amock

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by amock 10y ago
The ambiguity can be resolved by type annotations, so I think that this won't cause much pain in practice.
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by amock 10y ago
It doesn't have to, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility#F... for an example of how it can.
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by amock 10y ago
He says at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11671968 that he's going to put the code on github, so I guess we'll see.
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What does the future hold?(voxelquest.com)
43 points by amock 10y ago|9 comments
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by amock 10y ago
I doubt the power producers care what happens to the power since they just need to get rid of it. Given the rarity of these events and the cost of building something that can dissipate large amounts of energy very quickly I don't thin
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by amock 10y ago
It was not originally in the title.
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by amock 10y ago
That is more descriptive, but it still sounds like queue functionality. Streaming processing is just a queue that gets emptied quickly and pub-sub is just a set of queues.
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by amock 10y ago
Depending on what you mean by "this" there are offerings by the big players. Google has Cloud Pub/Sub and AWS has Kinesis in addition to SQS, so two of the big players do have offerings. I'm not familiar enough with Az
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by amock 10y ago
It's a distributed message queue.
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by amock 10y ago
Why would the FBI confiscate and sell his property? Just because he was arrested doesn't mean he's guilty, and even if he his that doesn't give the FBI the right to confiscate his property.
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by amock 10y ago
According to the article Visa is releasing a software update to make the transactions faster.
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by amock 10y ago
Gmail is all about unique content. That's why Gmail search is slower than web search.
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by amock 11y ago
I'm guessing it was built and tested internally at Google and no one tested it with bazel. It also depends on smasher, which I believe should be declared in the WORKSPACE file. So unless you want to manually build it you'll have
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by amock 11y ago
I think the reason is that the computational power needed to use LDPC is much greater than that required for XOR.
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by amock 11y ago
According to a video in the Ars Technica article linked in another post the Moai may have been toppled by an earthquake rather than inter clan warfare, so there may not have been war.
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by amock 11y ago
I think http://wptavern.com/linode-confirms-data-security-breach-tha... is a good reason to switch. Linode's security can't be trusted.
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by amock 11y ago
What do you think of as voxels? It seems like a value at a point in a three dimensional grid is the volume equivalent of a pixel.
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by amock 11y ago
You don't need to spend anywhere close to $1600. I just put together http://pcpartpicker.com/p/p8MjmG with only a little consideration for price and it's less than $900 while exceeding the requirements.
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by amock 11y ago
I used one server as a Tor relay and another to server static files. The Tor node used almost 100% of one core to server about 25mbps of traffic and there wasn't enough load on the static file server to notice the CPU load, but decomp
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by amock 11y ago
I've been running a server for a few months without any issues. The CPU is really slow, but the network seems ok.
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by amock 11y ago
Camp fires do produce harmful particles and I'm pretty sure that BBQs do as well. Purposefully breathing the smoke generated by either of them is a bad idea.
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by amock 11y ago
HFS+ can be case sensitive, it's just that many Mac applications will not work if it is.
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by amock 11y ago
More than the specific problems with collections that he talks about, I think the problem of allowing clearly broken methods into the standard collections is the real issue. Why would they accept an implementation f map where map isn'
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by amock 11y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association#Fin... the NRA receives the majority of its funding from small donors. I don't know what you consider "unbelievable", but it seems l
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Reversing Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator hack – half the ROM of the HP-35(files.righto.com)
1 points by amock 11y ago|0 comments
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by amock 11y ago
From the document: OPL shares many features with the educational programming language, Xerox Smalltalk 72, which was in turn based on the earlier languages Logo, Simula 67, and to a certain extent Lisp.
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by amock 11y ago
As does Python.
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by amock 12y ago
Yes, but that's a very different kind of system. AWS has to deal with a very large number of servers handling authentication for client that aren't trusted by the credential owner. HN has clients with credentials accessing a sing
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by amock 12y ago
Signing the URL should prevent that, but it still seems overly complicated.
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by amock 12y ago
Ada get compiled to machine code, so of course it can run directly on the CPU. There's also no reason it can't be used to write a compiler and there's probably several Ada compilers written in Ada. I'm not sure what you

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