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  1. Question for Roblimo on Buying New Commercial IT Hardware Isn't Always Worthwhile (Video) · · Score: 1

    Do you actually feel embarrassed about having posted this, or did you do it willingly?

  2. Re:Removing gluten in the mash? on Ben Starr Answers Your Questions About Sustainability and Kitchen Tech · · Score: 2

    It's not part of the mashing process, but I've heard such claims made about chill haze reducing enzymes: http://www.whitelabs.com/other...

  3. 3D printing?! on Carpenter Who Cut Off His Fingers Makes "Robohand" With 3-D Printer · · Score: 1

    You mean you can print in 3D now? Why have you guys kept that so quiet for so long?

  4. Re:Wayland! on Wayland 1.4 Released — Touch, Sub-Surface Protocol, Crop/Scale Support · · Score: 5, Funny
    Ah now to be fair, pulseaudio wasn't all bad. In its early mainstream (Fedora 12?) days, when I had audio problems, I knew that I could always type `killall pulseaudio` and reliably solve them.

    So...there's that.

  5. Re:PI-N? on Why People Are So Bad At Picking Passwords · · Score: 3, Funny

    All of us. We just choose a different place to start.

  6. Re:Rreasonable response on Book Review: The Healthy Programmer · · Score: 2

    Especially from a glowing review that explains how it's a book that is effective due to its non-quick-fix approach, and yet Amazon tells me was published less than 6 weeks ago?

  7. Re:you've got to be kidding me on SanDisk Focusing More On Desktop and Mobile SATA SSDs, Extreme II Series Tested · · Score: 1

    Vim? Joining 10 tables is a ballache in terms of typing, but it's not actually /hard/ - any more than writing a function with 10 statements is hard. You just need to step away from the ORM long enough to realise that actually relational databases are perfectly logical and easy (well, as easy as any other programming) despite what various frameworks have screamed at you for years.

  8. Re:Correlation on Surgeries On Friday Are More Frequently Fatal · · Score: 4, Informative

    The study only looked at elective surgery, not urgent surgery.

  9. Impressive! on UK Apple Shop Forced To Change Its Name · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I mean I guess the summary could have been written in a more cunty way, but I don't see how. So high fives all round!

  10. Re:Industry wants more users to use products on Microsoft Wants Computer Science Taught In UK Primary Schools · · Score: 1

    True. These infernal "computer" things would be going nowhere if it weren't for the clever marketing.

  11. Re:Yup on Book Review: Sams Teach Yourself Node.js In 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    It's more sarcastic. Please try to keep up.

  12. Yup on Book Review: Sams Teach Yourself Node.js In 24 Hours · · Score: 3, Funny

    Before node.js it was literally impossible to use JS on a server. Thanks Node!!!1

  13. Thank fuck! on Finding a Crowdsourced Cure For Brain Cancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we've got homeopaths and spiritualists involved, a cure for cancer must surely be just around the corner!!

  14. Seriously? on Amazon.com: Earth's Biggest Wine Cellar? · · Score: 1

    Seriously?!

  15. Oh, now it makes sense on Mike Storey and His Plate Reverb (Video) · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Why is Slashdot running a story about someone making a piece of simple (if awkward) equipment that has been used all over the world for decades?

    " for a (highly negotiable) fee"

    Oh, now I see. As you were.

  16. Re:Did the cop got fired? on Supreme Court Hearing Case On Drug-Sniffing Dog "Fishing Expeditions" · · Score: 5, Insightful
  17. Re:That's great and all, but . . . on PostgreSQL 9.2 Out with Greatly Improved Scalability · · Score: 3, Informative
    Well...arguably. This is the exact same argument as Apache vs Nginx, where Apache spawns a child process per client, whereas Nginx has a limited number of worker processes that handle a queue of requests as they become free. Nginx definitely has an advantage in terms of RAM when servicing thousands of (truly) simultaneous requests.

    While Postgresql does use the Apache model, there is middleware available (google 'pgpool' for an example) that amongst other things will queue requests so they can be serviced by a limited number of children. Of course this only matters if there are an awful lot of simultaneous queries (without the corresponding amount of server RAM).

    However; your claim about threads per CPU is oversimplified, and especially wrong with a DB server where processes will most likely be IO bound. With 1 core, for example, there is nothing wrong with having 5 processes parsing and planning a query for a few microseconds, while the 6th is monopolising IO actually retrieving query results. Or the reverse - having 1 CPU-bound process occasionally being interrupted to service 5 IO bound processes, which would negligibly impact the CPU-bound query, while hugely improving latency on the IO bound queries.

  18. Re:That's great and all, but . . . on PostgreSQL 9.2 Out with Greatly Improved Scalability · · Score: 3, Informative

    Each client connected to the DB has its own child process - the shared memory is a buffer that is shared across postgresql child PIDs with the same parent. That's why the proposed patch would work using an anonymous shared memory segment - because the memory is only passed to children of the same process.

  19. History polymath? on Judge Orders Release of Ex-Marine Detained Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A polymath in a specific subject?

  20. Re:You don't say... on $50 Sound Cards Impress Versus Integrated Audio · · Score: 1

    "didgital"? WTF am I typing?

  21. Re:You don't say... on $50 Sound Cards Impress Versus Integrated Audio · · Score: 2
    I think claiming to have 192kHz DACs and then sticking a 20kHz filter in front of them would be...misleading. And looking at the datasheet it certainly suggests that the cutoff moves with sampling rate.

    But whatever the cause, the point is that something like that should not pass without comment; that it has done indicates to me that the reviewer may not be particularly familiar with the subject.

  22. Re:You don't say... on $50 Sound Cards Impress Versus Integrated Audio · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I think what's most telling about their analysis is on the 96kHz plots. The Realtek consistently drops to nothing around 20kHz, and yet apparently that didn't mean anything to them other than "look how well these results fit with out hypothesis". Anyone who actually knew something about didgital audio would think "either I've set this up wrong or the drivers/hardware are bust, because this thing is blatantly stuck at 44.1kHz".

    The only other thing to be gleaned from the graphs is that running at 96kHz is pointless because the supposedly better cards' performance FUCKING SUCKS past 20kHz.

  23. Re:UK did not extradite... on Home Office To Ignore Wikipedia Founder's Petition Against O'Dwyer Extradition · · Score: 2
    Going by the information in that article, I have to say I agree with the justices. That's a fucked up system you guys have got:

    The justices in London outlined a litany of concerns in their June 20 decision, noting offenders don't have to be mentally ill to be committed; their offenses don't have to be recent; and in some cases, they don't even have to have been convicted of a crime.

    As of April 1, 641 people were in Minnesota's program...some who say it holds people indefinitely after their prison sentences. One 64-year-old man received a provisional discharge earlier this year...Only one other person was ever released from the program, and was soon taken back into custody on a violation.

  24. Re:There is not even a way to remove it! on Facebook Says Your Email Is @Facebook · · Score: 1

    What the fuck are you talking about? The complaint that people have is that an email address appears on their profiles. It is possible to remove that email address from their profiles. But you don't want to remove the email address from your profile, you want to delete it from your profile. Because deOHMYGODI'MWASTINGMYLIFE

  25. Re:There is not even a way to remove it! on Facebook Says Your Email Is @Facebook · · Score: 2

    I don't have timeline. I can change it.