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Re:Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone on Saturday July 13, 2024 @06:14PM (#40957302)
I've been using one of these for about a year. It's been great having a device that I can actually reach all of, and the small size also helps to not be a distraction.

About the only thing I miss from the Pixel series is camera skills and unnatural photo enhancements. It takes some nudging to get my jelly star to focus properly.

Reddit's TFA is not phone number based. You use a one time password generator.
If you use virtual addresses to index your caches, you have to clear them all on every process context switch.

With physical addresses, you just have to clear your TLB cache.

The actual analysis of inserts are that they take "amortized O(1) with a single operation worst case of O(N)"

So N operations take N measurement units as N goes to infinity, but any individual operation may be slower or faster.

Re:A Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @10:16PM (#14600171)
Each beat is probably better considered a symbol, so by your analysis the human audio channel is around 20 baud not 20 bits/s. The symbol size obviously has a large impact on the information bit rate.

We can estimate the size of a symbol though: 13b for primary tones(20khz range at about 3Hz resolution) + 4b for rising/falling/etc tonal patterns + 7b for volume (1dB detection over 120db range) + (42 phonemes in english so round up to 256 for convenience) 8b for phoneme patterns + 2 ears preprocessed for 2d directions is maybe 4b direction and 4b distance gives a total of around 40b per symbol.

So with that wild approximation, it's at 800 bps, or 8.64 MB / 24h

Re:Bup – towards the perfect backup on Monday November 17, 2014 @07:03PM (#8621635)
ZFS is also very far away from the state of the art in online dedup. For instance, http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~avani/wildani-icde13dedup.pdf has a theoretical dedup regime that needs only 1% of the RAM for 90% of the benefit.