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by staticint 11y ago
A mutex held for up to 10ms on each iteration, over 500 iterations, averaging out to 2s doesn't seem surprising at all. In fact, this is quite expected. It would take considerably longer if the random sleep hit 10ms every time. If you
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by staticint 11y ago
I imagine not that much in practice. It is not like someone is going to manually write out identical functions twenty times for each type they want to support. That's precisely what computers are good at doing and there are countless t
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by staticint 11y ago
About as hard as it is to understand that correlation does not imply causation, but these people were still expecting career success out of their education anyway. The downside of making education available to everyone is that you get every
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by staticint 11y ago
That seems to play into the parent's point though: * Not-so-exceptional people are not granted admission * Exceptional people are demonstrably exceptional even before admission There is no path for unexceptional people to fi
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by staticint 11y ago
Or to be confused with http://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_r... (web browser) An interesting choice for a name of a software project, given its history.
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by staticint 11y ago
Perhaps the issue is actually with your provider? In practice, HSPA+ (3G) usually allows for 20Mbps in my experience, which fits right inside your 10-40Mbps LTE window. Going from 20Mbps to even 40Mbps really isn't going to be noticeab
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by staticint 11y ago
I agree with you entirely. I read recently that the population growth of downtown Toronto has tripled in the past five years. Assuming that is a trend consistent with most major North American cities, the cost of housing has to compensate.
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by staticint 11y ago
> I believe that CCD has basically been conclusively traced to a certain class of pesticides. However, the initial data on bee deaths following the use of dust-off mitigation strategies, like using Fluency Agent, looks promising. Granted