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by drdrey 10y ago
Off the top of my head: * JVM bytecode is stack-based, whereas LLVM uses "infinite registers" in SSA form * being in SSA form makes it convenient to consume in compiler passes, but comes with quirks that mean you don't really
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by drdrey 10y ago
We already have tremendous political instability in the US and Europe right now caused in part by a not-so-great-but-not-devastating economy and the Syrian refugee crisis. Imagine a worldwide crisis with tens or hundreds of millions of peop
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by drdrey 10y ago
I feel like the there is something similar at play in long distance running. By repeating the same motion a lot, your nervous system probably works out the most efficient pathways to activate and can work without your conscious mind getting
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by drdrey 10y ago
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." -- Mike Tyson
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by drdrey 10y ago
Indeed my comment was genuine. FWIW, I also recently ran my first ultra.
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by drdrey 10y ago
That has to be the most fascinating piece of startup advice I have ever read. Alternatively, you can identify the same set of people without actually running the ultra by looking for people who descend stairs backwards.
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by drdrey 10y ago
> Spam checking on content isn't possible But it's still possible to fight spam based on other features: https://atscaleconference.com/videos/how-whatsapp-reduced-sp...
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by drdrey 10y ago
Not all strings are made of English text
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by drdrey 10y ago
are you a bot?
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by drdrey 10y ago
The Civilization and Anno games let me scratch that same itch
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by drdrey 10y ago
The story mentioned 5M since 2014
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by drdrey 10y ago
what do you mean by "browsing amazon"?
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by drdrey 10y ago
It makes sense if CPU time is not your most constrained resource. For instance, you might use it to avoid doing expensive remote calls.
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by drdrey 10y ago
Some additional things that can be done: * soft-shedding, where instead of dropping a request (which might just incur a retry storm), sometimes it is appropriate to send back a cheap response so that the clients sees a successful response i
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by drdrey 10y ago
I feel like I learned sane C++ by reading LLVM code.
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by drdrey 10y ago
I think Nuno Lopes also did some work on proving the correctness of instcombine optimizations, for instance: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1170
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by drdrey 10y ago
This post has a lot of details about it: http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2016/12/12/why-i-still-wont-r...
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by drdrey 10y ago
What system do you use to keep track of your time?
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by drdrey 10y ago
By definition, isn't it impossible to be free from your own biases?
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by drdrey 10y ago
Z62891 Sibling rivalry Y93G2 Activity, grilling and smoking food Y9286 Slaughter house as the place of occurrence of the external cause Y6553 Performance of correct procedure (operation) on wrong side or body part X962XXA Assault by
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by drdrey 10y ago
> if that leads to war then so be it Well gee, slow down there buddy
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by drdrey 10y ago
We have another system for outlier detection that can kill instances that start behaving badly in terms of CPU, response time, error rates, etc. http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/07/tracking-down-villains-o...
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by drdrey 10y ago
TEMU is a tool based on QEMU that is (was?) aimed at doing exactly that, a dynamic analysis that captures instructions executed in every process (including the kernel): http://bitblaze.cs.berkeley.edu/temu.html The problem
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by drdrey 10y ago
Stateless depends on the context, it doesn't violate any theory of computing. Here are some elements of stateless systems: * all the state needed for serving requests is transient, not something that needs to be persisted * any p
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by drdrey 10y ago
I can't tell if "men" is used as a neutral pronoun in this story. > young men > lower-skilled men > non-working men > rudderless middle-aged men > elite men > poorer men > ri
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Timelapse of Bacteria Invading Antibiotics and Evolving into Superbugs(npr.org)
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by drdrey 10y ago
Binary checksums are usually not very helpful for identifying malware. The fact that the binary they were looking at was called "unpacked" suggests that there would be packed versions out there, and they would have a different che
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by drdrey 10y ago
Looks to me like your run-of-the-mill malware. A rootkit is typically something that uses OS hooks to hide itself from the list of running processes for instance.
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by drdrey 10y ago
I was expecting a story about a bread expert. I am disappointment.
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by drdrey 10y ago
I have fond memories of very short and sweet bananas in the French Caribbean and Vietnam, I wonder if it's the same variety. I would also describe them as more moist.

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