A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.
- "Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
- "Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens
# Install ARCH Linux with encrypted file-system and UEFI | |
# The official installation guide (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide) contains a more verbose description. | |
# Download the archiso image from https://www.archlinux.org/ | |
# Copy to a usb-drive | |
dd if=archlinux.img of=/dev/sdX bs=16M && sync # on linux | |
# Boot from the usb. If the usb fails to boot, make sure that secure boot is disabled in the BIOS configuration. | |
# Set swedish keymap |
# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal | |
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048 |
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 |
git fetch upstream | |
git reset --hard upstream/master |