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by emn13 10y ago
My guess: Not right away. It's going to take a while for AMD to gain trust; and if intel massively drops prices that will if anything accelerate that effect. A dramatic price drop would tell your clients that you indeed gouged them an
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by emn13 10y ago
It strikes me as highly unlikely that the 2-3% a previous poster listed for NL en 56% for DE is valid in the sense that if both statements are true, that they are comparing apples to apples. These kind of numbers are hard to interpret anyho
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by emn13 10y ago
Not a great loss, but it's amusing to read imdb's definition of "ample time" to backup anything of value.
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by emn13 10y ago
Well... IP law has a pretty strong centralizing tendency. After all, it grants control, not cash, so those that have the ability to leverage that control benefit more. That's going to be true for any kind of state-granted monopoly, b
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by emn13 10y ago
I kind of agree with the conclusion, but I'd look at that from the opposite direction: i.e. just like frameworks, checklists provide a way to avoid some mistakes in repetitive, boring practices. But you'll never avoid them all, a
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by emn13 10y ago
You seem to draw a parallel to other types of victim blaming. Normally, people mean by that blaming the victim not because they are the perpetrator, but because they should have protected themselves better (or have hidden their vulnerabili
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by emn13 10y ago
I never have - what are you getting at?
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by emn13 10y ago
That's a pretty lame exuse: if anything, OS integrated JIT engines are likely to be less secure, and a more diverse engine ecosystem makes attacks less attractive. Witness how JIT engines don't cause many problems (and never real
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by emn13 10y ago
I'm not sure about the audience here on hacker news, but I can image many are more interested in the developer release notes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/51#Chan... (e.g. JS&#x2F
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by emn13 10y ago
Minor aside; I don't think the complex bits of sql are things like cross apply - that's almost no different from a join, especially if you're from a non-sql background where "joins" are typically statements+loop-equ
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by emn13 10y ago
I think the most impactful difference (visavis safety in NL) aren't the segregated bikepaths - those are common, but not pervasive. Even more important are the car drivers, which are accustomed to bikes, and not as easily surprised whe
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by emn13 10y ago
Why would a bike in storage deteriorate that much more quickly than one in use? You do need to store the tires inflated, but I use one set of tires for years, and I keep the bike outdoors in all weather and use it daily. I do get the impre
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by emn13 10y ago
Corruption is an orthogonal issue - losing any amount of data, even a single bit, can lead to corruption. Avoiding corruption by lowering I/O latency is not a viable strategy - at least not given "realistic" latencies and re
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by emn13 10y ago
fastest would likely be to wrap at the greatest multiple of N that fits in your integer representation, since that (probably dramatically) reduces branch mispredicts. However, you're still doing lots of modulos to then find the "r
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by emn13 10y ago
It's not just wikipedia that does this; it's not even specifically a problem of open communities. Organisations all over do this. People underestimate complexity and think that they can assign permissions and control access befo
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by emn13 10y ago
I'm skeptical that off-main-thread I/O is a panacea for high I/O latency. It's certainly a boon; to be sure - but at the end of the day you want that I/O to complete. Showing more frames while you wait for that I&
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by emn13 10y ago
I don't disagree. It looks suspicious (the ND license). If you will: it's no noxious odor; it's a faint whiff. But the article doesn't uncover anything that backs up this superficial unease with something solid.
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by emn13 10y ago
There's a certain smell of hypocrisy in the FSF publishing these without allowing derivatives. So I was reading this article kind of wanting for it to be convincing. But the argumentation is pretty weak - that's being nice, it&#
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by emn13 10y ago
What's particularly nasty about this practice (though legal, I'd guess), is that as far as I can tell after a quick read, parties such as Sun Capital here intentionally manipulate the creditor pecking order. During a deal, they a
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by emn13 10y ago
Well, that's hardly any different to google. You have no control over the details of those taxes. If anything, the advantage you grant google is likely more direct and quite probably more costly if you're comparing apples to app
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by emn13 10y ago
I've heard the assumption that energy costs outweigh cpu costs for TCO, but after some rough guesstimation I'm not so sure. 1MWh of electricity is enough to power a cpu running 114W on average for a year. A 24 core (48 thread) xeo
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by emn13 10y ago
Not to mention that AMD's current state is absolutely perfect for intel - too weak to be a serious threat, yet viable enough so that Intel is not a completely obvious monopoly that might attract unwanted regulatory intervention. Even i
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by emn13 10y ago
.net could have made equality entirely optional; and it could have exposed machinery to implement equality (including all aspects of it!) by composition, not manual fiddling - at least not by default! That would have made .net less memory-h
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by emn13 10y ago
This is one of the things .net did pretty terribly wrongly for it includes equals and GetHashCode on every object. Not only is that autocompletion (and api) pollution of the absolutely worst kind (infects every "thing" in the lang
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by emn13 10y ago
It's completely expected to both inject scripts into a pages DOM, and also to set up a communication channel back from the page content script to the central extension "process". It's not a rare corner case. An ad-bl
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by emn13 10y ago
Many extensions have full access to all webpages, also in chrome; there's no sandbox or anything similar safely separating extension from page. That's not a bug or missing feature: it's by design! Many extensions fiddle with
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by emn13 10y ago
I suspect you're using many extensions. Most users do not, at least according to FF's stats. Process sandboxing is not a user-visible feature; it's (1) a largely hypothetical security feature (hypothetical in the sense that
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by emn13 10y ago
Well, "need"... To quote the sqlite website itself: > The SQLite website ( https://www.sqlite.org/ ) uses SQLite itself, of course, and as of this writing (2015) it handles about 400K to 500K HTTP requests per da
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by emn13 10y ago
Also, I don't think it's obvious that whatever replaces the current habitable zones will be nearly as large or fertile as what we have now. It's by no means a necessarily long-term zero-sum game.
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by emn13 10y ago
I'm not sure any asteroid has ever incinerated every tree - I suspect not - but realize that even fairly mild extinction events such as the one that killed the dinosaurs had rather dramatic consequences: in particular; that the planet

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