hadagribble

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by hadagribble 10y ago
> "... family pressure to euthanize is a major practical concern..." Agreed, and this is one of my major reservations about euthanasia. I still think it is overall for the best, but this aspect absolutely needs monitoring. I ca
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by hadagribble 10y ago
For what its worth, I think we're approaching this question from opposite ends of the spectrum. Rather than asking when it is permissible to kill, I look at it as "when is overriding free will (on victimless actions) for societal
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by hadagribble 10y ago
Thanks for that explanation. I can't speak for the OP (or anyone else), but my take on the difference between them is that euthanasia is suicide, but only once all other options have been exhausted. I don't see "simple suicid
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by hadagribble 11y ago
I haven't gotten around to trying it myself yet, but OpenFastpath+OpenDataplane supposedly has a userspace port of the FreeBSD stack that runs on DPDK through ODP-DPDK. http://www.openfastpath.org/ http://ww
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by hadagribble 11y ago
(One of the authors here) This is by far my favourite post in this entire thread -- I don't think I've ever seen Seymour Cray referenced as an authority in this manner before :) Not specifically to OP, but for everyone unhappy abo
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by hadagribble 11y ago
(Disclosure: one of the authors here) I don't think CAT can be used to partition kernel and userspace -- I'm not even sure how you'd go about doing that given that you can (and do) have shared pages between them. That being s
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by hadagribble 11y ago
Not sure exactly what OP is referring to, but CSS-trees [1] are a classic example of cache-aware indexing structures that fetch entire pages into cache and arrange data so that most of the comparisons happen on cached data. In most cases, t
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by hadagribble 11y ago
Yes. Even the persistent memories that attach to the memory bus are currently quite a bit slower than DRAM (5-7x from estimates I've seen), while the difference with PCIe-attached ones is even more. I'm not sure what the future ho
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by hadagribble 11y ago
(Disclosure: one of the authors here) Wrapping a bunch of replies into one: Absolutely agree that we need to view fast storage as something other than disk behind a block interface and slow memory, especially with all the different flavours
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by hadagribble 13y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not in SF, nor am I familiar with HR policies at large companies. That being said, > "If that happens before I've proven myself as a good engineer, I won't feel like I deserve seeing doctors or going &