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by fis 3y ago
zstd had a data corruption bug until quite recently. Eventually it may supplant gzip as the de facto standard, but it's too soon to declare it better in every objective way. Give it time. https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by fis 5y ago
Cleaning and organizing the house. Decluttering, identifying the right place for all our stuff, keeping it here. Scrubbing, wiping surfaces. Washing, folding, putting away laundry. Sweeping and vacuuming floors. Cleaning and organizing the
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by fis 5y ago
The article poses the question but doesn't try to answer it. There are some plausible sounding answers here in the comments. Mostly that it is cheaper to do it that way. But wouldn't that be true elsewhere too?
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by fis 5y ago
How is it possible for the tax liability to exceed the profit? The article mentions wash sales, but it doesn't explain what sequence of such trades can cause this situation.
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by fis 6y ago
The parent mentioned "This data is being collected anyway via endpoint technologies like Samsung's Automated Content Recognition (ACR)". If that's true then the encryption isn't really helping.
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by fis 6y ago
Yes this is how I use it and I love it. I think some IDEs havee similar capability but for vim users cscope is an great way to understand large code bases by quickly jumping through callchains. There's a 'Using Cscope with Vim&#x
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by fis 6y ago
I like this one http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/
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by fis 6y ago
This article isn't about Amdahl's law, it's about queueing theory. Little's law would be more applicable.
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by fis 6y ago
The name is a little close to this existing LevelDB fork, maybe consider a different name? https://github.com/utsaslab/pebblesdb
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by fis 6y ago
Link to the book itself seems to be missing.
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by fis 7y ago
As I recall the solution then was "buy Spinnaker". :) . Join us at HPE storage, we'll do it right this time!
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by fis 8y ago
I also did not follow what is special about 2^n/phi. I found this more concise justification: http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=431065 "Knuth's finding was that the dispersion of indexes fo
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by fis 11y ago
Godforsaken Sea - Lundy
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by fis 13y ago
ITT people who don't think those tools are obscure