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by wallstprog 6mo ago
Or in the middle of a song -- lots of songs modulate between different keys.
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by wallstprog 1y ago
A great book that has perfume as a major plot point is "Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins.
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by wallstprog 1y ago
Having good results w/Azul so far
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by wallstprog 1y ago
On another note, Jellyfin can look inside .iso files, which afaict Plex is not able to. Very handy with my collection of ripped dvd's.
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by wallstprog 1y ago
wonder what diagnosis Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn would have got
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by wallstprog 2y ago
Michael Porter's books on marketing (esp. "Competitive Strategy") are well-regarded.
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by wallstprog 2y ago
" I also managed to make contended nsync mutexes go 30% faster than nsync upstream on AARCH64, by porting it to use C11 atomics." Curious about this -- so what does C11 atomics use to implement? At least in Linux, C++11 atomics
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by wallstprog 2y ago
Briefly mentioned elsewhere in the comments, but C++11 had a similar issue around the transition from a copy-on-write (COW) to a small-string-optimization (SSO) implementation for std::string. If any type is more ubiquitous than std::strin
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by wallstprog 2y ago
If you're using dynamic linking, the following two tools will come in very handy: - pldd ( https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/pldd.1.html ) shows the actual dynamic libs linked into a running process.
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by wallstprog 2y ago
You might want to take a look at https://github.com/nyfix/memleaktest We've open-sourced the tools we use to run valgrind (and ASAN) on large mixed C++/Java code bases. The JVM in particular triggers a slew
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by wallstprog 2y ago
I thought it was a brilliant design, but it was dog-slow on hardware at the time. I keep hoping someone would revive the design for current silicon, would be a good impedance match for modern languages, and OS's.
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by wallstprog 2y ago
So it seems that TB prioritizes throughput over latency, similar to VoltDB for instance -- is that correct?
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by wallstprog 3y ago
At my day job we run > 50 million messages per day through ZeroMQ, and have been quite pleased with its performance and stability ( https://github.com/nyfix/OZ/tree/master#who-uses-it ). But the truth is tha
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by wallstprog 3y ago
Well, the original non-thread-safe sockets (e.g., ZMQ_SUB, etc.) were that way because they support multi-part messages. And yes, the fact that they are not thread-safe is a bit of a stumbling-block for ZeroMQ newbies (including me, back i
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by wallstprog 3y ago
Unlikely, but they seem to be different things altogether. BlazingMQ appears to be a traditional message queue (think ActiveMQ), with message peristence. ZeroMQ is more of a network middleware (think Tibco Rendezvous), and does not includ
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by wallstprog 3y ago
Sounds like a scam to me
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What do you all think?(lifehacker.com)
1 points by wallstprog 3y ago|2 comments
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by wallstprog 3y ago
King Crimson has several songs where different players are playing different time signatures -- check out https://youtu.be/GDFHtlbhqzA
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by wallstprog 3y ago
Maybe, but the actual "bank" in this arrangement is Goldman Sachs, and they are one of the more established players in finance.
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by wallstprog 3y ago
You might want to give Rick Beato a try: https://rickbeato.com/ He does interesting YouTube videos on music topics, but also sells theory and ear-training courses online.
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by wallstprog 4y ago
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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by wallstprog 4y ago
Well, you do that to make sure it works. At one of my previous jobs, we'd switch the primary and secondary datacenters every six months just to make sure we could.
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by wallstprog 4y ago
There's not much that Staten Island has to brag about, but pizza is one of those things, and SI is very much under-represented here.
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by wallstprog 4y ago
See also "Zero History" by William Gibson (2010) (although the "invisible t-shirt" idea apparently came from Bruce Sterling).
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by wallstprog 4y ago
It's been a while, but IIRC ASAN catches most/all of the memory-related errors that Purify did. Purify did have a debugger-like GUI that would break on errors, which could be handy. valgrind can also do most of the same checks, bu
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by wallstprog 4y ago
I used Purify back in the day, and while it worked well, getting it working was a royal PITA. IIRC it was necessary to recompile EVERYTHING with Purify. Anyway, I would think the gold standard these days is clang's Address Sanitizer
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by wallstprog 4y ago
OTOH, I've got a bunch of MacBooks from 2012, 2014 and 2015 that are still running fine. Just bought a "scratch & dent" 2018 iPad for < $200 and it's just fine. If that's "planned obsolescence", I&
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by wallstprog 4y ago
valgrind is great, but be aware that valgrind runs single-threaded, which definitely changes the way multi-threaded apps behave: https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/manual-core.html#manual-cor... In practice what thi
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by wallstprog 4y ago
Back in the mid-70's Manufacturers Hanover Bank used to give candidates a "Programmer Aptitude Test", which was basically an IQ test. If you passed you were hired, and they paid to send you to a 12-week class that taught S&#
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by wallstprog 4y ago
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mitten grabben. Ist easy schnappen der springen werk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbe

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