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by tryp 12y ago
xss sp
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by tryp 13y ago
The thermodynamics you are remembering mostly refers to Carnot engines which convert temperature differences to work.
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by tryp 13y ago
The density of helium is less than 1/7 of the density of nitrogen, which is a good approximation for air. Two ways that this is helpful come to mind: 1. Aerodynamic effects like drag and vorticity are largely governed by the Reynolds N
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by tryp 14y ago
I did a quick skim of the source for xxHash and CityHash. They appear to rely heavily on 32- and 64-bit multiply operations, and are likely "fast" to the extent that these operations are vectorized. The benchmarks I noticed are all run on r
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by tryp 14y ago
The "solder RAM into place" step is handled by the pick-and-place machine at board manufacture time. Human hands are required only to load the machine.
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by tryp 14y ago
Soldering DRAMs to the board saves height and improves ruggedness. It can also improve memory power a tiny bit because you can dial down the signal drive strength and dial up the termination impedance since you don't have reflections at the
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by tryp 15y ago
I meant this more as a data point for realistic mental comparison to an ASIC, or anyone thinking they might use one. It's cool that it's achievable, and saying "This (big-n) gate count part is available today!" is nice and gee-whizzy for th
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by tryp 15y ago
Bear in mind that a the current generation of these, the Virtex 6, starts at about $800 for the smallest parts and I believe goes well over $20k for the larger ones. Expect the Virtex 7 to be priced in this ballpark. edit: I was off by an o
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by tryp 15y ago
Many embedded compilers and assemblers are terribly buggy. Having worked with dozens, my impression is that the compilers targeting 8-bit microcontrollers are generally of similar quality to 80's x86 compilers. Emission of incorrect assembl
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by tryp 15y ago
Perhaps not for you and your colleagues, but for the folks at the state department charged with enforcement, it often seems to depend on their personal interpretation on a given day.
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by tryp 15y ago
I think your example here undermines your point. There's not much understanding to be had of the (roman/english) alphabet. You memorize 26 characters as a foundation from which to build words. It's essentially an arbitrary set without und
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by tryp 15y ago
This looks very interesting, but the it's a bit difficult to figure out what it actually is from the website. My impression is that it's like a more featureful take on Unison ("two-way rsync" iirc) with a central server to facilitate NAT tr
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by tryp 15y ago
Except now your fonts are rendered like trash because the subpixel rendering and hinting assumes each RGB pixel triplet is in a horizontal line.
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by tryp 15y ago
I don't know about juniper specifically but most multiport routers are built on packet processing asics with content addressable storage in local ram and built-in macs for each port. When a packet is encountered that requires more complex i
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by tryp 15y ago
It's _textbook_ HR. You don't want your staff to hate their new manager because their first day was spent handing out pink slips. You make the old manager carry out the reduction, then you get to fire the bad guy.
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by tryp 16y ago
I'll agree that helvetica looks nicer, but I don't think all the iPhone style gloss and huge spacing looks /better/. Looking at those side-by-sides and knowing that the iPhone versions came first just makes me think that the android version
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Diving into the Linux Networking Stack(blog.beyond-syntax.com)
3 points by tryp 16y ago|0 comments
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by tryp 16y ago
If passing the test requires some specific skill or knowledge then passing the tests demonstrates that one possesses that skill or knowledge.
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by tryp 16y ago
Right. Just plug it into a usb slot.
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by tryp 16y ago
I found that adopting the native idioms meant never having to notice the 1- based indexing. Everything is a hash table, and if you find yourself using literal numeric keys, there's probably a nicer way to do it. The lua users wiki is full o
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by tryp 16y ago
AMD has a decent share of the current 'Wintel' market. In the recent past IDT, cyrix and transmeta also dabbled in x86 processors.
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by tryp 16y ago
While it's certainly true that android is happy to run on mips, there is currently a Renaissance of arm-based SOCs with interesting silicon coming from freescale, ti, marvell, phillips, qualcom, and samsung to name just a few. Most of these
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by tryp 16y ago
It would be much easier to read the NAND IC's than it is to read a magnetic disk out of a hard drive, but you'd need to figure out the block format the drive used in order to reconstruct your files.
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by tryp 16y ago
I think this is an area where legacy support is really holding us back. I'd love to see us get to the point where we can just have a simple NAND controller attached to the PCIe bus. But doing that requires a flash-aware filesystem like UBIF
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by tryp 17y ago
I'm generally frustrated by articles on this site - and this one is no exception. It seems like there's some juicy rumor-mill news there, but the writing is so poor that it takes a great deal of effort to extract it. A conversational style
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by tryp 17y ago
Saving trees is great, but think of all the dinosaurs that died to make the DVDs.