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by ableal 15y ago
It's by Rob Pike. Not a wise choice of target to nitpick. When he says "I guarantee that [...]", I'm inclined to take his word for it. Nice piece, clearing up a cobweb in a poorly lighted corner. And teaches (with code example) what one rea
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by ableal 15y ago
As usual, http://lwn.net has had good coverage and comments on the topic. (A search on "Bufferbloat site:lwn.net" will get them.)
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by ableal 15y ago
I read through the original DisplayMate piece to this linked observation ("Line of Purples") on color gamut: http://www.displaymate.com/Gamut_6.html I found it concise and interesting in its own right, in particular this bit: Note that c
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by ableal 15y ago
Found additional details here: http://daniellefong.com/2012/01/22/green-dreams-life-in-the-...
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by ableal 15y ago
Also, John Varley's story Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
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SUPERCOMPUTERS vs your computer in bang-for-buck battle(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by ableal 15y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_lifecycle_management http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_data_management
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by ableal 15y ago
ViralBShah: your account was shadow-banned in the last discussion 10 days ago. (No reason I can see to ban one of the authors. Check logged out or from another account with "showdead" on.)
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by ableal 15y ago
"Over the years, each time I have had an opportunity to see the impact of adding a new layer of error detection, the result has been the same. It fires fast and it fires frequently." This deserves quoting. Note that, as it says in the bio
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Up in flames(cringely.com)
60 points by ableal 15y ago|14 comments
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Synthetic hydrocarbons: Superhero oil-burping algae will save the world(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by ableal 15y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 15y ago
"The other option is that Intel might be looking to boost the performance of its upcoming smartphone- and tablet-oriented Medfield platform." I'd go with that one (the first reason was pretty implausible). Get the third party suppliers us
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by ableal 15y ago
It's the product of the best parts of Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and more The best, most inventive, written SF never made it to the movies/TV, or was beaten to an unrecognizable pulp in the process. No particular snobbery
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by ableal 15y ago
You might try starting from this link, which was posted a few days ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equation
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Intel process boosts SSD performance: new 520 more than doubles 510's IOPS(theregister.co.uk)
6 points by ableal 15y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 15y ago
The Nano Letters abstract, linked by the TR piece, at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl203701g , has good enough pictures, including a voltage-current plot. That plot seems to demonstrate useful switching (1 nA to 10 uA within 1V).
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by ableal 15y ago
Android ROMs from XDA-developers are often distributed there. E.g. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957652
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by ableal 15y ago
Light gray on pure white is not exactly the ideal scheme to foist on people whose eyes already hurt enough. (My turn for broken-record public service announcements, I guess. Those pages show little sign of abating ...)
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by ableal 15y ago
> Not to make RMS happy, but to protect savvy consumers from monumentally idiotic Hrrm ... that was RMS's point, way back when, with some printer, if memory serves ...
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Prediction #1: A new CEO for Apple(cringely.com)
1 points by ableal 15y ago|0 comments
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Doctorow: The coming war on general-purpose computation(lwn.net)
198 points by ableal 15y ago|53 comments
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by ableal 15y ago
The picture on page 2 ( http://regmedia.co.uk/2011/12/22/memristor.jpg ), taken from the Williams PDF also linked in the article, is worth a look. Took me a bit to figure out that, in the waveforms, voltage is the grey line, with the resu
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Inventor flames Reg, HP in memristor brouhaha(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by ableal 15y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 15y ago
Unfortunately, that will probably play out the other way around. Stross mentioned "loyalty cards", trading privacy for prizes or discounts; online that will be "loyalty cookies" ...
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by ableal 15y ago
As a data point, I can add that I bought an HTC HD2 back in December 2009. It had come out a couple of months before, and the hardware was very nice - it stayed at the top until this year. However the software was Win Mobile 6.5; it was occ
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by ableal 15y ago
A few years ago I took a look at this Unix circuit schematic editor, which seems to be still going strong. Symbols are kept directly in Postscript, if memory serves. http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/ : "XCircuit regards circuits as
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McIlroy: Remarks for Japan Prize ceremony for Dennis Ritchie, May 2011(cs.dartmouth.edu)
1 points by ableal 15y ago|0 comments
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SSDs choked by crummy disk interfaces(theregister.co.uk)
6 points by ableal 15y ago|0 comments
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Behind RIM’s $485M Write-off(mondaynote.com)
1 points by ableal 15y ago|0 comments
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Silence is golden(cringely.com)
4 points by ableal 15y ago|0 comments

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