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by mjw1007 9y ago
I can't see anywhere in the article where it says which version of linux this was tested on (beyond "2017"), which is a shame. Is this the state of affairs after the improvements described at https://lwn.net/A
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by mjw1007 9y ago
From my perspective, choosing Python over Java (on Linux) around 2001: It was easy to find benchmarks showing that Java was fast. But Java turned out to be slower in every situation we might consider using it. Command-line applications were
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by mjw1007 9y ago
It's helpful, but I still had to guess whether those are tiles as in tiled rendering or tiles as in a tiled window manager. I think you have to know that Wayland uses the word "compositor" in a slightly odd way to get the rig
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by mjw1007 9y ago
One lesson here is that when reusing a previous test setup you ought to look for assumptions you made which are no longer valid. If they'd been starting from scratch, while thinking about modern SSDs, it's quite likely they wouldn
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by mjw1007 9y ago
That's effectively providing a definition of the latency he's discussing, not an explanation of why that's the sort of latency he finds interesting. But I see he does goes on to say that he cares about game performance, rathe
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I agree. Presumably he measured it the way he did because it's easier to measure, rather than because he thinks it's the more meaningful way. (Though maybe his way is more useful if he's interested in whether a keyboard gives
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by mjw1007 9y ago
They decided not to classify the 2005 "10th planet" as a planet (and to stop classifying Pluto as one). This new one, if it's there, will be much bigger.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I think the content of the NASA press release that this article is based on is: - that planet nine theory still seems to be holding up; - Batygin and Brown have just spent a week at Mauna Kea looking for it.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Around 2001 Postgres was more reliable than MySQL and more advanced in many ways, but it did have some odd omissions which made it fair to describe it as immature. For example if you wanted to drop a column you had to create a new table and
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Please consider not doing that.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
A couple of years ago we sent two people to a meeting at Microsoft to talk about a port of an existing Android/iOS app. The work was already funded so we were really just hoping for a free phone or two. The report I heard back was that
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by mjw1007 9y ago
To me the circle in the diagram which is supposed to be "equal visual weight" looks larger than the square, while the ones in the first example appear about the same. But if I zoom the page out to 50%, or look at it on my phone, t
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Deliverability problems may be caused by misconfigured spam filters. Over-aggressive retries won't be. So I see no justification there for paying staff to manually filter postmaster@ spam.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
abuse@: yes. postmaster@: no. If people have trouble contacting a business by email, they don't try to use email to fix the problem. They very sensibly go to the web site and try by phone or Twitter or some other medium that isn't
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Reading all mail to postmaster@ has been utterly impractical for many years.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Should surely be .well-known/security.txt, or if not explain why not. rfc5785 "Defining Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)" [edit: I see the FAQ says that, while the linked Internet Draft says it goes at top-level
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by mjw1007 9y ago
One way for that to happen is if party support is evenly spread throughout the region; then however you draw the districts the result will be the same. In that sort of situation it doesn't seem to be reasonable to call what's goin
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Consider a state with twelve districts: six 75-25 A-B, six 75-25 B-A. Votes are even, seats are even; the state isn't gerrymandered. So it isn't the case that a state where every district is split 75-25 is necessarily heavily gerr
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by mjw1007 9y ago
The point is that performing the benchmarks and disclosing the results can happen at different times.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Looking at the license agreement, it doesn't prohibit running benchmarks and recording their results, so if you ask me they wouldn't be breaking the agreement at the time they were bound by it. (Of course nobody in danger of getti
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I don't think there's enough evidence to say they did it to promote a particular branch of economics. More likely just to promote the credentials of economics as sound science. But yes, it was founded in a rather dubious way, and
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Perhaps you could consider persuading the powers that be to make a loud public commitment. After all, if they are truly confident, there should be little cost in doing so.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Can you provide anything to reassure potential users that this will still exist in five or ten years time?
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Maybe we couldn't distinguish "the earth goes around the sun" from "the sun goes around the earth" until 1806, but we could tell that the other planets have the sun, rather than the earth, as their primary much earl
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by mjw1007 9y ago
But I think flavour is an outlier here. If I like different music to you, I think very little of the difference is in the ears and almost all of it is in the mind. One reason why I think this matters is that the brain is mutable, and it&#x2
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Taste isn't really a matter of taste. (That is, the way we use the word "taste" figuratively is rather inappropriate.)
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by mjw1007 9y ago
Surely there are many countries now in existence whose declaration of independence was considered illegal by the country they declared independence from.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
It's very strange that adding/updating documentation isn't treated as a basic requirement for a patch that adds to or modifies Linux's public interfaces.
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by mjw1007 9y ago
You make it sound as if the UK has a constitution which is codified in some patchwork of documents, like statute law. But it isn't; it isn't even as coherently defined as something like the common law of murder, where you can make
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by mjw1007 9y ago
That server behaviour change is an excellent illustration of why "backwards compatible" isn't a simple black-and-white concept.

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