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Yeah see Singapore more or less. >The PAP has been returned to power in every general election and has thus formed the Cabinet since 1959 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_o…

We're on a site right now that hides like counts for these reasons :D https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595605

Memory Mapped files do exist in some form or another though. As the file itself. That's the point of memory mapping files. You can right now memory map every file on your computer.…

This doesn't occur if you memory map a file though (barring certain flags that you can set as stated by quotemstr below) You can legitimately have Windows stating many GB's of comm…

I'm not going to dispute that but just want to highlight it doesn't change the fact that committed RAM can show as extremely high just by working with memory mapped files. Memory m…

This article correctly states that committed memory is that in use + memory that's being paged out. Now why would you want to know the committed memory over the actual physical RAM…

The digits add to 0 in mod 9 and he's looking for precisely 9. eg. the sum of digits for 9^3 = 18. That's why you don't see 9's everywhere.

This post simply doesn't belong here on HN at all. I've flagged this. Also i'm looking at the list of cases the ACLU is fighting https://www.aclu.org/defending-our-rights/court-bat…

Belgium was bristling with defenses in WW2. In the same way France, Poland and the Western front of Russia were. They had networks of expensive forts with numerous gun turrets on t…

>we know that light can be bent by the warping of space-time due to gravity That literally is light obeying gravity. Gravity interacts exclusively by the warping of space-time. Gra…

In that case the government led the charade, from claims of 'nuc-u-lar weapons' (as Bush pronounced it) to the claims of buying Yellowcake from Niger, the government led it and the…

Author of this thread here. That article states that the above sieve was created in 2003. I actually wrote and described it back in 2002 - https://forums.overclockers.com.au/thread…

A brief explanation of why primes peak at repeated multiples from a layman who's wondered why before. Obvious first example all primes above 2 are of the form 2x+1. An obvious repe…

Sierra was a big fan of 'cruel' game design. Fail to do something at the start properly? The game will let you continue but you can never win. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php…

Point to point is more efficient if you can fill the plane. Hub and spoke - an indirect flight where you perform extra inefficient landings/takeoffs. Direct flight - shortest possi…

Both the A380 and 787 have higher internal cabin pressures (equivalent of 6000ft). All other planes operate at lower pressure. Anything above 6000ft leads to altitude sickness for …

I had to renew my drivers licence online as i'm overseas. I was blocked on account registration by Javascript errors so i made this guide to help others work around the poorly main…