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by mtanski 11y ago
What I'd like to see happen is: 1. Licensing guns and their sales, including required training. I liken this to license required around cars / alcohol sales. 2. Closing background check / re-scale & licensing loopholes. 3
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by mtanski 11y ago
The constitution is a document that was written well over 200 years ago. And while the document has held up extremely well there's part of it that didn't. For we got rid of things like having slaves be counted as 3/5 of a per
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by mtanski 11y ago
There's an exception to every rule, like in this case. It drives me perpetually batty when folks blindly stick to process, best practices, convention even when it doesn't make sense.
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There are a lot of degrees that are unlikely to prosperous career after schooling and people still pursue those.
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by mtanski 11y ago
Furniture has huge markups (in the few 100s of %). Just check how much it costs to order small (25 to 100) runs on Alibaba.
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by mtanski 11y ago
I don't agree with the last statement. Based on experience with Hadoop (over 5+ years now) running locally is a poor indicator of running on the cluster. Many sleepless night have been spent trying to figure out why the job that runs l
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by mtanski 11y ago
It's kind of like apps still using the floppy drive icon to indicting Save action.
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by mtanski 11y ago
SSD = solid state DISK
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by mtanski 11y ago
While I experienced this pain first hand I'm not sure that the FS deserved a 100% of the blame. There is enough to blame to go around for the userspace, filesytems, block device layer and disk controllers, hardware & firmware. If y
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by mtanski 11y ago
Appealing to numbers without more context doesn't make for a very interesting conversation. I'm going to guess that your applications do some kind of streaming numerical processing or maybe some kind of large linear algebra. And,
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However these still have higher bandwidth memory for streaming data in/out of processing. Increasing core count without increasing memory throughput only works for some types of problems (with high locality of data).
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> What else do you propose? I don't agree to the We Must Do Something, This Is Something sentiment. Clearly we have to get our arms around the situation. We UN should actually coordinate a plan to figure what we can do. Rushing to p
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by mtanski 11y ago
> kill them and rebuild Syria. Including new government (under UN stewardship). Because that has worked so well in the (recent) past?
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Has our legislative branch behaved rationally in the last few years? Recently they threatened forcing a default for unrelated (to budget) issues. And in the not to distant past they voted a law that prohibits Medicare from to using it'
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by mtanski 11y ago
The wire cutter did a recent article on best bookshelves speakers in the sub $500 range. There are clearly better (and more expensive) options out there. But the summary managed to find a bunch that punch above their price class. thewirecut
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by mtanski 11y ago
I wouldn't agree with the statement. The Android app store is filled with apps that steal user data and malicious apps. It only get cleaned up when somebody does some research and tracks things down and it ends up in the press. Or mayb
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by mtanski 11y ago
Intel just does it for the kids.
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by mtanski 11y ago
Agreed. Having seen other try the statistical approach to making many of life's decisions I have concluded that it's somewhere between futile and or worse self deception. It might work things that happen over and over again like d
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by mtanski 11y ago
I thought about the rarely used Virtual Base Class of C++. https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/multiple-inheritance#virtual-inh...
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by mtanski 11y ago
I've replaced the battery on my wife's air with the guide, tools and battery from ifixit. Took about 15 minutes on a Saturday, most of it was pre-reading the guide. And the total of like $150 (battery, screw driver set, shipping).
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by mtanski 11y ago
I'll post the same thing I posted in the Bob Lutz on the Tesla thread with some amendments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10457754 According to Bob Lutz having car dealerships is a pro. LOL, I am yet to talk to
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by mtanski 11y ago
According to Bob Lutz having car dealerships is a pro. LOL, I am yet to talk to anybody who actually enjoyed the car dealership experience weather it's buying or servicing the car. The whole car dealer enterprise is a rent seeking busi
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by mtanski 11y ago
Don't hold things in TX / do not support things in TX. I know I get flames for that everytime, but the state of TX holds / enforces some horrible views.
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by mtanski 11y ago
If I had a nickel for every time I've seen a language benchmark be a very specialized contrived problem (in this case specific JSON with specific access pattern) I'd have a lot of nickels.
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sequential (clustered) reads and primary append writes
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175 threads really don't use that much ram. I know userspace stacks are large by default but most apps don't use them and they are never materialized. So even if you're using 1MB of stack space for each one that's only 1
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by mtanski 11y ago
> So, branch predictions and faster sync primitives would be great, not least because they would speed up channels in many cases, which would be cool; it would be nice to widen the use cases for channel-based communication significantly,
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You could probably get decent performance for a similar application written in another language (then Python) using 175 threads. 175 threads is not that big of deal, the OS can manage it pretty well. It's only when you start talking ab
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by mtanski 11y ago
I don't think that go as people tend to use it really benefits from vectorized code. Most people who are using go that I interact with are not writing numerical processing code but network servers and business logic for high level web
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Or Denmark. Lots of Danish men's brands, including lots of tall sizes, many of them are actually made in Denmark. The current USD/EUR exchange rate makes the prices decent. And if you can't find high quality mens wear there y

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