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841.
by fpoling 7y ago
Alternatively one can run a separated process that does mmap and runs the calculations or whatever that needs to access the file as quickly as possible and do the the straightforward recovery in the parent process when the child process di
842.
by fpoling 8y ago
Chromium does not use CMake, but a custom build system. So one still has to use a command line to build Chromium.
843.
by fpoling 8y ago
C++, Java etc. all lack proper union types with appropriate pattern matching. So a lot of useful message passing patterns cannot be implemented without too much boilerplate.
844.
by fpoling 8y ago
Totalitarian regime in North Korea seems pretty stable after 70 years. Ancient Egypt was extremely totalitarian regime yet its worst period lasted centuries.
845.
by fpoling 8y ago
In this case the third-party software implements a public protocol, comes with a full source written in a very readable language and is sufficiently small to permit a casual review.
846.
Excess Vitamin D Linked to Kidney Damage(medscape.com)
2 points by fpoling 8y ago|0 comments
847.
by fpoling 8y ago
VSCode configs is a bad example to advocate JSON. They embedd a custom DSL into JSON as using JSON structures to express the same things will be too verbose I presume. JSON5 makes things better, but it still requires too much syntactical n
848.
by fpoling 8y ago
For 100 years there was no peer reviewed journals that stayed that trans fats was bad. Yet it turned out they were really bad.
849.
by fpoling 8y ago
You need to wait 30 or more years for the truth. Any effects if any will be highly non-linear and chronic exposure may be harmful only if one experience it for many years.
850.
by fpoling 8y ago
This pattern is known in numerical computing as NaN. It’s drawback is that when the computation produces NaN, one has no idea what triggered it. But that can be mitigated if the program prints stack trace on the first NaN. In case of Go tha
851.
by fpoling 8y ago
Plastics burns and releases a lot of energy during that process. In that regard its energy density is similar to wood. The problem is that compared with cellulose the life has not figured out how to harvest the energy of plastic oxidation a
852.
by fpoling 8y ago
Plastic in ocean gives extreme insensitive to bacteria or other life forms to come with way to consume it for energy. If something will come up with necessary enzymes and reactions, then not only we will end up without plastic, but perhaps
853.
Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved(bbc.com)
320 points by fpoling 8y ago|122 comments
854.
by fpoling 8y ago
This is just improper handling of an inertial scroll and zoom in applications, not something that OS deliver. On Mac the issue has been known for much longer and most applications adopted the proper API to detect that.
855.
by fpoling 8y ago
Which reminds about the saying "Do not cross a river 4 feet deep on average". And why the average is calculated as an arithmetic mean and not geometric or using any other averages? And consider then that on average Proxima Centaur
856.
Elon Musk Explains Starship’s ‘Transpiring’ Steel Heat Shield in Q&A(teslarati.com)
2 points by fpoling 8y ago|0 comments
857.
Jasmin Paris Pulled Off a Record-Shattering Time in Brutal Ultrarace(espn.com)
1 points by fpoling 8y ago|0 comments
858.
by fpoling 8y ago
I suppose the idea of selling only to those who can pay is in Wind River DNA. I worked for a company that WR bought in 2000. We had a product where it was possible for a small shop to get a license for 1000 USD or so. Wind River canceled th
859.
by fpoling 8y ago
At some point adblockers will run a browser in a headless mode and use ML algorithms to show ad-filteret result to the user.
860.
MIT continues progress toward practical fusion energy(news.mit.edu)
2 points by fpoling 8y ago|0 comments
861.
by fpoling 8y ago
I use a config like https://github.com/ibukanov/bergenrabbit/blob/master/webapp/... , it is pretty standard.
862.
by fpoling 8y ago
Chromium does not fully solved Spectre. It is still too expensive to run one process per domain, so many unrelated pages run in the same process. But Chromium contains a few mitigations that makes exploiting Spectre from JS much harder.
863.
by fpoling 8y ago
The problem is that frauds are fat-tailed. The vast mayority of them are small, but most harm comes not from them but few huge ones where there is no economy of scale to offset it. If one increases the number of transactions, then it can be
864.
Artificial intelligence, algorithmic pricing, and collusion(voxeu.org)
3 points by fpoling 8y ago|0 comments
865.
by fpoling 8y ago
nginx can also do it for any FCGI script.
866.
by fpoling 8y ago
“Fooled by Randomness” by Nassim Taleb. It is hard to compress it into a short summary, but it can be something like “be very aware about unknown unknowns”.
867.
by fpoling 8y ago
I had Toyota Yaris hybrid and after 3 years I had to replace brake pads twice due to rust. Apparently with regenerative braking I had not used them much. This prevented them from heating that normally removed any water buildup. Granted that
868.
by fpoling 8y ago
C++ templates are not typed structually. The compiler does not assign types to them at all. Rather they are treated as macros and the type assignment and checking happens during the expansion. For example, one can write a template that has
869.
by fpoling 8y ago
The study does not say that all recovers, only 75%. And with alcohol and heroin the recovery is longer, until the age of 35 or so.
870.
by fpoling 8y ago
In many developing countries with low exposure to Western-style diet and lifestyle the oral health is way better than in the West. In a sense the advanced oral care indicates that something is wrong with the teeth.

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