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by shasta 16y ago
According to the specs, the original 80486 could read or write 16 bits per clock. That's probably on a DX - on a DX2 it's probably 2 clocks. And that's with in order execution - the bus was running at the same frequency as the CPU.
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by shasta 16y ago
You're right. What I really meant was that instructions were processed 'in order'. An uncached memory access slowed things down a particular amount and there was no way to cover the latency with other instructions.
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by shasta 16y ago
IIRC, the 486 was not pipelined, so you did't get 19 instructions, 4 of which could be memory instructions. You got 19 arithmetic instructions or 4 memory instructions, or something in between (without checking your math, but as I recall,
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by shasta 16y ago
I wouldn't think there a large number of customers deciding "this is too unreliable, I'm leaving" on the basis of a few hours of down time. On the other hand, there might be a large number of people who, upon finding your site down, decide
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by shasta 16y ago
0D glasses - http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00ivNEORGlaqgf/Pastel-Jum...
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by shasta 16y ago
I use my microwave to get off of the phone. I put it on mute before I stick it in so that they don't hear the door closing.
697.
by shasta 16y ago
Another possibility is that they're not expecting you to live long enough to justify the investment. Google has developed very statistically accurate methods for determining how much longer an individual will live, but it's very computatio
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by shasta 16y ago
I don't know why you have to postulate "magic". I didn't say that a program that helps each kid progress as quickly as possible wouldn't reduce the variance. It probably would, as the kids on the bottom have more room for improvement. Bu
699.
by shasta 16y ago
So your kid's school has the kids segregated by ability... and that contradicts some assumption I've made?
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by shasta 16y ago
Getting the students at the low end of the spectrum to "get math" is certainly a noble goal, but in order to have such a low variance in math ability at the end of the year, there's another required component - you have to keep the high end
701.
by shasta 16y ago
It's important so that you can know exactly when it goes into the public domain
702.
by shasta 16y ago
(FYI typo fix: replace 'diluting' with 'deluding the' in your article)
703.
by shasta 16y ago
Commutative, not associative. And the commutative property is exactly what's required to guarantee eventual consistency when patches are being applied in the order they are received since it ensures that order of application doesn't matter
704.
by shasta 16y ago
Why do you think he's using the term incorrectly? He just means that, with git, the order in which you apply patches matters. In a scenario where people are distributing patches and applying them as they receive them, this implies a lack
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by shasta 16y ago
The idea that the courts have jurisdiction over the interpretation of the constitution (as opposed to, say, each branch being independently obligated to adhere to the constitution) is judicial review, not appellate review.
706.
by shasta 16y ago
You should have revisited the situation after fifth grade. Fifth grade teachers like to simplify things. Marbury introduced judicial review. It's not in the constitution.
707.
by shasta 16y ago
Right. Where's the bit about determining the constitutionality of laws? It's not spelled out
708.
by shasta 16y ago
"and it gives the Supreme Court jurisdiction over its interpretation" [citation needed]
709.
by shasta 16y ago
I think the reason that S-expressions haven't gone away is mostly because of the way they mesh with macros, but anyway the sub-optimality of S-expressions as a syntax wasn't a part of my argument there (I don't like them, but I don't hate t
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by shasta 16y ago
Or the explanation could be that Lisp just isn't that great. First of all, it doesn't even make much sense to talk about "Lisp" as if it's a language. The difference between the toy lisp you can write an interpreter for in a page of code
711.
by shasta 16y ago
"The graph is dramatic." No, that graph is incredible. Literally unbelievable. 70% accepted in the morning to down below 10% before snack? Either this data is BS or there's some hidden variable here.
712.
by shasta 16y ago
Sure, this doesn't address the original attack under discussion, but this subthread was about whether deduplication implies that the server has access to the unencrypted file. AES might not be suitable for this purpose, but I don't see why
713.
by shasta 16y ago
If this really became a problem for Dropbox, one response would be to have the server issue random challenges to clients that purport to have the file.
714.
by shasta 16y ago
I don't see why it would need to leak much more information than you're already leaking with a hash. And I'm sure someone has investigated this idea.
715.
by shasta 16y ago
Well, dropbox allows you to access all of your data with only a password, so the PGP pair would have to be a function of the password. I'm not sure I follow about storing the password locally. One additional thing that you'd need to do th
716.
by shasta 16y ago
I suspect that dropbox works the way you think it does, but your argument actually has a flaw. It could work like this: - A hash computed locally (on the clients with the large unencrypted file) and sent along to be used by dropbox to detec
717.
by shasta 16y ago
I was initially left with the impression from the link title that he was running some kind of a scam or was selling books with the brute force of his marketing prowess. So yes, it is an important part of the TL;DR in that this is the piece
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by shasta 16y ago
"but I think there is virtually no advantage to employees from our cultural norm" On average. For (perceived) good employees that have above average negotiating skill, there can be a big advantage to this system.
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by shasta 16y ago
Your TL;DR misses the most important part of the summary: the book was titled "What men think about apart from sex" and the blank pages were the punch line.
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by shasta 16y ago
It might warm your heart, but this is not a success story. It shouldn't take a judge noticing malicious intent to stop this kind of behavior. In fact, intent, malicious or otherwise, shouldn't matter . The system should be fixed so that

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