Hide single titlebar in Sway window manager

Summary The user is asking about a Sway window manager configuration challenge: hiding the titlebar when only a single window exists on screen, while retaining titlebar visibility for multi-window layouts. The user currently has titlebars enabled for active window distinction (via colors) but wants to suppress them when the workspace is not split. Standard solutions … Read more

Magento 2 Admin UI Component Grid loads data but columns are not rendered (columns component not registered)

Summary We encountered an empty Admin grid where data was successfully fetched by the datasource, but no column headers or rows were rendered. The uiRegistry confirmed the listing and datasource components were registered, but the columns component was missing (undefined). The root cause was a mismatch between the spinner configuration item and the name attribute … Read more

current and future-demand technologies

Summary A major production incident occurred when an AI-powered Java Full Stack service, tasked with automating routine code generation and integration, exhibited unexpected latency and non-deterministic behavior. The service, which integrated a Large Language Model (LLM) for dynamic code suggestions, began generating syntactically valid but logically flawed database queries under high load. This resulted in … Read more

Does BIOS interrupt 0x13 depend on the BPB?

Summary BIOS interrupt 0x13 does NOT depend on the BPB to determine the number of bytes per sector during raw sector reads. The BIOS interrupt 0x13 function 0x02 (Read Sectors from Disk) reads the disk geometry parameters (including Bytes Per Sector) from the disk drive controller or CMOS settings, not from the BPB stored in … Read more

Memory efficient formula evaulation in Apache POI

Summary An 13 MB Excel file (XSSF) loaded into an Apache POI XSSFWorkbook consumed ~1.5 GB of heap memory, causing OutOfMemoryError or severe GC pressure. The root cause is the inherent memory overhead of the XML DOM parser (Apache POI’s OoxmlParser) required to read the file, combined with the Formula evaluator keeping calculated values in … Read more

can’t use huggingface.co at all :-( instructions seem to be off target

Summary A user attempting to run an image-to-text model on Ubuntu encountered immediate failure due to missing environment setup. The core issue is that Python libraries are not installed, and system-level dependencies (CUDA) are missing for GPU acceleration. This is a classic “environment bootstrap” failure common when beginners copy code snippets without understanding the prerequisites. … Read more

AWS RDS PostgreSQL DB – WriteLatency spikes every 3hrs

Summary A PostgreSQL 14.17 instance on AWS RDS experienced strict periodic WriteLatency spikes every 3 hours (12:10PM, 3:10PM, 6:10PM). The issue began around December 8, 2025. Despite the latency spikes, WriteIOPs and WriteThroughput remained flat, and DiskQueueDepth correlated 1:1 with the latency spikes. The root cause was identified as a Checkpoint Storm triggered by an … Read more

C: what is the practical reason to declare `const Uint32 x = ((Uint32)1 << 12)`, rather then simply `.. = 4096` or `.. = (Uint32)4096`?

Summary The question arises from analyzing the LZMA encoder source code where the constant kReduceMin is declared as ((UInt32)1 << 12) rather than the seemingly equivalent 4096 or (UInt32)4096. While both expressions evaluate to the same runtime value, the choice reflects specific engineering disciplines common in low-level, portable C development. The primary reason is intent … Read more