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by mnw21cam 5y ago
I'd be very cautious about the benchmarks. For example, betrfs was measured performing 1000 4-byte writes into a 1GB file. It isn't clear whether there were any sync operations - there certainly wasn't a sync after each write
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Way back in my final year undergrad project, I put together a LSM-based filesystem that was write-optimised. I even thought that I had invented the notion of an LSM tree, but the original LSM tree paper pre-dated my invention by 3 years. I
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The MTDH gene clearly has some utility in the human body. We know that because natural human knockouts are under-represented in the population. The Gnomad project has sequenced very many people's DNA, and they have been able to work
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Sometimes a lower court will actually make a judgment saying "According to my interpretation of the law, I must rule in this way, however I invite a higher court that has the power to reverse this, because I think it's silly&quo
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
I thought metasurfaces were limited to handling a single wavelength, but this claims to be capable of full colour images. Anyone have a handle on how that works?
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
I was given a Sun t-shirt that had been compressed into a surfboard shape at a conference. Unfortunately they gave me a size that could probably have fitted three of me in, so it got worn a couple of times and then used for painting until i
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Have we broken the web page? Goes to a 403/forbidden page for me.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
I remember that one. IIRC the instructions finished by telling you not to drink the beer afterwards.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Last presentation I recorded for a conference, I just started the voice recorder on my phone and held it near my mouth. The sound quality was very surprisingly good. I could do that because I wasn't also videoing myself, so I didn&#x27
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The highway code disagrees with you. Flashing your headlights or sounding the horn should only be used to draw someone's attention to the fact that you are there.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
No. Commercial airlines generally don't fly in the coffin corner. That's just asking for trouble. AF447 had nothing to do with the coffin corner - that accident was caused by the aircraft flying through icing conditions, the speed
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
No, the coffin corner is something else, and it doesn't apply to the SR71 (or any aircraft capable of supersonic flight). The coffin corner is where an aircraft is flying as slow as it possibly can, but that slow speed is also very clo
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Similar to Big Clive.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
It is surprising when the price ceiling for DVDs of recent highly-rated films in the supermarket is £10, and blu-ray is £15.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1489/ The mouseover-text is the important bit: "Of these four forces, there's one we don't really understand." "Is it the weak force or the strong--" "
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
My advice would be prioritisation. In decreasing order: 1. Make sure intruders can't misuse your data/resources. 2. Make sure your data doesn't accidentally go missing or get corrupted. 3. Make sure the the resources are suff
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
> subpixel antialiasing is just recognizing that the samples for different colour channels are offset from one another The reason this doesn't work for Pentile displays is because the samples for the different colour channels are no
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Font smoothing method should be set system-wide, and not be under the control of a remote web page. What does the remote web page know about the kind of monitor the text is being viewed on? It could have a non-standard pixel layout, be rota
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
You can get the same effect with a "gas" engine by having a smaller engine and going at a slower speed.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
How are you measuring efficiency? Because as I see it, when travelling along a level surface, 100% of the engine power is going towards overcoming drag, so the efficiency should therefore be 0%. What is that 90% a proportion of?
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
> in practice, nobody will use a hash function that returns a constant integer How much do you want to bet on that?
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
It mostly depends on how large (or rather how thick) the chunk is. If you're talking about wafer-thin slices of salmon, then it'll defrost in about 30 seconds in cold water, even if it was frozen at -20C. If you're talking ab
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Most Linux software doesn't need porting at all - just recompiling.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
In England, it's more the case that the castle survived because the occupier didn't do anything to annoy Cromwell.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
> 2. "Some turn anti-clockwise" Surely the best rebuttal of this particular point is: Some people are left-handed.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
The filter/sensor itself doesn't need to be retroreflective. The fact that it's sitting at the focus of a lens makes it retroreflective.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
Yeah, there's no magic material that can violate the second law of thermodynamics, because it's the second law of thermodynamics. One-way mirrors are just partial mirrors with less light on one side than the other.
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
> People are going to fight hard against this, partly because it’s annoying and partly because of (imho exaggerated) patient privacy related concerns. Somebody’s going to try make some kind of gated thing where you have to prove you have
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
It's more correct to say that never having any credit facility negatively impacts your credit rating. I have a credit card now, but several years ago I didn't, and I had a perfect credit rating, by dint of the multitude of other c
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by mnw21cam 5y ago
You'd have to have the operating system's cooperation, because it may be mapping individual 4k pages all over the place, and it's the only thing that has a chance of knowing how the memory is laid out on the actual chips.

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