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by nwallin 6y ago
If a cargo ship full of Porsches sunk, I would expect a news story about it to quote the total MSRP value of the cars lost, not the wholesale cost. And certainly not the wholesale trading value of the iron ore that Porsches come from.
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by nwallin 6y ago
...Ah. I see now why the article didn't mention SMB. Because that's not a thing. Oops.
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by nwallin 6y ago
Correct. It was a policy to encourage Native Americans to move to the agricultural model used by European Americans, as well as incorporate socially. It was relatively easy for a white American farmer to set up a farm in the state administe
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by nwallin 6y ago
The performance specified in the article lists only its sustained transfer rate, with no mention of sustained read speed, sustained write speed, random 4k reads, random 4k writes, or any other useful performance metric. The caches are freak
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by nwallin 6y ago
I feel like this is a better Ask HN prompt than an article. This article is shit. "What is UX?" is a good, important conversation for people like us to have periodically.
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by nwallin 6y ago
> but let's not forget the non-material nature of software allows this, hardware will always be a physical (material) artifact. Sort of? I tried to get into FPGA programming a while ago, and it turns out the entire software stack to
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by nwallin 6y ago
Computers wouldn't have been fast enough. Moore's law is a hell of a drug. In the mid '90s, PCs often weren't fast enough to decode DVDs, which were typically 720x480 24FPS MPEG2. DVD drives were often shipped with accel
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by nwallin 6y ago
> The article does not talk at all about how, or whether, the type of reactor it discusses would prevent a meltdown of the second kind, the kind that happened at Fukushima. It's immune to meltdown. The first important safety feature
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by nwallin 6y ago
Yes, but you're talking about what VW did vs what Sun did, but the person you're replying to is talking about what VW vs what a company that makes a water heater does. I agree that what Sun did is very similar to what VW did, with
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by nwallin 6y ago
The differences are not pedantic at all. The differences are extremely significant. The VW engineers designed the car to do different thing while being tested vs used by consumers. While being tested, the emissions system was on. While be
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by nwallin 6y ago
IMHO it's a bit cheeky to use exp2 from the standard library. It's likely got all the same math exp does. Fortunately, if you know that your exponent is an integer, there's a constant time version. It's 5 instructions: a
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by nwallin 6y ago
Same reason cars stop when they hit a brick wall. Most of the mass of galaxies isn't in their stars (which, for the most part, keep moving with the dark matter) it's in gas clouds and dust formations. When two galaxies collide, th
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by nwallin 6y ago
Yes, the bullet cluster effectively disproves most theories like MOND and similar. This article doesn't mention the bullet cluster. The article is dead on arrival as far as I'm concerned. Additionally, some galaxies have dramatica
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by nwallin 6y ago
The article is about 32 bit gcc. 64 bit gcc defaults to SSE, although you can force x87 if you want to. (although... maybe don't do that)
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by nwallin 6y ago
Yes. Toggle -m32 (compiles to 32 bit) or deleting it. (defaults to 64 bit, because it's not 2005 anymore) It also works with -m32 -mfpmath=sse, even though the author of the article incorrectly states otherwise. https://godb
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by nwallin 6y ago
Because they're compiled to use SSE instructions instead of x87 FPU instructions. If you are still writing 32 bit x86 C code, it's probably some embedded or legacy CPU, and it's wrong to assume SSE instructions are available.
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by nwallin 6y ago
clang gets it "right" because it uses the sse divsd instruction to perform the division, gcc gets it "wrong" because it uses the x87 fdiv instruction. You can configure gcc to use sse math with the -mfpmath=sse instructi
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by nwallin 6y ago
Many worlds is experimentally indistinguishable from Copenhagen.
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by nwallin 6y ago
The other one is 99th percentile latency. Lots of people think of 99th percentile latency as the latency that 1% of their users will encounter. But if your site loads 200 assets, almost every site load will hit 99th percentile latency.
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by nwallin 6y ago
Yup! That's the one!
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by nwallin 6y ago
This is probably the answer. I watched a great talk about this, and how to avoid problems that result from it. The presenter built a framework that made random changes to alignment of various blocks of code with two different versions of th
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by nwallin 6y ago
I have a laptop with a 13" 3200x1800 monitor; not quite 4k, but higher resolution than my eyes' ability to discern fine detail. My other laptop is 1366x768. The other laptop is a lot better for a wide variety of reasons (and also
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by nwallin 6y ago
> The Arrow would still be flown today by the Canadian Air Force had the program completed. They absolutely would not still be flown today. The Arrow was a relic of the pre-ICBM cold war. When the USSR was expected to field fleets of nuc
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by nwallin 6y ago
I mean- sure? But that's also true of terrestrial internet. It's 22 hops between my laptop and www.google.com, and it pings at 5-10ms. Certainly Starlink isn't do any fancy routing that my internet isn't already doing?
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by nwallin 6y ago
That's not what a strawman argument is. A strawman argument is when you restate someone's argument in a way that's stupid, then you refute the stupid argument. Or in the extreme case, argue against an argument that the person
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by nwallin 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK#History > GTK was originally designed and used in the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) as a replacement of the Motif toolkit; at some point Peter Mattis became disenchanted wit
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by nwallin 6y ago
If you never have to interop with anything ever, then sure. Just do everything correctly. But if you have to pass data around to other services, you have to assume that most of them are broken and do things the wrong way. Because most servi
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by nwallin 6y ago
> There is no reasonable reason for a domestic civilian agency to own or use these drones over US soil vs models which are incapable of carrying armament. This is a model which is incapable of carrying armament.
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by nwallin 6y ago
The city has a limited ability to remove them. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Martin v Boise, which held that it was illegal for the city (of Boise, Idaho) to remove homeless people from public spaces if the city has insufficient h
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by nwallin 6y ago
Have you tried using regular expressions to parse HTML? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...

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