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The computer science behind a modern disributed data store

octoploid — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 06:41:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.slideshare.net/JontheBeach/the-computer-science-behind-a-modern-disributed-data-store

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15641473

Points: 2

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The Computer Science behind a modern distributed data store

octoploid — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 22:02:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9xYejDUdus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15639400

Points: 2

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New comment by octoploid in "AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch"

octoploid — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 17:54:21 +0000

https://sci-hub.cc/https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v55...

New comment by octoploid in "Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading"

octoploid — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 15:21:15 +0000

Well, at least Intel acknowledges, documents and finally fixes these CPU bugs (via microcode updates).

AMD on the other hand doesn't even acknowledge an issue when multiple customers report problems. See this Ryzen bug: https://community.amd.com/thread/215773

New comment by octoploid in "AI achieves maximum score of 999,990 on PacMan"

octoploid — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 10:09:21 +0000

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.04208.pdf

AI achieves maximum score of 999,990 on PacMan

octoploid — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 10:08:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeXNw0Owf0Y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14559081

Points: 2

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New comment by octoploid in "#c0ffee is the color"

octoploid — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:20:52 +0000

Yeah! The soundtrack (Coffy is the Color) is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ycOq6NwT_0

New comment by octoploid in "Apple Events – WWDC Keynote, June 2017 [video]"

octoploid — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 17:01:41 +0000

mplayer "http://appleliveevents-i.akamaihd.net/hls/live/222436-b/17qo...

New comment by octoploid in "Users report parallel compiling is causing segfault on Ryzen Linux"

octoploid — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 08:08:00 +0000

It appears to be an issue with Ryzen's new micro-op cache and "CMP/TEST conditional jump" instruction fusion.

See comment from inuwashidesu in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6f08mb/compili...

New comment by octoploid in "The Mathematician (1947)"

octoploid — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:35:34 +0000

The article was written 1947, so I guess he was thinking of algebraic geometry before Grothendieck came along.

New comment by octoploid in "True Colour support in various terminals"

octoploid — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:20:00 +0000

Here is an image printing function for bash/zsh:

  function img { for image in "$@"; do convert -thumbnail $(tput cols) "$image" txt:- | awk -F '[)(,]' '!/^#/{gsub(/ /,"");printf"\033[48;2;"$8";"$9";"$10"m "}'; echo -e "\e[0;0m"; done ;}

Example: http://i.imgur.com/d5RzWAC.png

America’s opioid epidemic is worsening

octoploid — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 20:21:27 +0000

Article URL: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/03/daily-chart-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13805733

Points: 238

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New comment by octoploid in "AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive"

octoploid — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 16:21:01 +0000

AMD will use the same die for its server CPUs, so ECC support is on chip anyway. I see no reason why they should turn it off in the Ryzen CPUs launched today.

New comment by octoploid in "AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive"

octoploid — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 16:01:03 +0000

Several people contacted ASRock in the last few days. And the reply always was that ECC is fully supported, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762950

New comment by octoploid in "AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive"

octoploid — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:02:49 +0000

Anandtech is wrong and ECC is not disabled at all. For example all ASRock AM4 boards support ECC memory.

New comment by octoploid in "Transitioning Firefox's rendering engine from Gecko to Servo"

octoploid — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 11:16:02 +0000

By the time they will finally make the switch, Firefox' market share will probably have plunged to a very low single digit percentage.

New comment by octoploid in "Atom-in-orbit: Putting Atom in the browser"

octoploid — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 20:15:25 +0000

Look at the gif that shows how it is used on torvalds/linux: https://github.com/spiffcode/ghedit

New comment by octoploid in "Atom-in-orbit: Putting Atom in the browser"

octoploid — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 18:04:51 +0000

https://spiffcode.github.io/ghedit/

New comment by octoploid in "C++17 – better than you might think"

octoploid — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 10:39:43 +0000

See: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p009...

New comment by octoploid in "C++17 – better than you might think"

octoploid — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 10:16:36 +0000

Build-in sum types and pattern matching are the major missing features.

Instead C++17 will have library hacks like std::variant, that almost certainly will be deprecated for C++20.