jedbrown

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by jedbrown 16y ago
Perhaps my biggest complaint is that until recently, Python-2.x releases were not packaged with an executable named "python2", thus during the transition to Python-3.x, there is no safe way to specify which major version your script require
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by jedbrown 16y ago
The final figure claims less than 0.3 general practitioners per 100,000. That would amount to around 1000 general practitioners in the country which is at least two orders of magnitude low.
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by jedbrown 16y ago
VM is also useful to handle fragmentation and to map parts of a large "array" to different NUMA nodes (so that it can be accessed by several threads without overloading a single memory channel). In a multi-process system, if you get rid of
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by jedbrown 16y ago
You think a phone is a good way to interact with a computer? There is exactly one reason why I love my phone: it fits in my pocket. When I'm in a location where a larger device is convenient, rest assured that I am not working on my phone.
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by jedbrown 16y ago
Wow, thanks.
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by jedbrown 16y ago
Sometimes with technical material, I read the same paragraph multiple times. If the footnote is really an "aside", I can just read it once and not have it clutter the paragraph when I'm rereading.
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by jedbrown 16y ago
quux_t *foo(int i) { /* Trick to prevent compiler from inlining */ if(i == 0) { quux_t *bar = (quux_t *) malloc(sizeof(quux_t)); return bar; } else { return foo(0); } } Serious
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by jedbrown 16y ago
Yes, even glibc malloc is usually around 400 cycles (about 150 nanoseconds) in my tests.
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by jedbrown 16y ago
The retailer will ship other products by the same company? A lot of other electronics products have more equitable international pricing models and value that can be assessed more objectively.
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by jedbrown 16y ago
Round-trip latencies for small MPI messages are typically a couple microseconds over InfiniBand, under 10 microseconds for 10G Ethernet without TCP, and a bit more when going through TCP.
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by jedbrown 16y ago
The retailer may to agree not to ship internationally. A lot of outdoor gear companies require this so they can price independently in different countries, it seems at least plausible that these companies do the same.
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by jedbrown 16y ago
The difference being that data actually costs something to provide. SMS never did.
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by jedbrown 16y ago
T-mobile has a month-to-month contract if you own your phone, you can discontinue at any time and it's $20 cheaper per month than a 2-year contract. Not prepaid, but no 2-year crap either.
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by jedbrown 16y ago
Floating point is not the problem, it's memory issues mostly due to C defaulting to allowing aliasing. C99 has the `restrict` keyword so you can generally get identical object code from both languages. SSE intrinsics are only available from
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by jedbrown 16y ago
He should probably look at tup ( http://gittup.org/tup/make_vs_tup.html ) which, when using inotify (otherwise stat must be called O(n) times), pretty much always start building (or reports nothing to do) in a few milliseconds.
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by jedbrown 16y ago
Scott set the American record, Yiannis Kouros still holds the world 24 hr records (180 miles on the road, 188 on the track).
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by jedbrown 16y ago
The svn issue seems under-appreciated. In my experience, far and away, the best way to merge subversion branches is to pull them in with git-svn, rebase, and push back to subversion. I've done this more than once for projects that I'm onl
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by jedbrown 16y ago
FWIW, -mfpmath=sse is default on x86-64
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by jedbrown 16y ago
Thanks, I just reread the manual page and found tmux new-session -t which behaves similarly to screen -x. When I asked on IRC, I was told that tmux did not support this mode so I didn't pursue it further.
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by jedbrown 16y ago
There's certainly a continuum, almost any decent library can be extended by user code.
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by jedbrown 16y ago
Okay, that sounds neat. What happens if multiple people type at the same time? Can you split the frame and somehow still have multiple people typing? Why tmux instead of a more featured remote desktop? Just curious, but now that I under
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by jedbrown 16y ago
Different example: Xinjiang, the largest administrative region in China (17% of the land area) was disconnected from all internet and phone from early July 2009 until May 2010 (because China wanted to be the sole purveyor of information re
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by jedbrown 16y ago
This article is pretty superficial, but I've been using tmux lately and my primary complaint is that you can't attach to the same session without syncing them. Well, something I've been doing with screen for 10 years because I find it hand
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by jedbrown 16y ago
Might want to check you spelling (intergration) and validate ("5 Errors, 1 warning(s)", http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://staydecent.ca/marku... ) before claiming standards compliance.
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by jedbrown 16y ago
It's so similar to cp that GNU cp has cp -l from to
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by jedbrown 16y ago
The lower part of that route was quite dangerous in terms of rock and ice fall, but that was mostly behind them once they reached the upper part. Crevasses don't just occur anywhere, and they were mostly on technical ground where it was a
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by jedbrown 16y ago
There are a lot of decisions that affect the risk level. This is the same with any activity. Cutting edge climbs generally involve enough "risky" decisions to be considered dangerous, I have lost too many friends to claim otherwise. But
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by jedbrown 16y ago
Beck was left by people who were perfectly capably of helping, despite evidently still being capable of getting himself down. Your example is good too, but there are many, many examples of people in radio contact with a camp only a few hou
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by jedbrown 16y ago
Yes, that was intentional.
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by jedbrown 16y ago
This is a silly mis-application of statistics. Risk in both scenarios is highly dependent on preparation and decision making.

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