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by Freaky 16y ago
I run Terminator ( http://www.tenshu.net/terminator/ ) in a Linux VM for the same reason. Such tremendous overkill. Now I'm tempted to dig out my Mac Mini...
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by Freaky 16y ago
FreeBSD has kernel DTrace (off by default), with userspace tracing on its way (in CURRENT). ktrace is a better option there, especially if you want to support other BSD systems as well. I've used ktrace to help create minimal jail environm
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by Freaky 16y ago
Dwarf Fortress simulates a 3D environment just like Minecraft, though it has much more advanced fluid flows, amongst other things. Most of the CPU use appears to be down to pathfinding, which ends up recalculating a lot when the environmen
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by Freaky 16y ago
Newzbin. Bespoke C in-memory search engine with full substring matches and loads of metadata to play with, indexing data Google has no interest in. I may be biased, since I wrote half of it. Funny seeing it turn into some kind of zombie :
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by Freaky 16y ago
As I recall, the FreeBSD ZFS port had ZVOL integrated into GEOM (FreeBSD block device layer) about a week after the porting effort was started. ZPL took significantly longer.
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by Freaky 16y ago
Going by the 12GB figure, I guess he's running 6x2GB DIMMs in a Core i7 box and is pushing his memory controller slightly over its limits. I used to run 6x2GB at 1333MHz with an i7 920. I swapped the CPU with one that could properly drive
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by Freaky 16y ago
The default was Ask Jeeves, so not like it's a huge step down :)
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by Freaky 16y ago
Ruby has had a GC since the start; it's a conservative stop-the-world all-or-nothing non-compacting mark-and-sweep garbage collector. Meaning: 1. It can't tell the difference between a number on the heap that happens to look like a referen
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by Freaky 17y ago
OS X probably ships with FreeBSD's fetch(1), which should do for most <command> <url> needs.
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by Freaky 17y ago
I saw a screenshot showing exactly that option, so it appears to be true.
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by Freaky 17y ago
They don't render in IE (tested in 8); it cuts the article in half.
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by Freaky 17y ago
NXDOMAIN = non-existent domain. In this case instead of the DNS server telling your resolver a given address doesn't resolve, it's telling it that they all resolve to OpenDNS's search service. There's a summary of some of the issues here:
463.
by Freaky 17y ago
JRuby's startup speed isn't that much different if you're actually running something fairly heavy, like a web framework; it's not like Rails starts up in 200ms on MRI and 4000ms on JRuby, both have you waiting for a few seconds. With sourc
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by Freaky 17y ago
I'd be less worried about the cut they take and more worried about their annoying capacity to take a disliking to you and shutting down your account without warning while taking your money, and never, ever telling you why. Make sure you hav
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by Freaky 17y ago
When gcc warns you, it tells you to wrap it in parens if you really mean it: "warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value". Your PHP example wouldn't raise a warning from gcc, because it already is. I find assignment
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by Freaky 17y ago
Hope we're going to see TRIM support on the X25-M G1's. Mine's already showing signs of degraded performance :/
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by Freaky 17y ago
Maybe Debian/kFreeBSD will be a reasonable choice for you when they get ZFS support.
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by Freaky 17y ago
> although strangely it was more expensive on FreeBSD I think mutex ops in 5.3 depended on syscalls or so. I distinctly remember a commit reducing mutex overheads by moving more of it into userspace, somewhat like futex I guess.
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by Freaky 17y ago
> Mutex lock/unlock 25ns That looks suspiciously cheap to me, 1/4th the cost of accessing main memory? I tend to think of mutex ops as quite expensive considering they involve things like memory barriers.
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by Freaky 17y ago
The additional storage cost of InnoDB can be quite significant if you have a lot of data. We have about 4 billion rows in MyISAM, we simply wouldn't have space to do that with InnoDB. Hopefully compressed tables will improve matters.
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by Freaky 17y ago
MALLOC_PRODUCTION was set and INVARIANTS and WITNESS were disabled on the 10th, a full week before RC1 was built. Wouldn't be much of a release candidate if it wasn't built using release flags, would it? Most of the benchmarks look to be m
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by Freaky 17y ago
I don't know about Linux, but on FreeBSD you can use pmcstat to instrument a running process; see pmc(3) and pmcstat(8). Linux probably has something similar. kldload: can't load hwpmc: Exec format error Meh, need a custom kernel f
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by Freaky 17y ago
Er.. no, I'm saying if there's something magically special about our organic composition required to make a conscious being, then we can build machines out of the same organic compounds. If you want to get those compounds by disassembling
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by Freaky 17y ago
Then we'll make machines out of "human organic compounds" to exploit those processes. We're machines. That we may not have made a machine of the same class ourselves is an implementation detail. Maybe a large one, but still not really an
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by Freaky 17y ago
See, there goes that story-telling and thinking we're "the shit" again. Thanks for providing a concrete example.
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by Freaky 17y ago
Amiga E will always be what I first think of when people talk about E: http://strlen.com/e/ Get your own letter shakes fist .
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by Freaky 17y ago
> The graph clearly shows that in raw terms, it helps guys to write longer messages. But when we factor in the actual time it takes to type a given message, it becomes clear that in terms of time put in vs. conversations generated, sho
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by Freaky 17y ago
To give people an idea; our main datacenter gives us 2kW per rack, and we pay extra for 4kW. A rack full of these ~700W storage pods would need about double that again, and isn't going to leave you much wiggle room.
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by Freaky 17y ago
Autism/Asperger's is a spectrum disorder; there's plenty of wiggle room, especially in adulthood.
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by Freaky 17y ago
Yes, look up cmpxchg and friends. FreeBSD has atomic.h providing a bunch of different atomic ops, e.g: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/amd64/include/... I believe FreeBSD also uses this style of buffer for dmesg, which sadly

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