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pwr22··on What is good running technique?
Ah, well thanks for sharing here anyway and good luck in May.
pwr22··on What is good running technique?
I doubt that 3 miles figure apples to an overweight couch potato
pwr22··on What is good running technique?
Wow, that's a crazy figure (to me anyway). Have you ever written up your experiences anywhere?
pwr22··on The Synapse Memory Doctrine Threatened?
This is certainly interesting but it doesn't look conclusive
pwr22··on MozJPEG 3.0
Looks awesome but I hope there is a better naming convention for the quant tables than

  -quant-table 2
etc
pwr22··on MozJPEG 3.0
Hope they post a bug report, that doesn't look like an acceptable artefact to me
pwr22··on Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
I switched from ABP to Bluhell Firewall and FF is like a different browser wrt memory
pwr22··on Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
And that extension doesn't work if javascript isn't enabled for that page :(
pwr22··on Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
I use Bluhell Firewall, it isn't as good as ABP but it is definitely better than nothing and so light
pwr22··on Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
This is already shown to be the case with FF, ABP uses a lot of memory per tab
pwr22··on Mozilla Research Projects
That's because we have a habit of complaining more than praising. The 90% of the time it just works don't get a mention. Thought personally I use an external viewer (SumatraPDF on Windows)
pwr22··on TOCC: A Tool for Obsessive Compulsive Classifiers
Not necessarily so funny if you have TOC ;)
pwr22··on How Reading Transforms Us
I'm also wondering if the effect persists
pwr22··on A Meditation on the Art of Not Trying
We as a society have forgotten, or not yet learned, that the thing we call "us" is but a part of the organism that is actually us
pwr22··on Nuitka: a Python compiler
Looks like typical impulsive defensiveness, doesn't portray him well as a person
pwr22··on Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation
I read that latter one as specifically meaning a scarf made out of red head
pwr22··on “Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS”
This guy's mother made a terrible and selfish choice :(, I feel terrible for him
pwr22··on Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
No different than when Google was telling me to upgrade to chrome whenever I visited their sites
pwr22··on 15-line hash table in C
In the end I wanted the variable to persist beyond the end of the loop anyway
pwr22··on Linus: Parallel computing is a huge waste of everybody's time
But surely is does buy you extra transistors in practice since the number of core tends to only increase every few years - meaning the additional cores come with new technological advances and are how the new transistors are put to use
pwr22··on 15-line hash table in C
Sorry, non-existent keys return a slot but since it isn't allocated it blew up when I was trying to print out its values :(
pwr22··on 15-line hash table in C
Not differing types
pwr22··on 15-line hash table in C
Technically there is bounds checking

  ... & (SIZE - 1)
but it looks broken because t does the C-ish mutating accumulator thing rather than acting as a base and using h as an offset

You need a temporary variable of

  int (**)[2]
to avoid doing two additions per iter, though maybe the compiler can pick that up and do it for you. Anyway, this no longer crashes but it now runs forever if the hash fills

https://gist.github.com/pwr22/a08597e475d1aa44cd96

It will still fail looking up a non-existent key, which I don't understand

pwr22··on Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates
BTRFS has no built in dedup support as of yet but any snapshots made initially share all data which is very fast and lightweight
pwr22··on Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5
Whatever ;)
pwr22··on 5% of Google's traffic is now IPv6
UK is still abysmal :(
pwr22··on Human running speed of 35-40 mph may be biologically possible
Maybe some form of spoiler :P?
pwr22··on Julian Assange on Living in a Surveillance Society
As a person I find Assange to be detestable
pwr22··on Time perception, just like vision, is a construction of the brain
I think that's why they said 60Hz to 120Hz. If you take a factor you essentially change the true frequency
pwr22··on Time perception, just like vision, is a construction of the brain
Hmmm, their statement doesn't say that nobody can but says that some people can't. Those for whom the value is 60Hz or less. What their statement does say is that around 80Hz is a value that is indistinguishable from anything higher
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