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by mtanski 9y ago
I was going for the case "you too" / "they too" which tu quoque literally translates to from Latin. Say we accept that Amazon does these things (the parent didn't actually provide any evidence / argument f
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by mtanski 9y ago
Pentium 60 (93) => 100 (94) => 166 (96) => 200 (96). It was cray cray
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by mtanski 9y ago
Tu quoque, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque I'm not sure this quippy needs a reply ... but seriously, you should respond with more then a pure logical fallacy.
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by mtanski 9y ago
I don't know if that is the cause of it; it's just one data point I heard (last year). I'm actually curious what drove the increase. Since they are still in cost undercutting and competing mode I doubt it's just "be
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by mtanski 9y ago
The Uber driver in my neighborhood complained that the teens call up the cab to go 2 or 4 blocks. They are trying to emulate their parents and seam like a baler to their friends.
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by mtanski 9y ago
I meant that you'll find incidents like the guy "landing" his drone into the hot springs in Yellowstone. A lot more along these lines.
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by mtanski 9y ago
Google search for "drone national park" and you'll find out why.
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by mtanski 9y ago
Haven't had cable TV in as long as I've lived on my own (more then a decade). First off, I don't get a whole lot of value from it to justify the price. Second, I don't have time to arrange my schedule around shows I like
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by mtanski 9y ago
> I'm not sure that using mmap(2) is enough. You're still writing pages, so you're writing more than you have to, so writes will not go as fast on NVM as they could. If you're using the new fangled memory there's
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by mtanski 9y ago
I wonder how 8-channel memory is going to change that on next gen server chips.
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by mtanski 9y ago
You have accelerated graphics on any modern browser, on any OS, on any CPU architecture. I'll rag on JS as much as the next person but you have to admit 1) that's a pretty big feat 2) it's not an apples to apples comparison.
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by mtanski 9y ago
legacy numeric applications / routines?
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by mtanski 9y ago
A big reason the small object optimization exists in libstdc++ containers is because system malloc() is not fast enough. We're not talking about another optimization (small object / locality) as his issue was caused by libstdc++ a
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by mtanski 9y ago
Yeah malloc() is pretty terrible in glibc by modern standards. For some workloads it just can't keep up and ends up fragmenting space in such a way that memory can't be returned to the OS (and thus be used for the page cache) and
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by mtanski 9y ago
Good luck with that. I've been flagging these kind of PR "think pieces" to not much result.
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by mtanski 9y ago
Ideally we too would have a Medicare for all default with private supplemental insurance if you opt into it. Entrenched interests like existing private insurers, medical care providers and folks who never experienced single payer (and are c
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by mtanski 9y ago
> so this article from The Hill claims It seems like we've been trading away from this kind of procedure for the last decade or so.
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by mtanski 9y ago
Man, where is your sense of adventure.
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by mtanski 9y ago
I think you're being a bit unfair here. 1. A lot of Intel consumer platforms (which Ryzen is) had early issues with DDR4 on Z170; there's lots of forum posts about that. 2. AMD said it was not going to be validating ECC for consum
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by mtanski 9y ago
Used Intel Xeon processor can be a great value... however, no enterprise is going to buy old engineering sample processors for their data centers.
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by mtanski 9y ago
> What kinda usecases are there for handling SIGSEGV? If you're building a runtime that includes go like goroutines, you could handle SIGSEGV when you run out of stack space and graceful kill the go routine. You can use it for some
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by mtanski 9y ago
On the flip side of coalescing you can end in a situation where volume of signals leads to grinding down in the consumer or worse consumer hanging. What do you do in that situation? You can force back pressure semantics on senders but then
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by mtanski 9y ago
A common way to get SSN in your email is either lease or mortgage documentation. Esp, if they send you results of any of these documents via email.
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by mtanski 9y ago
Legislation when it comes to PII data in the U.S is notoriously weak. Without that it's the only place to prosecute these companies is in the court of public opinion (better then nothing). We have some laws for PII when it comes to hea
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by mtanski 9y ago
Does anybody really care? It took a long enough to get an RC out (3 years).
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by mtanski 9y ago
The NYTimes The Daily podcast this week had an interesting explanation of this situation. N. Korea is not really a a proxy state, the best you can call it is a rogue proxy state. It's not like it doesn't extort China too. It knows
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by mtanski 9y ago
Although when crappy thumb drives fail the whole thing tends to be unreadable or doesn't even show up as a USB device. Generally no amount of ECC will help the default failure mode of these.
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by mtanski 9y ago
There are people using optical media for long term storage. So I am not counting it out as a storage medium. In my classification I would put it in cold storage tier.
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by mtanski 9y ago
It lives on in the save icon. But in all seriousness you're right, floppy as a medium for data storage is dead. Unless you're the US gov. According to Wikipedia: "In May 2016 the United States Government Accountability Office
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by mtanski 9y ago
Some people like to claim that old storage technologies go away. But in reality old storage technologies live on along side of new... all that happens is that we end up having more tiers to deal with. Drum magnetic memory has been replace b

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