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by uxcn 11y ago
The nginx threadpools aren't strictly for I/O. One of the other major issues TFA mentions is that plugins don't use epoll / kqueue , and they block (with all the associated performance costs). The detail I apparently s
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by uxcn 11y ago
I'm not sure what you really mean by this. Linux has supported non-blocking I/O using select and poll since at least 2.4. 2.6 even added support for epoll , which scales even further since the callbacks are O(1) . It&#x27
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by uxcn 11y ago
Wikipedia works just fine in w3m.
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The destinations the probes go to are drastically different, and generally the things you want to study aren't identical. What's more is that the mission plans for probes need to be extremely detailed, which impacts the design of
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by uxcn 11y ago
It's very different, for a lot of reasons, but the model for revenue is still closer to a subscription model than the normal ad revenue model.
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by uxcn 11y ago
s/simile/synonym/
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by uxcn 11y ago
I've gotten into the habit of using DDG as a default as well. I typically only search for keywords or similes that should be on the pages though, which almost any good index should be able to handle. Google still seems to be lightyear
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by uxcn 11y ago
Google is beta testing a similar subscription model, but it's only meant to reduce ads so far. https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/
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by uxcn 11y ago
Just a set of commands that implement some common patterns working with files (paths in general) in a shell. I actually wrote these in bash before I rebuilt my laptop (the original scripts are still on github somewhere). I ended up using t
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Show HN: Sh-Helpers – Some Commands for Common Shell Tasks(github.com)
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by uxcn 11y ago
The first computer I programmed was a Z80 micro-controller connected to some basic peripherals (LED readout, sensors, actuators, stepper motors, potentiometers, etc...). There was no compiler, no assembler; nothing but a keypad to enter th
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by uxcn 11y ago
Is it actually named after the machine on Epsilon 3, or is it just a coincidence? There's a B-Film called The Machine as well.
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by uxcn 11y ago
Interesting research[1] is still happening. [1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/...
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by uxcn 11y ago
Some of TempleOS actually reminded me of the MOAD[1], and even the Acme[2] editor a bit. The beauty of plain text is that it's trivial to interpret though (not unicode so much). Anything else and you need to start to worry about back
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by uxcn 11y ago
Actually, it's not even really easy for us to conceptualize basic physics. Even an electron is difficult; we have no direct experience to compare a reality smaller than the photons we use to construct a visual representation of it. In
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by uxcn 11y ago
Do people really have difficulty with the possibility of a random multiverse? We discovered earth wasn't the center of the universe, why do we need to attribute so much meaning to our universe?
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by uxcn 11y ago
As I understand it, PC-DOS was a quick and dirty copy of CP/M (Tim Paterson's QDOS).
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by uxcn 11y ago
Having code that's easy to integrate with existing projects is definitely a really good thing, and I honestly don't like to neglect Windows, but with all due respect, the platform kind of does it to itself. C11 would be really nic
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by uxcn 11y ago
Why would anyone use VS to compile cross-platform C on Windows when there's MinGW (and clang-cl)?
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by uxcn 11y ago
There's probably nothing I can say that will change your mind, but if you are really at the bottom, one way to look at it is that there's no possible way but up. I think a lot of people have been at the point you're at now
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by uxcn 11y ago
A lot even limit their codebases to C89, which I don't understand. Are there really that many platforms/compilers that don't effectively support C99 or greater? Is sixteen years not long enough for a language feature set to
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by uxcn 11y ago
The analogy isn't flawed, it's a question of the benefit for the person who's key/info it is, in this case github users. We generally don't have anything to gain from our keys being made public (address, phone numb
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by uxcn 11y ago
I hoped my key wasn't effectively public by using it with github, but I honestly tend to assume the worst whenever I use a service like it.
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by uxcn 11y ago
I'm not sure FPGAs are 'suited' for parsing formats with lots of variable lengths and data dependencies like XML, but obviously they can be faster than typical Von Neumann. I know binary market data streams were one of the f
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by uxcn 11y ago
I think the fault was that they focused more on codifying approaches to deal with specific problems rather than discussing the problems they address, and encouraging people to recognize those rather than take a specific approach. The manife
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by uxcn 11y ago
Even Dave Thomas (another original signatory) has admitted there are serious problems with the way agile is generally practiced. http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/dave-thomas-i...
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by uxcn 11y ago
If it is correct, the implications could seem kind of bizarre for some poorly understood quantum phenomena... like causality seemingly being violated. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%27s_delayed_choice_exp... ).
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by uxcn 11y ago
Stephen Wolfram actually argued that the universe is probably computational in nature. New Kind of Science is generally based around the idea.
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That was also one of the things I noticed at a quick glance. It would probably be a fairly big win for anything I/O constrained. I didn't take a look at the data being compressed or the algorithm in detail though.
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by uxcn 12y ago
There's a link to a table of benchmarks in the description ( http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html ). LZ4 still looks a little more compelling than LZHAM in terms of compress/decompress time. It doesn't me

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