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After all of these years, I finally came to one simple conclusion. With all due respect: we are completely clueless about how long things should take. "How much time do YOU want me to spend on this." That's a little provocative.
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Bob Burdett was on a bike ride in Washington when his bike flipped, sending him head-first to the pavement. The impact knocked him unconscious.
But in a case of technology “spying” on us for the better, his Apple Watch detected the fall and called 911. Apple Watch may be kinder than a stranger driving by.
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Next Week's Headline Emergency services pushed to breaking point as Apple watches make emergency calls for thousands who have tripped on the stairs, banged their arms or dropped their watches.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Microsoft is edging closer to its 1 billion goal for Windows 10. The software giant is revealing today that Windows 10 is now running on more than 900 million devices, a significant jump from the previous 800 million figure achieved earlier this year. Like those old signs on McDonalds. Just put up a sign: "Microsoft: We're doing very well."
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Apple will make its new Mac Pros in Austin, Texas, continuing to build the computers at the same facilities that have been assembling the prior-generation Mac Pros since 2013. He ain't prejudice he's just, made in America.
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The first computation that can only be performed on a quantum processor "Doing in minutes what would otherwise take thousands of years." God I hope it will debug for me.
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Dire risk is compounded by climate crisis, urbanisation and lack of sanitation, says global monitoring board Yes, but when the Simian Flu comes, they will call me "Bright Eyes."
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I am an unusual beast. All my solo project games I've been making recently have been written in 'vanilla' C. Nobody does this. So I think it might be interesting to explain why I do. "C is dangerous, but good enough for me."
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I'm not trying to bash API Gateway, Lambda or serverless in general here, just showing that for some workloads they are a lot more expensive than boring old EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk. Not gospel, but researched just enough for people to engage with whether it is wrong or right.
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Can't say I'm surprised that adding additional levels of abstraction comes with performance/pricing costs. The way the api gateway pricing clobbers applications that are chatty with lots of very small API calls instead of a handful of larger quasi-monolithic ones is really ugly though. I'd be somewhat curious what the relative pricing looks like for serving web pages since that's a much more common use (and would be a lot closer to relevant for me, needing to upgrade to .net core instead of adding new customer features would still be an issue).
As it stands my AWS/net web app is only using lamba to trigger a few things on timers and thus orders of magnitudes of use below the limits for the free tier; everything else is running in VMs.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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According to Arpit Joshipura, The Linux Foundation's general manager of networking, edge computing will overtake cloud computing by 2025. And now, here's Arpit Joshipura with the forecast.
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Centralized versus distributed is an endless seesaw. Mainframes to workstations to servers to desktops to the effing "cloud". All technomarketing fury signifying nothing.
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ICE not directly impacted by the takedown, but developer wanted to prove a point. If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at your repository, and make a change.
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With the digital equivalent of trowels and shovels, archaeologists are digging into the code of early video games to uncover long forgotten secrets that could have relevance today. Drunken coding creates the deepest mysteries.
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Apple’s iOS 13 comes with some major changes to privacy and security, but it’s also highlighted the data collection practices of firms such as Facebook and Google. I always feel like, somebody's waatching meeeeeeee.
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Sean Ewington wrote: I always feel like, somebody's waatching meeeeeeee.
What they say is true, you ARE evil.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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"Introducing 'mesh,' a memory-saving plug-in that could boost phone and computer performance" [^]Quote: Mesh effectively squeezes out these gaps by taking advantage of a hardware feature called "virtual memory" that is supported by almost all modern computers. "The trick is to find chunks of memory that can be interleaved, sort of like when interlocking gears mesh," Berger explains. When Mesh finds these chunks, it can reclaim the memory from one of the chunks by combining the two chunks into just one. "This meshing process works because we only change things in 'physical' memory. From the perspective of the program, which can only see 'virtual' memory, nothing has changed. This is powerful because we can do this for any application automatically."
Quote: Microsoft programmer and distinguished engineer Miguel de Icaza tweeted that Mesh is a "truly inspiring work, with deep impact. A beautiful idea fully developed. What an amazing contribution to the industry."
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Would this be the same thing as eliminating fragmented memory (a true concern back in my C++ experience).
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Yes, external fragmentation. But at an os / process level.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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AIUI it's something of a fake it until you make it approach. The application's address space is still just as fragmented, with all that means for the speed - and in extreme cases possibility - of heap allocations; but by mapping the application address space into hardware address space at a much more fine-grained level than a full memory page the amount of physical memory used is reduced.
While the article doesn't go into great depth about how it works, I assume it requires some level of collaboration between the application's heap allocator and the OS virtual memory drivers.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Hmmm,
Dan Neely wrote: AIUI it's something of a fake it until you make it approach. The application's address space is still just as fragmented, with all that means for the speed - and in extreme cases possibility - of heap allocations; but by mapping the application address space into hardware address space at a much more fine-grained level than a full memory page the amount of physical memory used is reduced.
 Lorem ipsum liquid nitrogen dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit?
Dan Neely wrote: While the article doesn't go into great depth about how it works, I assume it requires some level of collaboration between the application's heap allocator and the OS virtual memory drivers.
The paper is here[^]. The source is available here[^]. The paper claims to exceed the old Robson upper bound of O(n2/5(log n)3/5).
You could probably compile this as a native DLL and inject it into all running processes and market it online as a "Super Duper Memory Saver" for only $49.99 ... and it appears that the code would actually work. Hopefully nobody reading this actually does this.
Btw, the combination of algorithms they are presenting will probably have some uses outside of memory allocators... it looks useful for pattern matching too.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
Scientiæ de conservata veritate.
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As the fourth anniversary of the first detection approaches, the field continues to mature—with a bright future ahead "We’ve really opened our eyes to what’s out there, that was invisible, that we can only reveal through gravitational waves."
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Earlier this year, Clive Thompson, veteran technology journalist and best-selling author, stopped by Stack Overflow for a chat with our founder and CEO Joel Spolsky. "Funnily enough, lots of coders aren’t that great at math." Don't worry. Your secret is safe with me.
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I've always had a problem with simple addition...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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