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by mtanski 10y ago
You're just being pedantic here. There's a big difference between countries that above the US (top 18) on that list where there is a 10x to 100x difference. 1x (US) to 4x (China) does not a magnitude make. Even given that I would
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by mtanski 10y ago
The U.S has ~ 320 million people. So 2 magnitudes difference compared to some others. Additionally the U.S is quite large with many regions and sub-regions. Some regions have quite high GDP while others lower. So given that it's quite
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by mtanski 10y ago
The guy ended up going to Pen State after he finished HS. So I would say it worked out pretty well, regardless of above sarcasm.
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by mtanski 10y ago
I've accentually contemplated illegally install RFID badges on trains and and a reader & Raspbery Pi in the station (under the platform) now that wifi/cellular is available at the station. Needless to say, I've talked mys
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by mtanski 10y ago
> It's perfectly sound to criticize Obama for not doing anything to improve the situation and to actually add new conflicts, instead of trying to wrap up our initial two as cleanly and quickly as possible (Afghanistan and Iraq) I ha
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by mtanski 10y ago
I wish you wouldn't just quote these numbers without any context. I will not say that Obama administration was Dovish. And I'm personally not happy with other things he did (expanding spy powers, the prosecution of whistleblowers)
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by mtanski 10y ago
Thanks, that was helpful.
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by mtanski 10y ago
Sigh. There's no reason to be be a condescending prick (ad hominem). Simply asking somebody who works in the industry why it's impractical to segment the market by making slower chips. Maybe it's not possible or they cost the
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by mtanski 10y ago
> be low end and thus have tiny margins. But high volume, it could be in every laptop under $800 price point. A lot of these guys already make low margin high volume products (like Samsung and TVs) and that's okay.
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by mtanski 10y ago
I've actually been wondering why is not possible to make lower-end desktop SSD drives of capacity 1TB (or more) that are "better" then spinning drives. I have a samsung 950 pro NVMe drive in my development workstation and I c
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by mtanski 10y ago
Skanska? But in all seriousness I would look at multi-national companies and industries "selling shovels" that benefit for rebuilding both sides of war.
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by mtanski 10y ago
I'm not sure that holds up in practice post WW2. At least here in the US. As long as we're running wars or never ending wars, wealth gets redistributed from all tax payers to owners of factories building war machines or war servic
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by mtanski 10y ago
Both gcc & llvm can compile binaries targeting the Phi. Since it runs in Linux (as addin PCIe card or host Linux CPU) it can run any kind of ELF x86_64 binary. They also support generating AVX-512 instruction of the Phi.
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by mtanski 10y ago
I've build columnar OLAP databases and database engines in C++ for work. Now I'm doing it in my free time. Based on my experience the Phi and it's architecture is very exciting for OLAP databases workloads. Reasons: - Even in
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by mtanski 10y ago
With the new generation there is now a difference. This is because this generation has Phis in both addin card (PCIe) and a bootable CPU package (when you run Linux or windows or whatever on the Phi). Generally with the PCIe one you're
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by mtanski 10y ago
Same problem. Working on an OLAP database toolkit (tried to in Rust)... writing typical database data structures is excruciating painful in Rust. Trees, indexes (including bitmaps), buffer allocators and even just keeping state in streaming
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by mtanski 10y ago
> This has the obvious disadvantage that deleting nodes is quite hard though It's hard because now you're in charge of building a malloc(3) implementation. Depending how important this data structure is you might need to worry
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by mtanski 10y ago
A Stockholm syndrome of sorts?
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by mtanski 10y ago
And if you need throughput, 40gigE / 56gigE is not that hard expensive with your own hardware. You end up with like 4x to 10x servers to handle the same load.
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by mtanski 10y ago
design happened
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by mtanski 10y ago
> It's like saying a Java developer fights the type system. Plenty of people have fought the type system in Java. Happens all the time with Generics and Type eraser. How many projects have work around for that Scala, Flink, etc... A
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by mtanski 10y ago
Speed matters. According to the authors of this software "Highly optimized Turbo Decoder available in Intel SSE4.1/AVX (+100 Mbps) and standard C (+25 Mbps)". Also, a lot of alternatives are just not there. Rust is not mature
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by mtanski 10y ago
I'm writing this on a 21:9 monitor. Code on one side, documentation on the other.
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by mtanski 10y ago
That's not just a problem in your location but a lot of other places. Many municipalities and some states in the US made unsustainable promises to their employees in forms future salaries (pensions). Except instead of doing 80% today,
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by mtanski 10y ago
Problem? The goal of Rust is to be a general system programing language. In fact, Rust in the past had a runtime that included green threads a primitives; that ended up being a problem. The runtime and stdlib was only usable in some system
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by mtanski 10y ago
Ever been to a California DMV. I thought NY (NYC) was bad. California DMV takes terrible another notch.
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by mtanski 10y ago
They might get lucky once. I wouldn't count on another windfall when the pension plans get in trouble in the future.
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by mtanski 10y ago
There's always fun stuff like this: http://dealbreaker.com/2016/12/cocaine-prostitutes-perks-new... "other than the obvious don’t-defraud-public-pensions one – is that if you’re going to accept recreatio
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by mtanski 10y ago
That's my personal position. The vendors that are letting the supply in (SSPs and exchanges) should do more to verify the supply. This could verifying their supply id with provided domain (would get rid of a lot of crappy arbitrage). A
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by mtanski 10y ago
> When it does become a problem it can be solved by caching. Solved or made worse by caching?

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