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by xxxyy 12y ago
> While it usually performed better than the memory mapped files performance suffered as the content grew past the limitations imposed by physical memory . Physical memory is RAM memory. Their initial observation was: 1) If you need les
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by xxxyy 12y ago
What do you mean by "The kernel merges the partially written page". A pagefault traps the execution just before any CPU write succeeds, then the kernel optionally loads the page, maps it into process' space, flushes TLBs and
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Squid was faster? Varnish is an engineering masterpiece, do you have any data to prove this? I would be very glad to see it.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Anybody knows the reason behind August having 31 days? This is the source of the complexity of the days-in-a-month problem. All I can find is this legend, which could even be true. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home&#x2
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by xxxyy 12y ago
I'm not sure whether it was using write() over mmap() that boosted the performance. This part however looks very interesting: > Taking advantage of the fact that Varnish is a cache and letting it actually eliminate objects that are
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Oh, i see, because on my screen (1920 wide) it zooms pretty well.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
> Maybe 2001 just did a better job than Interstellar of drawing lines for the audience between "known science" and "alien technology so advanced it looks like magic." That is true, but it is not enough. A lot of Inter
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Can't you just Ctrl+ it?
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Is it related to compressed sensing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing Edit: I was thinking about the single-pixel camera: http://dsp.rice.edu/cscamera
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Legacy code I guess (from some really ancient times). Also tiny bugs like this make great content for blog posts, just like the 301+ views thing.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
I wouldn't maybe laugh, but can confirm.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Last year I had pending offers from a couple big SV companies, all of them at around $200k/year. Same goes for many of my friends (I have just graduated). Did not get any job due to H1B shortage. I will stay in Europe for now, as I am
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by xxxyy 12y ago
I absolutely have no idea what are you talking about. I believe that the article has just discussed and rejected all possible ways. Edit: unless you are talking about fake marriages and other ways to game the system. Which I believe smart p
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by xxxyy 12y ago
This. I could summarize the movie as follows: Science? Check. A guy that wasn't given fair chance, now saves the world? Check. Little girl experiences "ghosts", nobody believes, turns out true? Check. Two main characters fall
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Ping issues were especially bugging me. Take those pings from the relativistic planet. First it is believed that the person has been sending data for many years, yet only after landing do they recall relativistic effects, and that in fact t
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by xxxyy 12y ago
I believe it is possible to set the rules at the real physics level, take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example. But not if you are forced by Hollywood producers to put all the little pieces that follow inner feelings of the masses. This is w
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by xxxyy 12y ago
While we are at it, does anyone have a good explanation for the following fact: o before 1990, the US won every single ACM ICPC contest; o between 1990-2000 it won 4 times; o since 2000 it is Russia+China+Poland total domination. http:&#x2
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by xxxyy 12y ago
It is perhaps unfortunate, but it is possible that Poincare will be the biggest and final work of Perelman. He has shut down his professional connections, and it is rumored that he has simply burned out. I hope to be wrong. Either way he is
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by xxxyy 12y ago
For those interested there is a good Russian documentary on Perelman's life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng1W2KUHI2s
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Funny how much is Search localized these days: http://i.imgur.com/A1hTLPx.png I don't have any Obama-ralated link within the first 10 results.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
x86 does also have debugging registers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_debug_register They can be used from the Windows Kernel Debugger (WinDbg), although I'm not sure if/how Linux-based gdb uses them.
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NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality (2005)(scottaaronson.com)
7 points by xxxyy 12y ago|1 comments
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by xxxyy 12y ago
This essay by Scott Aaronson is an interesting study of various ways to solve NP complete problems in real physics: http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf
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by xxxyy 12y ago
That was my impression too. Real numbers are in fact very surreal [1][2]. Using higher and higher frequencies is somewhat equivalent to saying: first step will take us 1 second, second step will take us 0.5 seconds, and in less that 2 secon
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by xxxyy 12y ago
I'm not sure if Wikipedia is OK with that, considering the load it generates [1]. I am currently doing some research on Wikipedia, and for my purposes I use the official dumps site at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ [1]
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by xxxyy 12y ago
See, this is the kind of problem I have with feminism (and a few other things). It was just a feature of the language, exhibited heavily by most slavic languages (which have much richer grammars than English f. eg.) and thus impacting thoug
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Can you point to the specific edit you made that has been reverted by the bot? I can see [1] that your first edit to the article "Thermohaline circulation" was a one-word edit and was introducing a non-existent word 'shifting
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Well, knowing this is intended to be just funny I have to point out a few things: > All this from a country that was ordinary, believable, and dare I say it sometimes even sympathetic in previous seasons. Germany was drowned in serious e
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Pol... The 20 years between the wars were an amazing time in Poland. It was perhaps the best time in Polish history of mathematics, with remarkable