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by cft 7y ago
This culture of biting the feeding hand has to stop somewhere.
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by cft 7y ago
What is the support for the "interpreted mode" in C, C++ or Rust?
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by cft 7y ago
Many real programming languages are compiled. Does it mean I have to recompile the binary every time I change config?
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Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome(nytimes.com)
3 points by cft 7y ago|0 comments
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by cft 7y ago
Just like commercial flying has never been the same since 9/11, Amazon delivery won't be the same after this pandemic. They will have seen that significantly slowing the delivery doesn't crater the demand, and the fact that t
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by cft 7y ago
It would depend on the data set you want cached in memory I would think? And you set that in a configuration file I suppose. You can probably set it to use 128MB or RAM too.
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by cft 7y ago
An in-memory database essentially
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by cft 7y ago
Here is a very practical example. We chose Rust for the current project because our Python program took more than 1TB of RAM. Rust program carefully manually laying out memory takes 75G. Other choices in this case are C/C++, but after
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by cft 7y ago
The idea of regulating Boeing into making safer aircraft is inferior to Boeing making safer aircraft under domestic competitive pressure. In the 60s, there were three domestic competitors: Douglas, Lockheed and Convair. With the acquisition
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by cft 7y ago
If one of them is behind on encryption relative to others it's a competitive disadvantage. If all of them are forced to abolish encryption it's a welcome opportunity for better ad targeting . Additionally this increased regulatory
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by cft 7y ago
Google's purpose was to set a ruthless precedent. It's a powerful reminder that once at Google, you're an employee and not an entrepreneur.
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by cft 7y ago
Pinterest is an interesting company. According to their quarterly reports every third American adult is using it. Google trends show a completely different picture.
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by cft 7y ago
I am wondering: what if this happened when the interest rates were zero?
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by cft 7y ago
Somewhat related, they ruined their app for me last week by adding the "lists". Instead of I instantly visible scrollable symbols I am interested in trading, the app now presents a bunch of "expand" and "add new lis
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by cft 7y ago
They also basically spoiled the app last week with the new "custom lists" feature. Instead of a quick glance at watched stocks you now see a bunch of pluses with list names, that you have to expand and then scroll.
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by cft 7y ago
Karl Marx saw it as of vital importance to the workers' health, writing in Das Kapital (1867): "By extending the working day, therefore, capitalist production...not only produces a deterioration of human labour power by robbing it
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by cft 7y ago
Yes, I wrote in sled's discord on Nov 14 and got this from the author: hey @panicfarm, thanks for the reproduction code! I think this is the same issue that kerugma ran into and mentioned a couple days ago. I'm curious if it still
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by cft 7y ago
Not sure if this this still relevant, but sled had a memory leak that precluded us from using it for an actual production project 3 months ago: https://github.com/panicfarm/sltest
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by cft 7y ago
Curiously, I can't find it neither in CNN business nor in CNN tech, at least on mobile.
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Facebook quietly releases a Pinterest clone(theverge.com)
2 points by cft 7y ago|0 comments
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by cft 7y ago
I have been traveling in Latin America for the past 2.5 years. In Mexico, life expectancy is 77 years, pretty much the same as in the US. An American retiree expat told me that his MRI cost him $200 here, versus $3500 in the US. I have bee
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by cft 7y ago
You cannot use that either, due to I/O block device saturation, even on enterprise PCIe NVMe. Not enough parallel IOPS. Only RAM can be used.
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by cft 7y ago
> From a purely architectural perspective, I would try to put cacheable material in something like memcache or redis You cannot use a caching server at that scale with those latency requirements. It has to be embedded
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by cft 7y ago
Just in time for their announcement that they plan to abolish third party cookies by 2021. Talk about monopoly.
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An encrypted chat messaging service with public and private chat rooms(chat.gab.com)
4 points by cft 7y ago|0 comments
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by cft 7y ago
This Graham/Blumenthal duo is out to finish off the remainders of the independent internet in the name of children. Even separately from encryption, it is likely that the required technical threshold (likely non-trivial ML models) and
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by cft 7y ago
Do you know how much such an "argument" would cost? Forget all the small forums, 4chan, Mastodon instances after this law. Maybe forget even Tor then, because by running a node at home or in your small business you are not adherin
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by cft 7y ago
When you steal something it means the owner doesn't have it anymore. How is this theft?
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by cft 7y ago
Actually getting money is harder than playing intellectual sophistry. By the fact that you have to deal with the reality, which is more complex than the Portland model of it.
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by cft 7y ago
I did, first for any search that might include political bias, due to results' censorship, but then I accidentally discovered that programming related searches and other technical searches are often better in Bing too.

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