Unless I have misread the paper, it seems that these folks have just found experimental proof that disk writes are buffered.
"In Java and Python strings are immutable, and any assignment will result in the creation of a new object and possibly copy operations, hence the overhead of the string operations. The disk-only code, although apparently writing to the disk excessively, is only triggering an actual write when operating system buffers are full. In other words, the operating system already lessons disk access times.
I'm guessing that this investigation started with someone making a bet while their thought processes were slightly impaired.
"[...] modification timestamps were almost always consistent with an 8-5 workday in the UTC-3 or UTC-4 timezones"
When writing an article of this sort your goal should be to _explain your position_, not to create a math problem which, if solved in the correct manner, suggests what your position could be. If the authors wanted to point to a 7-3 work day in UTC-5, they should have simply said so instead of going out of their way to state something quite different.
It's not hard.
Here, it could look something like this:
"[...] modification timestamps were almost always consistent with a 7-3 workday in the US Eastern timezone (UTC-5), allowing for standard Daylight Savings changes as observed in Virginia, DC and Maryland"
It should not look like this:
"[...] modification timestamps were almost always consistent with an 8 PM - 5 AM workday in the UTC+9 time zone, showing that this was clearly the work of North Koreans with insomnia"
If you were Canadian, you would have been seeing Spock on the $5 for years and years. Even the olderbills with different portraits were suitable for being "Spocked".
Not only that, you would know how to fold two $1 bills so that "Banque du Canada - Bank of Canada" changed into a request to do something impolite with a banana.
Yes: vote, but the candidates on the slate should be randomly selected from the population
Leaving the country to be run by people who are either too clueless to get out of jury duty, or smart enough to realize that the only way to win is to accept the job and then sell out to the highest bidder.
How is this supposed to be different from the way things are today?
-- That's funny, because the various levels of US government has provided me with roads, plumbing, housing, access to safe water, electricity, dial-up and then high-speed internet.
Do you understand the differences between state, municipal, and federal government?
Do you understand how that is relevant to this conversation? If so, please share it with the rest of us.
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Bring the convention to Toronto Canada, we don`t even have no fly lists, no Obama and our cops don`t shoot you - just give you a stern talking too.
Um... I hate to be the one to break this to you but... Perhaps there are a few things you don't know about Toronto. Or Canada in general.
Unless I have misread the paper, it seems that these folks have just found experimental proof that disk writes are buffered.
"In Java and Python strings are immutable, and any assignment will result in the creation of a new object and possibly copy operations, hence the overhead of the string operations. The disk-only code, although apparently writing to the disk excessively, is only triggering an actual write when operating system buffers are full. In other words, the operating system already lessons disk access times.
I'm guessing that this investigation started with someone making a bet while their thought processes were slightly impaired.
People need some incentive, which doesn't have to be money, to spend the time doing work on wikipedia articles.
Sure, you say that now, but when someone takes you up on your offer, you complain about it.
Content company: "We think these people downloaded something at some point."
ISP: They're in the back room. Go nuts.
I'm afraid that you have just Soup Godwinned this entire conversation.
Very few people know that she was really the voice of Nelson Muntz. For contractual reasons her name was replaced by Nancy Cartwright in the credits.
Will they start by taking down all of those naked pictures of that poor blue bird?
They are Florida ants. Where did you think they got the idea from?
"[...] modification timestamps were almost always consistent with an 8-5 workday in the UTC-3 or UTC-4 timezones"
When writing an article of this sort your goal should be to _explain your position_, not to create a math problem which, if solved in the correct manner, suggests what your position could be. If the authors wanted to point to a 7-3 work day in UTC-5, they should have simply said so instead of going out of their way to state something quite different.
It's not hard.
Here, it could look something like this:
"[...] modification timestamps were almost always consistent with a 7-3 workday in the US Eastern timezone (UTC-5), allowing for standard Daylight Savings changes as observed in Virginia, DC and Maryland"
It should not look like this:
"[...] modification timestamps were almost always consistent with an 8 PM - 5 AM workday in the UTC+9 time zone, showing that this was clearly the work of North Koreans with insomnia"
Do you see the difference?
Maybe someone needs to look up just what parts of the world actually use UTC-0300.
Though I'm sure he'll land somewhere.
I'm sure he landed somewhere else about a year ago.
According to his last Comcast bill he is "Mr. Dumbass Asshole", so that settles that.
It sounds like this show is just screaming out for a drinking game.
"Is CSI on? Start drinking."
"Is the show over yet? Okay, now you can stop."
"This makes Swordfish look like a documentary."
You know, the new bill has Laurier on it too.
If you were Canadian, you would have been seeing Spock on the $5 for years and years. Even the older bills with different portraits were suitable for being "Spocked".
Not only that, you would know how to fold two $1 bills so that "Banque du Canada - Bank of Canada" changed into a request to do something impolite with a banana.
What are you quoting?
Hey, let's find out.
Looks like Steven L. Woodrow, a partner at law firm Edelson, quoted in a Reuters story from last year.
Wasn't that the whole point behind Bitcoin? That you could fleece investors without leaving a paper trail?
Some days I just wish America's Hat would just fall the fuck off.
Don't feel bad about that. They feel the same way about Canada's Underwear.
Yes: vote, but the candidates on the slate should be randomly selected from the population
Leaving the country to be run by people who are either too clueless to get out of jury duty, or smart enough to realize that the only way to win is to accept the job and then sell out to the highest bidder.
How is this supposed to be different from the way things are today?
You could also fill it with blue LEDs and cold cathode light tubes so that...
Um...
So that the hand would go faster, or something. I'm pretty sure that's the reason for those things.
The Star Wars hand doesn't make a "doot doot doot doot" sound all the time.
Yeah and what if we lost the earth??
Then perhaps we should look behind the couch cushions. You'd be amazed at the kind of things you can find there.
Look closely at the "tin foil" which the government allows you to buy in stores.
There is _no_tin_ in it. Anywhere.
What are they afraid of?
-- That's funny, because the various levels of US government has provided me with roads, plumbing, housing, access to safe water, electricity, dial-up and then high-speed internet.
Do you understand the differences between state, municipal, and federal government?
Do you understand how that is relevant to this conversation? If so, please share it with the rest of us.