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by pengaru 3y ago
My comment isn't really targeted at LMDB specifically, it's more generally regarding mmap(). If you design the data format to work well on a spinning disk, it should work well with an mmap based access. That's what my commen
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by pengaru 3y ago
When you remove the fiber from fruit you pull the pin from the fructose bomb within.
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by pengaru 3y ago
The problem with using mmap-based IO is you generally depend on the kernel's async readahead/readaround to keep things fast while writing blocking-style, obvious procedural style code, but it's totally naive, and sequential r
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by pengaru 3y ago
Except what's the Venn diagram of affluent people and those who participate in such online surveys look like? If it's two entirely discrete circles then this paper is irrelevant to TFA.
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by pengaru 3y ago
How far we've come since 1999 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR38552MJA
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by pengaru 3y ago
Relevant context for those unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0
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by pengaru 3y ago
Do you happen to drive a Cybertruck in UT? https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111873099676770329
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by pengaru 3y ago
> I wish journalists would stop inserting their opinions in the title like it's their personal Twitter feed. This is techdirt ffs, it's literally a blog about news stories, not journalism: > Started in 1997 by Floor64
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by pengaru 3y ago
> Seems people love a good Tesla recall clickbait title...Sadly, there are plenty of suckers. Loss of steering control, and you're shouting clickbait, smh. Your fanboi is showing.
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by pengaru 3y ago
That's just like, your opinion, man. These are recalls plain and simple. The public perception of that requiring a dealer visit is just obsolete. The combination of OTA updates and the potentially affected software now controlling v
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by pengaru 3y ago
This was one of the more interesting parts of John Carmack's interview on Fridman's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzr7hRXcwkw
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by pengaru 3y ago
Alaska (666 mi^2) is nowhere near the size of Siberia (5.1M mi^2), EAGAIN. source: wikipedia
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by pengaru 3y ago
IME there's usually a paid option where demand for parking exists where there are no/few free options. Your complaint is usually implicitly about a lack of free parking. Folks who insist on bringing their cars to town for dinne
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by pengaru 3y ago
> Is it just me or do you folks feel like there would be soon a mass migration of people from Western countries to places like India ... India? No, it's just you. The U.S. pop. density is 87/mi^2, India's is 1097/mi^
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by pengaru 3y ago
The linux kit shipped in 2002, the ps2 shipped in 2000. It came with yabasic on a demo disk, that's what qualified it as a computer for the eu tax break. ps2linux was chronologically irrelevant to your claim AIUI...
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by pengaru 3y ago
> You press the function, and the car takes forever to calculate how > to place itself between two other cars that are themselves not > moving. It starts and then stumbles, pausing to recalculate. The > process takes
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by pengaru 3y ago
> > What waste from solar and wind is not recyclable? > Of the top of my head, cadmium and lead, Lead isn't recyclable?
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by pengaru 3y ago
> This is similar to "China's manufacturing causes a lot of pollution". No, you, the consumer, cause that pollution. Except the China Effect of producing TrashOnArrival products is doing more than its fair share of amplify
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by pengaru 3y ago
> Dominic Hogg from Eunomia told BBC News: "When coal is phased out for generating electricity, incineration of unrecycled waste will be the most CO2-intensive form of generation. > The environment minister Therese Coffey told th
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by pengaru 3y ago
Burning seems silly when you could sequester the carbon by just sticking it in a landfill...
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by pengaru 3y ago
For starters it has a tendency to paint itself into a corner on ENOSPC situations. You won't even be able to perform a restore if a backup was started but unfinished because it ran out of space. There's this process of "reg
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by pengaru 3y ago
So how long before we send a swarm of 100s of these to image the entire planet up close and personal?
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by pengaru 3y ago
Whatever you do, don't use rdiff-backup.
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by pengaru 3y ago
Sounds like the usual undercut the competition until there's nobody left, then exploit your monopoly as you wish until someone comes along and does the same thing to you.
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by pengaru 3y ago
It's more work and risk, plain and simple. But that's what business is, work and risk... I'm surprised more American cities haven't outright banned the practice for businesses serving their public since it's so clea
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by pengaru 3y ago
> It never occurred to me that end to end encryption would eventually have the use case of preventing security services from scaring themselves and then blaming you for a false alarm... It never occurred to you that incompetence/stu
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by pengaru 3y ago
> So how would a frozen car become warmer with a blanket, unless some subsystem within it is emitting energy? Probably a reference to the well established practice of using block heaters[0] on diesel engines in cold climates... which AIU
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by pengaru 3y ago
Shareholders?
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by pengaru 3y ago
They certainly don't have uniform customer service across the country, and that's a much more appropriate comparison IMO.
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by pengaru 3y ago
> This is funny to me because someone I'm close to called the cops after an assault and they literally just talked down to her and left. What's been your experience with this? Police behavior is highly regional and subjective,

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