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Setting up Ubuntu 12.10 on a Macbook Pro « projectz

Setting up Ubuntu 12.10 on a Macbook Pro « projectz:

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Syndicated 2013-01-09 18:16:00 from sness

When EC2 Hardware Changes Underneath You… | PiCloud Blog

When EC2 Hardware Changes Underneath You… | PiCloud Blog: "Amazon seems to have disabled the OSXSAVE feature at the hypervisor layer on their new Xeon E5-2665 based m2.* series of instances. This may just be because their version of the Xen hypervisor that manages these instances lacks support for handling AVX registers in context switching. But even if support does exist in the hypervisor, it makes sense to disable AVX for the m2.* family as long as there are Xeon X5550 based instances. Imagine compiling a program on an m2.xlarge EBS instance, thinking you had AVX support, and then upon stopping/starting the instance, finding that the program crashes, because your instance now runs on older hardware that doesn’t have AVX support! A downside of VM migration is that all your hardware must advertise the least common denominator of capabilities."

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Syndicated 2013-01-09 17:59:00 from sness

Decorators and Functional Python

Decorators and Functional Python: "Decorators are one of Python's great features. In addition to their intrinsic usefulness in the language, they also help us to think in an interesting way — a functional way.

I intend to explain how decorators work from the ground up. We'll start by covering a few topics you'll need in order to understand decorators. After that, we'll dive in and explore a few simple decorators and how they work. Finally, we'll talk about some more advanced ways to use decorators, such as passing them optional arguments or chaining them together."

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Syndicated 2013-01-09 17:41:00 from sness

Two star programming

Two star programming: "I wrote up a benchmark where I remove every other element from a ten million list of integers. My results (clang, MacBook Pro 2012):

vector      :      10 ms
list        :     422 ms
forward_list:    1327 ms
C list      :     419 ms

So std::vector about 40x quicker than any linked list. std::forward_list was surprisingly slow.

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Syndicated 2013-01-09 17:40:00 from sness

The Story of the PING Program

The Story of the PING Program: "I named it after the sound that a sonar makes, inspired by the whole principle of echo-location. In college I'd done a lot of modeling of sonar and radar systems, so the "Cyberspace" analogy seemed very apt. It's exactly the same paradigm applied to a new problem domain: ping uses timed IP/ICMP ECHO_REQUEST and ECHO_REPLY packets to probe the "distance" to the target machine."

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Syndicated 2013-01-09 17:37:00 from sness

Godzilla + Laser Cat = Catzilla [Video] | Geeks are Sexy Technology News

Godzilla + Laser Cat = Catzilla [Video] | Geeks are Sexy Technology News:

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Syndicated 2013-01-09 05:53:00 from sness

Don't worry, it's just ESD! (Electrostatic Discharge) - YouTube

Don't worry, it's just ESD! (Electrostatic Discharge) - YouTube: "