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by jnwatson 3y ago
It is even easier if you standardize on power-of-2-sized trains.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Plus folks are graduating with a lot more debt.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Readahead is configurable via madvise, and it is configurable in LMDB as well.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Rolling your own key management system is not to be taken lightly. I've done it, and you really, really only want to do it when you really know other systems won't work.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
A per-pound tax is appropriate. After all, the impact on road wear is roughly proportional to weight.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Houston is about to remove the Pierce Elevated, a section of I-45 that separates Downtown from midtown. This is a very big deal.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The author explicit mentions it twice.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The Fitbit trackers last about 5 days on a charge.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
There was a certain Space Shuttle program that never returned from interrupt. At the end of its interrupt handler, it would just spin. The next interrupt would just add to the call stack. What happens when it runs out of stack? It just rese
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The confusion is using the same namespace for argument slots and variables. It might have been clearer if, for example, Leibniz would have used Greek letters alpha and beta instead of x and y.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
I had a friend recently visit China and he needed access to the real internet and the VPN providers he had used before were blocked. It took me all of 10 minutes to set up a OpenVPN server in East Asia on DigitalOcean. The container even co
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by jnwatson 3y ago
"If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."
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by jnwatson 3y ago
You betcha. I remember in the late 90s an anti sniper technology that could detect lenses at long distances and fire a laser at them. The idea was to mess up scope optics, but human heads have lenses too. It was not Geneva Conventions frien
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by jnwatson 3y ago
If you want to catch plagiarism, you have to go looking for it. She provided a reason for folks to look. Imagine chaos that Google could cause if it looked for common phrases across its corpus of sites/books/papers.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The video points this out as a potential future goal, and it outlines what would be required to actually accomplish it. The definition of "beating" the game is simply a convention.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Importantly, the LMDB API allows append mode, and it is very fast.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Literally the second link on Google: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...
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by jnwatson 3y ago
That is very much standard.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Article is 13 years old now. In 2019, Bill sold his company to Microsoft and started a new company that sells an RTOS. Pretty good thing he has going.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
A lot of folks conflate brutalist with Soviet constructivist. They do look a lot alike, but come from completely different origins.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
See discussion from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38539167
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by jnwatson 3y ago
No, more chemicals isn't necessarily what you want. Coffee beans contain diterpenes, which have been shown to increase cholesterol. Paper filters significantly reduce the quantity of diterpenes in the end product.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The US certainly spends a lot on elections, and one might debate whether that's too much or not. But what is certain is that campaign money contributes to the GDP. It funds a lot of salaries. I'd rather that money go to people i
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The researchers found several problems. The backdoor seems intentional, but the others do not. They broke the TAA protocol.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
streams is the best evidence that C++ was an experiment. It was a sandbox to try a bunch of different language ideas. Overloading the shift operators for this purpose is prima facie insane, and anyone who has single-stepped through a C++ &
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Nah, it is just that filmmakers avoid a lot of panning shots because it looks like crap.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
We already had a natural experiment for it over COVID. Rent didn't immediately go up. The price of everything went up sure to inflation. The Fed understands this. As soon as the checks start flowing, interest rates will rise to keep mo
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Huh? The Alaska permanent fund comes from mineral royalties, which is literally a type of tax.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
The permanent fund is proceeds from taxes on the sales of oil and other minerals. There's no difference here.
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by jnwatson 3y ago
Regulatory risk is the biggest component to economic viability.

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