MaxGanzII

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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
In my experience, all the major platforms eventually close all accounts.
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
> it’s just bad UX "Bad" I would say means you can still achieve your task. I was presented with over sixty download links, and not being an idiot or someone to be taken for a ride, I refused to go along with it, and that means
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
Exactly the problem I had. It would take Amazon almost no effort to make a single archive with all those files in. I cannot help but view this as deliberate obstruction.
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
I've been trying for over two years to get my data from Amazon. I eventually got to a point where Amazon provided a web-page, which has no less than sixty-two download links on, each of which would have to be manually operated. It&#x
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
Seemed okay to me with regard to caveats. Performance issues -> it's lock-free and scales profoundly better than non-lock-free.
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
> So all operations on _Atomic variables in C11 are implicitly atomic I may be wrong, but I would be shocked if this was so. I think you may be mixing up non-tearing writes as opposed to atomic writes, which are performed using either ca
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
An atomic write will need to be issued, and on the face of it, that C11 code is not issuing an atomic write. I could be wrong, but I would expect a particular function or macro to be used for an atomic write, and when it is not, you have n
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
> So yes, that "++*barrier" operation is read-modify-write atomically AND with memory-barriers in sequential-consistency style The quoted material does not describe this assertion.
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
Lock-free garbage collection exists and there's quite a body of literature.
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
You can produce this behaviour. Look for MCAS, from Cambridge Uni. It never took off. I think it didn't scale.
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
You're talking here about memory barriers, but I was asking if atomic writes are in use. Atomic writes have nothing to do with memory barriers. On modern platforms atomic writes are available without memory barriers of any kind. Memor
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
> The fact that another thread sees the incremented value implies that that thread will see all stores that happened-before that incremented value. Firstly, if the writer has used no barriers, writes can emerge in any order (and may neve
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
> They're using atomic read/writes with sequential-consistency. In the C11 code? I'm not up to speed with that version of the spec, but unless there is behaviour invoked by the use of _Atomic, the code looks to me to be p
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
A barrier, of any kind, makes no difference here. Barriers only influence the order in which events become visible if and when they DO become visible . Barriers say nothing about whether or not events actually do become visible; and it
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
I may be wrong, but I don't see this working in theory. The basic problem is that for any physical core, there is no guarantee that any writes will ever be seen by any other core (unless the necessary extra magic is done to make th
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
> Smith certainly envisioned a significant role for government No, he did not. Quote me anything in WoN where he says this should happen. He writes about where it does happen, but that's all; he describes the situation. That&
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
Neither of which is Smith asserting rents are parasitic. He describes economics; others put opinions into his words.
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
Wikpedia can write what it likes; to my eye that's empty prose.
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
> even called parasitic I do not recall this from WoN. Quote please.
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
I was speaking once to a Dutch acquaintence, who told me that in his economics class at Uni, they were taught Smith was in favour of large State subsidies...!
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
In what way? The subjects are utterly different. All I can think of is that it introduces you to Smith and his style of writing. To my eye, this is not of any particular value.
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
Russia has invaded Ukraine. It's like having a criminal break into your house. If my neighbours are unhappy with me taking action against that criminal - maybe they're friends with him - I'm not much inclined, in the situatio
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
> or ourselves from them Russian media is purely State controlled and is preaching justifications for the invasion of Ukraine. This is not a free speech situation.
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
> how is it free speech if "russia today" is banned by youtube or facebook or twitter in the US or EU but if russia blocks facebook or CNN in russia then its "attack of free speech?" Free speech does not include using
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
> We've been having our fair share of anti-Russia propaganda as well, we're not innocent of what we're accusing Russia of. No. These are not comparable. In the West, you have a range of views and there is no deliberate c
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
Consider; Russia is invading Ukraine. If they keep at it, they will win; the military balance is too much in their favour. Having conquered, they will then block out all content which carries truth and replace it with propaganda, just as it
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
The Russian State is and has been for a long time pushing a profoundly anti-Western agenda. The Russian people are completely controlled. They have no way, even if they knew exactly what was going on and understood it for what it is, to ra
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
Blog post with initial thoughts about internal design of serverless; https://amazonredshiftresearchproject.org/slblog/index.html
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
I've not yet investigated AQUA, but it's absolutely on the list. The idea that is handles some SQL functionality with additional parallelism seems fine, but then I read that if a query uses any AQUA functionality, it's someth
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by MaxGanzII 5y ago
AWS hype everything. What they emit is the dance routine of a sugar coated cheerleader squad. I am of the view everything which is not a strength is obfuscated. I have zero faith, confidence and trust is all information AWS emits. I app

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