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by andrewf 6y ago
You're basically overclocking your storage medium.
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by andrewf 6y ago
At work, we sidestepped having to explicitly do a Python 2 -> 3 transition, because we were already rewriting the monolith as a bunch of microservices. Took 7 years.
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by andrewf 6y ago
JetBrains was initially going with a more traditional subscription model, and introduced the perpetual license fallback in response to negative feedback. HN comments and the original announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by andrewf 6y ago
If I'm sold on trying this, and have a second VESA mount at my desk, does anyone have a solid purchase recommendation?
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by andrewf 6y ago
If you're out here in future, you'd probably enjoy the museum ships SS Jeremiah O'Brien and USS Pampanito. They're right next to the tourist trap pier at Fisherman's Wharf. https://www.ssjeremiahobrien.o
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by andrewf 6y ago
I've deposited loose coins at a couple of Wells Fargo branches in San Francisco, they had counting machines behind the counter.
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by andrewf 6y ago
This is someone starting with id Software's internal level editor for Doom (for NeXTSTEP circa '93), and getting it to build and run on OS X: https://github.com/fragglet/DoomEd/compare/b5885d42226568
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by andrewf 6y ago
At 13:50, is he saying that x64 code running under Rosetta will enjoy TSO memory ordering? Is Apple implementing something stricter than the ARM memory model in their own silicon, maybe with a mode bit that Rosetta gets to set?
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by andrewf 6y ago
What's weird is that if you git blame a bit, a lot of the elaborate stuff was contributed by Intel.
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by andrewf 6y ago
_Z3addii looks like C++ name mangling - embedding parameter/return type information in the symbol (function) name, required to support C++ features on top of the linkers C++ grew up with. Declaring the function as `extern "C"
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by andrewf 6y ago
I think this depends on: why are you taking notes? Sometimes I'll take notes to help me process and remember things. These can literally be throwaway, as in the piece of paper gets thrown away at the end of the day, or the TextEdit win
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by andrewf 6y ago
Intel leaned into this with the 286's protected mode - segments became references to "selectors" so the OS could place your 64k chunks of code/data wherever it wanted within 16M. I think the existing base of 8080 softwar
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by andrewf 6y ago
Does compiler behavior matter here, or could your problems be fixed in your editor? On the rare occasion I write inline assembly, my annoyances were autoindent, syntax highlighting, and keystrokes required. Only the latter is directly cause
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by andrewf 6y ago
Pricing is per-location, so the hotel thing could be part of it. Downtown locations will also be more expensive than suburbs etc. Typically, at all locations, you'll pay a much higher per-unit price for smaller containers. (I only know
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by andrewf 6y ago
I wonder if the master source was that abstract, the original Microsoft BASIC was for the 8080, and there were several 8080 -> 8086 source translators. TRANS.COM shipped with 86-DOS before it became Microsoft MS-DOS. https://t
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by andrewf 7y ago
I'm not sure exactly what the author was referring to but http://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos/dos-4-0/ might be of interest.
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by andrewf 7y ago
You may like Alastair Reynolds, he does hard scifi infused with elements of horror and space opera. He doesn't tear down his characters' minds to the degree Peter Watts does.
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by andrewf 7y ago
Hi! I took a shot at vectorized UTF-8 validation in 2012. I just put this faster validator, and Daniel Lemire's code, into my test harness at https://github.com/andrewffff/utf8fuzz/tree/2019_compare On a
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by andrewf 7y ago
The USPS used to sort the mail on trains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_post_office
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by andrewf 7y ago
I think Win2K had higher memory requirements, which meant a more expensive machine for the same performance. (This was always an issue for WinNT and OS/2 versus the DOS/Win9x line) I think software compat was also lacking. DOS gam
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by andrewf 7y ago
Postgres can do indexes on expressions. (A bitmap scan over 2 rows may not be the most impressive example!) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/indexes-expressional.html foo=# create table foo(x TEXT); foo=#
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by andrewf 7y ago
If you have GSuite you@yourdomain.com is your gmail address. yourdomain.com's MX records will be pointed to Google. This is different to the various techniques, such as IMAP/POP and forwarding, used to get them@theirdomain.com e
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by andrewf 7y ago
I suspect the study spaces are quieter embedded in the shelving areas, than they would be if the same square footage was used to clump all the study space together.
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by andrewf 7y ago
We have all this knowledge of human physiology and metabolism I think the depth of knowledge is very uneven. We're not sure how Tylenol works. (Disclaimer: I work in software, not bioscience)
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by andrewf 7y ago
Peter Watts' Maelstrom . Earth's logistics are managed by trained petri dishes of lab-grown brain. Epidemiologists use data science to plan last-resort mass exterminations. Computer viruses and firewalls are evolving AIs It'
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by andrewf 7y ago
Around 15 years ago, the price of cocoa shifted significantly relative to hazelnuts. (I forget which one actually moved in absolute terms) Cue worse-tasting chocolate bars showing up in the stores, proudly proclaiming on their wrappers: NOW
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by andrewf 7y ago
The former is probably easier to sell to accountants who want QuickBooks Desktop plus the benefits of a remote managed service (accessible over the Internet, someone else takes care of backups - in theory! - etc)
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by andrewf 7y ago
This has never felt like a Pythonic principle to me. Python has always seemed like a high-level language that enables dense code. Look at the docs for list comprehensions! https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastr
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by andrewf 7y ago
Yes. https://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html#sup
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by andrewf 7y ago
Go second-hand. If you've had a good experience sitting on a particular chair in the past, consider one of those. I'd sat in Aerons in workplaces, so I bought a second-hand one on Craiglist for about 50% of list price. It's s

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