nickcw

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Johnroids: A Golang game in your browser with GopherJS and WASM(github.com)
1 points by nickcw 8y ago|0 comments
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by nickcw 8y ago
This is making me think of JPEG 2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000 A JPEG standard which never really took off... Why would this one take off when there are so many other alternatives now? I think the problem
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SafeSpec: Banishing the Spectre of a Meltdown with Leakage-Free Speculation(arxiv.org)
3 points by nickcw 8y ago|0 comments
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A machine has figured out Rubik’s Cube all by itself(technologyreview.com)
8 points by nickcw 8y ago|1 comments
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by nickcw 8y ago
I think parameterized packages are a great idea. It would be a light-weight way of getting just a bit of generic code into go. I made gotemplate to explore that idea https://github.com/ncw/gotemplate This requires a r
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Self-Hosting Your Git Repositories – Memset(memset.com)
1 points by nickcw 8y ago|0 comments
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Caffeine dosing strategies to optimize alertness during sleep loss(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
221 points by nickcw 8y ago|226 comments
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by nickcw 8y ago
An interesting idea to load balance at L4 so as not to terminate the TCP sessions (for speed). Normally this constrains the network rather as you can't route the output packets normally after that (they need to be routed to a vLAN) but
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Chrome OS is getting Linux app support(venturebeat.com)
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Vendoring for executables written in Go(github.com)
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by nickcw 9y ago
It is interesting really studying the two images on the github page. My first thought was - wow, amazing! But having looked at them for a bit longer they've fallen straight into the uncanny valley for me. The female's left and ri
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by nickcw 9y ago
I had a squint at the ThreadPoolExecutor code on github and it uses the default parameters. Exactly how many threads you get depends on which version of python you are running: > Changed in version 3.5: If max_workers is None or not giv
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by nickcw 9y ago
I wonder if that includes the compute the solution time... It appeared to use god's algorithm given that it solved it in 20 moves and I thought that was quite hard to compute.
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Go articles, cheat sheets and how tos from KTH in Stockholm(yourbasic.org)
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by nickcw 9y ago
check_call for the win! I contributed check_call to the subprocess module for exactly that purpose - easier shell like scripting in python :-)
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by nickcw 9y ago
Here is a regexp to match an IPv4 address - looks quite nice and easy to understand compared to the regexp! In fact the visualisation makes it easy to spot the mistake. https://regexper.com/#'%5Cb((25%5B0-5%5D%7C2%5B0-
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by nickcw 9y ago
linkname is brilliant thanks! I've done that sort of thing with an assembler shim in the past.
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by nickcw 9y ago
> I have tried reading this twice but can't find how are they leveraging the internal spot markets? Are they re-selling unused capacity to a third party? They have reserved a lot of instances in EC2. https://aws.amazon.co
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by nickcw 9y ago
If you squint at the final result it is really quite good! A fun article :-)
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by nickcw 9y ago
This sounds very similar to the criteria used by the Go team as to whether to add compiler optimizations or not, namely the optimization should speed up the compiler by at least an amount that the extra computation of the optimization takes
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by nickcw 9y ago
This is the problem IMHO > We also looked up whether our HBA used TRIM in its current configuration. It turns out, in RAID mode, the HBA did not support TRIM. We did do some trim-enabled testing with a different machine, but these resul
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by nickcw 9y ago
I think termux ( https://termux.com/ ) does most of what I need when I need a bit of emergency Linux on my phone. Termux provides a recompiled debian distro which runs as a android App. It doesn't chroot or need root
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by nickcw 9y ago
The fragmentation is typically from a 1500 byte packet to a slightly smaller value, so you end up with one 1400 byte packet and one 100 byte packet. The fragmentation happens after your computer has packetised the data.
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by nickcw 9y ago
Did you do a benchmark with `--threads 1`? I suspect most of the speedup is coming from that as the the listing of the files is likely to be IO bound (or at least bound by calling into the kernel to read the directory listings). That has c
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by nickcw 9y ago
Kip Thorne (with others) wrote the standard text book I used at university on Gravity: "Gravitation" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation_(book) It is a mighty tome, with lots of advanced maths (like ten
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by nickcw 9y ago
I enjoyed the rules about the em dash — It reminded me of the English class that I was taught that you could use it in place of pretty much every bit of punctuation and the subsequent essays I wrote having optimized the rules of English pun
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Gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger observed by LIGO and Virgo(ligo.caltech.edu)
528 points by nickcw 9y ago|154 comments
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by nickcw 9y ago
Interesting read, shame about the dynamic code problems. I wonder whether something like this might be better attempted in rpython which will build a JIT compiler for you. http://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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by nickcw 9y ago
Not sure I understand why this is necessary... The IPv6 address space covers the IPv4 address space already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Representation > During the transition of the Internet from IPv
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by nickcw 9y ago
If you like testing your media then you'll probably enjoy: https://github.com/ncw/stressdisk my project to test media. I test all my flash / hard disks with it and have sent plenty back over the years which f

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