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by ehsanu1 12y ago
Managed to find it here: https://mediacosmos.rice.edu/app/plugin/embed.aspx?ID=vVUTzF...
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> That book (along with a small handful of others) made near-future scifi my favorite genre. Any other suggestions? Which others? If you've read Daemon and Freedom (TM) , maybe you've already read Kill Decision , also by
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What's so terrible about mmap()? LMDB seems to use it to great effect: http://symas.com/mdb/
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https://blog.twitter.com/2012/improving-performance-on-twitt... They moved away from client-side rendering. Quoting: There are a variety of options for improving the performance of our JavaScript, but we wanted to do
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Whether we are on the cusp really depends on what we mean by "natural language understanding" specifically. What about Watson? It seems to "understand" quite a bit of natural language just fine and can answer interesting
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The reason all you hear is "profile profile profile" is that the performance implications of a given code change may sometimes be completely non-obvious, due to all the complex trickery in the processor and cache hierarchy. So wha
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Is there a github repo or similar for what you're working on?
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Apologies, I definitely misremembered the facts and should have checked up on it. I wonder how many iframes the average page has though, especially given Facebook like buttons and similar widgets. And someone like me, who maintains hundreds
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by ehsanu1 12y ago
Your insane memory usage is probably due to some plugin or other. Adblock is known to consume something like 40mb per tab open for example, due to injecting a large stylesheet into every single page ever opened.
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Type inference doesn't exactly paper over the differences between types automatically. It just infers types, and doesn't complain as long as all the types line up. Consider doing something similar in Haskell, setting a variable to
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The core devs are sympathetic (what with Rust being self-hosted) and apparently incremental compilation is coming soon: https://github.com/rust-lang/meeting-minutes/blob/master/wee... There is also a way
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by ehsanu1 12y ago
There isn't usually too much confusion, at least among users, about the different between vi and vim. Also, have never heard of nvi, whereas nvim seems like it's going places.
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> It's kind of subtle, but it feels like my hand somehow knows what I'm searching for, and can recognize it much better than I can. Most brain processes are subconscious, so if neurons outside the brain perform part of those pr
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My guess is that you were swapping. In addition to slowness, this explains how switching to an external hard drive for the files you're compiling would help, since it would reduce contention on a single hard drive. Next time it happens
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by ehsanu1 12y ago
Check again later, and you may see the price go back down (or up higher). There are third-party price history trackers for Amazon as well that let you see the volatility of prices for specific items over time.
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It doensn't "need" a summary. But it's nice for those of us who check comments before bothering with the actual article.
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Servo is just the browser engine, like Gecko. The UI/browser-chrome will be a separate project (named Crow, but not started yet afaik). Also relevant is the fact that Servo wants to be embeddable, like Webkit.
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Not sure this is up-to-date, but: http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide-ffi.html#stack-management tldr; C's stack is interleaved with Rust's stack.
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I always see the servo team constantly benchmarking things that are parallelize to make sure the parallelization is worthwhile. So if anything, I'd expect end-user latency to decrease substantially. I think the biggest improvements may
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by ehsanu1 12y ago
The article actually notes that higher power densities showed a much smaller effect. Low doses were much more effectual, which is why sitting outside on a sunny day may not work quite as well, if at all.
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Eh, if you have zero sales, you can't really A/B test. Unless there are many people that are getting through to the first step of your funnel, in which case you might be able to run one on that step - but it would be less useful t
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by ehsanu1 12y ago
If you have trouble finishing books, try audiobooks. That's what has worked for me, and I got subscription at audible.com, which is great.
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Googling turns up a few fantasy name generators that seem to work decently enough: https://www.google.com/search?q=fantasy+name+generator
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by ehsanu1 12y ago
The original "idea" itself was itself sarcasm. Your parent was simply underscoring it. You just failed to identify the original sarcasm, and ended up confused and a bit too serious about it all. It's just some obscure humor,
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by ehsanu1 12y ago
I doubt that's why. In this case, as the site doesn't appear to render well at all on mobile in the first place, that meta tag was probably just blindly copy pasted from somewhere else that did have a responsive page.
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by ehsanu1 12y ago
Hengjie explains here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7783622
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by ehsanu1 12y ago
Interesting idea, but sounds too expensive. I do believe the the image filename and alt/title attributes come into play, though those are easily spoofed so can't be taken too seriously by Google.
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Nitpick: they improved MySQL performance by 40% (so 140% of original performance), which is still very impressive. It's also amazing that they were able to make it work transparently for applications. The only way it would catch on is
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Only against as dumb-witted an opponent as evolution!
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Umm, no experience with typescript here, but can't you use the type annotations from the DefinitelyTyped project [1] to avoid everything becoming `any`? There are open source type annotations for all major (and many minor) libraries, i

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