amock

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by amock 10y ago
Couldn't you solve that by sorting by the underlying byte order? Since it is required to be UTF-8 that should be fast and unambiguous.
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Mill Computing in 2017(us7.campaign-archive2.com)
3 points by amock 10y ago|0 comments
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Talos Secure Workstation – Campaign Extension – Crowd Supply(crowdsupply.com)
1 points by amock 10y ago|0 comments
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by amock 10y ago
I was also a "lifetime" customer and my memories of the terrible treatment, including one of the founders flaming people on the forums for making reasonable requests, mean I will never do business with Joyent again.
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by amock 10y ago
Microbial life has to get the nutrients from somewhere, so you do need fertilizer and the biochar is the fertilizer. It's not impossible to sequester carbon this way, it's just that it seems like it's going to cost significa
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by amock 10y ago
I don't see how startups would help this, but this only becomes useful at scale so if it doesn't scale it's not useful. If we had unlimited land to grow things on we would have far fewer problems to begin with, but land is r
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by amock 10y ago
I don't see how this could work. You need a place to plant all of those trees and let them grow and then store them so that they don't decompose and release CO2 back into the atmosphere. That's a lot of land and it seems li
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by amock 10y ago
That's only been available for a short while and only on new plans.
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by amock 10y ago
A CD ladder or I Bonds will earn more than most savings accounts and is still risk free and easily accessible after a short period.
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by amock 10y ago
"Programming in Haskell", which is the book linked to here, is only 320 pages long, so I think you are confusing it with "Haskell Programming from First Principles", which is over 1200 pages long.
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by amock 10y ago
I think one of the big problems with the T1 was that each core only had one FPU, so anything that needed floating point math was really slow. Since this only has two threads per core that should be much less of a problem along with anythin
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by amock 10y ago
I've tried Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. Verizon and T-Mobile give my phone IPv6 addresses while AT&T is IPv4 only. Only Verizon gives my tethered devices IPv6 addresses.
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by amock 10y ago
I tried Homebrew and had lots of trouble with it. I like that MacPorts is isolated so that I don't need to worry about bad interactions with the Apple compilers and libraries.
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by amock 10y ago
This is not just a US thing. See http://www.infoplease.com/world/statistics/obesity.html and http://www.who.int/gho/ncd/risk_factors/overweight/en/
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by amock 10y ago
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_foreclosure... is what he's talking about.
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by amock 10y ago
Yes. It's about not having anything like Intel's ME running code you can't audit or control that has full access to your hardware. It's basically the same pitch as for Libreboot https://libreboot.org/ .
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Unreal Engine 4 on OpenPOWER(raptorengineering.com)
93 points by amock 10y ago|40 comments
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by amock 10y ago
Mac OS 9 and earlier used colons as path separators and some support for that made it into OS X, although it might be gone by now. Apple's guidelines https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202808 recommend not using c
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by amock 10y ago
Have you looked at QUIC? It seems like it addresses the problems with HTTP2 over TCP as well as providing some additional benefits like like speeding up the secure connection establishment.
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by amock 10y ago
That's not a useful comparison. LZFSE is meant to be very fast and energy efficient while xz is meant for high compression while using lots of CPU and memory.
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by amock 10y ago
I see how it is a bad measure for some cases, but I don't think that makes it a bad tool. It's like financial advice that says how much someone should save for retirement or spend on rent based on income. Someone with a normal j
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by amock 10y ago
What's wrong with BMI for something like this? It's such a simple measure and it seems to be useful for predicting health issues. From what I've read body fat percentage is what really matters, but accurately calculating th
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by amock 10y ago
This seems like it would be easy to avoid by not launching too high. I think there are already rules about disposing of satellites after they are no longer being used, so there's no reason those rules couldn't be applied to tiny
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by amock 10y ago
According to the linked press release it will cost less than $200 million for an additional five years, so the cost is less than $40 million/year.
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by amock 10y ago
Ocean acidification happens when CO2 dissolves in the ocean. If that carbon is fixed first by algae then it won't cause acidification.
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by amock 10y ago
I had forgotten about that. I don't really know how HFS+ compression works, so I'll wait and see APFS turns out.
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by amock 10y ago
That's not really a useful statement. HFS+ has worked pretty well for many years and is really well tested. This will be a completely new filesystem, which means it will have lots of new code that can have bugs or incompatibilities w
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by amock 10y ago
I also didn't see any mention of compression. Hopefully those are at least being worked on and just didn't make it into the docs yet.
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by amock 10y ago
Total Wireless offers a plan with unlimited talk and text and 5GB of data for $35 on Verizon's network. It is throttled at 5Mbps, but if you use little enough data to make Fi worthwhile I don't think that will be an issue for you
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by amock 10y ago
How could either of those situations make someone an insider or have anything to do with RICO? Buying a product and testing it is something anyone can do and doesn't require any inside information.

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