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by grandinj 7y ago
Funnily enough, a large part of it is actually clay (wet sand :-), sometimes a clay called kaolin, mostly to give it a nice white color. Whether that actually generates friction or not, I don't know
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by grandinj 7y ago
The obvious question is - has the data been adjusted for the fact that people now live longer, otherwise the conclusion is not very useful.
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by grandinj 7y ago
Simply doing an environmental assessment for the necessary processing facilities will take years, that stuff is terrible to work with, both the tailings and the required processing to extract rare earth elements. On the upside, doing so pro
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by grandinj 7y ago
A "proper" themeing API is a massive undertaking and would still have issues at scale
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by grandinj 7y ago
https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2018/10/15/restyling-apps-a... Oh yes, people have always done it, via one hack or another, and as long as it was more of a "for people who really want to fiddle&quo
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by grandinj 7y ago
Themeing is not a valid or supported feature. It's a hack that uses some facilities in GTK that were not intended for that purpose.
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by grandinj 7y ago
Spatial diversity does more than help with multi-path issues. It multiplies your available bandwidth by sub-dividing the space around the base-station.
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by grandinj 7y ago
> you can't really cheat the Shannon-Hartley theorem No, but you can work within it's limits to achieve some fairly spectacular things. I predict that if low-orbit sat service starts bringing competition to rural areas, we will
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by grandinj 7y ago
They do: nuclear power. Already built, costs already paid, minimal extra costs to be incurred due to running it longer.
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by grandinj 7y ago
Just a teensy bit condescending there? You mean like - gdb randomly sucking up 16G of ram - gdb crashing with internal errors - clang/gcc miscompiling my code - perf refusing to record stacks - perf refusing to symbolise stacks be
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by grandinj 7y ago
Really? I regularly manage to get most of the linux toolchain to bork, and have particular "fun" getting the profiling tools to work properly. And never mind getting a nice IDE environment like Visual Studio up and running. So it
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by grandinj 7y ago
Safety is the largest component the FDA analyses for, not exactly "orders of magnitude" less than efficacy. Increasing the patent length, however, would increase the payback. Not as much as one might think, however, because the ti
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by grandinj 7y ago
Which laptops?
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by grandinj 7y ago
Or it could be a loose piece of harness floating around the sea that the whale got trapped in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_(medicine)
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by grandinj 8y ago
One thing that helps is simply not engaging with tiresome people. I ignore painful questions and let someone else on the mailing list answer. I make requests once in code review, and then ignore that PR if there is tedious argumentation.
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by grandinj 8y ago
Is it just me or did no one else parse this as a joke project because pyrite == fools gold?
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by grandinj 8y ago
The thing that annoys me most about this pattern is that people always miss the "there needs to be lots of things you want to perform on those thingies". And so we end up with a huge pile of visitor code, and there is one or maybe
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by grandinj 8y ago
Actually no, not an absurd idea at all: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk
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by grandinj 8y ago
most of that is spent in the network stack, not the userspace->kernel layer
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by grandinj 8y ago
That title immediately makes me think this is a hit piece. It looks designed to place Walmart in the worst possible light.
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by grandinj 8y ago
This is impressive, but it adds yet another very complex io api to the Linux list. Compared to this Windows is looking more and more impressive and their api is decades old. I’m sure this is higher performing in some benchmark setup, but ve
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by grandinj 8y ago
Ah, you are correct, it's the non-threadedness of the interpreter itself I was thinking of.
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by grandinj 8y ago
there is essentially no such thing as threads in python, unless I am completely missing something. The default python interpreter does absolutely nothing to make it's execution thread-safe, and that appears to be a deliberate decision
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by grandinj 8y ago
Why would they do this? They'd need a new line of ARM variant CPUs to meet the various performance points of the different macbooks and imacs. And they'd be amortizing those costs over a rather small (for them) number of units. An
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by grandinj 8y ago
Feels like we're heading to a future where half of userspace will recompile itself as BPF and upload itself into kernel space to be executed there
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by grandinj 8y ago
Yeah, I agree, I wonder how the overall costs will work out, with the increased TLB pressure
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by grandinj 8y ago
in the reported case, fsync does not persist all data to disk, but it reports success. How does LMDB deal with that situation?
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by grandinj 8y ago
This seems a little alarmist. We still have growth, it's just not high enough for some people, it seems. But then, it never is :-) It important to note, that, averaged over multiple decades, it only takes a growth rate of about 1% to l
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by grandinj 8y ago
Apache Ignite is also using H2 as their "SQL parser and query planner" layer
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by grandinj 8y ago
This. I was (as a young engineer) monitoring the mailing lists during the IPV6 proposal discussions and the hubris was palpable. It was very much a case of "they will have to implement this so we will get to force all of these other im

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