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by jimmyed 4y ago
> And remember, if you're writing in English, that a lot of your readers won't be native English speakers Just because some readers might not be proficient in English, we have to write plainly to accommodate them? What if they
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by jimmyed 4y ago
Andy's obsession with mmap is interesting. I don't think it's the worst idea in some cases, like Prometheus. They use mmap to simplify the code and only keep the relevant (hot) parts of the index/data in memory. I guess
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by jimmyed 4y ago
To prevent priority inversion?
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by jimmyed 4y ago
It's not mutexes that are fair, it's the scheduling that is fair. Scheduling tries to prevent starvation and schedules the preempted mutex thread at least periodically.
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by jimmyed 4y ago
The God Of Small Things Winner of the booker prize, a delightful tale set in Kerala, a province of India where our ancestors first landed on the subcontinent. Very well written, and invokes powerful imaginery of Kerela's environ and so
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by jimmyed 4y ago
There is also netpeek[1] which has better filtering capabilities and UX overall. It supports ngrep like bpf filters which we found useful. 1: https://github.com/darshanime/netpeek
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Does it use Kahan summation?
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by jimmyed 5y ago
> There were short, punchy openers like: Mother died today –Albert Camus, The Stranger Well, that's only half the line. The real punch is the next part: > Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don't know
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by jimmyed 5y ago
CNN did not cover immigration even in 2016? I was under the impression it became a tool only after the disgraced chief.
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Huh, won't India be a better option? Loads of English speaking folks, low crime and rising standards of living.
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by jimmyed 5y ago
> the British had began banning the extremely common rituals of burning widows alive, burying alive of lepers, and honor killing of family members +1, you are right about this. Banning these was an undeniably good thing for the Indian so
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Alternative: yandex/odessey https://github.com/yandex/odyssey
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Oh well, the British felt 18th/19th century was an age of decline? It surely was, for India, where there was anarchy after the fall of the Mughal empire and millions of kingdoms were infighting for power.
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by jimmyed 5y ago
I'm planning to start working on SICP, starting from chapter 1. Anyone wishing to join me is welcome!
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by jimmyed 5y ago
> it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. I don't understand why satisfying this completely arbitrary condition makes it interesting. That way, you can have any number be interesting. 173
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by jimmyed 5y ago
No pictures of the Germans? Pity they were the most stylishly dressed of the lot.
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by jimmyed 5y ago
The book Sense of an Ending describes such a grand life as "the life of literature". Hemingway lived the life of literature.
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by jimmyed 5y ago
> After the two young ospreys were gone, I found that I was shaking, and in tears. The crying trope has become ubiquitous to signal emotion these days. Why isn't it possible to strongly feel something without the crying meme?
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Great insights. It was somewhat distracting to see the word "deep" overused. A whopping 7 times, sprinkled like resins on a cookie.
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Go to India and work as a contractor. You'll be considered a huge deal due to your age and they won't know anything about your convictions.
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Is there any active pwl group that has regular zoom meetings to discuss papers? Would love to join in.
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Andy forgot about the ugliest spart around benchmarks: Yugabyte v Cockroach.
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Just finished reading Murder on the Orient Express yesterday and made a (naive) mental note to travel the route sometime. This shattered that dream for sure. The book was somewhat uplifting, portraying the age where the entire world was acc
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Has anyone done Conways game of life in Conways game of life?
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Why does _france_ need to hide their millitary bases? I mean, France?
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by jimmyed 5y ago
+1 to your farm's beauty. Would you be open to hosting me for a day or two there?!
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Wonder how many times this has been done with humans throughout history
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Trying to wipe out the other side is "a functioning justice system"? It was in 1942 after Reinhard Heydrich's killing.
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by jimmyed 5y ago
Dawkin's The ancestors tale?
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by jimmyed 5y ago
What do you mean same is used for cattle?

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