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by wscott 9y ago
It can work that way and is described right below the xkcd comic. He does it with a separate process running on the local machine and the javascript uses a localhost connection to talk with it.
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by wscott 10y ago
Absolutely. Much easier to shop at Amazon than before. They still have a long way to go to compete with Walmart in this area. Just pointing out the target audience for this change.
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by wscott 10y ago
This is another round of the "Amazon vs Walmart" war. People without banks or credit cards currently shop at Walmart. Now it is much easier for them to shop at Amazon.
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Rust Belt Rust Conference Oct 26-27 in Columbus, OH(rust-belt-rust.com)
5 points by wscott 10y ago|0 comments
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by wscott 10y ago
Have you read this one yet? http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/too-many-lists/book/ It touches on the issues you are implying.
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by wscott 10y ago
Go read the other comments. This is not an insulator. It will take a source of heat and start radiating that heat at a certain frequency where our atmosphere happens to be transparent. And because our atmosphere is transparent, there isn&#
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by wscott 10y ago
Glad to see the correct answer at the top here. The "fireball" section of the P4 did run at double the frequency as the rest of the processor. So internally that was considered the processor frequency. One of my first contribution
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by wscott 10y ago
Regretfully steam does _not_ use p2p downloads. People running lan parties would be so much happier if steam would just do a lan broadcast to look for local copies of a game before downloading. (a very limited form of p2p) They already ha
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by wscott 10y ago
You are doing a pretty huge service to the IPFS project just by trying to use it at this scale. I would love a blog post giving your experiences using it. One of my main complaints about IPFS is that it is very hard to have visibility into
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Optimal Retirement Planner: schedule retirement savings and then withdrawal(i-orp.com)
1 points by wscott 10y ago|0 comments
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by wscott 10y ago
The X1 has soldered on memory. And non-user-serviceable batteries and hard drives. (My 1st gen X1 carbon used a very non-standard hard drive.) The T460 has hot-swapable batteries, real memory slots, and standard SATA disks. (but I wish is w
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by wscott 10y ago
Heh. That article ends with "My online marketing course is launching soon. Buy now and get the early bird discount ($155 saving)" Like hell it is. He is doing the classic testing of demand. No class exists, but if enough people si
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by wscott 10y ago
Freakonomics did a nice podcast on this topic: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/i-pencil/ The idea is that no one alive has all the skills to make something as simple as a pencil from scratch. This is a result of
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by wscott 10y ago
>And this is intended to generate a significant amount of revenue You gotta appreciate the honesty. It is so unusual that we still look at this trying to see the angles.
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by wscott 10y ago
If you can't get this up to $4000 by enabling all the options then HP is doing it wrong.
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by wscott 10y ago
If you have 6 displays on your desk, why does it matter that your computer is tiny? Maybe this is a nice portable gaming box...
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by wscott 10y ago
A very nice video that explains the various voting paradoxes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJag3vuG834 Yeah ranked voting has issues, but it is still way better than the spoiler effect.
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by wscott 10y ago
GCC and, I would assume, Clang both support -fprofile-generate and -fprofile-use. But these are based on a trace of actual execution, not a function use profile like implied by the article. But the article may be after a ELI5 filter.
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by wscott 10y ago
dxomark has published their iphone 7 review, but the 7 plus camera review is still pending. Still very looks like a very impressive camera. The biggest drawback I see from phone cameras now is shutter lag and just how long it takes to get t
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Counting Newlines Really Fast(llogiq.github.io)
1 points by wscott 10y ago|0 comments
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by wscott 10y ago
Since he doesn't summarize the test above, let me. The jpeg.io result is bigger than the other two and noticeably worse quality. The problems were with the sharp lines. Perhaps jpeg.io specializes in photo-realistic pictures rather tha
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by wscott 10y ago
There is no reason binaries have to be downloaded completely. They can be patched. And we can use rabin fingerprinting for deduplicating to not send duplicate blocks for each binary. Also, don't forget Chrome's approach of patch
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by wscott 10y ago
Very interesting, but I suspect like many of these it works best if you are only competing with only connections using the same approach. Which is probably why Google is talking about using this inside their backbone. This estimates the que
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by wscott 10y ago
That patreon page has a MUCH better description of the project and its goals.
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by wscott 10y ago
This is the first I have heard of bcachefs, and I have used bcache on one of my servers for years. https://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/Bcachefs/ Looks cool, but it would be nice if there was a vision-like top-level descri
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by wscott 10y ago
I don't really know the numbers, but perhaps the majority of the customers for your ISP are not like you but have the entry level plan. And perhaps the majority of their p2p bandwidth comes from that large contingent of entry level us
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by wscott 10y ago
Great series of articles and the lessons are very important to someone writing performance system's programs. Here is another chart I like you show people: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4893/mem_lat3.jpg
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by wscott 10y ago
American ISPs could do this, it would just be marketed differently. Just remove all speed restrictions to traffic within their own network. If only traffic leaving your network is a problem for scaling, then don't restrict internal tra
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by wscott 10y ago
It is _very_ useful when hand optimizing loops in assembly. But for the compiler, the newer processors have such incredible branch predictors it is usually a bad idea for the compiler assume a branch is poorly predicted. Now if you are usin
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by wscott 10y ago
I fully understand your concerns, which it why I try to post about bk periodically. Go look at bitkeeper.org, we are now fully open source and published under a plain Apache 2.0 license. No additional license or restrictions. So we can be

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