__d

77 ms·

901.
by __d 7y ago
Not to disagree with your point, but Plan9 is not really a Unix kernel, despite being written by some of the same group at Bell Labs.
902.
by __d 7y ago
I'll point out that those benchmarks show C++ faster for four, C faster for five, and both the same for one scenario. Modern C++ enables some very concise expression, at the cost of significant language complexity, and enormous compile
903.
by __d 7y ago
> Not if you're the person who would have to do the work ;-) I think it'd still make sense, but I understand it might not be something that you'd consider worth doing :-) > Bad assumption :-) I'm kinda prepared to
904.
by __d 7y ago
Well, sure I could go do that measurement myself, but it’d make more sense to have the results in one place? A) my assumption is more that people understand the difference between a pure interpreter and a JIT. Clearly there’s value in show
905.
by __d 7y ago
I guess I'd like to see results using Pypy as well as CPython, since comparing an interpreter with the node.js runtime seems it only proves an obvious point: a JIT will usually outperform an interpreter. (Except where it doesn't,
906.
by __d 7y ago
It's tough to find people willing to talk about anything substantial, because doing so gives away information that is otherwise giving them an edge over you ... Quantopian has some forums, there's groups on LinkedIn, but there&#x2
907.
by __d 7y ago
Where's your DNS? And good work on the credit cards -- too many people forget that point of failure.
908.
by __d 7y ago
using HTML rather than plain text was the real win. HTTP vs Gopher wasn't anything anyone cared about compared to the ease of use of Hypertext links. And then came inline images, and it was all over. I'm all for plain HTML, no CS
909.
by __d 7y ago
You're right, doh. See above.
910.
by __d 7y ago
You're right. Brainfade. So, even with protocol overhead from all the stack layers chewing up maybe an order of magnitude, that'd still leave 10GBps. So .. I guess it's still possible, if impractical, to outperform a good PC
911.
by __d 7y ago
For a lot of "pro" usage scenarios, the local environment will have one "LAN" that has Internet gateway, and various local services on it, plus a dedicated storage network using a separate switching infrastructure (and t
912.
by __d 7y ago
Twin ConnectX6 adaptors, gives you 800Gbps, or ~1GB/s, at an absolute theoretical max. It's good to see that local storage has finally returned to the reasonable state of being faster than network storage. SATA / SAS was a l
913.
by __d 7y ago
Please note, IANAL, YMMV, etc, etc. If you (or your spuose, family member, friend, gym buddy, whatever) work or worked for the competitor, it could be insider knowledge. I think that's not your problem. If your product could be constr
914.
by __d 7y ago
> Well, interestingly if the concept became popular it would > bankrupt itself through an oversupply of taxis. I'm not sure that'd be the outcome? If many/most people who own a vehicle make it available for shared use,
915.
by __d 7y ago
fman ( https://fman.io ) is a cross-platform GUI file manager. It's from the Norton Commander school of file management. It's under active development, and the author seems pretty responsive. It's not gratis, but n
916.
by __d 7y ago
When I first heard this idea, my feeling was that the set of people willing to share their car is small. I know that my car has my stuff in it, and I'd need to take that out and return it every time I used the car, and that'd suc
917.
by __d 7y ago
I agree that the economics here are interesting. I think it's useful to consider firstly car sharing, without the autonomous aspect. I think it's a pretty compelling argument for many car owners whose capital is otherwise tied up
918.
by __d 7y ago
See https://www.carnextdoor.com.au for some evidence that there exist people who are perfectly happy to allow random people do who knows what in their cars.
919.
by __d 7y ago
The thing the experts always say is not to charge by time, but by delivered value. I haven't got there yet, and my clients seem to prefer to work with a time-based rate. YMMV. But ... I do adjust my hours according to my productivity.
920.
by __d 7y ago
I think there are two different philosophies at work here. In one, international trading has built a web of mutual dependencies between countries. When your economic well-being depends on another country, you're less likely to go to w
921.
by __d 7y ago
Yes, I think it's possible . There's a lot of legal and compliance activity that would need to be outsourced. The technology could be mostly outsourced. In theory your trading strategy can be automated, and while it works, co
922.
by __d 7y ago
WINE already does this. Darling is attempting (very slowly) to do this for macOS.
923.
by __d 7y ago
Assuming that the generated gasoline is used, there's ultimately nothing removed from the air. It does reduce or eliminate the need to source gasoline from "fossil" sources however.
924.
by __d 7y ago
What about dust, pollens, etc, from the air? Is there a maintenance requirement to clean filters or something? Does the efficiency of ingesting the water vapour and CO2 decrease over time until maintenance is performed?
925.
by __d 7y ago
For comparison, in Sydney, Australia, as of this morning, basic unleaded 91 octane fuel is about AUD 1.35 / litre at best. Which is USD 0.94 at today's exchange rate. Just under USD 4 / US gallon. Of that, AUD 0.41 is feder
926.
by __d 7y ago
"60kWh/gallon" -- is that gallon of gasoline? Or ethanol? Or CO2? If you know the figures off-hand (to save me doing the chemistry), how much water and CO2 is required to produce the gallon of output?
927.
by __d 7y ago
Not just canned: charged with criminal offenses, and jailed. See Sergey Aleynikov, Kang Gao, Jason Vuu, Glen Cressman. And that's just the banks, not defense.
928.
by __d 7y ago
If your concern is theft of proprietary source code by employees, there are really only two things you can do: 1) Change to an open source model so there's nothing to steal 2) Treat your employees well, so there's no desire to ste
929.
by __d 7y ago
I think worship is overstating the attitude. Things I admire: his scale of vision (replace fossil fuels, expand beyond earth, augment human intelligence); his willingness to go for clean-sheet designs; his persistence, iterating and learnin
930.
by __d 7y ago
On one hand, this is neat, and it ticks boxes in my C++-programming heart. On the other hand, it's frankly embarrassing that this is what needs to be done to implement a trivial data structure with the ability to print its value to a t

More ›