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by ebikelaw 8y ago
"You describe what you want, not how to get it." The entire archive of the pgsql users' mailing list disagrees. Every wants to know why their plan is suboptimal, or why it changed. People also want to know why the planner t
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
And the query plan can literally change out from under you at any time. SQL sucks. You should be able to dictate the query plan to the engine directly. If SQL exists as a tool to create and serialize such plans via exploration and experimen
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
That's a good point. The die in the SOIC package (the one that costs 15 cents) probably is smaller? Which means it might also have a different layout.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Personally I prefer to have parts that require external protection, rather than parts with robust internal protections that cost more or compromise the performance or that I have to hack around. It's more work, board area, and overall
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
While you marvel at this circuit remember that it was invented decades ago, for many purposes it is still state-of-the-art, and it costs fifteen cents.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I vividly remember an incident in 1999 when I was sitting in an open plan office of about thirty programmers in San Francisco and a recruiter war-dialed every phone in the company in numerical order, which also happened to describe a space-
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
My kids’ private school bills are about triple my mortgage so I think you’d better check your math.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
The article is dated two days ago.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Well, to be fair to the authors, their idea became a system in the linux kernel within Google years ago. It's only the general public that has been deprived of its benefit.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
That's a good reason why a court could order that an LLC be allowed to mask its ownership, but not a good reason why all LLCs should be allowed to do so as a blanket policy.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
You're right but without more information we shouldn't really take what's printed in the newspaper at face value. Was it really a punctured _cell_ as you and I understand it, or was it a punctured _assembly_? A battery pack
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
You can kinda make that sound bad, and it might have been bad, but reworking pieces is standard practice in many industries. "Fixed with adhesive" sounds like a hack but there are many wonderful adhesives.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Privacy is for things you do in private. Forming a corporation is necessarily public because a corporation is a creation of the state, and therefore everyone's business.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Relinking binaries running on a phone sounds even less profitable. How much battery energy are you willing to waste here?
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
JSON definitely did exist 20 years ago.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
That doesn't seem like it would be profitable. Profiling the running process, processing the profile, and then relinking the binary on a single host wouldn't pay off compared to profiling in the large, relinking the program once
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Nobody who cares about performance uses them.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
In my experience if you take one big service and break it into two, each binary will be pretty much just as big as the original. All of that library code is still in there, all that static data is still reachable. Nobody knows why but it
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Moreover, the outcome of a new expression isn't strongly defined. Your class may override operator new for any class-type T, and you may also override global operator new, and you may do whatever it is that you like when you do so. S
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Their reasoning is interesting: they use exceptions. Google notoriously does not. I wonder if Google (and the other AutoFDO contributors, of course) have overlooked something crucial that the exception-using people need.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Seems more like at-as-a-service?
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
"In C++ creating variables using the new operator always means that you have a heap variable." It's hard to make accurate statements about C++ :-) This is not one. Perhaps it would be more correct to say "In C++ a |new
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
On modern x86_64 implementations tiny changes in code layout can have large effects. There are rampant stories of "load-bearing NOPs" that mysteriously make programs several percent faster. Even experts do not understand these e
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
It seems unfortunate that they developed their own data format for the input. Why can't it be in the same format that SamplePGO ingests? Additionally, it also seems unfortunate to add yet another stage to the toolchain. We already h
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
If your build system is reproducible there is no reason this would not work.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Population increase in the Bay Area has been driven more by longevity than by migration. If incumbents aren't willing to make room for their own offspring, then it's important for them to die in a timely fashion. If instead they
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
San Francisco hasn't experienced "continuous and infinite growth" in your lifetime. San Francisco has in fact been largely frozen in amber, until a recent but modest by historical standards building spurt.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
All caches have equal hit rates in the limit when the size of the cache approaches infinity. For finite caches, ARC often wins. In practical experience I've found that a weighted ARC dramatically outperformed LRU for DNS RR caching,
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Nothing on Google Drive is stored "in clear text".
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Sun licenses the patent and has related patents on the same thing. Sun provides an implementation under the CDDL license. ZFS on Linux is distributed under the CDDL. Linux is distributed under the GPL for which no patent holders have gra

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