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Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Syscall on Intel 5150 ...................... 105 ns
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Context switch on Intel 5150 ............. 4,300 ns  =   4 µs

Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns = 20 µs

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;; nano-emacs.el --- NANO Emacs (minimal version)     -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

;; Copyright (c) 2025  Nicolas P. Rougier
;; Released under the GNU General Public License 3.0
;; Author: Nicolas P. Rougier <nicolas.rougier@inria.fr>
;; URL: https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs

;; This is NANO Emacs in 256 lines, without any dependency 
;; Usage (command line):  emacs -Q -l nano.el -[light|dark]

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Do your Raspberry Pi's Network Interfaces freeze?

My Raspberry Pi 4 kept losing its wlan0 interface. I could usually reconnect via Ethernet but, from time to time, I noticed that the eth0 interface would also go walkabout.

I tried a lot of things but the one described here seems to have cured the problem. I have no idea why it works. It just does.

Step 0 - are you a Windows user?

The script shown in the next step should be created on your Raspberry Pi. Please do not make the mistake of selecting the text, copying it into a text editor on your Windows machine, saving the file, and then moving the file to your Raspberry Pi. Unless you take precautions, Windows will add its 0x0d 0x0a (CR+LF) line endings and those will stop the script from working properly on your Raspberry Pi.

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Checking your Raspberry Pi's view of its power supply

Sometimes it seems like the first (and sometimes only) advice you get offered for almost any problem with a Raspberry Pi is "check your power supply". You think something like:

"hey, I'm using an official power supply sold as being matched with my Pi so how can there be any problem?"

You look up the specs then stick a controlled load across your supply and confirm that it can deliver the required number of Watts.

Yet your problems persist…

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System wide cpu usage:

The numbers on the top left from 1 to 8 represents the number of cpu's/cores in my system with the progress bar next to them representing the load of cpu/core. As you would have noticed the progress bars can be comprised of different colors. The following list will explain what each color means.

Blue: low priority processes (nice > 0)
Green: normal (user) processes
Red: kernel processes
Yellow: IRQ time
Magenta: Soft IRQ time
Grey: IO Wait time

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#!/bin/bash

# Script that updates the iTerm Badge with the hostname of the server that you are
# connecting to with ssh.
#
# Instructions:
# - Put this script in ~/bin/ssh (this will override the default ssh binary)
# - Run 'chmod +x ~/bin/ssh' to give execution permission to the script
# - Open iTerm\Preferences\Profiles, select your profile and put '\(user.current_ssh_host)' in the Badge text box
# - Enjoy!

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{
    "name": "Acme",
    "author": "Adriano Romanazzo (multiversecoder)",
    "globals":
    {
        "foreground": "#000",
        "background": "#FFFEEC",
        "border": "13px solid #000",
        "accent": "#000",
        "caret": "#000",

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{
  "logging": {
    "version": 1,
    "disable_existing_loggers": true,
    "formatters": {
      "brief": {
        "class": "logging.Formatter",
        "datefmt": "%I:%M:%S",
        "format": "%(levelname)-8s; %(name)-15s; %(message)s"
      },

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#!/usr/bin/perl

# This script is made to show graphs with git commit time made on workweek vs weekend
#
# The desription of this script and results of its usage is avaliable at:
# https://ivan.bessarabov.com/blog/famous-programmers-work-time-part-2-workweek-vs-weekend
#
# usage:
#
#   git log --author="Sebastian Riedel" --format="%H %ai" | perl script.pl

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" http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/starting.html#vimrc

set nocompatible        " use vim defaults
set scrolloff=3         " keep 3 lines when scrolling
set ai                  " set auto-indenting on for programming

set showcmd             " display incomplete commands
set nobackup            " do not keep a backup file
set number              " show line numbers
set ruler               " show the current row and column