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by ekr 9y ago
I haven't read that paper (Learned Index Structures), but things like gperf have existed for decades. Are these enhanced data structures dynamic, i.e. unlike gperf which is a static one, does it reoptimize as you insert new elements? I
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by ekr 9y ago
I'm sorry if this comes off as a bit condescending, but burnout has a precise medical term, and the term itself is widely overused in other contexts which dilutes the meaning. Burnout could be characterised as prolonged exposure to str
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by ekr 9y ago
I'd be really interested in seeing a double blind test, to check if people really can tell the difference between the two.
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by ekr 9y ago
I've also been using Nightly since about 2 months ago, when I noticed how fast it became. However, it does have its share of glitches. For instance switching between tabs with C-S-Tab, doesn't take me to the previous tab, but jump
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by ekr 9y ago
An interesting observation: this was written by the brother of Terence Tao.
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by ekr 9y ago
Luckily for haskellers, GHC does a thing called fusion, which is an optimization that pipes together different operations on data, and avoids allocating intermediate results. ( https://www.stackbuilders.com/tutorials/has
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Moloch's Toolbox (2/2) – LesserWrong(lesserwrong.com)
3 points by ekr 9y ago|0 comments
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Moloch's Toolbox (1/2)(lesserwrong.com)
3 points by ekr 9y ago|0 comments
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by ekr 9y ago
I see Daniel Bernstein hasn't been mentioned, but looking through his software, not many can match his track record of (seemingly) bug-free C code. In any case, he's a mathematician and it shows. Since learning about his patricia
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by ekr 9y ago
I don't, apparently the site has been hugged to death. (almost, the shader is working but CSS and other static resources aren't).
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by ekr 9y ago
replace python with haskell, and emacs and vim, and i'm with you.
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by ekr 9y ago
It was a humorous observation, that apparently wasn't well received. My apologies.
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by ekr 9y ago
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by ekr 9y ago
> the security people can usually get it right Having worked for an AV vendor, I assure you that is not the case. Just check Project Zero[1], most of them do parsing of complex binary formats in kernel mode, 'nuff said. This is just
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by ekr 9y ago
You can build that environment for yourself. Buy a small cabin in the woods. There are many who have done this. Check out Joey Hess' blog: http://joeyh.name/blog/ .
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by ekr 9y ago
There are others as well. "A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation" by David R. Hanson, Christopher W. Fraser is the first that comes to mind. But sure, there aren't a lot of them out there.
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by ekr 9y ago
About 10 years ago I discovered Arch Linux, and never looked back. What I like most about it is that it comes with no bloat, you install exactly what you need. I'm using it with i3wm, which is also a beautiful piece of software.
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by ekr 9y ago
With a rack and a set of panniers, you can carry significant weight and volume.
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by ekr 9y ago
> "Do I have to feel that I grasp the "Warrior" mentality in order to tell someone they're being rude?" The point of the article is that for some people it's impossible to respond in that situation, hence th
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by ekr 9y ago
> but it's getting harder to get a cheap, high quality education over time. That sounds very surprising to me. To me at least it seems it's getting easier, at an accelerating rate. With resources such as libgen, scihub, mit ocw
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by ekr 9y ago
You can buy solar cells off aliexpress at ~$0.33 / watt (this is the lowest price atm). The most efficient cells are at 23-25% efficiency, but these are a bit more expensive (closer to $0.5). Here's the first example I could find
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by ekr 9y ago
Cycling, mountain-biking, XC mostly. I just love being out in nature on a beautiful trail. But if hobbies includes academic interests, then computer science, mathematics, (programming is a given in this community I suppose), rationality and
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by ekr 9y ago
See also klange's resume: https://github.com/klange/resume . Resume pdf that's also a valid ISO 9660, bootable toaru OS image.
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by ekr 9y ago
Org-mode ~/ideas.org.
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by ekr 9y ago
Linux ran on 80386 until not long ago. Now it requires an 80486.
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by ekr 9y ago
Exactly. I've also been burned out from an highly political environment, seeing how people raise to the top by basically following advice of the kind given in '48 laws of power'. But in a way it's been eye-opening, seein
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by ekr 9y ago
Scotland and free tuition? I was thinking about a MSc in computer science at the University of Edinburgh, and it's definitely not free, even for EU citizens: http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/fees?prog
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by ekr 10y ago
Surely, after a decade it should be fairly easy to detect Prp_sc levels, or at least extract bone marrow sample for examination. That should eliminate beyond any reasonable level of doubt, any reason for worrying about the matter.
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by ekr 10y ago
For those that may not know: last year Intel released the Edison's successor: Intel Joule ( https://software.intel.com/en-us/iot/hardware/joule/dev-kit ) based on a newer 14nm Broxton architecture, it
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by ekr 10y ago
I don't know why I get the feeling that most of this advancement is the result of Jim Keller's contribution. Surely, AMD must have other engineers capable of similar achievements, right?

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