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by cbetz 3y ago
Yeah, check out the audiobook, it is great and was worth the wait. I have the physical book but it has so many pages and is so heavy that it is hard to hold and read, especially lying down. It probably should be sold in a box set.
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by cbetz 9y ago
I had the same thought and am wondering about the economic reality of doing this. Does anyone have an idea of the cost increase for using ECC RAM in a mobile device for instance? Are there also power usage concerns to worry about? AFAIK the
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by cbetz 9y ago
This. I've been trying to put together a small home lab xeon e3 system that can theoretically support nvme+gpu+infiniband. It's tough. Typically you get something like 3 full length PCIe slotson a xeon e3 board (c236 chipset). BUT
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by cbetz 9y ago
Reverse engineering efforts have only stalled for ARM SoCs using PowerVR GPUs from Imagination Technologies. However for Qualcomm Adreno and Vivante GPUs, the freedreno and etnaviv projects are steadily and quietly moving forward; both have
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by cbetz 11y ago
I find that the only reasonable complaint that can be made about Lua is the from-1 indexing. Like: "I found this really awesome language and it's ONLY wart is that it doesn't index arrays like every other programming language
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by cbetz 11y ago
I would not be surprised if designing a GPU requires more lawyers than engineers. I also cannot conceive of many industries where the barriers to entry are higher.
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by cbetz 11y ago
It isn't linked to in the article, but if you're interested in this please do check out luvit by tim caswell ( https://luvit.io/ ). It's a very impressive system. At a very high level luvit looks like node.js f
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by cbetz 11y ago
Thank You. Paul Graham says: 'Louis Brandeis said "We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." That sounds plausible. But if I have to choose between ignoring
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by cbetz 11y ago
How can you make the claim "It doesn't work". By what metrics? Both Linus and Bill Gates were extremely successful. Are you claiming they could be more successful with a softer style? I have another conundrum. Assume both t
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Malicious LuaJIT bytecode(corsix.org)
5 points by cbetz 11y ago|2 comments
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by cbetz 11y ago
You're right. The biggest news for operating systems is the fact that the hardware virtualization features on modern processors allow breaking free from the old model. A modern intel/amd processor lets you virtualize the CPU, MMU,
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by cbetz 11y ago
economic incentives typically lead firms to look for new sources of revenue. they hope to achieve this extra revenue with minimal cost, ideally by not creating new products or developing new customer relationships. the natural side-effect o
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by cbetz 11y ago
Everything works but the webcam. Unfortunately I had to do some unsavory things like disabling NCQ and write barriers to prevent errors and extreme slowness with disk operations. This was a couple months ago so maybe the issues have since b
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by cbetz 11y ago
Small correction: There is a pure Go implementation of nanomsg ( https://github.com/gdamore/mangos ).
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by cbetz 12y ago
I donated too. If you're sitting on the side lines: remember that that the Software Freedom Conservancy is a non-profit while VMware is multi-billion dollar corporate entity with very deep pockets and high-priced lawyers.
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Fire in the (root) hole(bloggingthemonkey.blogspot.com)
6 points by cbetz 12y ago|0 comments
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by cbetz 15y ago
opposing barrels fired simultaneously might work, though it would be a bit wasteful.
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by cbetz 15y ago
The biggest part of the problem is that companies (and founders) are forbidden from speaking up after licensing deals are made. Perhaps you could post anonymously, but you'd still be violating the NDA in spirit and you'd be punished if disc
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by cbetz 15y ago
I can't tell if this is an apology or a non-apology. It seems to have elements of both. Clearly the moral of the story is: "Don't claim that X sucks unless you are are damn sure". Saying something sucks is fightin' words. Don't expect to
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by cbetz 15y ago
this is actually very exciting. I decided to explore the site a little and found this quote: "most ambitious storage project undertaken since ZFS" ( http://www.acunu.com/2011/03/why-is-acunu-in-kernel/ ) it looks like they put a key/value s
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by cbetz 15y ago
within N years you'll be able to pick an android phone out of the trash. I suspect N < 5. That makes projects like this really awesome.
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by cbetz 16y ago
My opinion is that many people hate autotools because they don't understand them. It was designed to handle just about any crazy build scenario you can throw at it -- of course it going to be a little complex. I started by spending a few ho
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by cbetz 16y ago
via the google: http://useconomy.about.com/od/fiscalpolicy/p/Mandatory.htm "These programs include Food Stamps, Unemployment Compensation, Child Nutrition and Tax Credits, Supplemental Security for the Disabled and Student Loans."
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Introduction to Comet Session Protocol(cometdaily.com)
1 points by cbetz 16y ago|0 comments
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by cbetz 17y ago
I just saw the link posted by joezydeco (above). It has good links to information on this particular avenue of optimization, particularly: http://elinux.org/Suspend_To_Disk_For_ARM
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by cbetz 17y ago
Would something like uswsusp/tuxonice (software suspend to RAM or disk) be capable of assisting in quick boot times? Step 1: Build fully functioning embedded system and boot it. Step 2: Suspend it in the state you want it be in on boot Step
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by cbetz 17y ago
I find the choice of characters and the paragraph descriptions of them a little strange. I get the point that it helps the story to make up a whole life story for each member of the hypothetical development team. What I don't understand is
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by cbetz 17y ago
Please correct me if I am wrong, but shouldn't developers only worry about the issues mentioned in the article on older browsers? (I'm thinking IE6 and earlier). Introducing a leak via circular references would be considered a bug in most m
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by cbetz 17y ago
If this is really true, I will consider ebaying my droid, coughing up the $150 cancellation fee and saying goodbye to Verizon forever. The U.S. badly needs an open (i.e. European-style) cell phone market. Google has (hopefully) realized thi
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by cbetz 17y ago
In my opinion, he should apologize immediately or else resign. Unfortunately the cat already seems to be out of the bag to some extent. I really hope Sergey and Larry do not have the same disdain for privacy that Mr. Schmidt has exhibited.

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