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by mtanski 10y ago
The world can be divided up into two types of advertising. DR (Direct Response) or Branding/Awareness. The goal of DR is drive an immediate action, for ex. a purchase or news letter signup. Branding/Awareness is more about keeping
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by mtanski 10y ago
Yeah, we're in the process of moving some of our services from docker to rkt. We're about 1/2 way done and all new ones are being deployed on rkt. We've been hit by to many regressions docker versions and issues with doc
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by mtanski 10y ago
I was not aware of this. Thanks for correcting me.
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AFAIK AMD does not produce SSDs. Having said that there are some early techniques out there for DMA from NVMe drives to GPU ram directly. Like this: http://kaigai.hatenablog.com/entry/2016/09/08/003556
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by mtanski 10y ago
If I remember correctly he was structuring a derivative contract based on life expectancy/actual life time. The goal was to hedge risks between health insurers and life insurance policies. Life insurance policies policies want to offse
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by mtanski 10y ago
A older friend of mine who structured financial products said that the worst thing we did for the healt of the Social Secuirty fund was the war on cigarettes. He said it in jest... but he wasn't wrong.
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by mtanski 10y ago
Also, any kind of workload that involves a sync for durability and correctness. In enterprise drives the drive can return quickly even if it's in the buffer because there's enough charge in the capacitor to whiteout to NAND from R
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by mtanski 10y ago
> By financing loans, aren't they already trying to do this? Building and operating more schools just adds more cost. You could say they are doing this but in a super inefficient way. With plentiful student loans you end up a lot of
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by mtanski 10y ago
Hasn't stopped people in the past so I guess why stop now.
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by mtanski 10y ago
FYI. The kernel Ceph client has local fscache cache. I added it to the kernel :) https://lwn.net/Articles/563146/ We started using Ceph because we wanted to be able to grow our storage and compute independently. W
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by mtanski 10y ago
What are the other perspectives you speak of? The massive voter fraud by dead people, illegals and people voting multiple times? You know, that's been debunked by countless sources actually doing the investigative work to find voter fr
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by mtanski 10y ago
Here we go again.
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by mtanski 10y ago
In the past two months I've been seeing a lot more articles about the outrage about price increases in the U.K due to new FX reality post Brexit. I'm always surprised when people in the U.K pretend like this came as a surprise and
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by mtanski 10y ago
It seams like in this election even traditionally right learning news papers like the WaPo or WSJ are pilling onto trump. Not to mention countless regional newspapers that have a right leaning edition staff. Bias disclosure: Left leaning, n
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by mtanski 10y ago
I've had this problem a long time ago (10 years) with my Honda and was able to pull out the control module out of the dash and just leave it in the space behind the new dash. But that's a case by case solution. Honestly, the blame
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by mtanski 10y ago
I've seen that Pioneer, Alpine and the usual after market head unit vendors have options with car play. So you might not be entirely out of luck.
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by mtanski 10y ago
That's the joke that I was trying to make.
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> How horrible, you had to install a single app and click "Next" a few times! If you include the "guide" that you have the scroll through and then the 5 "Accept" popups for allowing the car to connect to the
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by mtanski 10y ago
The 2016 VW Sportwagen I does have a touch screen console either with or without Nav. The SE model and below does not have Nav and SEL does. I got the SE because it was the nicest model without Nav. Built in Nav in cars is so shitty that I
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by mtanski 10y ago
I have a 2016 VW Sportswagen that I use with my iPhone all the time. Everything just works and in 10 the Maps app in Carplay has gotten better. About a month ago I was driving with a friend of mine in the passenger seat. Driving 45 minutes
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by mtanski 10y ago
Is there a EnergyGuide heating furnace efficiency score for the ES40?
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by mtanski 10y ago
The article it self says "[...] This is because incremental compilation splits the code into smaller optimization units than a regular compilation session, resulting in less time optimizing, but also in less efficient runtime code.&quo
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by mtanski 10y ago
Didn't know that VS6 did JavaScript or TypeScript. I only remember C/C++/VB. Certainly don't remember Node.js support. Also, I think your memory is playing tricks on you. I've experienced more the my fair share of c
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by mtanski 10y ago
The way Rust works today is that you compile a whole crate together (all the files). The side effect of that is that the compiler can optimize the whole create vs what's in one file. You get an effect that analogous to LTO (like in C&#
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by mtanski 10y ago
From my experience and extensive testign while building a OLAP systems jemalloc performs much faster then glibc's malloc. It's just as tcmalloc or faster (in new versions). Unlike tcmalloc is has very low memory fragmentation and
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by mtanski 10y ago
> Maybe I quit being the sole proprietor of my business in order to day trade, thereby escaping payroll and income taxes. [...] What's the argument against this? The argument is that, it doesn't work like you think. If you&#x27
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by mtanski 10y ago
> If the start-up core product isn't something that bypasses laws, why would it be bad? This seams like a pretty naive rhetorical question. Regulatory burden is different in each country. Look at github problems with Russia in the p
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by mtanski 10y ago
An example of changing behavior that broke us not to long ago: https://github.com/docker/distribution/issues/1662 . By the time this happened we were already working on the transition, just more motivation.
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The same experiences we switched to using rkt, supervised by upstart (and now systemd). We have an "application" state template in our salt config and every docker update something would cause all of them to fail. Thankful the &qu
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by mtanski 10y ago
> Also why not just subdivide the vacant space into several stores at the same price per sq ft? Zoning, frontage, accessibility.

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