Arcuru

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by Arcuru 6y ago
The total overhead, including cooling, is only ~10% for Google datacenters [0], and the other cloud providers are likely similar. Efficiency gains of that scale probably need to come from somewhere else. [0] https://www.google.co
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by Arcuru 6y ago
The document cited several times in the thread appears to be "The Camp Fire Public Report" which can be found here https://www.buttecounty.net/Portals/30/CFReport/PGE-THE-CAMP...
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by Arcuru 6y ago
> I don’t know who initially said it, but… I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people. There might be a different source, but I first saw it here - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-don
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by Arcuru 6y ago
There's been a movement at my employer to replace some of these terms for years, though it seems to be getting more widespread attention lately. Some of the terms, especially 'whitelist' and 'blacklist', are also ve
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by Arcuru 6y ago
Matching the Spec2k6 scores of a high end desktop does not mean that the A13 has similar real world single-core performance. I've done ARM vs Intel perf comparisons in the past and we mostly ignored Spec2k6 because it looked nothing li
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by Arcuru 6y ago
Your point still stands, but their market cap in May of 1992 when this happened was around 18B.
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by Arcuru 6y ago
Google had a program similar to that, though it seems it was pretty small and died off several years ago - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor
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by Arcuru 6y ago
Reminds me of this paper on binary search, which also shows a speed up using branch-free comparisons. "Array Layouts for Comparison-Based Searching" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.05053.pdf
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by Arcuru 7y ago
I don't have personal experience with a windfall of that size, but I've found that Bogleheads usually has decent advice: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Managing_a_windfall
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by Arcuru 8y ago
That doesn't avoid it needing to read the data off disk though. AFAIK even SSDs still only read in 4K chunks. As the other reply mentioned though, it's just that MacBook SSDs are that fast.
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by Arcuru 8y ago
Last I looked (maybe a year ago) there were none. I have the same concern you do, I could use it directly but I need to use other environments often enough that I'd constantly be switching back and forth.
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by Arcuru 8y ago
Actually, from the article it's unclear if he's beaten the S&P500 as an investor. It doesn't mention much about what he invested in before 1980, but it does say he lost about $50 million dollars in a margin call in 1982 s
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by Arcuru 8y ago
The schedule is documented here: https://domains.google/tld/dev/
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by Arcuru 8y ago
The author claims to have written an implementation of it themselves. From the article: > This last one is my implementation of Google’s new hash table. Google hasn’t open-sourced their hash table yet, so I had to implement their hash ta
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by Arcuru 8y ago
The vim extension for VSCode can use neovim for Ex-commands, though that's still an 'experimental' feature.