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by ak217 11y ago
Except you still need a fast bus for the CPUs to talk to each other and to access shared memory. So for all but the most embarrassingly parallel workloads, you just move the bottleneck from the memory bus to the shared cache bus, do you not
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by ak217 11y ago
I love Matt Levine's writing. He has the incredible knack for making finance seem entertaining.
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by ak217 11y ago
Thanks for pinging here. Could you forward your info to my email? I will check that it was processed appropriately.
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by ak217 11y ago
DNAnexus - Mountain View or San Francisco, CA; Boston, MA - onsite, full-time DNAnexus develops a cloud genomics platform that enables our customers to succeed in a wide range of genomics enterprises, from personal genomics and molecular di
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by ak217 11y ago
Right, it is wrong and dangerous, but not for the reason the article claims. The user can always do something stupid to compromise their security, but if they just do what they're advised to do (store their token on their phone), then
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by ak217 11y ago
To clarify, Pepper is not a rewrite of Flash. It's a browser plugin sandbox API.
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by ak217 11y ago
Actually, the takeaway for me is that John Bohannon behaved unethically and made a bunch of invalid conclusions.
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by ak217 11y ago
Unfortunately, bleed-free won't save you from the exhaust that other planes are producing. Breathing exhaust-filled airport air can be a substantial chunk of the time spent on a short trip. Also, I don't know if I've ever exp
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by ak217 11y ago
Related: what do people think of Yodlee?
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by ak217 11y ago
Thanks for the link. I developed the annotation+decorator-based type checker in https://github.com/kislyuk/ensure before I saw typecheck-decorator (which looks like it has some cool features). One thing I'm proud
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by ak217 11y ago
Few companies have poisoned the well as thoroughly as OCZ has, by treating their customers and investors as utterly disposable. There are a lot of people out there who won't forget what they did. Toshiba would do well to retire the bra
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by ak217 11y ago
lib.ru is not exactly dodgy. It's the oldest Russian online library, founded in 1994.
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by ak217 11y ago
Try visiting Hong Kong sometime. Great road infrastructure. Great (possibly best in the world) subways. Roads are full of buses, delivery trucks, and taxis. Individuals don't own cars unless they're enormously rich, because it&#x2
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by ak217 11y ago
I'd say heavy-handed urban freeway construction is all the more unfortunate, even tragic in how it caused the pendulum to swing too far the other way, resulting in the current culture of nimbyism and reign of misguided anti-development
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by ak217 12y ago
> When done poorly (and most are), TOTP is basically no additional factor TOTP protects against the most common threats, and is trivial to implement compared to other solutions you refer to. Most of your complaints about TOTP security do
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by ak217 12y ago
> another year has gone by without considerable progress towards adoption of Python 3 What planet does the author live on?
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by ak217 12y ago
There is still a delta between how unicode behaves on 2 and how str behaves on 3, for example. In general, you'll be fine as long as you have a test suite that runs in CI for both 2 and 3 - to catch incompatibilities early.
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by ak217 12y ago
Shameless plug of a modern Python 2/3 porting tool that I wrote: https://github.com/kislyuk/eight , which builds upon the excellent work in https://pypi.python.org/pypi/future .
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by ak217 12y ago
Yes - they are competing already. HBO Now is out. https://order.hbonow.com/
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by ak217 12y ago
This and the "great TLD expansion" in general seems like a great way for ICANN to make itself irrelevant. People will just stop trusting TLDs they don't recognize.
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by ak217 12y ago
It's funny that you mention usability and expressibility (expressiveness?) as R's upside compared to Python. I've used both extensively, and in my experience, R is horrendously bad at both, and Python blows it out of the wate
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by ak217 12y ago
They are going to sell the house on account of this?! I wish there were more places like this, with their property values dinged by lack of cable. I would jump on such a discount.
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by ak217 12y ago
A naive guess is that most of that is filesystem overhead. Were you using tmpfs?
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by ak217 12y ago
PCIe or SATA attached SSD random access latency is around 0.2ms. Typical RAM latency is 100ns, maybe 200 in a NUMA cross-node access. That's a 3 orders of magnitude difference. Add another order of magnitude for network-attached SSD. B
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by ak217 12y ago
Don't know about the OP, but we were bitten by this - badly - after our logic to throttle Glacier retrieval failed. AWS has now added the ability to set a spending limit to avoid runaway retrievals. Nonetheless, from my point of view t
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by ak217 12y ago
What were the more appropriate solutions?
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by ak217 12y ago
AWS just announced a few days ago that their latest Xen patch will be deployed through a live update to their hypervisor kernel, and that going forward they expect patches like this to be rolled out live. The real upside of AWS is that they
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by ak217 12y ago
Original article: http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3222....
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by ak217 12y ago
Aside from the obvious problems with keeping an atmosphere, can tidally locked planets have a magnetosphere?
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by ak217 12y ago
I believe the Prius is definitely more complex than a typical ICE car. It has many, many other systems to support the hybrid drive in addition to the power split device, including many that are genuine innovations too. It's a testament

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