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by dallbee 7y ago
Sorry fsync_always is a redis setting, not memcached. The fsync is to a real disk. The parent poster's comment about redis being crash safe to 1s is just the default.
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by dallbee 7y ago
With fsync_always it's crash safe for all but the most pathological scenarios.
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by dallbee 7y ago
My experience has been that the hospital sets up the monthly payment amount (sometimes with varying plan options). You can't partially pay, and the payment amount is a simple ($total / plan term). Paying $1 isn't really an op
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by dallbee 7y ago
Sure, fuse actually implements the lesser known CUSE protocol as well. Stands for character device in user space, and does exactly what you describe.
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by dallbee 7y ago
On Openbsd you have sosplice, which can be used much like sendfile.
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by dallbee 7y ago
This has been around for a while. I used it as my primary driver several years ago, back when its main feature was that it had 64-bit support. After Firefox implemented a 64-bit build, I sort of just assumed waterfox would die off. Neat to
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by dallbee 8y ago
Like with all languages the implementer matters. There's a remarkable amount of variance that I've encountered in the tersiness of both Go and Java code. For example, Go's err != nil pattern is often cited as being ugly, but
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by dallbee 8y ago
There's research being done with piezo-electrics to achieve this. Pretty neat stuff.
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by dallbee 9y ago
Every team I've been on has had it's majority of engineers doing exactly that. Honestly, many are happy in that role. Usually theres a handful of people that tend wiggle their way into more backend, architectural things (libraries
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by dallbee 9y ago
A simple improvement would be to use the average life expectancy given a certain age. This can be calculated with the age specific death rates for a population: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_table
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by dallbee 10y ago
I'm a huge fan of Pass. ( https://www.passwordstore.org/ ). It's command line based but there are adaptations for various platforms. It works best in a UNIX-like environment, though.
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by dallbee 10y ago
Absolutely. It's the only OS where I can be certain that I know where everything is and how everything works. It has few deviations from the Unix architecture and the ports repository enforces adherence to the filesystem layout. I don&
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by dallbee 10y ago
I wonder if the author has similar views about C, which doesn't have many of the problems that he's talking about. Furthermore, many of his arguments seem to be statements about all high level languages.
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by dallbee 10y ago
Another thing that hasn't been mentioned is age & school status. From 18-23 I worked part time and never had to pay taxes. I was part of that group who zeroed out, and now I contribute $20,000 per year (proudly, I might add). Am I
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by dallbee 11y ago
Yeah. My first reaction was "Oh god", but after reading through the source, it's actually a really great usage of literate coffeescript.
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by dallbee 11y ago
Of particular note: This release brings 64 bit support to the Linux compatibility layer. I suppose when windows caught up Bash on Windows, FreeBSD needed to do something to keep one step ahead =].
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by dallbee 11y ago
I've found it to be just as easy to get going with as Laravel. The documentation is good.
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by dallbee 11y ago
Sure, fees are under 5%, but what about that one month that you didn't pay off your bill in full? Enjoy that ~30% interest rate on your account balance.
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by dallbee 11y ago
I appreciate your humble an honest approach - it's refreshing. I'll be sure and try this out in a VM!
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by dallbee 11y ago
Nice writeup. I'd like to see some examples illustrating appropriate usage of Clone-on-Write with Rust strings - that's something I personally have struggled with while learning rust.
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by dallbee 11y ago
I'd just like something better than _Generic and (void *) as our only ways to do generics. That's my one feature. Too bad that's not likely to happen, ever.
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by dallbee 11y ago
We are forgetting our long lost cousin, fetch. http://www.unix.com/man-page/FreeBSD/1/FETCH/
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by dallbee 11y ago
The UI is designed well enough, I just wish the application wasn't basically a web-view.
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by dallbee 11y ago
PHP's speed is here is a bit of a red herring. I dislike linking to benchmarks, but https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r12&hw=... . In I/O bound situations, PHP performs within an order o
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by dallbee 11y ago
It's worked well for a number of languages. Nim was mentioned, and D has done this for quite some time as well. http://dlang.org/spec/function.html#pseudo-member
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by dallbee 11y ago
Nope, my lame state school made us check these as well.
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by dallbee 11y ago
I should have provided a key. Where I listed a +, I basically meant that there was either work underway or it was something that could be done yourself without hindering a project too much. I did not intend to imply that symbolic expression
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by dallbee 11y ago
A lot of that is up and coming. https://github.com/DlangScience [x] Plotting: http://code.dlang.org/packages/plot2kill [+] Optimization: Nothing directly for the purpose, but the intermediate steps are
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by dallbee 12y ago
Just the community.
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by dallbee 12y ago
And HN was doing so well, I haven't seen a nimrod post on here in days.

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