throwaway54-762

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by throwaway54-762 13y ago
Sure, Java or C will be much faster at any computational work. And I am no node.js fan-boi. But doing actual asynchronous local-file IO in C is non-trivial, and if their server is not CPU bound, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with
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by throwaway54-762 13y ago
There are a couple projects in this direction (I looked into trying to make a bot at one point). Unfortunately, any names have slipped my memory at this point. But be assured, they exist.
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by throwaway54-762 13y ago
I am at work, and don't have minecraft on any machine nearby =).
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by throwaway54-762 13y ago
Cool, a distributed minecraft server. But where's the source, or something more technically meaty? "I made a distributed X and here's some screenshots" isn't that interesting alone.
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by throwaway54-762 13y ago
> In the author's example, the fastest implementation was actually _not_ lock-free, it merely used a better spinlock than std::mutex. The author is also using gcc 4.6; perhaps different results would be obtained with gcc 4.8 or recent C
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
Yeah, I live in the PNW of the US, not South America. Coca leaves are basically unavailable.
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
I wouldn't want to try and use cocaine to focus. While I've tried it once, I don't like the typical routes of administration, the lack of quality control, and financially, supporting the drug cartels. The only drug I use regularly is caffei
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
Thanks for going into more depth here. You understand it much more thoroughly than me =).
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
> Your body acclimates itself to just about anything - the weather, sugar, MSG, even frequent shampooing or Chap-Stick usage. That doesn't mean those things are comparable to meth. Yes, of course, tolerance isn't indicative of meth. &#6
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
Every person is different, and meth is definitely abused in higher proportions more than prescription adderall — I am not contesting that, or attempting to compare adderall users to meth users. I am trying to highlight the similarities be
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
> However small the chemical difference, there is an enormous practical difference. Meth can produce an intense high. Adderall, not so much. This just isn't true. Adderall is several amphetamines and the drug definitely produces a high.
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
I don't describe it like that to "sound edgy" or provide "shock effect." It's just pointing out that these drugs are very similar chemically and biologically, and that people should examine their own biases that divorce adderall (medicine!)
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
> What you may be referring to is that Adderall, methamphetamine, and MDMA have remarkably similar effects, which is true - the active ingredients in all three are metabolized in a similar manner, and the main differences are the means
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
It's figurative, not literal. I am very much aware of desoxyn and that adderall is actually composed of four amphetamine salts, none of them literally meth. However, the amphetamine family of drugs have very similar effects — meth is very s
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
Oh, the possible negatives I had in mind were brain-related: "diminishing returns" due to tolerance or other factors after long-term use, and adverse side-effects of the drug flooding your brain with seratonin and dopamine over long periods
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
The adverse side-effects do not magically go away; however, the benefits are (supposedly) much greater for a person diagnosed with AD(H)D than recreational users. Thus the net gain (benefits - costs) is positive for some people.
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
It's an extremely hard drug for anybody, ADHD or no. Adderall / Vyvanse is prescription meth[0] (something I've heard from several of my AD(H)D friends). If the pros outweigh the cons for an individual, great; I wish them the best. But whil
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
Other than, e.g., Red Hat[0]? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protoc...
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
A better title might be "visualizing the object-reference graph in Ruby;" debugging memory leaks is a neat side effect. That being said, it's an interesting little project.
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
This reminded me to make another donation towards py3k support =). Keep on rocking on, pypy.
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
WFM now =)
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
Same, chrome 25.0.1364.97.
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
It's kind of tough to just start digging in the city. You'll probably hit an existing pipe / line. Permits, etc..
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
I understand that this makes sense for Mathics. What I don't understand is why Wolfram has any interest in separating the language from the implementation.
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
How about 'static inline' functions distributed along with the libc header files? You get type / number of arguments correctness and no ABI bloat, at the cost of having (minimal) code in header files and per-object code duplication (possibl
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
No, it's pretty sane. I work at a well-known NAS storage-appliance vendor and we're doing something quite similar in-kernel as a caching layer for our filesystem.
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
What positive coverage?
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
Yeah, that costs $200/mo in my area, not including the TV.
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
No, not really. It's a rough estimate; given that the "Rape statistics" page on Wikipedia you reference puts rape attempts on women in the US at 1 in 6 (meanwhile, the same article puts rape attempts on men in the US at 1 in 33, large
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by throwaway54-762 14y ago
"Could have" is reaching out into the hypotheticals… as other commenters have said, "let's focus on what has happened." I'm not trying to mob on you, but this branch of hypothetical thinking is always brought up in response to this kind

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