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by dis-sys 6y ago
What is the big deal of knowing Tony Abbott's diplomatic passport number?
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by dis-sys 6y ago
RocksDB supports using Direct IO for flush and compaction (use_direct_io_for_flush_and_compaction), enabling that can improve write throughput for my workload in RocksDB. Any plan to do that in pebble?
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by dis-sys 6y ago
I looked into the source code of both badger and pebble during the lockdown. From what I learned, they don't operate on the same level. I don't want to publicly bad mouth any open source software, but if you just spend 15 minutes
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by dis-sys 6y ago
> Why not look at some of the potential bright sides to this for a more nuanced and balanced opinion? because as a NVIDIA user of the last 20 years, I never saw such bright side when it comes to open source.
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by dis-sys 6y ago
No, as clearly listed on ASPI's official website, Google, Microsoft, Oracle are sponsors of ASPI's International Cyber Policy Centre (ICPC), they are not sponsors of ASPI itself. ASPI sponsors and ICPC sponsors are listed separate
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by dis-sys 6y ago
The message here is clear - US is not a reliable tech vendor. This is the exact reason why RISC-V is getting increasingly more attentions.
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by dis-sys 6y ago
The author wrote in another thread that "If anybody has access to the new Chinese Zhaoxin processor, I would very much like to test it." Will be very interesting to see how much actual changes Zhaoxin made to the VIA cores. I&#x27
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by dis-sys 6y ago
The answer is not convincing - with a comparable net income level, the world's largest bank ICBC only has 1/7 of apple's market cap. Vodafone had over 100 billion earnings back in 2014, that was like two years of apple earnin
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by dis-sys 6y ago
so apple added $1t market cap in just 24 months, did apple actually created $1t value in any way or form to justify that $1t market cap increase?
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by dis-sys 6y ago
Shanghai's population size is 23-24 million, it is undisputed. They have a plan to limit that to 25 million by 2035. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-shanghai-population... According to your logic, they ar
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by dis-sys 6y ago
just install another 8GB of RAM, 2012 mbp allows you to do that, more recent mbp all took that luxury away from users.
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by dis-sys 6y ago
US nuclear weapons relied on 8 inch floppy disks until 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy...
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by dis-sys 6y ago
> as Congress hasn't declared war since WW2 because they couldn't win in Vietnam or Korea.
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by dis-sys 6y ago
Go and read John Bolton's book, Xi made it clear to Trump in person that he wants Trump to have two more terms. An irrational US president undermining the US credibility in all possible aspects is good for China. Why Chinese would poss
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by dis-sys 6y ago
For the exact same logic - there is no way to prove beyond doubt that you are not stealing money from your mum!
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by dis-sys 6y ago
limited to an very old architecture no one is using anymore. ex-ARM employee here.
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by dis-sys 6y ago
> I don't know if you've ever tried to setup anything in China, it's not exactly a straight forward process or something you'd want to have to do often. try doing that in india, good luck for stable electricity supply
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by dis-sys 6y ago
for an very old version
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by dis-sys 6y ago
are you defending the caste system?
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by dis-sys 6y ago
shocking but still confused. When they practiced the indian caste system in the US, how would they interact with people not from india, e.g. people with US, EU, Vietnam, Korea etc background? Do they get treated as "high caste" or
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by dis-sys 6y ago
Seriously, suppression of birth? According the exact same logic used by this ZENZ guy, China's majority group (Han) has been subjected to such "genocide" for decades. As a result of such "suppression", only 400 mill
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by dis-sys 6y ago
puppet state is nothing new
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by dis-sys 6y ago
foreign apps or websites? 99.9% of them are US apps and websites. you don't need to ban india apps in China as I've never heard any of them, you don't need to ban india website as the india infrastructure won't be able t
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by dis-sys 6y ago
US is currently the laughing stock of the world, look at the COVID-19 rate, it is going up after months of mismanagement by trump. not many countries have problems like that, you can pretty much count on such countries on one hand - US, ind
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by dis-sys 6y ago
protectionism.
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by dis-sys 6y ago
> Linux is in general really great about supporting a range of gcc/binutils versions going back about 7 years ... compare to some other popular projects these days which require a Go or Rust toolchain from just a few months ago 7 ye
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by dis-sys 6y ago
just checked taobao.com, the cheapest phone case was 5 RMB or $0.7 USD including shipping. so it is actually cheaper to buy the same stuff from the US and get it shipped half of the world.
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by dis-sys 6y ago
$1099 for a laptop with only 8G RAM, 256G SSD, 4 slow intel cores and 1080p LCD? you get far better specs for a phone in 2020 for that kind of $.
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by dis-sys 6y ago
there is no mainstream ARM laptop as of writing. what are my options if I want a ARM laptop with say good mobile processor performance close to the i7-8850H found in a 2018 mbp 15, 16GB RAM and 512GB NVME SSD to setup my day to day dev envi
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by dis-sys 6y ago
Intel wants you to only have 4 cores Apple wants you to only have 8G RAM what a huge surprise!

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