KMag

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by KMag 3y ago
Code density is an issue, requiring huge caches for Itanium to remain competitive. These large caches consume lots of die area, making the chips both expensive and power-hungry. As I and others have pointed out, instead of a constant 3 ins
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by KMag 3y ago
Not sure about the app, but on the website, it was below the tiers. On my laptop screen, the pay-what-you-like option was below the fold.
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by KMag 3y ago
I should have said "paid members" instead of "supporters" to be more precise. He's currently at 432 members, but of those only 283 are paid members. Either way, $5 is probably both the median and the mode for the p
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by KMag 3y ago
As a father of 3, I can tell you elementary school teachers negotiate with terrorists on a daily basis.
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by KMag 3y ago
When I became a supporter yesterday, the average was under $10 per supporter per month. There's no shame in being a small supporter. Edit: I currently see 279 supporters for a total of $2,328 per month, so $8.34 average per month per
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by KMag 3y ago
Like most super-successful people, he's smart, hard-working, overconfident, and very lucky. His luck didn't work out for him this time when he overstepped his expertise. Survivorship bias made him think he'd be fine. (Yes,
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by KMag 3y ago
I'm not an accountant, but doesn't he need to realize investment losses in order to write them off? Capital expenses can be depreciated for tax write-offs, but I wasn't aware that corporate investments could be marked to mar
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by KMag 3y ago
Also note that this isn't Kent's first rodeo. bcache from the same author is an SSD-optimized block caching layer already in production in the Linux kernel. The idea is that bcache allows building of hybrid drives where the kern
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by KMag 3y ago
But, going the other way, I worked for over a decade on Goldman Sach's SecDB system. It's a quirky steampunk alternative future that branched from our light cone around 1995. There's a globally distributed eventually consis
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by KMag 3y ago
I intentionally didn't draw a causative link between my wife being a would-be immigrant and my being sympathetic. It's supporting evidence, not a causal relation. It's possible that you're often similarly misreading sta
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by KMag 3y ago
Agreed. Thank you.
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by KMag 3y ago
My wife has a pending green card application. I'm sympathetic to would-be immigrants, but... The Declaration of Independence declares it self-evident that people have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that
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by KMag 3y ago
I was a Java true believer in the late 90s/early 2000s, working on LimeWire, the most popular Java desktop app at the time (maybe of all time?). I thought we were close to a time when garbage collection was just as fast as manual memo
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by KMag 3y ago
To be more clear: if a 16-bit instruction is 32-bit aligned, then you might want a 16-bit noop so that the instruction following the noop is also 32-bit aligned. But, in that case, you could just use a 32-bit aligned 32-bit instruction at
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by KMag 3y ago
Which Unicode encoding are you talking about? It sounds a bit like you're talking about UTF-16 conjugate pairs, but that's not how those work. It's not how UTF-8 or UTF-32 work. So, which encoding is this?
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by KMag 3y ago
Don't forget the possibility of 5x 12-bit instructions. In particular, if you have only one or two possibilities for destination registers for each of the 5 positions (so an accumulator-like model), you could still have a quite useful
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by KMag 3y ago
For one, I don't see why you would ever pad a 16-bit instruction with a 16-bit noop instead of just using the 32-bit equivalent instruction. That way, you can skip decoding the no-op.
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by KMag 3y ago
Encrypted data is almost certainly being recorded now in anticipation of quantum computers being able to break it later.
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by KMag 3y ago
Right. It would be possible to implement the GIL as a readers-writer lock, where thread state includes a counter for the number of frames in the call stack that are within libraries not marked nogil. (Let's call these non-nogil libra
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by KMag 3y ago
You could sync certificates across hosts for this purpose, though. The advantage of multiple certificates is being able to revoke a subset of certificates if you can determine only a subset of your hosts have been compromised.
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by KMag 3y ago
I picked polar bears assuming probability of zoo (public or private) escape or ice age over the next 15k years means there's some real, but minuscule, risk.
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by KMag 3y ago
Edit: simplified version of my assertion: current budgets are X. It would cost Y to harden infrastructure against an event 10 times as large as the Carrington event. Even if it were trivial to increase the budget from X to X+Y, it's
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by KMag 3y ago
> because that's what matters over the specific strength ... but the specific strength does come into play when discussing the costs of hardening and mitigation. This event is twice as powerful as the previously known largest event.
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by KMag 3y ago
I believe the FEMA plans are for Carrington event-level storms, not a once-in-15,000-years storm.
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by KMag 3y ago
I'm aware of the Carrington event, which is why I mentioned being prepared for 100-year or 1,000-year events. The GP was specifically asking if any governments had plans for "a similar storm today", where the referenced stor
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by KMag 3y ago
But lower dividend yields mean lower yielding retirement funds, with quality of life effects downstream from that. Now, there's plenty to be said about the funding side of the equation to improve wealth inequality and/or increase
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by KMag 3y ago
Being properly prepared for a once-in-15k-years storm would likely require such a cost over such a long time for the expected benefit that it's not worth it. Hardening infrastructure against extremely rare disasters likely means less
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by KMag 3y ago
Sucrose is broken down in the stomach (by the low pH) and small intestine (by sucrase) into a 50/50 mix of glucose and fructose. The most common high fructose corn syrups are (to a first-order approximation, after dehydration) 58&#x2F
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by KMag 3y ago
It's too late to edit, but I swear I know the difference between ad and add. On a side note, I thought a naive shuffle with a well-seeded cryptographic-quality pseudorandom number generator was the most likely finding from his poker bo
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by KMag 3y ago
Yes. Did you happen to work with the AllAdvantage anti-fraud team, or know someone in Course 2 at MIT who dropped out of school writing poker bots and AllAdvantage bots?

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