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by noahdesu 9y ago
I hear ya. I think it might be nice to be able to create psuedo-apps that function as Safari/Chrome bookmarks.
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by noahdesu 9y ago
I'm skeptical that any kernel-related news was delayed for announcement during SC. But a lot of the hardware related announcements (e.g. the RHEL on ARM etc...) are probably timed since SC has a major industry expo.
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by noahdesu 9y ago
Here is a link to a talk I gave last month describing how to use Lua to generate thumbnails remotely in the Ceph/RADOS OSD servers. Talk is from Lua workshop 2017. Relevant content begins at 15m40s. https://youtu.be/bGQ
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by noahdesu 9y ago
It is definitely easier to sell "oh this is just an esoteric part of the tax code that effects a small percentage of people. You know, we are just moving around when they pay taxes it's not like a tax increase or decrease".
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by noahdesu 9y ago
> A process on a single machine somewhere has to get enough of the indexes and data into memory to answer questions about it. This common challenge is perhaps magnified in systems that have deep storage indexes. For example, the link you
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by noahdesu 9y ago
The log is mapped onto a distributed storage system, so fitting it in memory isn't a concern, though effective caching is important. The index / database also doesn't need to fit into memory. We cap memory utilization and res
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by noahdesu 9y ago
Thanks for the explanation, and I definitely agree with all your points. The reason I ask is that over the past year or so, we have been hacking on a little side project that maps a copy-on-write tree to a distributed shared log ( https:&#x
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by noahdesu 9y ago
Wow. I found myself! It's all there. Thanks so much :)
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by noahdesu 9y ago
This is so interesting. Maybe once every couple years, I'll have a vivid memory of the IRC days back in mid to late 90s. I always try to find some record of it. The name of the group I associated with, and the nicks. They are right on
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by noahdesu 9y ago
What is the primary reason people choose Datomic? From reading the website, I get the impression that the append-only nature and time-travel features are a major selling point, but in other places its just the datalog and clojure interfaces
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by noahdesu 9y ago
Links to the slides and video presentations from the Lua workshop [0] last month, including one on Fengari [1]: [0]: https://www.lua.org/wshop17.html [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrLIgmd8xik
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by noahdesu 9y ago
Woah, really cool. My understanding is that Posit, the successor to unum versions 1 and 2, is the future and is much easier to implement in hardware [0]. [0]: https://posithub.org/about
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by noahdesu 9y ago
This is what I've been doing for a while, with good results. Step one: get it out of my head. Short reminder sentence in e-mail to myself, or google keep, napkin whatever. Step two: get it out of my head. Periodically (same day, same w
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by noahdesu 9y ago
This is a great read.
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by noahdesu 9y ago
I spent several summers working at Los Alamos National Lab in their HPC group on I/O, among other things. Supporting legacy codes was a requirement, even if it meant that we couldn't explore obvious and important optimizations. I
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by noahdesu 9y ago
I believe that Psilocybin is legal in Jamaica, see https://www.mycomeditations.com/ . Since it would seem that large numbers of people visit South America to attend Ayahuasaca retreats, one may assume it is legal there. And
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by noahdesu 9y ago
That seems like a pretty good rule of thumb.
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by noahdesu 9y ago
I think that the issue isn't the questions themselves, it's the interaction that results. Student: "why is my Java application crashing", "That's a stack trace. Does it say anything useful?", Student: &quo
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by noahdesu 9y ago
I was a graduate student advised by a dedicated practitioner of the Socratic method. My experience showed me that this method is incredibly powerful, both to teach students to think, and later as an educator in our research lab, as a method
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by noahdesu 9y ago
Applications using MPI-IO are still typically run on top of a parallel file system. The MPI-IO API is, in simple terms, intended to create I/O workloads that should perform well on top of the POSIX I/O interface (e.g. large, seque
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by noahdesu 9y ago
After digging into Graal and Truffle I was really impressed to learn what its vision is and what it is capable of. Then I discovered the Eclipse OMR project, and while the later is written in C++, they sounded like they have similar goals.
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by noahdesu 9y ago
It would seem to be the case, but I certainly don't have any numbers. I've only started reading the book Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari, but it starts out by describing the scene in the US and around the world in the early 20th
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by noahdesu 9y ago
I'm really conditioned to come at the legalization issue from other angles, but the cognitive liberty argument is quite nice. The talk here [0] provides a good introduction to the topic, but fair warning, there is a lot of passionate p
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by noahdesu 9y ago
I'm not particularly worried about other applications on my computer listening to the clipboard. But I 99% of the time I'm pasting into a webpage in Chrome or Firefox. Can any open tab sniff the clipboard passively?
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by noahdesu 9y ago
Is seems like there is a more recent update [0] to the topic than the linked-to page, but it is really technical and perhaps just a data update. [0]: http://phl.upr.edu/library/notes/barnard
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by noahdesu 9y ago
I frequently wipe and install from scratch my Linux desktop and laptops. I've been spending more time recently working on setup scripts that automate as much of this as possible. Things like installing packages, setting up firewall, ch
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by noahdesu 9y ago
I've been running Fedora 24/25 on my Macbook Air for the better part of the past year. It has been fantastic, and I don't see myself going back to OSX anytime soon. I intend to upgrade to F26.
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by noahdesu 9y ago
This was a good introduction, but I expected to see some detail regarding the table mapping strategy and concurrency control / isolation levels. In addition to InnoDB and SQLite cited in the article, there is also a lot of good informa
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by noahdesu 9y ago
It's down for us in Palo Alto.
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by noahdesu 9y ago
How do security procedures for handling, distributing, and revoking keys work in practice, especially at big companies that release a lot of software? For some companies getting this right would have to be critical, but I would be nervous i

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