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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • It should, with careful and precise setup (all needed modules built into the kernel, everything locally compiled, USE flags for all packages carefully chosen to eliminate unnecessary dependencies), be the most targeted for the specific hardware it’s running on and the specific workload it’s doing—in other words, it would be carrying less cruft around. Fewer libraries to import, fewer branches to check during code execution.

    In other words, execution time should be a bit better in return for spending more setup time. Benchmarks like this tend to only measure execution time.






  • Not really. They’re just barcodes on steroids. Originally created for industrial machinery. They have absolutely no built-in security, and can’t be read by a normal person without a machine helping out (which is a problem if the machine just dumps it straight into a browser’s location bar).

    An ideal system would be human- as well as machine-readable, and incorporate some kind of verifiable issuer’s mark. But as usual, no one invented one in time, and so we’re stuck with a system a Japanese factory developed so that their machines could figure out which car part they were looking at.