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by wscott 11y ago
Yes Nix, but Nix that uses IPFS ( https://ipfs.io ) as a distribution medium for packages. This was a package will stay published as long as someone is using it.
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by wscott 11y ago
The comments here have a number of various negative stereotypes of the Amish. These are probably all based on factual events, but I doubt they are as negative as we perceive. Do a thought exercise and reverse roles. Imagine you live in a h
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by wscott 11y ago
The point to understand here is that Go uses lightweight concurrency and has a layer of indirection between goroutines and hardware threads. Goroutines allocate a tiny stack and Go uses a software scheduler to jump between routines. Then t
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by wscott 11y ago
I found the branch prediction claim to be a bit weak without perfmon data to support it. The references point out that the Intel 'popcnt %r1, %r2' instruction has a false input dependency on the output variable and neither gcc nor
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by wscott 11y ago
I use sshuttle ( https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle ). It is super flexible and works as a poor man's VPN. It also has much better performance when used over a flaky connection because it doesn't do TCP-over-
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by wscott 11y ago
Was considering an embedded project in the near future, so this may be helpful. In my initial search it was looking like Guix ( http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ ) would be very useful.
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Project Fi supports LTE tablets, including iPad(productforums.google.com)
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by wscott 11y ago
Oh no, the unregulated spectrum is unregulated. Not sure which side I am on. I don't like Verizon, but I don't really support heavy regulation.
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by wscott 11y ago
Encryptr is interesting and looks very nice. Includes source: https://github.com/devgeeks/Encryptr But it doesn't appear to have anything like Lasspass's autofill on android that supports the fingerprint read
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by wscott 11y ago
Lastpass premium customer here. It was $12/yr. (that will probably change after the 2yr/$15M target is over) Right now lastpass encrypts in the browser and the company only saves a binary blob that they can't access. So your
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by wscott 11y ago
Or Nix https://nixos.org/ where every package is stored by a hash of its build environment. So every version can coexist.
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by wscott 11y ago
The complaints about git-lfs make me think we need to tell people about BAM for BitKeeper. http://www.bitkeeper.com/features_binary_asset_management_ba... BAM works with a similar idea, instead of saving large files in the
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by wscott 11y ago
I think the presentation mentioned that the keyboard is extended by another row of keys on-screen. Not great, but that is how they intended to fix that.
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The "Tufte" of maps.
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by wscott 11y ago
Yes, see the "What is bcache?" section here: http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/ He compares it to L2ARC... same but with writeback. (ie writes can be considered finished when they are recorded by the SSD. Faster bu
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by wscott 11y ago
He doesn't really mention how this relates to the current bcache code. That one is brilliant. I run a 4 drive raid with slow spinning 2TB drives and a 100G SSD drive as a writeback cache top. It detects strides so reading and writing l
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by wscott 11y ago
Look here: http://www.mersenne.org/various/math.php at the Lucas-Lehmer test which uses floating point FFT's to square large numbers. I am not sure if that is what is was doing originally, but I suspect it was. W
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Of course, and you only store odd numbers, and you can do all the smaller factors in a single pass. Nicely had already done some of these tweaks and I tried some others, but it didn't change the overall problem: In the steady state you
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by wscott 11y ago
Ah yes, Dr Nicely caused quite a bit of excitement at Intel. I was on the p6 architecture team at the time. (p6 == Pentium Pro) Our FPU was formally verified and didn't have the same bug. To be nice to Dr Nicely we sent him a pre-relea