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by dimfeld 10y ago
Agreed. Back when I was using Linode I had a crazy setup that used iptables on each server to accept traffic only from my other servers. With benefit of hindsight I might have maintained it differently, but needless to say, it was a bit fra
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by dimfeld 10y ago
Musk recently posted to Twitter about using dedicated heating elements in the tiles for this purpose: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/792218248917811204
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by dimfeld 10y ago
Usually the debugger just replaces the breakpoint instruction with the original byte, then resumes execution in a single-step mode that causes the CPU to just execute a single instruction before firing another interrupt. After that, the deb
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by dimfeld 10y ago
Depending on the age and programming knowledge of your students, Human Resource Machine may also be worth a look. It's simpler and more removed from real assembly than Shehzhen and similar games, but still teaches the concepts needed t
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by dimfeld 10y ago
Probably not. It's all open-source and they're trying to get a development community going around the project.
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by dimfeld 10y ago
Google's sustained use discounts for standard (non-preemptible) VMs are a huge win as well. No need to predict usage and reserve instance time in advance; the discount is simply applied progressively as you use a particular instance ty
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by dimfeld 10y ago
Block Range Index. Here's the official docs: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/brin-intro.html
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by dimfeld 10y ago
Heap Analytics and Fullstory are two popular systems (among others) for this sort of thing. They record and instrument your user sessions much more comprehensively than GA does.
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by dimfeld 10y ago
The article says a few lines down, "The optimization #1 appears to give huge benefit on big Intel servers as well, while optimization #2 is Power-specific. After long rounds of optimization, cleaning and testing #1 was finally committe
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by dimfeld 10y ago
More likely a reference to the minutemen of the US Revolutionary War, which the ICBM was also named after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minutemen
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by dimfeld 10y ago
Sounds right to me. If you look at Apple's report[1], all the numbers they list for material recovery are exactly divisible by 2204. EDIT: Correction, all except for the number for recovered steel. [1] http://images.apple.co
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by dimfeld 11y ago
My inner voice is much the same. I never realized until reading this article that some people do have an "audible" component to theirs. Very interesting.
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UMD-led team first to solve well-known [Colonel Blotto] game theory scenario(eurekalert.org)
2 points by dimfeld 11y ago|0 comments
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Smallest-ever optical switch revolves around one atom(engadget.com)
2 points by dimfeld 11y ago|1 comments
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by dimfeld 11y ago
Interesting article, thanks for posting. You may want to update the url posted here to https://cugablog.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/lets-talk-about-lo... so that it will continue to point to that article after y
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The Three Most Common Objections When Selling ML SaaS Products(tomtunguz.com)
2 points by dimfeld 11y ago|0 comments
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by dimfeld 11y ago
Yeah, I see the same. Interesting. Adding any third word to the query (e.g. lets play minecraft) works fine as well.
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Near-Unlimited Cloud Storage Service Copy.com Is Shutting Down(lifehacker.com)
2 points by dimfeld 11y ago|0 comments
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Curiosity Self-Portrait at Martian Sand Dune(nasa.gov)
77 points by dimfeld 11y ago|29 comments
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by dimfeld 11y ago
It's both faster and you have more control over it; the two are linked in this case. This system lets the compiler do the hard work to figure out when it's ok to deallocate some piece of memory, unlike a GC, which figures it out a
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Google's solar plane crashed due to wing failure(engadget.com)
4 points by dimfeld 11y ago|0 comments
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Open Furby Opens the Furby(hackaday.com)
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Antidepressants can raise the risk of suicide, biggest ever review finds(telegraph.co.uk)
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by dimfeld 11y ago
Seems like the points and comments numbers are often inaccurate. Sometimes they're right but other times way off. Any idea what's happening there?
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by dimfeld 11y ago
Are they actually using multi-master replication? I gleaned from the article series that they have many small independent MySQL clusters, each with one master and two slaves, and that their worker layer handles requesting data from the corr
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by dimfeld 11y ago
Presumably the post above was referring to HTTP-based services, which of course don't face issues of cross-language ABI compatibility. In this case Go is often much faster than Ruby, Python, JS, etc., while still allowing relatively qu
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by dimfeld 11y ago
The old domain (saveyourself.ca) mentioned in the article does do this.