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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
Looks like the issue was fixed upstream a month ago. Might have been nice to know earlier? Is this how long it takes for the distros to lurch into action?
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
That’s interesting but kinda highlights the difficulty of shipping an entire OS with profile-guided optimizations. What they need is very broad sample coverage and SamplePGO instead of instrumented FDO. This is what ChromeOS does with Quipp
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
That’s neat but the large differentiation seems to be PGO+LTO. As pointed out below both of Google’s distributions of Linux are optimized that way (actually with AutoFDO/SamplePGO+ThinLTO), but I don’t think there is a community distri
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
The system does not “run on” OS/2. That is used to glue the metrocard terminals to an IBM mainframe. The subway “runs on” relay logic. Trains occupy a block because they short the two rails together, which completes the necessary circu
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
Nope. Ran Warp on a PC with a PCI bus Ethernet adapter and TCP. Worked fine.
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
You can't wave away the remaining challenges of a molten salt reactor. It is a legitimately difficult materials science problem to operate a liquid salt pump loop operating at ~1000K and under high neutron flux. It's also not a su
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
LaTeX integration is one of the neat features of Dropbox Paper. I don't know if people think of it as a "word processor" but you can stick a bit of LaTeX in any context by just using the $$ macro.
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
All the old-line science tools are in the interactive notebook or logbook style. Think of Maple or Mathematica.
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My point is people used to be able to program computers and now it's all embedded browsers all the way down which is why the recommended way to install ubuntu from macos involves downloading and running (as root!) a 330MB electron app.
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Used to have self-replicating persistent malware hidden inside filed that fit on floppy disks.
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libdouble-conversion is indeed far more flexible. I think that's what leads to all the extra typing! I mean, just including it is almost more typing than I'm willing to undertake ;-) #include "third_party/double-co
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
What about libfmt? Frankly I find it a little easier to use than double-conversion and it's equal in speed.
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Ryu is only a year old. Grisu is 10 years old. It takes time for people to absorb these things.
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Isn’t that pretty common? If I know I have to get up unusually early I can never sleep. If I have to rise at 4AM to drive to a bicycling event that starts at 6 I can never sleep before that. Same for very early flight departures or anything
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
It’s a cautionary tale about Python. If you start there you will never get off of it. You can hire Guido but you still won’t be able to go from 2 to 3.
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
Backup and Sync for MacOS at least is a disaster. It locked me out of my account because when backing up photos, if it can’t figure out how to convert files to normal quality JPEGs, it uploads them anyway and your quota is charged. Then a m
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
Motivate isn’t exactly rolling in money. It’s essentially a non-profit.
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There haven’t been ebikes at any station for several weeks because they pulled them all over a front brake failure. They also pulled them in NYC.
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The nice thing about the contract is they are obligated to provide the service.
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In SF for whatever reason there is no surcharge for the electric bikes
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
Can't imagine how you formed that impression. TNC drivers love to perform the "Crazy Ivan" and they love to double-park in bike lanes.
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I have the annual membership. It's dirt cheap and the marginal cost is none. The day passes and single rides are intended for visitors.
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
This is very practical guide, thanks for sharing.
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Zen’s gigantic cache wasn’t very effective on account of the way it is arranged in itty bitty little shards.
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
Oh hrmm, my mistake. This is a welcome change from the older one.
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
Why would we call it “mini”? It is straight up NUMA.
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by shereadsthenews 7y ago
The BTB was the real problem with Naples and the reason it sucked on non-trivial, branchy, pointer-chasing workloads like MySQL. With the improved branch prediction resources I’ll be interested in head-to-head of this rig vs. a Kaby Lake (o
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This is why I unsubd from the NYT and why it makes me sad: 99% solid journalism but 1% hot garbage is not a good enough ratio. Just in my adult lifetime this newspaper has materially contributed to both the Iraq War and the election of Trum
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Yes that's true, I should have said that they begin delivering cars after a long time of booking orders. Look at the number of Tesla Model 3s that were registered in various countries prior to March 2019.
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Tesla performs this stunt constantly. What they do is they don't deliver any cars for months at a time, whether because they can't or choose not to I don't know. Then they dump all the backorders on some small nation all at

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