throwaway9101

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by throwaway9101 13y ago
I develop an operating system running on bare metal :). It's sort of an appliance, but I don't think Xeons really qualify as embedded.
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by throwaway9101 13y ago
Codechef appears to use Python 3.1.2 for "Python3", which is pretty old (March 21st, 2010) and predates some significant performance improvements in Python3[0]. [0]: E.g., 3.3 adds a more efficient encoding for ASCII-subset unicod
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by throwaway9101 13y ago
Fedora 22 is ... 3 releases out? So we're talking about 12-18 months depending on how soon F20 is due to be released. Still, I'm surprised, and I've been a Fedora contributor since FC5.
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by throwaway9101 13y ago
Or the cold.
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by throwaway9101 13y ago
Bandwidth delay product tends to limit throughput at such high latencies, though.
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by throwaway9101 13y ago
Or FEC, and optionally reliable re-transmission. TCP won't work well due to the huge latencies involved.
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by throwaway9101 13y ago
The $69 models do N, but not AC :-(. Edit: oh hello downvote, I'm glad you think AC is worthless to note.
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by throwaway9101 13y ago
Adblock plugins slurp down new lists without updating the plugin code itself. Newer techniques, sure, but I don't think ABP's release cycle is substantially faster than Firefox's.
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by throwaway9101 13y ago
Breed until they can't slaughter us all!
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by throwaway9101 13y ago
I know, when the shit really hits the fan, visual studio is the tool I would use to try and clean up those messy directories. </sarcasm>. The complaint is about Visual Studio's decision in particular, not the weakness of (so
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by throwaway9101 13y ago
> gets in the way of having a deeply-nested project hierarchy" Do people actually want deeply-nested project hierarchies? For example, from a real-world, full operating system, the deepest path I can find[0] is in a build directory
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by throwaway9101 13y ago
Likewise. I've since been pretty disappointed in Firefox's networking backend. Something in DNS resolution or page-fetching occasionally goes out to lunch and then ... no more loading webpages. I'm on 24.0. I should probably
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by throwaway9101 13y ago
Possibly an exaggeration, but OP is probably referring to the workers who run Amazon's fulfilment centers.
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by throwaway9101 13y ago
It was. I think it's likely this effort was motivated by LLVM's relative strength in JIT compilation.
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by throwaway9101 13y ago
bm9jYXJyaWVyQGpnYy5vcmc= Is the base64 if you want something copy-pastable. Alternatively, nocarrier [AT] the domain of the post.
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by throwaway9101 13y ago
Personal plug, because the article mentions snakebite; hadoofus[1] is a C library that natively speaks to HDFS (v1), with a Python wrapper. No Java involved. Pros (vs Snakebite): * C, not Python. More portable to non-Python languages; proba