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by cgabios 11y ago
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=effusive&case_...
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by cgabios 11y ago
Yup. Memory sticks are the new tape (in the volatile storage hierarchy). Definitely potential for (re-)proliferation of NUMA optimizations. The questions are whether G/CPUs have: - multiple or single SKUs for on-package RAM capacitie
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by cgabios 11y ago
TED, I think, serves as a modern version of high-brow oration as the middle letter suggests: Entertainment. It's a double-ended marketplace platform of content providers (speakers) and content consumers (paid attendees and non-paid vi
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by cgabios 11y ago
Voltaire would be proud [0], the dude cracked their non-CSPRNG fair and square. 0: http://www.damninteresting.com/the-enlightenment-guide-to-wi...
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by cgabios 11y ago
Turbo/Borland Pascal used a NUL-optional string format of length (byte IIRC) followed by data. [0] Java IIRC also uses a length-oriented format for string constants in .class files. [1] It's been a while since I wrote a .java to
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by cgabios 11y ago
Low-level code often omits high-level intended behavior (description, pseduocode, documentation, test cases, etc.) and semantic meaning like variable names. In such styled codebases, the absence of these makes it harder to refactor, reuse
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by cgabios 11y ago
Great article. As an aside: Michelin Red guides are like Yelp, but Francophile-centric, uses dedicated reviewers instead of crowdsourcing and without the extortion. The issue with Michelin is that places outside France aren't rated ve
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by cgabios 11y ago
Try this at home (and only at home), on a signal generator: EAS combined tone (TV) 853 Hz sine-wave + 960 Hz sine-wave ("+" means simply combine both waves together, neither modulation nor any other fancy convolutions) EAS single
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Companies keep getting fined for playing fake emergency alert tones(theverge.com)
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by cgabios 11y ago
Stanford has its own cogen steam and chilled water (underground "ice cube") capabilities, in addition to power generation. Many such campuses use the industrial central plant model because it's cheaper and more efficient at
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by cgabios 11y ago
People with the least power tend to desire assertion of control of minutia and others (probably a sizable portion of LEOs). By contrast, people with more power delegate and are fine to live with the decision of others because it doesn&#x27
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by cgabios 11y ago
0. Spread time in coffee shops in tech areas, go to conferences snd events 1. Talk to people, be nice, sincere, helpful and polite. Give and get contact info (cards or details). (But don't let them milk you for too many freebies, at
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by cgabios 11y ago
It's one thing to demonstrate a PoC live on life/safety critical systems, it's another to brag about sources & methods on social media, leave your machine powered-on and blab contents to anyone and everyone whom can be c
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by cgabios 11y ago
Alternatively, if someone prefers privacy: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=MVP
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by cgabios 11y ago
Working with clients that are savvy enough to do milestone based-work rather than hourly work is another filter that hasn't failed me yet.
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by cgabios 11y ago
It sounds like it's far too early and you would blow your chances with investors, and probably even angels. If you could manage to take on experienced business co-founder, that might signal some validation that the venture might have
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by cgabios 11y ago
Seems to be partly up, hurray! (maybe) Update: "We've finished emergency maintenance and are monitoring closely".
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by cgabios 11y ago
Hopefully the responding on-call engineers aren't tired folks but folks in other timezones. The reason that the risk of compounding the situation is lessened, because trying to fix important shit when tired is like driving without a s
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by cgabios 11y ago
ioreg -l -n AppleSmartBattery -r | awk '/MaxCapacity/{mc=$3};/DesignCapacity/{dc=$3};END{print 100*mc/dc}'