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Yup. Memory sticks are the new tape (in the volatile storage hierarchy). Definitely potential for (re-)proliferation of NUMA optimizations. The questions are whether G/CPUs have: -…

TED, I think, serves as a modern version of high-brow oration as the middle letter suggests: Entertainment. It's a double-ended marketplace platform of content providers (speakers)…

Voltaire would be proud [0], the dude cracked their non-CSPRNG fair and square. 0: http://www.damninteresting.com/the-enlightenment-guide-to-wi...

Turbo/Borland Pascal used a NUL-optional string format of length (byte IIRC) followed by data. [0] Java IIRC also uses a length-oriented format for string constants in .class files…

Low-level code often omits high-level intended behavior (description, pseduocode, documentation, test cases, etc.) and semantic meaning like variable names. In such styled codebase…

Great article. As an aside: Michelin Red guides are like Yelp, but Francophile-centric, uses dedicated reviewers instead of crowdsourcing and without the extortion. The issue with …

Try this at home (and only at home), on a signal generator: EAS combined tone (TV) 853 Hz sine-wave + 960 Hz sine-wave ("+" means simply combine both waves together, neither modula…

Stanford has its own cogen steam and chilled water (underground "ice cube") capabilities, in addition to power generation. Many such campuses use the industrial central plant model…

People with the least power tend to desire assertion of control of minutia and others (probably a sizable portion of LEOs). By contrast, people with more power delegate and are fin…

0. Spread time in coffee shops in tech areas, go to conferences snd events 1. Talk to people, be nice, sincere, helpful and polite. Give and get contact info (cards or details). (B…

It's one thing to demonstrate a PoC live on life/safety critical systems, it's another to brag about sources & methods on social media, leave your machine powered-on and blab conte…

Alternatively, if someone prefers privacy: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=MVP

Working with clients that are savvy enough to do milestone based-work rather than hourly work is another filter that hasn't failed me yet.

It sounds like it's far too early and you would blow your chances with investors, and probably even angels. If you could manage to take on experienced business co-founder, that mig…

Seems to be partly up, hurray! (maybe) Update: "We've finished emergency maintenance and are monitoring closely".

Hopefully the responding on-call engineers aren't tired folks but folks in other timezones. The reason that the risk of compounding the situation is lessened, because trying to fix…

ioreg -l -n AppleSmartBattery -r | awk '/MaxCapacity/{mc=$3};/DesignCapacity/{dc=$3};END{print 100*mc/dc}'