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by delsarto 9y ago
Intel/x86 seems to have missed pretty much every major trend but somehow manages to keep up. At the time, Intel seemed to have pinned the 64-bit future on Itanium. Which, on paper, is a much better architecture. Of course instruction
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by delsarto 9y ago
What's the deal with natural gas? It doesn't seem "renewable"; isn't it extracted just like petrol? Is it just that it burns cleaner? Doesn't burning it still produce carbon dioxide?
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by delsarto 10y ago
Thanks, I wrote this! It was a bit of a different time, when docbook was the way to publish, when Itanium was the 64-bit architecture, things like go and rust didn't exist and we used bitkeeper. But most of it is still relevant, and d
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by delsarto 10y ago
tl;dr if you know a little regex - convert your number to a string of that length (1 = 1, 2 = 11, 3 = 111) - handle 0 / 1 separately - ^(..+?)\1+$ - trick; the WHOLE thing has to match to return (^$) - first \1 match i
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Google launches Family Library(techcrunch.com)
1 points by delsarto 10y ago|0 comments
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by delsarto 10y ago
This actually discussed in Cooks Illustrated this month (issue 141 pg 28). They say to add a small amount of corn syrup to honey to stop crystalization. To quote some bits "honey crystalizes when moisture evaporates and individual sug
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A Call for a Temporary Moratorium on “The DAO”(docs.google.com)
3 points by delsarto 10y ago|0 comments
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by delsarto 10y ago
Numberphile did a great video on Busy Beaver which I found easy to follow - https://youtu.be/CE8UhcyJS0I
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by delsarto 11y ago
The wrapper is one way to look at it. Another might be about reimplementation of APIs. The binary blobs could be evidence there is an API (even if you say you don't support it). If I reimplement it, is it derived? So yeah, it'
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by delsarto 11y ago
Glibc is a bad example, as they have explict linkage exceptions There seems to be some thought that vmware are idiots and copied a bunch of Linux code and didn't release it. It's more about when something becomes a derivative wor
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by delsarto 11y ago
What did you expect them to say? Linux is a huge part of what we do? Here's how I see it. Vmkernel has a driver API. It's documented, versioned, comes with a ddk and has drivers written directly to it. As we all know, Linux bas
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by delsarto 12y ago
There is a big deal made of this in "The Men Who Built America" [1] which I started watching because it came up on Netflix. Maybe it is new there and people have started watching it [1] http://www.imdb.com/title&#
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VMware and GPL – it's about api boundaries, not copy-paste(technovelty.org)
7 points by delsarto 12y ago|2 comments
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by delsarto 12y ago
I don't think it is as clear cut at all, but that makes it much more interesting. I left a comment there, but it bears some repeating I think ESXi's kernel does not bootstrap itself from Linux at all. There is no linux kernel a
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by delsarto 12y ago
Most probably it has been added, my notes from this are from 2008 so it's hardly cutting edge! :)
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by delsarto 12y ago
I think the fact that this leaks DNS lookups is really quite key because that gives away a huge amount about what you're looking at over your "vpn", not to mention services like netflix that are pointing you to different resp
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by delsarto 12y ago
"17,000 rpm with digital pulse technology" ... I guess that means a PWM DC motor controller?
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by delsarto 12y ago
When I wrote this, I'm not sure if the iPhone had been released; certainly at that point if you were carrying around something computer-like in your (large :) pocket (more powerful than a PalmPilot) it was something like a Jornada htt
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by delsarto 12y ago
(original author here) Yeah, it was done after I was asked to run a short course on writing drivers, so the focus was on understanding that sort of layer. But you want to know how old this is? I actually used the word "palmtop" :
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by delsarto 12y ago
(Author of the linked book) Funny you mention that Petzold book; I read that as an IT student doing airy courses about software requirements and design and realized I had to get across to the electrical engineering building. I didn't
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by delsarto 12y ago
(author here) This book was created both from my experiences and the experiences of teaching 3rd year operating systems classes. Students came in to that class having done a 2nd year class (data structures and algorithms I think) that was d
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by delsarto 13y ago
None, it's good work. But the whole episode, and this post in particular, highlights the issue that enough review is never enough. When is the the code secure? When it is written by someone with a good track record? When it gets rev
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by delsarto 13y ago
Yep; not easy at all ... if it were easy everyone would do it :) I think with tools like puppet and orchestration tools like heat, etc it is getting closer to being easier. I did got to a Netflix talk once where they said that while moving
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by delsarto 13y ago
A review by a security engineer would have prevented a false sense of security Everyone involved in this, from the people who wrote the heartbeat code, the people who committed the code, the people at Akami who wrote this patch, this post
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by delsarto 13y ago
I was trying to get a copy of my transaction history at the time, after someone mentioned it might be handy in a class action suit First the server started responding "this page does not exist" then just blank response --- http:&
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Mtgox.com is gone(tools.pingdom.com)
96 points by delsarto 13y ago|9 comments
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by delsarto 13y ago
A response [1] by Pete Zaitcev, another insider [1] http://zaitcev.livejournal.com/220213.html
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Thoughts from Open Stack insider on fragmentation and politics(stochasticresonance.wordpress.com)
2 points by delsarto 13y ago|1 comments
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by delsarto 13y ago
Aborted second time -0:48; engines didn't start this time and someone on the live stream called "abort" listened back to the stream "abort abort abort - props con(?) abort" at about 1h:58m in the stream EDIT : annou
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by delsarto 13y ago
Just said that they're putting a bit more fuel on in the hopes of trying again if the engineers can figure out what went wrong, their window is about an hour. Also said that if not today, they have more or less the same window tomorrow

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