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by inkyoto 3y ago
x86 should be taught as a follow-up course in the following semester as an example of how not to design a CPU architecture, specifically from the long term evolution perspective. It would have been fine if x86 ceased to exist after 80486
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by inkyoto 3y ago
ksh does not get enough love it deserves as it is the living ancestor of both, bash and zsh, shells that have inherited, improved upon and extended many features. It has also been a life saver on proprietory UNIX platforms where the default
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by inkyoto 3y ago
With all due respect, you are wildly projecting based on the lack of knowledge and experience in the problem domain citing the information you have gleaned into (but not gained from) using the first random link that a search engine has turn
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Minecraft itself perhaps does not care, but a 32-bit JVM process will have a 4Gb heap tops (3Gb on Windows) that will make the playing experience either unpleasant (i.e. constant garbage collection running in parallel and stopping Minecraft
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Cash handling is typically in the neighborhood of 0.2%-0.3%, so you were apparently overpaying […] This is not universal, and banks in different countries charge different cash collections fees. The cash collection fees are also struct
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> One way for addressing this concern is (stateful) stream processing, for instance using Kafka Streams […] I have recently been burned by Kafka Streams specifically: it has been causing the excessive rebalancing in the Kafka cluster due
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by inkyoto 3y ago
The article is talking about the motion detection that falters when it encounters kangaroos but works flawlessly with quadrapedal animals whose motion follows more easily predictable patterns. Kangaroo deterents have existed for a while, e.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
I am still not sure what the killer app was for the Alpha. Other than OpenVMS/Alpha to provide the business continuity for existing VMS customers, DEC was not really all that successful with the Alpha from that perspective. Yes, Window
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Yes, there are solutions, and the simplest one is replace the direct vtable lookup with an indirect one where the methods are referenced not by their numeric offsets in the vtable but via their symbolic names and the offset resolution is pe
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Yes, that is still true – AmEx own their own payment processing network, and they do not allow outsiders into it, even banks they have the brand sharing agreements with, hence a separate retailer relationship.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> […] we have essentially 4 big ones and they already are pretty cutting edge […] The Big Four are not the cutting edge, it is a delusion. Out of four, only the Commonwealth Wank has transitioned onto a modern core banking platform for r
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> […] "broken" credit card machines (plus 5% surcharge when they do work), drivers refusing destinations (by law they're not allowed to) […] You have forgotten to mention the cab operators sending complaints, e.g. about ov
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Yes, inlining (and LTO can take it a notch or two higher) does away with the problem altogether, however the number of projects that default to «-Os» (or even to «-O2») to build a release product is substantial to large. There is also a sig
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Wasting a register on comparatively more modern ISA's (PA-RISC 2.0, MIPS64, POWER, aarch64 etc – they are all more modern and have an abundance of general purpose registers) is not a concern. The actual «wastage» is in having to genera
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> […] my bank warning me about credit and debit card unavailability […] Your bank might have meant card balances being unavailable in the online banking which is more plausible than cards being generally unavailable for payments. It is
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Why would a company choose to use COBOL if they weren't restricted to what ran on IBM's mainframe infrastructure? COBOL has nothing to do with just IBM mainframes even though that is what it mostly runs on. The second big pla
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by inkyoto 3y ago
S3 is an object storage, not a file system. The file system in AWS is called EFS. S3 is not positioned as a substitute for file systems, either.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> […] what the special 0-byte object refers to. It represents an empty folder. Alas, no. It represents a tag, e.g. «folder/», that points to a zero byte object. You can then upload two files, e.g. «folder/file1.txt» and «folder
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by inkyoto 3y ago
S3 is a tagged versioned object storage with file like semantics implemented in the AWS SDK (via AWS S3 API's). The S3 object key is the tag. Files and folders are used to make S3 buckets more approachable to those who either don'
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by inkyoto 3y ago
I am afraid you are too late to the party. Because once upon time they could not agree on the choice of either Western or Central time on the border between Western Australia and South Australia, they settled on a real compromise being UT
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Computational shift is a quick and dirty fix for a random picture with the – auspiciously, should I say – «misaligned» perspective that can be salvaged without the detriment to the composition. Oftentimes that is not the case, though, and r
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> […] pre-calculated lookup tables […] The approach is older than that. I remember my grandfather's engineering books from 1950's – nearly each of them had a large addendum with the said pre-calculated sine, cosine, tangent and
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by inkyoto 3y ago
The great vowel shift is complicit in the divergence of the pronunciation and spelling in English, not the loan words. Loaned or not, the «bite», «meet», «meat», «serene», «mate», «out», «boot», «boat», «stone», «day», «they», «boy», «law»,
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Do we know how the order ultimately came about, and what it was originally based on? I don’t mean “because earlier alphabets had that order”, I mean an explanation in terms of the characters of the (earlier) alphabet themselves. I’m ge
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> […] is completely phonetic […] … for now in the 21st century. There is no guarantee the current spelling will accurately reflect the pronunciation in the 23rd century. Pronunication and spelling inevitable diverge over time in nearly a
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by inkyoto 3y ago
I am not following it. On the one hand, valid points have been made that I have a wholehearted agreement with, yet the next moment there seems to be the gish galloping going on. Or that is how I perceive it, anyway. > In 1812, Britain wa
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by inkyoto 3y ago
In 1812, Britain was a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system dominated by landed aristocracy and gentry – 3% circa of the population, and it was exclusively males. Members of Parliament (MP's) were often elected in rotten
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> […] a war of 1812 between Great Britain and United States. Both countries were democracies at that time. By what definition the British Empire , a constitutional monarchy, had been a democracy in 1812 if all (and not just the four
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> US was a first-mover and had early telcom penetration, so SMS became culturally ubiquitous since it was the tech of the era. Telco penetration – yes, the US had a upper hand. SMS (and messaging) – no, the US lagged behind for many year
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by inkyoto 3y ago
I did not imply that O_DIRECT was a full equivalent of raw devices, it was rather a compromise as Linus would not concede with the idea of raw devices making it into Linux. Besides, O_DIRECT can be used at the file level (and the file syste

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