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by zurn 11y ago
Those engineers won the lottery. The prize was many people switching to a marginally nicer chat app. If you're looking to make the world a better place, choosing engineering based on this result isn't really an obvious choice.
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by zurn 11y ago
Interpreting this behavior from couple of decades ago through "principle of charity", could the thinking have been that efforts spend on keeping up with the fast learners would have lower payoff (by whatever measure) than helping
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by zurn 11y ago
I'm not sure we are on the same page. I attempted to explain how the functionality in question is not related to kernel architecture differences, and that Windows is unable to implement the function reliably.
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by zurn 11y ago
Thanks. I didn't see explanations of the graphics driver restart in those MSDN links, but I found one here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff... And third party articles:
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by zurn 11y ago
No Windows hate intended, I called all of them mongrels. So is there a the mechanism in OS X and/or Windows that prevents a graphics card hardware or driver from corrupting OS state and enables robust reset of card and driver? Or if it
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by zurn 11y ago
So are the cases of "hybrid" kernels a victory for microkernel side of the debate, or the monolithic side? Neither iOS/OS X or NT manage to get the robustness, security or compartmentalization advantages of microkernels. I gu
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by zurn 11y ago
Microkernels are now competing with hypervisors, for the honor of providing added security and robustness boundaries to hedge against large attack surfaces in monolithic kernels. Hypervisors enable incremental change in this direction. Hist
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by zurn 11y ago
Apple? Nexus has so far been the one Anroid brand that people considering future updates were buying.
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by zurn 11y ago
Yep. Notice how this phrasing does not say the listed models are currently being updated, just says how support length is calculated. Nexus 7 (2012) Stagerfright update is just missing without specific un-announcement, but it fits the sche
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by zurn 11y ago
That's the beauty of having your own floating currency though. Independent of what the problem is, your trade balance evens out automatically. If a country's forestry exports tank, imports will become more expensive and exports wi
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by zurn 11y ago
The useful life is limited by duration of security updates, if you care about such things. Google are strictly following their recently announced 18 month/3 year rule. Eg no Stagefright update to 5.1.1 for the Nexus 7 v1 even though it
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by zurn 11y ago
Though Guy Steele's idea sounds contentious, that OO encourages "data-first" because code is encapsulated: "Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around." This is especi
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by zurn 11y ago
Nit: Patents are state-backed monopoly rights, patent supporters argue that free market would result in too much competition.
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by zurn 11y ago
The commit also says "This particularly shows up when slow_start_after_idle is disabled as a dangerous cwnd inflation (1.5 x RTT) after few seconds of idle time." And the slow_start_after_idle sysctl is enabled by default. The bug
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by zurn 11y ago
I don't see any percentage-wise memory savings in the article or here in comments. How big a difference does a couple of MB per document make?
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by zurn 11y ago
Just curious, why do you prefer a backpack to a pannier (or backpack-inside-pannier)?
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by zurn 11y ago
Publishing source code doesn't preclude making money off it. There are many natural experiments in this category, where source code of proprietary products was leaked with little ill effects. It's happened eg to Windows, many game
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by zurn 11y ago
Linux has been built with small modifications under tcc, icc and llvm. Linus doesn't want it to be tightly coupled to GCC. The LLVM build patchset is being actively maintained, here hare slides from February: https://events.
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by zurn 11y ago
Listening to what the Docker people write about security, they sure do sound like they are designed to be secure, even though they admit to a couple of potential shortcomings versus VMs. https://blog.docker.com/2013/08&
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by zurn 11y ago
Nuclear can do load following pretty well (as does coal) as long as there plant supports it - reasonably recent ones are required to by regulations. It is used in that mode commonly eg in France and Germany. The economics are another thing
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by zurn 11y ago
But you could easily build the plant on naturally or artificially higher ground.
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by zurn 11y ago
Europe didn't have that many native peoples to displace. Colonialism rather dented the record for the countries that got into it though. And many that didn't got conquered. So kind of a survivor bias.
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by zurn 11y ago
It was a good decision for about 10 years, maybe longer for arm due to power considerations. After that transistor budgets started to allow low cost brute force decoding of x86.
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by zurn 11y ago
There are many high profile companies down (airbnb, IMDb, tinder, ...) so apparently this is not so straightforward.
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by zurn 11y ago
Perfect on Nexus 7 (2012) + Opera
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by zurn 11y ago
Cheap power by day, expensive by night can shift a lot of demand to daytime. Like water/building heating, cooling, battery charging, etc.
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by zurn 11y ago
SFTP is closer to NFS than FTP.
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by zurn 11y ago
There's a lot of work besides performance to get right in a transport protocol though. Just getting the retransmission working like you want is a small part of the job. WebRTC went for UDP-encapsulated SCTP in order to get a transport
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by zurn 11y ago
Yep, and that's different from the hopelessly choppy last mile. The question here is if there's a big difference between a good (not naive) implementation over TCP vs various DIY UDP schemes, and whether that difference justifies
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by zurn 11y ago
Sure there are people with rotten last mile conditions, but healthy networks are the normal case. You get subpar download speeds with http and choppy skype/facetime/ssh if your network drops packets frequently. It's bad for b

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