storyinmemo

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by storyinmemo 7y ago
PM 2.5 seems to be like radiation: the more you get, the more you're likely to be affected, even at lowish levels. https://qz.com/1166010/air-pollution-even-at-levels-that-mee...
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by storyinmemo 7y ago
This project would take 2-3 days to filter the volume of air in a 1,000 sq foot apartment... which is to say it would do nothing of significance. To be effective, you want to change the air something closer to once every 30 minutes.
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by storyinmemo 7y ago
Meanwhile, four years ago at Facebook :) http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2016/02/21/malloc/
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by storyinmemo 8y ago
The dictionary is only useful in independently compressing lots of small data chunks. Tiny files, rows in a database, VCS commits kind of things where each is independently compressed and extricable. If you tarball them so you're compr
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by storyinmemo 9y ago
My suggestion for learning: re-write this using futures. Here's a quick example of using similar parallelism to search structured json in gzip'd files: https://github.com/autocracy/snippets/blob/mast
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by storyinmemo 10y ago
Can you elaborate on what it is that slows down your app performance? Is it bottle-necking on writing to the database? Does the database have read activity? Does the application slow down when there is read activity? With some basic assumpt
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by storyinmemo 10y ago
The paper on the algorithm is here: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1816-teller.pdf Somebody implemented the algorithm in go based on the paper here: https://github.com/dgryski/go-tsz A short
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by storyinmemo 10y ago
Yes, they move the entire cohort together.
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by storyinmemo 10y ago
They bought Nimbula back in 2013 as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbula The naming was always confusing because both companies were based within a mile of each other, never mind the product overlap.
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by storyinmemo 11y ago
Any employee can grab a crappy phone. Some of the Messenger crowd have 20+ phones on their desks. Most don't stay with them for too long, though. It does really take an extra push to advance this. I had a Galaxy Young for two days afte