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Transmeta Crusoe, it would be very useful today for running Docker containers built for different instruction sets without being as slow as QEMU. The performance penalty was only about 20% and the power efficiency was actually better than native x86.
Re:Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL on Friday March 18, 2016 @01:39PM (#11313456)
What is rodb?
Re:Running 50km after 82h of fasting on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @12:00PM (#10931986)
This is a gnarly run. Almost 7000 ft of climbing (he gives the value in m, but all my reference points are in feet). It appears he was not auto-pausing, but did stop quite a bit. The time spent moving was 5:49. His pace, excluding the time stopped, was 11:12 min/mi. With the elevation gain, this is most definitely running.
Re:Starship Troopers: One of the Most Misunderstood Movies Ever on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @12:50PM (#10622260)
Please add [2013] to the title
Re:Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @01:14PM (#9540433)
The owner must be present during home-sharing, so each property owner should be limited to sharing one property at a time. Since the properties must be licensed, it should be easy to shut down the multiple-property Airbnb landlords.

What this might enable is "sharing" a huge property, say an apartment complex, essentially opening up a new class of low- or no-amenity hotels.

Re:A Look at Altera's OpenCL SDK for FPGAs on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @11:30AM (#9532483)
Would you please send me a pdf of your thesis?
Your email campaign is also running, that pulled me in
| I don't know a good introductory book, unfortunately.

I liked Eric Schechter's Classical and Non-Classical Logics for an eye-opening view into how logical systems are constructed from axioms. Might be a satisfying read for OP, as well.

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8119.html

Re: on Monday April 07, 2014 @01:41PM (#7548018)
This is an important lesson, but I was hoping for an implementation of stopping rules. If you're looking to actually stop your N-armed bandit trials properly, look at the S+ package SeqTrial. It implements the stopping rule framework described in KittelsonEmerson99 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11315020).
Re:Show HN: My embarrassingly simple printscreen weekend webapp on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @01:11PM (#6676787)
I installed a full application to do this the last time I needed annotated screenshots that didn't look like they were made by a child. I used Jing fwiw.
Re:Does life end after 35? on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @12:28PM (#6641327)
If you're turning 30, you're entering your fourth decade, not your third.
Re:Frequency-shaped background noise generators on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @12:35PM (#6516068)
Birds + running water + rustling trees? That should cover a wide band.
Re:An Unexpected Ass Kicking on Monday August 06, 2012 @05:20PM (#4347341)
Thanks sir! And never underestimate the value of the little cantrips like that to somebody who isn't aware of them. I was astounded that most people didn't know CTRL+F, and I always ask people if they know about it.(http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/crazy-...)
Re:Show HN: Script Excel with Python on Friday June 08, 2012 @05:34PM (#4086270)
This isn't necessary, you can have access to the full Excel COM API, with tab-completion, backwards-compatibility etc, for free with iPython and the makepy.py script.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/445961

Though I admit scripting Excel from Python should be easier to setup than it is.