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by flgr 11y ago
I thought I was clever and tried to enable it from the Apple News web browser so I wouldn't get ads there even when I follow links. But it doesn't seem to work due to third party cookies being blocked. I wonder if that also means
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by flgr 11y ago
For those wondering what this is about: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=143725996614627&w=2 The current process is forced into a restricted-service operating mode. A few subsets are available, roughly
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by flgr 11y ago
> but ruby doesn't track external strings as dirty like that. It does: irb(main):001:0> gets.tainted? foo => true You can even set $SAFE to 1 or higher to disallow the use of tainted strings in potentially dangero
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by flgr 11y ago
If you are interested in an overview of B-Trees, similar data structures, and how well they work on modern hardware, you may also find the survey bit of my master thesis interesting: See here: https://www.researchgate.net/pr
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by flgr 11y ago
> Basically all the data fit in the CPU cache If Mb is used with its usual meaning here (megabit), that's only 175 kilobyte.
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by flgr 11y ago
Since I haven't set up any other domain to put it right now (should get to that), I put it here: http://webclonk.flgr.me/index-search-modern-cpus.pdf
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by flgr 11y ago
Or phrased with a bit more seasoning: "Reading from L1 cache is like grabbing a piece of paper from your desk (3 seconds), L2 cache is picking up a book from a nearby shelf (14 seconds), main system memory is taking a 4-minute walk dow
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by flgr 11y ago
Sorry for the blatant plug, but it might be relevant — in my M.Sc. thesis I surveyed main memory optimized index techniques and also provided some background for why traditional binary search is not very optimized for modern hardware. There
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by flgr 11y ago
From the way I understand it cases with premium processing should here back until May 11. From what I've heard, others "before October" (one company doing consulting for H-1Bs expects these until August 15).
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by flgr 11y ago
If we can extrapolate from the numbers at [1] (not sure how representative it is) then about 29% of the 233,000 total petitions would be filed under the Master's cap. That'd be around 67,337 Master's cap petitions. [1] http:
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WebMate: Automatic cross-browser testing(app.webmate.io)
21 points by flgr 12y ago|5 comments
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by flgr 13y ago
While I like the list view, I'm missing one thing: Would it be possible to add the title of the blog an item is from in lighter text?
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by flgr 13y ago
Would it be possible to use this to render the current state of a canvas to the console? That's something I'd find very useful for debugging. Edit 1: Looks like they build the memes exactly that way. It still needs to convert the
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Fast VM rollbacks? (through in-memory snapshots)(superuser.com)
1 points by flgr 13y ago|0 comments
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by flgr 15y ago
Hm, I think it's better style to refer to true and false as true and false (their keywords) instead of TRUE and FALSE (constants, could go away in the future?). :) irb(main):001:0» TRUE » true irb(main):002:0» FALSE » false
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by flgr 15y ago
AFAIK str2 = str will just share the RVALUE-Pointer. I think to actually see shared strings behavior, you would have to do str2 = str.clone or str2 = str[0..-1].
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by flgr 15y ago
Isn't it the same with scalability? You won't know if you need a product to be scalable until you have actually launched it and seen its success. Yet, every product developed at Google seems to be developed with absolute scalability in mind