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by IX-103 2y ago
Imagine the entire machine coming to a halt, ignoring input, and making grinding noises for 5-10 seconds. That's what saving a small file was like in the floppy disk era. If that was happening randomly while you're trying to type
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by IX-103 2y ago
Undefined behavior in C/C++ has a different meaning than you're using. If a compiler encounters a piece of code that does something whose behavior is undefined in the spec, it can theoretically emit code that does anything and s
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by IX-103 2y ago
The main benefit from contiguous storage is it can be a better match to the cache. Modern CPUs read an entire cache line in a burst. So if you're iterating through a contiguous array of items then chances are the data is already in the
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by IX-103 2y ago
> If RAM is the main bottleneck then CPUs should be on the table That's certainly not the case. The graphics memory model is very different from the CPU memory model. Graphics memory is explicitly designed for multiple simultaneous
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by IX-103 2y ago
I wasn't there for the debate, but was there for the reversal. I don't remember there being anything explicitly said about it. The only thing I can think of is that I know of some important projects that couldn't migrate to p
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by IX-103 2y ago
Pressurized with what? They've already used their fuel for the landing. They can't put anything else in the tanks without worrying about contamination for the next flight.
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by IX-103 2y ago
No, they just corrected the punctuation. It's now "Don't. Be evil!" Reflecting their inability to do almost anything, and their lack of morals when they do.
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by IX-103 2y ago
Google doesn't use Chrome data for Ads or Search. They're not allowed to based on the TOS, and also they have government regulators watching carefully to make sure they don't make a mistake like that.
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by IX-103 2y ago
> I wanted to see how a database management system (DBMS) stores an index in both disk and memory, and how it searches through an Index...I chose SQLite for my experiments SQLite is a bit of an outlier in how it handles...everything, but
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by IX-103 2y ago
Depends on how it's marketed. As long as they avoid making specific health claims (say "boost immune function" instead of "cures disease X") they can get away with it. If it's "homeopathic" they can e
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by IX-103 2y ago
Chromium already has a zero-copy IPC mechanism that uses shared memory built-in. It's called Mojo. That's how the various browser processes talk to each other. They could just have passed mojo::BigBuffer messages to their custom.p
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by IX-103 2y ago
We'll see if varicella stays gone. It's tricky in that it can embed itself in the host genome and come back later. That means that until the last person exposed to the virus dies, we can't really consider it gone. Good luck c
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by IX-103 2y ago
Waymo is using full lidar and other sensors, whereas Tesla is relying on pure vision systems (to the point of removing radar on newer models). So they're solving a much harder problem. As for whether it's worthwhile to solve that
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by IX-103 2y ago
To be fair, the teens knew about the gas leak and started the truck in an attempt to get away. Gas leaks like that shouldn't happen easily, but people near pipelines like that should also be made aware of the risks of gas leaks, as som
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by IX-103 2y ago
Should we require Professional Engineers to sign off on such projects the same way they are required to for other safety critical infrastructure (like bridges and dams)? The Professional Engineer that signed off is liable for defects in the
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Odd that you never found what you weren't looking for ...
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by IX-103 2y ago
It's only deterministic if you feed the seeds into the exact same pseudorandom number generator and fetch random values from it in the exact same order. If you take a single extra random value out of order, then everything ends up diff
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by IX-103 2y ago
You provided a citation, but it doesn't prove your point. In general frequency modulation is more efficient than amplitude modulation (but requires more complicated receivers). For example GMSK in the 2G standard GSM replaced the less
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by IX-103 2y ago
If the noise is white gaussian noise (AWGN) then the phase noise is essentially the same as the amplitude noise (by the properties of the Fourier Transform). Also, the information in AM is carried by the relative amplitude of the signal.
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by IX-103 2y ago
People keep bringing up Manifest v3 like it's some evil plot to show people ads. Nevermind that Chrome already ships with its own adblocker which blocks bad ads. The fact is that with the Spectre mitigations added to Chrome, the perf
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by IX-103 2y ago
If you've never seen good developers bork their local environments then you clearly haven't worked on a large enough and complex enough project. I worked on a large project that needed to support development on many platforms. T
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by IX-103 2y ago
Firefox has been phasing out third party cookies and implementing protections against browser fingerprinting. Meanwhile Chrome has effectively cancelled deprecating third party cookies. It's no surprise that if you use a browser that m
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by IX-103 2y ago
Yes, just like restaurants compete against home cooked meals.
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If you need to customize the behavior of certain interactions (such as modifying physics with a specific type of object), you need to subclass since some behaviors are only available as overrideable functions, not as signals. Also the docum
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I thought they found one flight suit. Can they not use it in the cargo area?
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That's right. You can just replace all that institutional knowledge and established social network infrastructure for a cost so low it's negligible. Not worth mentioning even. /s
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Only other chromium web browsers that enable that feature. Safari and Firefox already said they're not implementing the feature, so unless they change their mind it's not going anywhere.
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It's complicated. Chrome won't block 3rd party cookies by default . But it will present the users with a choice of whether to block them (with what exactly that means TBD). If most or all users choose to block them then it would
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by IX-103 2y ago
That defeats the point of the exercise. The whole point was about the state of some isolated system. Otherwise we could say that the detector observes the state of the system without even needing the poison or the car
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by IX-103 2y ago
If you think of the government like a business, Social Security and Medicare are like pensions. Should companies be allowed to include pensions in their operations budget, or should pension planning be entirely separate? I can guarantee you

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