whiterknight

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by whiterknight 2y ago
It has no choice but to read file data in chunks or exhaust memory. If you need to do n parallel searches what better arrangement do you propose?
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Just read about 6 months of your comments. Thanks for sharing your thoughts here.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
> Search the data it’s already read in The kernel handles that. Your program works on the data that’s available while the pipe is filling up again. > If this is a recursive grep As you said. This is modeled best by multiple threads or
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by whiterknight 2y ago
That’s not what I said. Everyone benefits from being able to read and write blocking code.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Blocking IO is usually good though. The entire Unix kernel is designed to manage complexity so you can write “if then else”. What is grep going to do while it waits for data?
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by whiterknight 2y ago
But because finishing is hard (and not fun) it’s also easy to make up reasons for why you don’t finish things, without scrutinizing the underlying motivation. Sometimes i look back and say “I’m glad I moved on” but I think a lot of the time
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by whiterknight 2y ago
This academic system has only existed for 100-150 years. Less for science.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
There are modes of compensation besides money. There is value besides direct production.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
If you don’t think marketing works on you, then that means it’s working even better.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Luckily for us C programmers do care and track down leaks aggressively.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
The context of this discussion is that it would be better if pipes were faster. Then you would have more options.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
You’re describing the outcome of one individual person. Money is just a tool for allocating resources. Saving 1 million of resources is a good thing.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
And you go from having a well defined modular interface that’s flexible at runtime to a binary dependency.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
No. If 20% of the state budget is then that amount is matched by an equal part local. So state + local education would be 40% of the state budget. education (property tax) dominates local spend. So yes we do tax and spend extraordinary amou
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by whiterknight 2y ago
It does if you consider the part going to your county: “In 2022, the federal government spent … This is 13.6% of the total spent on elementary and secondary education in 2022. The remaining funding comes from state and local governments, wh
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by whiterknight 2y ago
The state and local pay about equal portions. But do you have anything to say about the argument in my comment?
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by whiterknight 2y ago
In other words, they give the government a cut of the power.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Are we saying anything different?
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by whiterknight 2y ago
We must spend 30-50% of state budgets, monopolize children’s time, and expose them to violence and drugs so they can learn to socialize.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Indeed. But I’m pointing out if it’s not the goal, then it’s a cost to minimize to achieve the goal.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
It’s firmly in the “cost” center.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
(desirable coastal cities with young people and vibrant entertainment)
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by whiterknight 2y ago
All the doctors want to live in LA and NY. This problem only gets worse as medical school, etc becomes more competitive and costly.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Are you suggesting that you don’t learn as much when you figure our the puzzle as oppose to being told the answer?
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Formal teaching training never made a bad teacher good.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
You don’t need a smart phone either. “Need” is the wrong verb when talking about consumer electronics.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Just want to point out this headline or article doesn’t say that one is the cause of the other, just that they coincide.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Worked with a bunch of ex Google employees who expected to write code and money pour in. This did not happen. A sales guy we hired warned us that at big companies you usually start developing sales materials and approaches years before laun
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by whiterknight 2y ago
I assume if we talking about SIMD we are not talking about python, etc.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
The compiler can’t fix your data layout

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