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by baobob 4y ago
the CPU branch predictor is so many levels down it will have almost no discernible effect on anything you might call a branch in Python code. Even a statement like "a = 1" likely executes a few tens if not a few hundred branches T
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by baobob 4y ago
Smells vaguely like another Transmeta, will wait for shipping products
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by baobob 4y ago
Not even slightly
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by baobob 4y ago
At least the code parts seem to be on GitHub: https://github.com/browsermt
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by baobob 4y ago
Do you know what the pipeline looks like for new language pairs being added? This is really, really, really awesome I'm also immediately curious about using it headless outside the browser
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by baobob 4y ago
Awesome, tested the German model on dw.com, surprisingly fast and accurate.
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by baobob 4y ago
"The web is broken", claimed the plain text file formatted for a 1980s era screen and featuring no links or working navigation whatsoever. Someone still upset Gopher didn't survive?
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by baobob 4y ago
I've thought about this too. I think the only sane option is to maintain a quiet life where you occasionally privately name drop to help your own networking. Who'd begrudge a sibling getting ahead in life with a little help from y
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by baobob 4y ago
> I'm no Zuckerberg fan, but I imagine being in his inner circle is probably a very good experience. That experience is clearly taking its toll on Randi Zuckerberg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp0diaVLPrQ
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by baobob 4y ago
It's curious how gentle the transition for many companies from powerhouse to irrelevance is in the common perception. To realize they're already at the point where intelligent ridicule supplants impassioned critique kinda blows my
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by baobob 4y ago
I've been listening since 2004. Every 4 or 5 years I'll realize how much it's been a part of my life through thick and thin, and write him a gushing email. He always has the grace to reply. Would absolutely love to meet him s
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by baobob 4y ago
There is usually a tradeoff between latency and throughput, although I'm not so sure this would be true for your innovation, since you've eliminated a whole chunk of fixed overhead from the system (syscall batching). However, batc
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by baobob 4y ago
Benchmarks done on only one metric are often misleading (and in commercial circumstances usually intentionally!). Would love to see visually what trade offs Dragonfly is making to achieve the numbers from the chart at the top of the README.
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by baobob 4y ago
Where would the metadata for the local_file resource be stored? How would Terraform find files it once created and must now delete?
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by baobob 4y ago
XMPP shares another feature in common with X.400: implementation complexity. Where XMPP had numerous implementation options and XML, X.400 has ASN.1. It's probably straightforward to write another solid explanation that phrases SMTP&#x
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by baobob 4y ago
Luckily the tide seems to be turning: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/opinion/touch-screens-car...
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by baobob 4y ago
If 2009 is any gauge it comes gently and then suddenly. Ripple effects of contracting credit take a long time to work through the economy, so it's important to heed observations of the bow shock. Fewer startups, lower credit card limit
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by baobob 4y ago
That product has a serious lack of docs, and I know from experience some off-cloud vendor balancers have crappy architectures with low overall throughput limits. Their product could be a shared CPU VPS under the hood or something deeply bak
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by baobob 4y ago
Here is one of thepiratebay up to 2019: https://archive.org/details/ThePirateBayMarch2019
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by baobob 4y ago
You're right, this definitely wins. I'm so sorry for you :) This one made me laugh: > - Idera Inc has an anagram: Acridine. Here are some facts about Acridine: > ○ It's a colorless (and probably soulless) solid obtained
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by baobob 4y ago
The $5 droplet includes the equivalent of $90 worth of AWS egress, although it is accounted somewhat differently. An equivalent low usage machine on AWS in us-east (t3a.micro - 1GB / shared CPU) on spot instead costs around $2.16, almo
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by baobob 4y ago
I've priced up DO as an alternative to AWS on several projects and it has never been cheaper once AWS discounts (reservations, spot) are applied correctly. You need to consume a relatively large amount of bandwidth before DO becomes ch
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by baobob 4y ago
$100/hour+ human costs to migrate though right. Imagine downsizing 100 web apps, notifying clients of what's going on, and dealing with random breakages. That's not an hour's work
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by baobob 4y ago
20% bump for the most budget-sensitive option is a crazy increase. Sure it's fine if you only have one, but I'm sure there are many folk who have hundreds
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by baobob 4y ago
> delta encoding of timestamps, and then letting a good standard compression algorithm such as zstd or deflate take care of the rest This can cut both ways. If the integer data is irregularly distributed, you may increase entropy and giv
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by baobob 4y ago
> why isn’t Python as fast as modern JS implementations, for example? Because the project has explicitly targeted implementation simplicity, largely successfully, for almost 30 years. The internals are a joy to work on, and unsurprisingl
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by baobob 4y ago
This is asking for Guido to have predicted the multicore era and the success of Python in 1991, at a time when SMP architectures had only been commercially available on extremely expensive systems for 5 years. Much of what contributed to th