ro_sharp

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by ro_sharp 9y ago
Memory mapped files are great fun in C, but Java can't safely unmap files! Refer to this bug that's been open since 2002: http://bugs.java.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4724038 Quote (December 2016): "I have a plan
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by ro_sharp 9y ago
I'd suggest that OLTP applications where non-trivial amounts of state are shared between transactions are a reasonable counterexample where single core performance optimisation really matters.
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by ro_sharp 10y ago
> Companies violate the law if they are the proverbial bad eggs I would suggest that in general companies violate the law if the benefits of doing so exceed the costs (risk of penalties, imprisonment of officers and so on)
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by ro_sharp 10y ago
Is it just men's idea of a "man's role" that's a problem? The article seems to suggest women's preferences are also in play.
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by ro_sharp 10y ago
> [Campbell] described an official program of social media surveillance, in which Centrelink monitors social media for critics, and sends private information about those critics to the Minister’s office. > Campbell also described an i
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Aus govt monitors media critics, releases private data to “correct the record”(newmatilda.com)
3 points by ro_sharp 10y ago|1 comments
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by ro_sharp 10y ago
Is anyone aware of an alternative (with a similar budget price, maybe something marketed in the developing world?) that can be used on a modern phone network?
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by ro_sharp 10y ago
That would only be rational (profit maximising) behaviour on the company's part if they had an expectation that the negative externalities associated with climate change would eventually be priced in. The speed they decide to transitio
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by ro_sharp 10y ago
What the article is suggesting is that perhaps the release of a person's private financial information by a government agency is not something the broader community would consider to be acceptable. From reading this comment and others
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by ro_sharp 10y ago
I concur, with a caveat - feel free to use threading / async I/O if you think you really understand the runtime behaviour of your code. I've seen so much code that just runs TaskFactory.StartNew some arbitrary number of times
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by ro_sharp 10y ago
As an Australian in the depth of a hot summer, I beg to differ! Almost every new house here includes a big air conditioner, and during hot months the euphemistically named 'load shedding' is often performed: http://www.
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by ro_sharp 10y ago
I'm in Australia, and I've never seen an irl viral phenomenon on the streets like this. In the inner city of Brisbane, every second person I see is staring at their phone, swiping up to catch Pokemon. Mobs of 100+ people chasing &
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by ro_sharp 10y ago
An interesting book on this topic: https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/d... A review: Carr—author of The Big Switch (2007) and the much-discussed Atlantic Monthly story “Is Google Making Us Stupi
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by ro_sharp 11y ago
If you control consumers and producers, and your data is just data, please just use a safe, common binary protocol (protobuf etc).
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by ro_sharp 11y ago
And local property markets where prices rise above inflation forever (this is never always the case!)
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by ro_sharp 11y ago
Space.. foraging?
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by ro_sharp 11y ago
Hint: Each finger (digit) has two states (extended or curled up)
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by ro_sharp 12y ago
Hold Hold Hold Abort :(
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by ro_sharp 12y ago
Are you being intentionally sarcastic? Because this reads a lot like http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/ Edit: Whoops, just read your reply :)