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/ My Favorite Nerd Humor Tweets
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| Funny Tech Tweets | |
| ================= | |
| ### Corny ### | |
| I know a programming joke about 10,000 mutexes, but it's a bit contentious. | |
| --@secboffin | |
| I also have a UDP joke. But you might not get it. | |
| --@jonathanstray |
Flowkap
/ spawn_once.lua
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This is a small gist for autostarting applications with Awesome Window Manager (http://awesome.naquadah.org/) without the need to use a third party plugin like shifty. It's maybe not nice but works!
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| -- {{{ | |
| -- | |
| -- Autostarting for Awesome <3.4! | |
| -- Add this section to the end of your rc.lua | |
| -- configuration file within ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua | |
| -- | |
| -- If you're using Awesome 3.5 change: | |
| -- add_signal -> connect_signal | |
| -- remove_signal --> disconnect_signal | |
| -- |
jboner
/ latency.txt
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Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
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| Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012) | |
| ---------------------------------- | |
| 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 |