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by _wmd 9y ago
This was the only reason I bought an Aura HD, turns out it was nowhere nearly high enough res. I see this has a much larger screen but a corresponding drop in DPI. Anyone tried this with a typical 11pt font 2 column paper?
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by _wmd 9y ago
Be careful what you wish for. https://github.com/qmlweb/qmlweb
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by _wmd 9y ago
mods: I think it is a deeply embarrassing indicator of the state of our industry that a balanced, well-referenced, academically framed discussion of the tradeoffs of a buzz-laden technology should be allowed to be flagged like this. At the
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by _wmd 9y ago
It's little surprise to find someone billing themselves as a 'distributed systems engineer' disliking a tool that helps regular people choose simple designs where appropriate. From the perspective of a regular user, many &quo
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by _wmd 9y ago
Yup! Even with LTE average-case latency of around 100ms (and easily double that for 4G/3G-only areas), worst case latencies are easily measured in _seconds_. According to Google, driver reaction times are measured in the range 0.7..3.
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by _wmd 9y ago
Please do tell us about these better specced, better supported off-the-shelf commodity components! Unless they're planning to fab 100 of these, chances are high that the retail margin on a Pi still leads to one of the cheapest BOM for
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by _wmd 9y ago
The relevant keyword fu is 'congestion collapse', and it seems I may be misremembering what you can read about in the opening of Van Jacobsen's paper on congestion control ( http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/conga
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by _wmd 9y ago
> Your post sounds more like it is driven more by some issue you have with Google I'll ignore that and suggest instead you read up on what happened to the Internet in the early 90s, the last time congestion control literally broke
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by _wmd 9y ago
One of the major downsides to UDP is that it lacks any form of congestion control, so it's hard to justify QUIC's behaviour due to what it's built atop :) Meanwhile we're not talking about a small slice of bandwidth spen
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by _wmd 9y ago
Am I understanding things correctly? Because QUIC ramps up its bandwidth estimate more aggressively, it fundamentally competes unfairly with TCP? Is that an inherent property or something that can be fixed? Definitely it's too late t
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by _wmd 9y ago
It's the opening problem from Programming Pearls: http://www.fusu.us/2013/06/bitmap-sort.html (edit: better link)
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by _wmd 9y ago
Did you even read what I wrote? They offer neither single/dedicated placement, capacity reservation (nor for that matter arch-specific capacity reservation). Meanwhile thanks for those links - I didn't realize Google, despite havi
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by _wmd 9y ago
Half of the parameters relate to features Google doesn't support yet - instance type - Google schedules you on whatever random CPU they have at hand unless you specify otherwise, with no ability to reserve capacity ahead of time, never
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by _wmd 9y ago
I'd assumed it referred to aggregate bandwidth, and indeed that seems to be the case after testing. Throughput to a single key still remains around 600mbit/sec within a region, and meanwhile the real problem with S3 isn't thr
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by _wmd 9y ago
Google offer reserved instances too. They're called committed use discounts
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by _wmd 9y ago
In Amazon's defence their billing system is far more complex than Google's, not because Google have done some marvellous job on theirs, but because it is a solid decade younger and hasn't caught up with all the bells and whis
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by _wmd 9y ago
Is there good documentation anywhere regarding the minimum set of blobs (kernel, HAL, modem, display etc drivers) necessary to gut an Android device back to its bare shell? I love these alternative OS projects, but really I think a lot of t
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by _wmd 9y ago
My data wasn't quite random! It repeats every 1kb, much smaller than zlib's window size (which is I think 16kb)
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by _wmd 9y ago
Today I learned! >>> import random,zlib,codecs >>> sample = random.getrandbits(1024).to_bytes(1024, 'big') * 1024 >>> len(zlib.compress(codecs.encode(sample, 'base64'))) 22083
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by _wmd 9y ago
I'm not sure why you believe that is a counterexample - it is anything but. That interpreter can still run code written against the original DOM APIs in the original syntax, as defined 22 years ago - around time the <noscript> ta
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by _wmd 9y ago
Base64 has been around forever, and hex has significantly lower information density than it - consistently more than 30% smaller. As for doing something horribly wrong, I dunno, ensuring literally billions of moms and pops can exchange baby
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by _wmd 9y ago
Don't worry, the industry moves so fast that entire generations have come and retired in the 11 months since they last leaked private data all over the Internet (Don't even get me started on FlexSSL!)
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by _wmd 9y ago
I couldn't doubt it after watching Sophia the robot's interview: https://www.facebook.com/io9.com/videos/10156086364533967/?s...
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by _wmd 9y ago
You're speaking of Singularity and it's "software isolated processes", which amounted to static verification of IL before AOT compiling it to x86. From the perspective of Sing#, the only way to express IPC was in the for
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by _wmd 9y ago
Nitpicking of this sort is incredibly annoying, it's obvious they mean the presence of the compounds does not match current theories of the origin of the solar system.
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by _wmd 9y ago
Perhaps I've been living under a rock for the past 30 years, but transient instructions are a new idea for me
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by _wmd 9y ago
There's no reason to invent new terminology for speculative execution. Also, the mapping between the variety of CPU caches and real memory has been known imperfect since the beginning of time. But meanwhile, yes, can definitely agree h
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by _wmd 9y ago
Gave away most of my furniture and electronics, packed the rest in a cheap storage unit and fled London to a pristine and mostly unoccupied south Indian beach, where I spent 5 months worth of mornings going for a swim before sitting down to
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by _wmd 9y ago
AFAIK on Intel it's not possible to load a microcode update over the top of one already loaded by your firmware, so if the firmware shipped an older update, the firmware really needs to be updated. (Please someone correct me if this is
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by _wmd 9y ago
I'd have presumed otherwise, but I'm not sure if you're understanding the API correctly.. it's not about sending multiple messages to the same destination, but to multiple destinations in a single call. The msg_hdr struc

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