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by snaky 8y ago
Recently committed Gasket (Google ASIC Software, Kernel Extensions, and Tools) kernel framework is going even further in that direction. https://lwn.net/Articles/758745/ > Could allow for APK installable kernel
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by snaky 8y ago
https://yarchive.net/comp/microkernels.html edit added > Guys, there is a _reason_ why microkernels suck. This is an example of how things are _not_ "independent". The filesystems depend on the VM, and t
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by snaky 8y ago
> PostgreSQL 10 provides native partitioning. Despite the flexibility, this approach forces the planner to perform an exhaustive search and to check constraints on each partition to determine whether it should be present in the plan or n
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by snaky 8y ago
Not really. But sometimes they send a patch or two https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2011-March...
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by snaky 8y ago
Visual is more natural, simple and rich way of cognition for human brain than symbolic expressions, there's nothing wrong with it. What's somewhat pity is the fact all the attempts to create any 'visual programming' tool
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by snaky 8y ago
> BLE 4.2 adds 'Secure Connections'. This is apparently also broken and what's more it was broken in 2008 when the same pairing method was used in Bluetooth 2.1!! It doesn't totally break pairing - only the passkey en
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by snaky 8y ago
Talking about running things behind the scenes, mainframes with pre-SQL NoSQL DBs (ADABAS, IBM IMS) and even with no DBMS in a modern sense at all (running on TPF, working directly with Direct Access Storage Device records) are still doin
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by snaky 8y ago
Just to add Microchip with "Configurable Logic Cell" and Cypress with "configurable blocks".
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by snaky 8y ago
As usual with restrictions and regulations, it's easy to obtain for bad guys and not easy for good guys.
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by snaky 8y ago
We've yet to see any useful and no-nonsense functionality from that sound boxes I suppose. All the functions available today, like "weather" or "play a song" are definitely done faster by the phone - and by hands, w
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by snaky 8y ago
And hardware vendors are and will be very eager to add hardware specific quirks, tons of it. So there is no point to "abstract graphics API for any OS/CPU instruction set" then, when most of the work - and we are talking ab
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by snaky 8y ago
That's a 7 years old Thinkpad . And by the way, if you need to build Android source code more often than once a month, you need AWS anyway.
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by snaky 8y ago
> Various small sample surveys have been done to ascertain if arranged marriages or autonomous marriages have a more satisfying married life. The results are mixed - some state marriage satisfaction is higher in autonomous marriages, oth
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by snaky 8y ago
While to convince most of the people to jump off Facebook doesn't look very promising, Facebook-to-RSS gate as a service might be nice thing to have indeed.
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by snaky 8y ago
More than 100,000,000 units is a one quarter at Chinese market. How 88,000 is even something to talk about.
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by snaky 8y ago
The most underrated tool barely used outside of Windows sysadmin world.
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by snaky 8y ago
The question is who is the boss. And almost always it's the marketing guy, we usually call him enterpreneur. I don't think this model is good or bad per se, I'm just talking about maybe, just maybe, it's not supposed to
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by snaky 8y ago
I think all the model of modern startup culture is suboptimal but widely spread and so considered the only possible scheme by literally everyone. Couldn't we imagine the case when not enterpreneur dictates 'what to build' to
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by snaky 8y ago
>Perl's unpopularity Is a myth actually. > Tom Radcliffe, recently presented a talk at YAPC North America titled “The Perl Paradox.” This concept refers to the fact that Perl has become virtually invisible in recent years while r
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by snaky 8y ago
Should it be called "alchemy"?
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Hikipedia.jp aims to tackle isolation by making connections with each other(mainichi.jp)
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QUEST, a TCI-Based 3D-Stacked SRAM Neural Processor(fuse.wikichip.org)
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Is there a fix for impostor syndrome?(interactions.acm.org)
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by snaky 8y ago
That's very interesting, and I quote short summary from 2014 > PilMCU is an implementation of 64-bit PicoLisp directly in hardware. A truly minimalistic system. PicoLisp is both the machine language and the operating system: >* M
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by snaky 8y ago
> it's still slower than typing In alphabetic languages. What about Chinese, or Japanese?
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It’s COBOL all the way down(increment.com)
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How tracking worker productivity could make Amazon warehouses less efficient(work.qz.com)
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by snaky 9y ago
Most people just don't care about almost anything.
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by snaky 9y ago
> The encoder was reverse engineered from binary library and from EP0398973B1 patent (long expired). The decoder was simply deduced from the encoder. https://patchwork.ffmpeg.org/patch/5879/ > Aptx support f
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What Microsoft's recent reorganization means for Windows(windowscentral.com)
2 points by snaky 9y ago|0 comments

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