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by scott_s 5y ago
I designed and implemented a mostly lock-free dynamic thread scheduler for streaming runtimes, and I learned some similar lessons: avoid global data and amortize the necessary synchronization that you have to do. One of the main peculiariti
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by scott_s 5y ago
Also discussed on HN recently ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28445174 ) and when published ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788738 ).
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by scott_s 5y ago
No, not like them. Those services are not handling the number of transactions a second, reliably, across a single database, as companies like Bank of America or Visa are.
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by scott_s 5y ago
The author ignores that large cloud providers design their own hardware . They are not using generic systems, but are designing their own. My own personal hypothesis is that the "servers" that run the major clouds will converge o
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by scott_s 5y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788738
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How to Paint 50k Miles of Lines(nytimes.com)
97 points by scott_s 5y ago|67 comments
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by scott_s 5y ago
Three is an ever-green game. It requires more strategy and planning than 2048. I still play it, over five years since I bought it. Easily worth the $6 to purchase.
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by scott_s 5y ago
grzm is correct, it does not happen automatically. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .
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by scott_s 5y ago
Academic paper: "Engineering In-place (Shared-memory) Sorting Algorithms", Michael Axtmann, Sascha Witt, Daniel Ferizovic, Peter Sanders, https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13569 To start discussion, I think it'
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In-Place Parallel Super Scalar Samplesort (IPS⁴o)(github.com)
50 points by scott_s 5y ago|6 comments
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by scott_s 5y ago
Yes.
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by scott_s 5y ago
I think the point this author is making is that Nietzsche’s use of word “nihilism” does not match our accepted definition.
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by scott_s 5y ago
I think it's worth noting that dvt's post agrees with the submitted essay. Quoting more: > At times he described himself as “a nihilist,” by which he meant not that everything is meaningless, but that he actively rejected the a
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by scott_s 5y ago
Even if people bought for just the next week, they had to buy more , because now they were using their toilet at home, exclusively. Everyone buying more at once caused a real shortage.
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by scott_s 5y ago
Correct; there was a market shift , where all of the demand for commercial toilet paper went to consumer toilet paper. Because of that shift, there was a real shortage in consumer toilet paper. Unfortunately, the myth that this shortage wa
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by scott_s 5y ago
This is the approach I take when I write, so this is how I try to write. I hope it is reflected in my first-author papers. Three papers from the past several years: https://www.scott-a-s.com/files/middleware2016_loa
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by scott_s 5y ago
Or use a language with generators and coroutines? I believe this would be natural to express in Python and (maybe) with C++20's coroutines. Java’s stream API could also probably accomplish something similar.
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by scott_s 5y ago
WOW . J.A.N. Lee taught my intro to programming in C++ course back in '99. He retired during my undergrad.
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by scott_s 5y ago
Rock-solid reliability for large-scale transaction-heavy workloads.
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by scott_s 5y ago
I'm not sure if it's a habit from a "good" writer, but most new academic writers are reluctant to make themselves the subject of sentences. This leads to passive voice and awkward sentences. Who ran the experiments? We
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by scott_s 5y ago
I don't think of it as making good writing work in academia. Good writing is an advantage in academia. Reviewers are more likely to accept your paper, and readers are more likely to read more.
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by scott_s 5y ago
Not exactly. My advisor, an experienced researcher who already knew what I was writing about, missed an important thing that I said. That meant I failed to communicate something to a very sympathetic reader. That's a big miss. From tha
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by scott_s 5y ago
I admit I had a similar initial reaction, but then I realized it's similar to golf clubs. Golfers don't use simple wooden mallets, nor do we expect them to. And part of the skill of the game is knowing when to use what when.
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by scott_s 5y ago
"Your words are expensive." Said to me by my graduate advisor when he said I had not stated something, and I pointed out I had, once, in an earlier section. My writing style, even my academic writing style, is a result of how I wa
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by scott_s 5y ago
> Am I supposed to feel bad for olympic athletes now? No. That would be sympathy, where you feel bad because they feel bad. But empathy, where you understand their feelings would be good. Not just for Olympic athletes, but in general.
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by scott_s 5y ago
> When we feel we have it rough recognizing that others may have it rougher lends a perspective that leads to gratitude and less self-centeredness. Sometimes, for some people. For some people, when they express their feelings, and the re
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by scott_s 5y ago
No. https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/articles/why-covid-19-vaccine...
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by scott_s 5y ago
That article agrees with what the parent poster said, based on my skimming it. That article documents the great lengths those women, and their parents, went through to achieve their mastery. It also indicates their may be cognitive differen
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by scott_s 5y ago
This very submission is 160 pages documenting this very fact.
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Thriving in a Crowded and Changing World: C++ 2006–2020 [pdf](stroustrup.com)
111 points by scott_s 5y ago|137 comments

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