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by eeks 2mo ago
It reminds me of that Frank MacSherry paper[1]... [1] "Scalability! But at what COST?"
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by eeks 5mo ago
Ender's game.
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by eeks 6mo ago
Good thing I stockpiled on Planck boards. All good things have an end I guess.
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by eeks 1y ago
I have the exact same experience with an EX30. Their entire line of full EVs is a disaster. I will never buy a Volvo again.
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by eeks 3y ago
I find rongorongo a lot easier to read [1]. I wish kindle would support that layout mode, I could easily double my reading speed. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo
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by eeks 4y ago
I had a similar experience with HardCaml back in 2015/2016. The benefits where overwhelming: higher productivity, higher reusability, less intractable bugs, tighter TTM, and no more slippage in deliverables timeline. The performance wh
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by eeks 6y ago
I believe he means that by better understanding the tools, one better understands the trade.
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by eeks 6y ago
Some references to the mentioned works, missing from the OP: DB2 BLU: https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-ipandi... Wildfire "v0", the "failed" HTAP project: https:/&#x2
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by eeks 6y ago
@saurabhsharan Signed up; my account page is blank and I am not getting any result. I am not getting any way to unlink my accounts or check what is being done with my information. Seems a little fishy so far.
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by eeks 8y ago
Either your promotion is made of geniuses or as @sk5t said your GPA is indeed meaningless.
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by eeks 8y ago
Wikileaks believed at the time that Clinton was ready to send a drone to get rid of Assange. Between due process and a drone attack, I take due process any day.
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by eeks 8y ago
You may be right about the DE -> Fellow promotion, although I only heard of it once, and that person was pretty spectacular. The Fellow -> DE path is unheard of. As is the RSM -> DE. All the DEs I know came from SWG and were STSM.
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by eeks 8y ago
The IBM ranks are inaccurate. Fellows are not above DEs. Both are the highest ranks indeed, but of two different tracks. DE is the highest rank of the engineering track, while Fellow is the highest rank of the research track. Fellowship hav
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by eeks 8y ago
Yes they are.
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by eeks 8y ago
I was in undergrad and grad school in Grenoble where I had F. Maraninchi and P. Caspi as teachers for the synchronous programming and VLSI classes (embedded system track). We did a lot of Lustre. It's a pretty great way to get acquaint
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by eeks 8y ago
The ordinance of Villers-Coterets[1] was limited to legal documents, whereas the efforts led during the Terror were aimed at eradicating local languages[2], seen as so many shackles keeping the peasants from being enlightened. [1] https:&#
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by eeks 8y ago
It certainly is not "the French". It's the "French Republic". Local dialects lived happily in France for over a Millennia under the Monarchy. The French dialect, mostly spoken in the Jacobin circles in Paris, was im
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by eeks 8y ago
Niklaus Wirth is one of those unsung geniuses of computer science. He invented Pascal, the Modulas, Oberon ... Then he woke up one morning wanting to reboot his life's work for his class and, undeterred by the fact the original targete
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by eeks 8y ago
> I think using TCP, but I don't recall for sure It was UDP. > Which is to say, you're saying "detrimental impact on performance" and yet this seems to be a significant win over BSD sockets. The point I was trying
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by eeks 8y ago
> I doubt they would have explicitly put TCP if it was not true I am not doubting they have some sort of user-space TCP implementation. I am trying to understand how much of TCP they moved out of the kernel. From what I can gather they s
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by eeks 8y ago
Re: your clipboard issues, which platform are you running on? I am using vim+iTerm2 on OSX and vim+st on OpenBSD and the clipboard integration works flawlessly.
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by eeks 8y ago
You should probably substantiate such a bold claim with a few comparative examples. I have yet to encounter a situation where vim doesn't "just work".
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by eeks 8y ago
If you are referring to "Advances in Networking, part 1" [0], the material used is a little thin to draw any conclusion regarding their user-space TCP/IP design. [0] https://devstreaming-cdn.apple.com/videos&#
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by eeks 8y ago
This implementation looks a lot like HW TCP offload engines where the kernel handles session creation and termination and the HW takes care of most of the state machine. Apple then must have found some way to hide the handling of ancillary
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by eeks 8y ago
It's only for datagrams, apparently.
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by eeks 8y ago
It is limited to UDP for the moment (at least AFAICT). I would be very surprised if they ever offer user-space TCP. It's a much different beast than UDP to handle right in user-space. Also, the 30% less overhead is underwhelming. I wou
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by eeks 8y ago
I will certainly gets dozens of downvotes for obvious fanboyism, but I'm prepared to take the heat. For the doubters and the disbelievers that have been wondering what is the relevance of IBM in this day an age: this. This is what IBM
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by eeks 8y ago
That could not be more true. Mai 68 is now considered in some thought circles to be the first “color revolution”. The main figureheads come from French upper middleclass bourgeoisie (Cohn-bendit, Sauvageot, Geismar, Goupil) and derailed leg
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by eeks 8y ago
Like many others said it highly depends on where you work and for whom you work. Speaking from experience in NYC greater area, you can expect starting slighlty above $100K as a junior, which is really not much for the location. Seniors ofte
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by eeks 8y ago
Simple. Distributing MIT-licensed code without the original license disclosure is theft.

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