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snaky

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    Comment #22075687

    So could we have a relevant ads this way finally?

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    Comment #22074129

    What if you take a look at coal performance in China, Asia and Africa?

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    Comment #22073712

    > about half of U.S. adults (49%) say it is acceptable for the government to collect data about all Americans in order to assess potential threats. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact…

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    Comment #22071039

    So digital giants have more lobbyist potential (in financial terms only, they cannot compete in massive 'job creation' in a districts all around the US, especially blue collar jobs…

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    Comment #22053610

    And forums where readers still communicate with authors shaping the new chapters. > This essay will focus on two particularly striking mid-nineteenth-century examples of the comple…

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    Comment #22050951

    I had this feeling exactly listening (great, as everything Aaron does) presentation about manipulation and transformation of trees in APL, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPd3umu7…

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    Comment #22036588

    One modern PC server with PostgreSQL can handle about 1 mln transactions per second. http://akorotkov.github.io/blog/2016/05/09/scalability-towar...

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    Comment #22036538

    And 5 if not 9 out of that Fortune 10' NoSQL dbs were just tied with a duck tape ('Our frontend team needs something they could understand - Ah okay then') to the mainframe with a …

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    Comment #22031541

    OTOH, "As one step toward building high performance NVM systems, we explore the potential dependencies between system call performance and major hardware components (e.g., CPU, mem…

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    Comment #22030227

    It seems some highest-performant enterprise solutions consider the MS-DOS way as well. "The Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) is a general term for the infrastructure…

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    Comment #22026093

    Universal kernel bypass for IO? Does it imply every userspace program should know how to communicate with every kind of IO device? No block layer? What about memory and caching?

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    Comment #21889432

    "Itanium was in-order VLIW, hope people will build compiler to get perf. We came from opposite direction - we use dynamic scheduling. We are not VLIW, every node defines sub-graphs…

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    Comment #21889399

    > if there's a "true low level language" for today I'd like to hear about it "Steel Bank Common Lisp: because sometimes C abstracts away too much" https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/1…

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    Comment #21743636

    > This find xargs mawk pipeline gets us down to a runtime of about 12 seconds, or about 270MB/sec, which is around 235 times faster than the Hadoop implementation. https://adamdrak…

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    Comment #21722103

    With removed ads and binaries https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/

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    Comment #21474522

    Maybe it's time to propose alternative syntax for Rust?

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    Comment #21469263

    > Now in Windows 10, User32/GDI is deprecated and obsolete for high-performance applications (and it’s really slow too after they axed GDI hardware acceleration in Vista), but ther…

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    Comment #21406259

    To find any useful content, first thing you do on the modern Internet is search for relevant forum for the topic you are interested in.

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    Comment #21406229

    Classic, yes. Forums like XDA-Developers, EEVBlog, Head-Fi, or DIYAudio.com. You can pretty much just search for " forum" and find them. Many of the best forums in the modern Inter…

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    Comment #21404527

    Forums are alive and well. Take XDA for example.

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    Comment #21404509

    If there's some hope, it's China. Hundreds and hundreds of small shops don't care about patents and build their RISC-V based chips.

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    Comment #21404427

    Web forums are really big part of modern Internet, reddit is just the one of them.

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    Comment #21387014

    The cost of computation.

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    Comment #21386989

    And Google AR glasses still failed.