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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. Thomas Bohm. 2022-06-03T10:00:00+00:00.

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File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from ten years of Ceph evolution

The Morning Paper

Breaking that assumption allowed Ceph to introduce a new storage backend called BlueStore with much better performance and predictability, and the ability to support the changing storage hardware landscape. Readers of this blog properly have a pretty good idea what ‘efficient transactions’ and ‘fast metadata operations’ are all about.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

To learn bpftrace, I've created a couple of references: - [one-liners tutorial] - [reference guide] The one-liners tutorial is based on my [FreeBSD DTrace Tutorial], and I think is a time-efficient way to learn bpftrace (as well as DTrace on FreeBSD). in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. I wrote seeksize.d

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Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change

Randon ASCII

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. If multiple threads can synchronize or coalesce their timer waits then the system becomes more power efficient.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

In 2004, we submitted a set of rules to the Opquast community of web professionals in public online workshops. Since then, we have produced 4 versions of our checklist — in 2004, 2010, 2015, and 2020. It looked realistic in 2004 but the rule was already irrelevant by 2005.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

To learn bpftrace, I've created a couple of references: - [one-liners tutorial] - [reference guide] The one-liners tutorial is based on my [FreeBSD DTrace Tutorial], and I think is a time-efficient way to learn bpftrace (as well as DTrace on FreeBSD). in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. I wrote seeksize.d

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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

The Netflix TechBlog

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De C**k¹, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron TL; DR We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set. JPEG can ingest RGB data and transform it to a luma-chroma representation before performing lossy compression.

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