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by antt 8y ago
Nobody has any idea what a modern x86 cpu does under the hood because we have no access to the microcode. The only thing you can do is run your code and get an empirical answer to the question 'Is it fast enough'.
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by antt 8y ago
I'm not sure if this is satire or not.
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by antt 8y ago
OP says capitalism provides everything someone is willing to pay for. I agree and point out government meddling is the only thing keeping the market from working and providing all the child sex content pedophiles could possibly want. I am s
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by antt 8y ago
Republicans and Democrats have both conspired in equal degree to remove everything the new deal stood for in the last 80 years. Were that not the case you wouldn't have the worst homeless epidemics in the bluest cities. The only choice
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by antt 8y ago
This is an incredibly incendiary,shortsighted and ultimately self defeating point of view. People can fundamentally disagree with you without being evil, stupid or duped. One only need to look at how universal healthcare was not implemented
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by antt 8y ago
>The relational model is not well suited to uncertain data, as a row in a table is generally interpreted as a true proposition. For statistical data sets, analytical processing may be better served by array/tensor models (which also
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by antt 8y ago
That's mostly inaccurate and only true after they had been taught by the Indians how to hunt in the new world. The first year the pilgrims were in America was spent ransacking Indian villages destroyed by the plague for food. It wasn&#
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by antt 8y ago
You are 2/3 for New England, the water was undrinkable and they couldn't get food: https://www.history.com/news/did-jamestowns-settlers-drink-t... > By the time Lord De La Warr showed up with supplies in J
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by antt 8y ago
America was called the new world for a reason. And only slightly less hostile to 16th century Europeans as Mars would have been.
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by antt 8y ago
One only needs to look at the death records for New England in the early period to realize that's not the case. An 90% mortality within a year is no stop for colonization if there is enough political will for it.
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by antt 8y ago
The point is that even with the highest possible numbers us techie scum are still a rounding error to the national economy. Which makes us an incredibly useful punching bag for the economist who wants to try his hand at populism without jeo
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by antt 8y ago
I did a back of the envelope calculation for techie scum and how much we make on average. If we assume that there are two million of us, each earning on average $200,000 and saving $80,000 of that it means our wealth as a class grows by 160
163.
by antt 8y ago
This makes about as much sense as complaining about cosmetic dentistry because you've lost a tooth.
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by antt 8y ago
Amazing marketing. Somehow they have managed to convince people they are open source (they aren't) that they are a good architecture (they aren't) and they are good to teach children about hardware on (they aren't).
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by antt 8y ago
I've been at places where they were so vendor locked to a technology that there was a penalty clause for leaving that was in the tens of millions. It obviously wasn't cloud but the point still stands. If you don't have option
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by antt 8y ago
The point your making is that those with power have power. Which is a tautology. The point I'm making is that the qualifications for having power change constantly and unpredictably. I do not think power being concentrated has anything
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by antt 8y ago
>Power manifests itself in many forms, whether it be through money or persuasion or charm or tactical prowess. The point remains, decisions are made by the few for the many. And simply being good as something, does not make you a benevol
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by antt 8y ago
Only in the Anglosphere and only since the Restoration in Britain. One need only look to the English, French and Russian revolutions to see the outsized influence the declasse have had on history. Not even talking about Prussia/pre-WWI
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by antt 8y ago
Funnily enough there's an old Soviet joke about this. Caller to Radio Yerevan: Comrades what is the difference between the constitution of the US and that of the USSR? Both support freedom of speech and assembly. Radio Yeravan: In prin
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by antt 8y ago
Jack and runit. They manage better performance in real world use cases with a fraction of the manpower invested in them. I wonder what will happen to the suite of projects supported by redhat now that they are owned by IBM however.
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by antt 8y ago
>I'm sure I'll give it a serious shot eventually... in about 3 years once they work all the Poettering kinks out, just like PulseAudio. Good luck. If you need anything more than "I play a three minute song" on Linux a
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by antt 8y ago
Right and it takes them five minutes to ramp down, and the price market window will be 5 minutes. Which means they will have to bet on the price being high the next windiw too. Which means higher prices sustained longer because gas units wo
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by antt 8y ago
This works well for the current 30 minute market. At 5 minutes there are no non-battery plants, other than hydro, which can start up fast enough to provide power to the market.
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by antt 8y ago
>First of all, a high spot price is not in itself a problem as long as the high price lasts only for a short time and effectively brings needed capacity online. Where you have a serious problem is when spot prices spike, no one responds
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by antt 8y ago
I currently work in data science for an Australian power company. Renewables are the reason why we had electricity spot prices of A$14500/mwh three days in a row, rolling blackouts and the grid being nationalized for several hours. Bec
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by antt 8y ago
Xmonad allows you to launch programs in a configuration of your choice. Hell even tmux does.
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by antt 8y ago
In 1985 you target one machine with one thread and one level of memory. Today I'm working on systems with memory latencies from l0 cache all the way to tape storage. And it's getting worse.
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by antt 8y ago
Tilling window managers. It's not a new idea and really the only way to be productive on a computer.
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by antt 8y ago
At $100, sure. At $100,000 million ... I also have a bridge to sell you.
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by antt 8y ago
The stock market has phenomenal returns until you try realizing them. Then you quickly find out that the 'price' quoted daily means about as much as your horoscope, the more so the large sums of money you try and move.

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