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by wscott 5y ago
A whole page of benchmark results without even listing which x86 he was testing??? This varies a lot from one generation to the next and between Intel & AMD. There are a ton of tradeoffs that have to be made in the microarchitecture and
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by wscott 5y ago
borg is a fork of attic. Different authors.
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by wscott 5y ago
https://permanent.org/ This is exactly what they claim to be solving. Now if you trust them is another question.
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by wscott 5y ago
Nice modest improvements. I could see using this in my previous life as a C programmer of a large project. I am a bit surprised that the defer features uses the 'auto' keyword rather than introducing a new 'defer' keywo
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by wscott 5y ago
I have a plex lifetime subscription and a TV tuner in the attic with an antenna that can see local TV stations. My server in the basement runs Plex and can connect to the tuner over ethernet. I told plex to record all Olympic events and to
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by wscott 5y ago
This is a key point. Windows is starting up the anti-virus program and scanning every tiny file as it is written. This is less about NTFS being slow and more about anti-virus being considered a required overhead on Windows.
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by wscott 5y ago
I just love the way Backblaze opens the curtains and shares what they learn internally. It make the company one I would consider for employment.
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When Graphs Are a Matter of Life and Death(newyorker.com)
2 points by wscott 5y ago|0 comments
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by wscott 5y ago
People also want control over the information collected from their farming equipment and sent to headquarters. The machines collect information about exactly how much of which crops are planted and then at the end of the year it knows exact
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by wscott 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ship... scroll down to #13 and read the names of the sister ships. The evergreen shipping line has 7 identical ships named "Ever XXX"
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by wscott 6y ago
I have winter tires for my Prius in Indiana. Makes a world of difference and I only use the snow tires for a month or two so they last a long time. The recommended tires on a Prius are these low-rolling resistance tires that are downright
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by wscott 6y ago
Unlimited just means "as much storage as you provide". This is p2p.
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by wscott 6y ago
Not working for me. Do they need more donations for servers?
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by wscott 6y ago
But speed of light in space is faster than the speed of light in fiber making it an overall win. And high-speed traders will pay a lot for a millsecond.
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by wscott 6y ago
"The government decided it should just be a loan instead."
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by wscott 6y ago
Yes. I consider it one of my worst bugs in the Linux kernel and in big servers you pretty much can't have any programs that call fsync() because it will cripple your performance. That paragraph caused a whiplash of emotions while readi
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by wscott 6y ago
Rust is funny because it is perfectly possible to build a single binary that links multiple versions of the same library. Happens when a transitive dependency is written assuming the older API of a library.
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by wscott 6y ago
even to the syscall level, like the MAP_JIT flag to mmap() https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/en... not optional and requires special app entitlements to enable. So you are not going to writ
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by wscott 6y ago
First off, what a level-headed friendly response from a developer who is clearly frustrated by Apple's bugs and policies. As someone who has had to support commercial software this is not easy to do consistently. Second, this has signi
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by wscott 6y ago
a FAQ from telegram's author from a couple days ago: https://t.me/durov/146
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by wscott 6y ago
related from telegram author: https://t.me/durovschat/515221 (most his stuff is posted in telegram) He is saying telegram clients are open-source AND verifiable so you can prove the app store is giving the pushed sourc
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by wscott 6y ago
Exactly. If you have the skill set to find exploits like described here or even more complicated ones, would that payout tempt you do this fulltime? If you live in the US then I would say no. It ends up being much lower pay than you could
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by wscott 6y ago
My hp48 calculator had unit conversions built-in. You could add units to any number and then conversions are done automatically when you do math: (1_ft + 1_in) / 20_s + 5_mi/h if the units don't match then the operation was a
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by wscott 6y ago
I typically use google for most unit conversions. How much concrete do I need for my driveway? I type this at the top of Chrome: 1/4 mile * 8ft * 4in in yd^3
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by wscott 6y ago
I use gphotos-sync: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync Run nightly
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by wscott 6y ago
A new one I have seen recently: "BB&B has fixed the worst thing about coupons"
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Impersonating a Property Owner to Paint Cookie Monster(news.artnet.com)
1 points by wscott 6y ago|0 comments
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by wscott 6y ago
Back when I used to work for BitKeeper, having support problems ultimately be traced back to bad memory (or disk, or nfs, ...) was a common occurrence. BK would checksum everything it writes to disk and verify those checksums when it read
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by wscott 6y ago
Part of the problem with git is that too much of the metadata around a repository (config, heads, remotes, branches, tracking etc) is stored in separate little files somewhere in '.git' This critical state of the repository shoul
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by wscott 6y ago
This matching one of the original claims in the "How to Lie with Statistics" book (1954). Storks like roosting on chimney pots and larger houses have more chimneys and more children.

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