAM chips are the new gold,
with prices on consumer PC memory kits ballooning out of control.
In an object lesson in the ridiculousness of an economic bubble,
Samsung won’t even sell its memory to… Samsung
@benb@osintua.euDOUBLE STANDARDS:Why did the IOC PUNISH Heraskevych for the HELMET OF MEMORY of the FALLEN athletes?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/14/double-standardswhy-did-the-ioc.html
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialDifferent Corners VII ▶️
不同的角落 VII ▶️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euWho needs 32GB of system memory anyway? 🧐
I couldn't resist installing #CachyOS back on my main PC, on a separate SSD, alongside Windows. AMD is a first-class experience in Linux. I just downloaded The Alters, and FSR 4 simply works with my poor RX 7800 XT - without Optiscaler or any kind of manual DLL swaps.
@bourgwick@heads.socialwilliam burroughs's "a thanksgiving prayer" (1986), as rendered in mondo 2000 #3. https://archive.org/details/Mondo.2000.Issue.03.1991/page/n9/mode/2up
@pre@boing.worldYou see a detective on the TV and he’s interviewing all the suspects asking them what they were doing on the night of the murder a month ago last Tuesday night.
And on the TV, the suspects all know. Right away.
If you asked me ten years ago though, I’d have had barely any clue. If you’re lucky it’d have been something planned in my calendar but mostly, dunno. Watching TV maybe? No idea what show. Was that a night I was in the pub?
As we all get older this problem increases I’m told. Eventually full on senility sets in.
But what if you have already built the habit to record what you’re doing? To be able to look back and revise and review how you spent your days? An external aid as a crutch to your own forgetful brain’s cortex?
So I started this Exocortex Log over a decade ago and now I can answer: Ten years ago on Tuesday I was having dinner with the guitarist from my band and his girlfriend and they burned the pudding.
The app has been half finished and barely able to even record let alone review for most of that time, but now it’s ready enough that someone else might use it too if they want.
Try it out: #lifeLog #app #memoryAid
@janneke@todon.nl
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeSo, I have an answer to my previous question about GPU transfer efficiency.
Original code: write data to staging buffer on CPU, vkCopyBuffer to GPU local memory, run int-float32 conversion on GPU out of that buffer. The copy operation shows 50% SM occupancy by compute warps, 50% unallocated warp slots in active SMs.
GPU memory write bandwidth is sitting around 2%, about 1.9 ms copy/shader run time.
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioBecause the painting ☝️is good and the picture came out well, my wife and I printed a 20cmx30cm copy of the picture, put it flush in a borderless glass frame (reminiscent of the door the painting was on), and gave it to the child. Hopefully it will be a warm childhood memory for a (very) long time. 🤞
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgFuck. I was wondering what was going on with my computer since it was so slow, but I assumed it was topaz AI working in the background. Then I got this alert.
Had just updated the BRAW Toolbox plug-in, and when I ran activity monitor I watched that plug-in go from single digit gigabytes of memory to over 80. Meanwhile I was wondering what on earth was causing my MacBook Pro to literally /run down the battery/ while plugged into mains power...
Seems that plugin is dodgy...
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social“you can just supply an IP address of a MongoDB instance and it’ll start ferreting out in memory things such as database passwords (which are plain text), AWS secret keys etc. The exploit specifically looks for those class of credentials and secrets, too.”
https://doublepulsar.com…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialNow that El Cheato has put out a welcome mat to invite China to invade Taiwan, my guess is that today's computer memory shortage and price increases are but a thin shadow of what is to come.
@drbruced@aus.socialMy road bike has a BB30 (press-fit) bottom bracket. Yesterday I noticed it was creaking, so I pulled out my $50 BB30 removal tool, refreshed my memory on how to remove a bottom bracket with a bit of YouTube, pulled the thing apart, cleaned and greased everything, put it back together, and now it doesn’t creak. So satisfying. #BikeTooter
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 015 - XV
When I consider every thing that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
When I perceive that men as plants increase,
Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky,
Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
And wear their brave state out of memory;
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Sets you most rich i…
@benb@osintua.euZelenskyy and Rutte honored the memory of fallen Ukrainian defenders #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/zelenskyy-and-rutte-honored-the.html
