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by snaky 8y ago
Zilog Z80, 1976 > Faggin: Yes, we were concerned about others copying the Z80. So I was trying to figure what we could do that that would be effective, and that’s when I came across an idea that if we use the depletion load the mask that
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by snaky 8y ago
The problem? I wonder whether it was the same VP who got promotion for decision to cut corners a couple of years back, and another promotion for decision to fix it by contractors.
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by snaky 8y ago
I won't use the term 'vast majority' to stay conservative, but the many, many of enterprise projects would happily work on one server (well, let's make it two identical servers, for redundancy and HA). You can get 2U s
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by snaky 8y ago
That's not so bespoke, that's a very much standard software, services and operating systems, which is very familiar to every UNIX sysadmin. It would be much easier to pass that system to new sysadmin than Kubernetes cluster. By fa
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Boomers Retire, Knowledge Goes with Them(eetimes.com)
1 points by snaky 8y ago|1 comments
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by snaky 8y ago
> an app or two with a DB under it And most often all those app or two are doing is converting JSON to SQL and SQL to JSON actually. And PostgREST would be pretty much enough for that.
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by snaky 8y ago
It depends. If you have one customer who need it once a week, you add this find-grep-awk script to xinetd and set the PHP page with the couple of fields setting the arguments for the request. If you have a million of customers per hour, you
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by snaky 8y ago
> This find | xargs mawk | mawk pipeline gets us down to a runtime of about 12 seconds, or about 270MB/sec, which is around 235 times faster than the Hadoop implementation. https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-
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by snaky 8y ago
> Kubernetes, right now, supports some workloads really really well, like stateless workloads that are CPU intensive that can be easily scaled horizontally, with easy to understand patterns that we currently put behind load balancers. &g
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by snaky 8y ago
What would be the advantage of .NET Kodi addons over Python? They would be faster that's for sure, but if I understand it correct, addons are not the main reason of Kodi suboptimal performance. The downsides are obvious - while you can
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by snaky 8y ago
Big and small players are interested indeed, from WD, Alibaba and Huami to 'some 300 companies already looking at or developing with RISC-V in China'[1], but not because RISC-V is so wonderful, it's just not bad and just enou
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by snaky 8y ago
That's acute, considering there's at least a couple of major competitors in every area of Chinese internet economy, unlike the Google, Facebook, YouTube and Amazon de-facto monopoly.
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by snaky 8y ago
There might be one 'main' ending, and many 'alternative' endings by the same writer. That is quite normal in video games and visual novels. Nowadays the TV and films are going closer to video games, so adopting that woul
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Lenovo could be the first company to launch a foldable smartphone in October(gizmochina.com)
2 points by snaky 8y ago|1 comments
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by snaky 8y ago
It depends. > Faggin: Well, for the timing of the product out, that was put three-and-a-half months of my life at 80 hours a week doing the layout. I mean, that was the only way I could solve that challenge. We couldn’t find a layout dra
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by snaky 8y ago
That's why people invented peer review. You cannot read all the code of all the extensions you use, and if you are 'regular user', you shouldn't, but you trust some power users, researchers, developers who read the code
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by snaky 8y ago
"There is a problem with torrents - nobody want to seed. Let's create new coin - using TRON blockchain - to reward seeders automatically" would be the same, but with no bullshit.
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by snaky 8y ago
You mean proactive award winning innovative solutions leveraging state of the art leading technologies don't engage with industry standard customer expectations on value proposition, or what?
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by snaky 8y ago
Why the world should be careful? China pretty much owns e.g. Lithium batteries industry, so what?
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by snaky 8y ago
> I'm surprised there aren't more games studios in Asia and Eastern Europe Aren't they? > Belarus still relies on state-run manufacturers and Soviet-era collective farms. The European Union prefers not to buy food from
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by snaky 8y ago
> The entire Zilog those days had 11 people. > It took one year and one month from the kick-off meeting to fully working silicon. > We basically got $500,000 the first financing of the company. And I promised to Exxon that we would
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by snaky 8y ago
> Study: More than two thirds of Chinese take a positive view of social credit systems in their country > Team of scholars at Freie Universität Berlin surveyed 2,200 citizens. Particularly high level of approval among older and better
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Xi Jinping and the Party are stronger than you think(supchina.com)
2 points by snaky 8y ago|0 comments
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by snaky 8y ago
High DPI support for WinForms has been improved in the .NET Framework 4.8 https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet-framework-early-access/b...
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by snaky 8y ago
The majority had stopped at (right before) WPF it seems > In fact, at a recent conference I was at with a large group of C# consultants. When the audience was polled on which desktop UIs their clients were using, the vast majority were W
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by snaky 8y ago
> A communist scarf with print ads from a local Wanda branch has gone viral on Chinese social media this weekend. “It’s all about the money,” some netizens write. A locally issued red scarf, worn by the ‘Young Pioneers of China’ to symbo
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30 Books to Understand Modern China(whatsonweibo.com)
4 points by snaky 8y ago|0 comments
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by snaky 8y ago
> the prospective investors—executives from a state-owned fund in the Middle East
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OCaml All the Way Down – How Jane Street Builds FPGA Designs [video](janestreet.com)
170 points by snaky 8y ago|30 comments
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by snaky 8y ago
That's top2 issue on uservoice https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/327186-onenote-for-wind...

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