jcalvinowens

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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
> DEC64 is intended to be the only number type in the next generation of application programming languages. Is he seriously arguing that integer types should be eliminated? What the hell? I really hope for the author's sake this is
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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
> root is prime target for brute force. So disable password logins. Even outside of root, that's a much more secure practice anyway.
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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
I think there are lots of perfectly valid reasons to use root logins over SSH. Sure, you absolutely shouldn't be doing development work or suchlike as root. But if you need to run administrative scripts on a bunch of servers, SSH as ro
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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
> That means they need to be in memory anyway, right? Actually no, GCC can optimize out pointer indirection like that if it ends up inlining the function (which it could in the kernel example, since it's static, relatively short, an
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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
You're missing the point: it's not that using an array is slower, it's that "int n[3]" can mean something completely different than "int a,b,c" does. A lot of comments on this thread have suggested that th
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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
> or use an array That's absolutely horrible: you've now introduced the possibility of accidental out-of-bounds access where there previously was none, not to mention that you just forced the compiler to put those variables on
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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
YES
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Show HN: AsmHTTPd – The tiniest webserver ever written (Linux, x86_64 assembly)(github.com)
8 points by jcalvinowens 13y ago|0 comments
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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
> If China dumped bonds, why would anyone buy debt from the USG when they can get it cheap on the open market that has just had 1 trillion dumped in it. The member banks of the federal reserve are required to buy government debt if nobod
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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
Warpwallet in C: https://github.com/jcalvinowens/miscellaneous/tree/master/fu...
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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
Give me some credit man. ;) The speedup was similar but slightly less when $number_of_cores included hyperthreads (or whatever AMD calls them), as I recall. I don't have the Bulldozer machine to play with anymore ,unfortunately.
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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
This is interesting, but my experience is that Intel's CPU's are so monumentally superior that it will take a lot more than GPU improvements to make me start buying AMD again. Specifically I'm dealing with compile workloads h
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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
Ah, ok.
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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
Page 84-85 of the PDF references: "websites that Alba visited" and "the to/from addresses of Alba's E-Mail" Did they forget to redact the suspects name there?
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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
A traffic ticket is not a civil offense. At least in Texas, it's a Class C Misdemeanor in the penal code.
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35 years of US federal minimum wage adjusted for inflation(i.imgur.com)
6 points by jcalvinowens 13y ago|1 comments
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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
Something like 75% of Linux kernel developers are paid for their work. It seems to be working pretty well for them.
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by jcalvinowens 13y ago
I've always thought that's a sketchy claim. The market would have sufficient liquidity without the bots. More importantly, they're a huge waste of resources that produces nothing of economic value.