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raccoonone

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    Comment #39323183

    I wrote redb ( https://github.com/cberner/redb ) using mmap, initially. However, I later removed it and switched to read()/write() with my own user space cache. I'm sure it's not a…

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    Comment #19533614

    I ran the benchmarks with SIMD disabled. Encoding goes from ~950Mbit/s down to ~350Mbit/s

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    Comment #16182200

    Yep, we've been using GPUs for quite a while (even before the alpha support in Kube), both the K80s in Azure and some Pascals in our own clusters. With the support in Kube now it's…

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    Comment #7363780

    Still early in development, but I've been working on an autopilot for quadcopters that uses Python, and the ROS framework. https://github.com/rospilot/rospilot

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    Comment #4004831

    Ya, I'll add that to our list of feature requests. Would definitely like to put some more features in, to help people with blog posts or other research in the car space. Ah yes, I …

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    Comment #3746947

    What was the reason for having hundreds of shards on each server? Were you still seeing performance benefits to sharding it that aggresively?

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    Comment #3746941

    Awesome, lemme know when you guys have sharding available! Would love to not have to worry about running our own index, again.

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    Comment #3746681

    Yep, totally agree with this. Last month we spent an hour or two going through the schema and removing any fields that didn't need to be stored, and making sure that only fields wh…

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    Comment #3746574

    I sure am the author. email sent :)

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    Comment #3692237

    Looks awesome, can't wait for a Linux version, so that I can try it out!

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    Comment #3686104

    This is a great idea! I've been working with a bunch of freelancers, for some marketing work, and would like to hire someone full-time soon.

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    Comment #3681870

    Wow, this is awesome! Definitely gonna try this out next time I'm driving and texting...I mean, driving and thinking about texting! ;)

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    Comment #3534531

    Well, if you used our awesome car search engine (carsabi.com), you wouldn't be spending 20hrs =P In all seriousness though, if you spend 20hrs to save $2k, you're making $100/hr, w…