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by bodyfour 13y ago
There was also a piece in the leaders section (i.e. the more "editorial" area) of this week's issue on this topic. There they specifically call for "a narrowing of the difference between tax rates on individuals' i
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by bodyfour 13y ago
Look back 30-40 years: * Places like the Lower East Side of Manhattan were magnets for broke artists because they were dirt cheap places to live. * San Francisco neighborhoods like SOMA were similarly inexpensive. A few people with mea
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by bodyfour 13y ago
The original ARM ISA felt very VAX-inspired to me, such as the elegant (but ultimately inefficient) use of a general-purpose register for the program counter. I've only just started looking at AArch64 but I agree that it feels a lot mo
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by bodyfour 13y ago
There is already the ARM "big.LITTLE" architecture which pairs fast high-power cores with slow low-power ones on the same die. In the future I could imagine that extended so that a subset of cores are 64-bit only. As others menti
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by bodyfour 13y ago
My alarm clock 15 years ago was: $ sleep 28800; while :; do cat /etc/termcap; done > /dev/audio These days /etc/termcap is disappearing from UNIX machines, but back then it was always available. I
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by bodyfour 13y ago
The icy tundra areas mostly don't have good soil. Even if they get the temperatures of the American midwest they will not produce nearly the same calories/year/acre. So even if populations could all start migrating north (w
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by bodyfour 13y ago
"[...] you dance to shake off sadness, and you wallow when you are happy, because wallowing is one of the luxuries which happiness allows you" - music journalist Chris Heath, writing about the Pet Shop Boys backcatalog
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by bodyfour 13y ago
Two points: * I read a lot of compiler-produced assembly -- these days it's often surprisingly clever. I don't think most developers could beat them with hand-coding even if they were willing to spend 10x-100x the time in develop
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by bodyfour 13y ago
Yeah, I'd much rather take $200 from a store than ~$233 with the bother and risk of an eBay sale. It's not even close for me. However even better is just keeping my iPad since it's working fine, thanks.
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by bodyfour 13y ago
I was a big supporter of the "MS buys Blackberry" theory, but I think that after the Nokia acquisition it's probably off the table for awhile. There already will be a transition period for absorbing one handset company, merg
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by bodyfour 13y ago
> although the protocol was bootp instead of pxe Well, they used bootp followed by tftp, and so did most other UNIX workstations of that time period. DHCP is effectively a superset of bootp -- it uses the same UDP port. PXE is DHCP+tft
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by bodyfour 13y ago
But even a breakthrough gave us 100% efficient solar cells it would only marginally add to the range. We're never going to see a 50x improvement in solar cells, that would violate thermodynamics. If you want a futuristic range-enhanci
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by bodyfour 13y ago
I'm just guessing that MS would probably want to digest one phone manufacturer before immediately buying another. Integrating one team is more than hard enough.
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by bodyfour 13y ago
Exactly. Plus it's a prize Microsoft probably feels it can't afford to lose. If Android magically evaporated tomorrow Google would be just fine -- the core of their business (ad sales) doesn't fundamentally require that they
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by bodyfour 13y ago
I'd say Blackberry is the big loser in this deal, since it probably takes one of their more plausible options off the table.
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by bodyfour 13y ago
True, but how is the windows shell better in that regard?
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by bodyfour 13y ago
> usr doesnt mean user, it meant Unix System Resources It did mean "user" originally. Home directories were usually put there. However, the root filesystem was typically very small. So very early on in UNIXs evolution things
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by bodyfour 13y ago
> to force software to support spaces in paths And yet the platform where it's hardest to support spaces in paths is... windows! On UNIX the process-creation API (execve) explicitly takes an array of arguments. There really aren&#x
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by bodyfour 13y ago
Agreed. It is true, though, that many people fall into the trap of over-insuring. For example, people who could easily afford to replace their car yet pay for comprehensive insurance. For risks you can self-insure against, you should do so
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by bodyfour 13y ago
These days people vastly overestimate the risk of second-hand smoke. Based on the numbers in this article living with a smoker is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes every two years . i.e. not much. Second-hand smoke does have som
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by bodyfour 13y ago
> If that were their route they'd have to drop their investment in QnX Just as Nokia had to drop their investment in Symbian and Maemo > BB users are quite particular about their handsets However they're not particular about
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by bodyfour 13y ago
I think the most likely endgame is that they'll pull a Nokia: either an outright MSFT purchase or becoming a heavily-subsidized client state. * Microsoft still has plenty of cash, but is facing an existential crisis of losing platform
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by bodyfour 13y ago
Every time a new Mac Pro model comes out everybody seems to do the same thing: goes to store.apple.com, spec out everything to the maximum, and gawk at the giant price tag. It's amazing to think how as recently as the 90s it was comple
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by bodyfour 13y ago
Or, perhaps a little less cynically: she's the minority leader so she's expected to vote in the party's interest. When your party holds the White House that basically means supporting the administration. I don't mean
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by bodyfour 13y ago
They can't expel members, but they can certainly kick them out of caucus. That's effectively the same immediate power parties have in a parliament: when someone is removed from caucus they sit as an independent. The biggest direc
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by bodyfour 13y ago
int a() { return sizeof(void *); } Obviously a trivial example, but it's illustrative: the front-end compiler knows a bunch of things about your target and bakes that information into the IL. If you took IL generated by the
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by bodyfour 13y ago
More specifically, they're equivalent if you were going to freebase the cocaine. Freebasing powdered cocaine is possible, but its complicated and dangerous -- for instance Richard Pryor famously almost died from burns received while
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by bodyfour 13y ago
Of course, the peninsula isn't dirt cheap either. As prices in SF increase, that drives up rents along Caltrain, etc.
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by bodyfour 13y ago
People have been declaring that California is too expensive for startups for decades.
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by bodyfour 13y ago
As others have pointed out, the point of zswap is to "swap" in and out of RAM. I'd like to add that your premise is faulty anyway: since compressed objects are smaller doing I/O on them is faster. As long as cost of the

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