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@OrangeTux
OrangeTux / config
Last active June 19, 2021 13:18
Config for Irssi to connect to various XMPP chat servers. Replace the passwords, usernames an ids by your own. Remember, the irssi-xmpp (http://cybione.org/~irssi-xmpp/) plugin is requried.
# irssi-xmpp plugin required
# http://cybione.org/~irssi-xmpp/
servers = (
{
address = "chat.facebook.com";
chatnet = "facebook";
password = "<password>";
autoconnect = "true";
},
{
@rjemanuele
rjemanuele / mwpc.txt
Last active August 4, 2019 04:45
Milky Way Pound cake
I've never made the frosting. It's too rich.
Use "PAM with flour" baking spray.
Milky Way Pound cake
6 (2.15 ounce) Milky Way Bars
1 cup butter, divided
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active July 11, 2025 23:54
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@arreyder
arreyder / gist:1672193
Last active September 29, 2015 21:37
Technologies Used
https://github.com/facebook/scribe We move messages and logs around with this.
http://nodejs.org/ Messenger, Inserter, API and the cli are written in Node.js
http://www.opscode.com/chef/ Configuration management.
http://git-scm.com/ What we use for source and config management.
http://esper.codehaus.org/ The CEP service uses this engine for event correlation.