mcbain

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by mcbain 7y ago
The inland of Australia is nothing like inland North America. There is very little water, much is literally desert. Something like 85% of the population lives within 50km of the coastline.
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by mcbain 7y ago
Truthful name, though? Google, we blight.
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by mcbain 7y ago
There are listicles with these kinds of stats every now and then (and I’m usually a sucker for them), like this one: https://www.traveller.com.au/airline-weight-reduction-to-sav... Scaling any kind of issue changes things d
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by mcbain 7y ago
It seems Central Canada is more philosophical than Geographical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Canada
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by mcbain 7y ago
I’ve spent time writing CPU detection code for previous projects, and there is nothing that jumps out at me as biased in the linked ISA check. In fact that is really the bare minimum required to split the AVX variants, and will detect AMD s
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by mcbain 7y ago
And TV, Hunting Aotearoa: https://www.maoritelevision.com/shows/hunting-aotearoa Great stuff, in a mix of Māori and laid back NZ English.
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by mcbain 7y ago
The article on CT gets into much more detail about this system: https://cyclingtips.com/2019/09/ceramicspeed-driven-can-shif... tl;dr: interesting and shows promise, still more work to do. edit: don't be scar
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by mcbain 7y ago
Recently in the news: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/health/sacklers-purdue-op...
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by mcbain 7y ago
Often used as a slight pejorative, especially if you can’t immediately recall old mate’s name.
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by mcbain 7y ago
And for extra points explain the addition of “but” as a sentence final. Maybe it reverses the meaning of what proceeded it, maybe it is just a full stop. “Nah yeah but.”
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by mcbain 7y ago
They’ve killed goo.gl? Ok, that was news to me.
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by mcbain 7y ago
I’m pro-“fast rail”, but I’m even more pro-“just build a damn train between Melbourne Airport and Melbourne City”. Without the political will/ability to do that, I don’t see how a fast train to SYD/CBR is happening.
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by mcbain 7y ago
GitHub, for one, tries to stop them from being published by doing some scanning as well: https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-token-scanning
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by mcbain 7y ago
Even if those arrays are entirely in cache they require more cycles per lookup than the computation from the article. That's been true of lookup tables for a long while now.
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by mcbain 8y ago
To close the loop, maybe Norway could also walk away from drilling for oil off South Australia: https://abc.net.au/news/2019-03-11/great-australian-bight-no...
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by mcbain 8y ago
My shell history is sure to show every use of ‘rsync <whatever>’ to be preceded by ‘rsync -n <whatever>’ to make sure I have the paths correct.
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by mcbain 8y ago
Some customers demand to know which jurisdiction their data is stored in, so it isn't as simple as "move it somewhere friendlier". You have control if you are running your own services on top of the main cloud providers, but
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by mcbain 8y ago
These chips aren’t going to be running browsers in the near future, unless you mean in a TV (one of the last places you could find MIPS). The market they are headed for is embedded, where every cent of the BOM counts. Licensing costs can ad
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by mcbain 8y ago
I haven’t tried compiling this myself, but gcc does different things with a -march=x flag compared to specifying -mavx2, directly, mostly because -march implies -mtune. Trying -march=haswell might give closer results. On the other hand, if
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by mcbain 8y ago
Trillions of digits of Pi compresses insanely well - to Pi, of course. The decompression just takes a while.
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by mcbain 8y ago
No, some huts have pit toilets but there is absolutely no septic system out there apart from when they were at ski towns (Hotham, Falls Creek, Thredbo).
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by mcbain 8y ago
Just be aware that it is a good start but isn’t as complete as the command list would indicate - runs up to about the point of index files, so not quite at ‘git add’.
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by mcbain 8y ago
But AWS doesn’t have any regions near Denver.
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by mcbain 8y ago
Tilera was acquired by EZChip in 2014 and then in turn EZChip were acquired by Mellanox - the Tile arch kind of died from lack of attention during that process. I had a TileGX dev board and ported our product at the time (nearly 10 years ag
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by mcbain 8y ago
And there is also delete protection by default for new prod databases: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/amazon-rd...
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by mcbain 8y ago
So the usual Meriton SOP is to retain control of the body corporate for the duration of the builder’s liability so that they can’t start proceedings against the builder (Aus strata title, body corp coverered here: https://www.law
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by mcbain 8y ago
The idea that Intel is “RISC under the hood” is too simplistic. Instructions get decoded and some end up looking like RISC instructions, but there is so much macro- and micro-op fusion going on, as well as reordering, etc, that it is nothin
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by mcbain 8y ago
I don’t think it is a moat, just stating the simple case. I’ve spent a lot of time making cross-compile work for complicated builds. It can be tedious and frustrating fighting compilers and build systems to get it right. Sometimes it is nec
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by mcbain 8y ago
Utopia is a documentary, not a comedy. I know people that can’t watch it because it is like being in their office.
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by mcbain 8y ago
I’m not sure what you are angling at here. The China regions might not have all the AWS services present, and they have some extra restrictions, but they aren’t some kind of clones of AWS software. Unless I’m missing something, they are the

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