octo_t

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by octo_t 3y ago
The solution I landed on is having 2 iCloud accounts in the same “family” so things can be shared, but in a controlled manner.
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by octo_t 4y ago
This reminds me of being in secondary school and procrastinating/nerd sniping our teacher for A-level Further Maths (so I was roughly 17-18) by arguing that a number system in base e (so 1, 2, 2.1, ..., 2.7, 2.71, ..., 10) would simpli
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by octo_t 5y ago
This has more context in: https://intellinews.com/us-oligarch-sanctions-list-exempts-u... > A few other oligarchs, and their companies, have been exempted because of their importance to the global commodities market, mos
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by octo_t 5y ago
It has felt to me over the last few years (and I have no inside knowledge) that Google Maps saw Apple Maps fail at launch, and didn't improve the service at all. Meanwhile, Apple Maps and the OpenStreetMaps backing data has continued t
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by octo_t 5y ago
Seems like everyone wants to make everything in Rust these days! /s
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by octo_t 5y ago
I'm remembering this analogy for next time!
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by octo_t 5y ago
Single Point Of Failure
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by octo_t 6y ago
One core place that shorting is key (which isn't touched on much) is shorting/going long on commodity futures. Very simplified example below: If I'm an airline (and my business is dependent on the price of oil) and I think th
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by octo_t 6y ago
Another issue not mentioned is cross-compiling. If the result of my `sort ` function is dependent on `sizeof(void )` being 8, when I compile from my x86 hardware for a 32-bit only architecture, assumptions go awry. Note that this isn'
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by octo_t 6y ago
For most countries, this is true. The US is in a unique position because it is the global currency.
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Spinlocks Considered Harmful(matklad.github.io)
4 points by octo_t 7y ago|0 comments
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by octo_t 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_swap_algorithm is always a fun trick
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by octo_t 7y ago
Ruby is the most prominent one in my opinion - Matz developed Ruby entirely from Japan, was announced on Japanese mailing lists etc.
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by octo_t 8y ago
In what world do you live in where RMS is a mainstream figure? Or LAMP stack is a mainstream term?
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by octo_t 8y ago
If it weren't for locales, probably yes ;P
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by octo_t 8y ago
This was actually the topic of Herb Sutter's talk[1]. Things like meta-classes will drastically simplify end-user code.
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by octo_t 8y ago
The iPod Touch was first released in September 2007, several months after the first iPhone in June 2007.
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by octo_t 9y ago
https://status.github.com/messages has more info.
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by octo_t 9y ago
Something that is 'setting out' to provide something, doesn't seem like it is production ready enough to run a production operating system on top of.
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by octo_t 9y ago
Clearly a malicious attack by Apple before the iPhone X announcement later </s>
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by octo_t 9y ago
As always, if you want to watch the stream, you need to use Safari. Can the title reflect this somehow?
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by octo_t 9y ago
I find it hard to reconcile this suggestion at the bottom of the article > Always build your architecture in a way that will avoid becoming trapped into a specific service. Amazon’s AWS Lambda sitting between any services and your app is
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by octo_t 9y ago
Other thread is up at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14296959 (although doesn't mention that MSFT have released a fix already).
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by octo_t 9y ago
> do such people apply to programming jobs frequently enough for fizzbuzz to be useful? speaking as someone who does hiring at a large software company: yes, yes they do. In significant numbers.
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by octo_t 9y ago
from https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/32691 as well: > defining an open, community-centric governance inspired by the Fedora project
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by octo_t 9y ago
Well for the MIFID-II regulations coming out this year, you need to support at least microsecond precision for audit purposes. And if you're doing microseconds, why not go for the full nanoseconds?
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by octo_t 10y ago
And its fixed already in https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-ruby-extras/diaspora-ins...
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by octo_t 10y ago
> hosting a database this will very likely be calling time related system calls, especially clock_gettime with CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
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by octo_t 10y ago
So using 128bits instructions would imply you had 'words' which were over 16 characters long on average, right? The average (english) word is ~5 characters long, so most of the time, you'd be forced to check anyway.
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by octo_t 10y ago
It seems based on this post that all the hardware is going to end up in one datacenter. that seems like a big risk if that datacenter ends up having issues. Perhaps look into how to have the nodes split between 2 or 3 different datacenters?

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