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The Unum Pattern(habitatchronicles.com)
45 points by andyjpb 7y ago|7 comments
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NASA: Subtleties of Color (Part 1 of 6)(earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
2 points by andyjpb 7y ago|0 comments
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by andyjpb 7y ago
NASA have a cool 6 part series on how to use colour for visualisations here: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2013/...
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CTVT – A contagious cancer that spreads from dog to dog(theatlantic.com)
149 points by andyjpb 7y ago|62 comments
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by andyjpb 7y ago
Google have been experimenting with POWER in their datacenters for a while now: https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/03/19/head... More historically, Google have been building their own
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Brawny cores still beat wimpy cores, most of the time [pdf](research.google.com)
1 points by andyjpb 7y ago|0 comments
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Revealed: The Secret Gear Connecting Google's Online Empire(wired.com)
1 points by andyjpb 7y ago|0 comments
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Google Confirms POWER9 Processor Data Center Deployment at OpenPOWER Summit 2018(forbes.com)
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by andyjpb 7y ago
An open, high end CPU design is really going to change the cloud market. An ISA like this is a first step in that direction. Facebook and Google already have their own compute projects and, like Amazon, have access to custom versions of sil
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Herbie: Find and fix floating-point problems(herbie.uwplse.org)
2 points by andyjpb 7y ago|0 comments
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A deep fake where Bill Hader *turns into* Tom Cruise *while impersonating him*.(twitter.com)
2 points by andyjpb 7y ago|0 comments
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Amateur Radio(snell-pym.org.uk)
2 points by andyjpb 7y ago|0 comments
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by andyjpb 7y ago
It's still not as simple as that. Swap is there to relieve memory allocation pressure. Memory allocation pressure is an incredibly dense concept but it basically means "if lots of people are asking for fresh pages, how quickly can
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by andyjpb 7y ago
Buffering a several second chunk allows the transmitter to include forward error correction (FEC). This allows operators to trade off latency for stream integrity which is important when it's going to be transmitted over a lossy medium
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by andyjpb 7y ago
Even if you had enough RAM, storing the frame at the encoder just to calculate its length would force a frame of latency at the encoder. The way it is, the decoder has more flexibility in implementation.
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by andyjpb 7y ago
jsmpeg is by the same author!
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How to keep data up‑to‑date at scale(registers.blog)
2 points by andyjpb 7y ago|0 comments
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The Philosophy of Open Source in Community and Enterprise Software(penguindreams.org)
2 points by andyjpb 7y ago|0 comments
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by andyjpb 7y ago
For the people down voting this post, please see https://xkcd.com/1053/ The formula is like that because there are 3 bits of information in the Severity Level field: it has 8 values (0->7), and 2^3 = 8. Multiplying
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Do or UNDO – there is no VACUUM(rhaas.blogspot.com)
1 points by andyjpb 7y ago|0 comments
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Performance Puzzler: The Slow Server(dtrace.org)
1 points by andyjpb 7y ago|0 comments
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Thoughts on Forth Programming(call-with-current-continuation.org)
3 points by andyjpb 7y ago|1 comments
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by andyjpb 7y ago
I built Knodium ( Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOPuWi-dbQg ; Technical video: https://media.ccc.de/v/c116_lisp_-_2013-08-25_11:15_-_buildi... (sound comes in after the first couple of mi
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The Beauty of Roots – Pictures of Roots of Polynomials(math.ucr.edu)
1 points by andyjpb 7y ago|0 comments
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Solving a Storage Problem in PostgreSQL Without Adding a Single Byte of Storage(hakibenita.com)
4 points by andyjpb 7y ago|1 comments
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DEC64: Decimal Floating Point(dec64.com)
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by andyjpb 7y ago
It applies to AC. However, RF is more complicated. The difference between "RF" and "AC" is a matter of what materials and frequencies are involved and how you are using them. Terrestrial RF systems rely on the Earth as a
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by andyjpb 7y ago
"Normal breaker connected outlets used in US houses" are already connected to ground on one side. If you grab the neutral side, you will (ideally) get no shock. If you grab the phase side then you'll complete the path to the
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by andyjpb 7y ago
It's not very intuitive, but it is true! When you have a power source it needs two wires to make a current flow: a wire "out" and a wire "back". You're only part of the circuit if you're connected to both
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Django's goals are probably not our goals for our web application(utcc.utoronto.ca)
36 points by andyjpb 7y ago|58 comments

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