zhemao

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by zhemao 13y ago
Oh, I wasn't saying that. I was saying why vi key bindings and not the default emacs key bindings? I think they are a bit more intuitive for someone who hasn't used vim before.
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by zhemao 13y ago
I'm sorry, he says "I'm a casual user, not a power user" and your first instinct is to suggest that he use vi keybindings in bash?
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by zhemao 13y ago
The real reason is almost always "We didn't feel like it. So =P"
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by zhemao 13y ago
I mean, they could add a form on their website that uses OAuth to add the webhook to your repository for you, but what would that accomplish? It'd probably still involve the same amount of clicking. What exactly do you find annoying ab
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by zhemao 13y ago
He could also have used /dev/urandom to generate his random bits instead of running a python script.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Oh, it's a bunch of Gene Sharp books. I've heard about "Dictatorship to Democracy" before. I suppose now is a good time to actually start reading it. I wonder how applicable his advice would be for "Democracy to Bet
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by zhemao 13y ago
What part of the article suggests that Roberts is an obstacle to reform? The article only states that in its current formulation, FISC does not have a lot of accountability because the judges are all chosen by Roberts with no input from any
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by zhemao 13y ago
And plus, you know the NSA is looking at your mail anyway, so what further harm could a bunch of MIT grad students do?
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by zhemao 13y ago
It's not above life expectancy for Japan, though. Avg. life expectancy of Japan is 83. The second part of your argument is still valid, though.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Probably because npm is installing the executable to a directory that's not on your PATH. Check to see if /usr/local/bin is in your PATH variable.
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by zhemao 13y ago
How do you know the man is Indian? The clothing style is more suggestive of him being Hispanic or African-American.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Ugh, I knew I shouldn't have looked at these comments. You guys totally spoiled the surprise. =P
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by zhemao 13y ago
The author's use case is clearly very different from yours. He is talking about CPU-bound processes which need to share a large amount of memory with each other. In this case, multiprocessing and message passing is not really the best
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by zhemao 13y ago
The reason why Python gets the blame is that in languages without a GIL, you can choose to use threads instead of processes in order to get better performance. Python's GIL more or less restricts you to using processes for CPU-bound co
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by zhemao 13y ago
I should mention that I'm a computer engineering major and not a EE major, so I haven't taken some of the more advanced physics classes like solid state physics or electromagnetics. Are there any resources you would recommend for
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by zhemao 13y ago
Well, the 16-core version is. The 64-core version (which is what they did the benchmarking on) is significantly more expensive.
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by zhemao 13y ago
I should probably clarify. What I meant to say is that they don't really teach high-frequency analog design in school. We covered the theoretical aspects, like impedance matching and reflection, but there's a long way between know
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by zhemao 13y ago
How do you know they don't have this problem? In India and China, literacy rates are lower than in the US, and a much smaller percentage graduate secondary school (or even go to secondary school). The kids who can't sit still or s
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by zhemao 13y ago
It seems like apprenticeship is really the only way to learn this. They don't even teach this stuff in undergrad EE programs.
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by zhemao 13y ago
I think he was asking about the 16-core co-processor, not the FPGA.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Should be possible. Just attach some RCA jacks to the GPIO pins and use the FPGA to do some pre-processing before sending it to the CPU. Not sure what the performance would be like, though.
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by zhemao 13y ago
Speed is not the only factor, there's also power consumption and cost. I would hazard a guess that the epiphany co-processor is a lot less power-hungry than a high-end i7.
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by zhemao 13y ago
That's freaking hilarious. I remember when the Wikileaks cables broke, and the feds sent a letter to my university's public policy school saying that the MPA students should avoid reading the news if they wanted to have any chance
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by zhemao 13y ago
Communication via high-frequency sound? That seems more like a graduate thesis than a million dollar startup idea. What exactly is the point? I mean, it's cool and all, but how is it any better than the RF communications we have alread
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by zhemao 13y ago
I mean, how important is the domain to you? If you want to push back against Instagram's legal department, you'd need to get your own lawyer, and that's probably going to cost you. If you don't think its worth the cost,
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by zhemao 13y ago
I'm not so sure about the "effective private certification program." How exactly would a private certification board avoid the same conflicts of interest that plague the FDA?
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by zhemao 13y ago
Yeah, but not everyone is having a warrant served against them. It's obviously ridiculous, just like charging his mother with obstruction is, but you kind of have to marvel at the prosecutor's deviousness in charging him for somet
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by zhemao 13y ago
I think OP was asking what the performance of gevent server running behind nginx was compared to uwsgi or gunicorn running behind nginx.
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by zhemao 13y ago
I think the "obstruction" was taking his laptop to his mother's house. The warrant covered confiscation of his personal devices, so removing the laptop from the house would be an obstruction if he was doing it deliberately, w
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by zhemao 13y ago
I don't think shorter terms would work. Obama backpedaling on all his initial campaign promises didn't prevent him from getting re-elected. Representatives in the House only have 2 year terms but the highest incumbency rates. I th

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