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AMD64 would bring more cache pressure on the CPU, but also a lot more memory for caching the world, plus more registers, a better instruction set… For a game, I expect memory would…

It was on the front page, I saw it when it was at 40 points or so.

You give examples of blobs, not DRM. Unless you are referring to the direct rendering manager, I have not encountered any DRM in years of using Linux on the desktop.

Two years at least: > Consideration of £8.4m - initially £4.2m, then two further payments up to £4.2m in total over next 24 months against performance related targets

Sensors could manage with some sort of interferometry to rebuild an image from multiple pixels across multiple sensors. The signal processing would be similar to what is used for m…

The spam followers I pick up seem to target lists of “followers of X”, where X is marginally topical to their spam.

MySQL's warnings are silent, in the sense that the web application will never act on them. Guessing instead of failing early is a poor choice for a relational database, and is only…

It still implies the Direct3D implementation stayed at 270fps. I wonder how Windows+OpenGL fared before the optimisations; presumably it was lower than 270 or OpenGL would have bee…

The way US politicians are funded, they do not give a shit about this hypothetical lone inventor. This is just a romantic ideal used by the pro-patent lobby to glamorise patents.

This submission's title (taken from the blog post) is more interesting.

PostgreSQL is extensible enough that runtime specialisation would be best, I think. A JIT compiler, or a compiled type-safe multi-stage[1] programming language like MetaOCaml, woul…

Shouldn't this loophole be closed? Something like: only allow the exclusive owner of a patent to sue potential infringers. That isn't enough to make shell companies a losing propos…

You still need the graph to run the recommender. This algorithm would help new users get up to speed quickly, with better results when the social graph is large; it's just another …

The data was bundled with the domain sale, thankfully. It's a shitty move that they took it offline for an unspecified duration, and that they don't plan to handle existing urls.

Use the HTML validator Firefox extension. It will give you quasi-sensorial awareness of how the pages you visit are doing.

Then his stated goals shouldn't prevent people making conversions to other formats. You just have to be careful with not misrepresenting the work, something that is already part of…

You asked a very laden question. You have no doubt encountered discussions about full-disclosure to know the arguments against it; giving a one-sided rehash of that topic is a prov…

Google and Mozilla will certainly add it to their plugin blacklists. Trojan capabilities remote-controlled through a browser, that's a very serious security risk to their users.

Yeah, but that's proxy, not reverse proxy. It's possible to do something fiddler-like using apache or nginx to mitm oneself and dump everything that goes through.

It's easy enough to generate a snakeoil cert and use its public part as your cert bundle. On Debian/Ubuntu, just install the ssl-cert package, and point to /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-…

In Python, a sufficiently recent httplib2 will require valid certificates by default; same with the requests library. Both let you use your own cert bundle, as a quick-and-dirty wa…

I love it, because it feels streamlined and gets out of the way. I don't really care to participate in flames (the sort that Benjamin linked from his blog post), so I'll just voice…

I'm used to multiple desktops (gnome 3, gnome before that), and multiple panels turn out to be useless to me. I just can't spread my attention across two monitors, whereas I switch…

Indeed, “the architecture of GHC” mentions some uses of GHC as a library: http://www.aosabook.org/en/ghc.html