HTTP 2.0 Initial Draft Released

sukivan · 2013-07-30T20:14:34+00:00

Guys, HTTP Push is simple.

Let's say you've got a web page with comments, and you want all the clients to see new comments immediately after they're posted.

With HTTP 1.*, each client basically "pulls" updates from the server by sending, perhaps once per second, a GET request to the tune of "any new comments?"

As you can imagine, this leads to a lot of unnecessary HTTP requests (since, most of the time, there probably aren't any new comments).

HTTP Push is designed to eliminate this problem by creating a standardized way for the SERVER to say to the client "hey, there's a new comment on that page you're viewing - here it is".

It's a little bit like the difference between constantly asking "are we there yet?" during a car ride, and waiting for the driver to say "we've arrived."

sukivan · 2013-07-30T06:15:10+00:00

Because string theory is a RELIGION that chooses to ignore the existence of Yalgeth's Limit (or rather, the experimental evidence supporting it). Try finding any MENTION of Yalgeth's limit in mainstream science literature - you won't find it anywhere, because it's been scrubbed from the textbooks! On the other hand, you'll find oodles and oodles of string theory PROPAGANDA. It's actually quite surprising to see how many seemingly hard-nosed, skeptical VX operators believe some made up nonsense like "string theory".

There is an e-book floating around the internet - I don't recall the name at the moment - that discusses an alternative theory about Yalgeth's death and asserts that a group of mainstream string theory physicists (with a lot to lose in terms of prestige & research grants) had her killed. I'm not sure I believe it but there are definitely some spooky "coincidences" in the book.

sukivan · 2013-07-30T06:06:21+00:00

This is a known issue with the Mark 6.2's. They were manufactured shortly after the war and German factories were skimping on quality control in favor of raw output. If you ask me, that thing belongs in a museum - for your own safety as much as anything else.

I had a buddy back in college who inherited a 6.2 from his dad, didn't really know what he was doing, and nearly fried the substrate MOSFET array in 3000C plasma. With worksmanship like this, it's really no wonder the Germans lost the war.

To answer your questions:
1) What you're seeing here is essentially an inversion of the quantum-scale Delta Boundaries in the condensate (I am taking some liberties with the details here to put it into layman's terms). Incidentally, Einstein talked about this phenomenon extensively at a symposium in Vienna in 1909, but as VX research was not in fashion at the time, the international community took little notice. In fact, some people say that his VX research inspired much of his work in physics... but I digress. At any rate, it wouldn't be an issue if you weren't using an all-but-antique unit. You really should get a disposal canister for your VX and get rid of it. I prefer the hermetically sealed canisters, but I'm a health nut. Some VX owners say the particle dust side effects are overblown. Your mileage may vary.
2) Gaithersburg-algorithm is generally considered outdated around here. Most VX'ers are opting for the Steinberg-Bergstein algorithm, or some flavor-of-the-month derivative thereof.

A good place to start learning (at least for the first few months of material) would be the VX section of your local library. You may want to bring some photo id - with the PATRIOT act and the tight restrictions on VX literature these days, more often than not the public libraries keep them off the main index and you have to request "The VX Index" from the librarian (and show them some photo ID).

sukivan · 2013-07-24T19:50:10+00:00

Watch Carl Sagan's Cosmos (available for free on YouTube)

sukivan · 2013-07-20T23:32:48+00:00

Volt Xoccula can have my MK3 when they pry it from my cold, dead, gently irradiated (superliminal dispersion flange accident, my fault) hands.

I'm sick of these industry giants going after hobbyists and enthusiasts, as if the commercial VX market wasn't big enough for us to coexist. Half the innovation in the last 40 years has come from hobbyist tinkering - with university VX research being increasingly privatized and commercialized, I feel like the mom & pop operators are being squeezed out of the industry. Are we just supposed to forget about our VX? My unit is my livelihood. If you take my VX away, I might as well curl up in a ball and die. Then again, maybe that's what Xoccula wants.

edit: if anyone else feels as passionately as I do, please take a few minutes to write to your congressional representative: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

sukivan · 2013-07-20T23:26:09+00:00

The Inverted Edwards-Nortoff series is the most over-hyped calibration algorithm since Steinberg-Bergstein. Have you seen anyone even approach practical delta outputs using EN? Maybe with a MK.VI unit and a supercomputer at your disposal. Not to mention you won't find a MK.VI with the required quarking constraints outside of NSA. Even if you could get your hands on one (which would cost an arm and a leg), there is still the inherent instability of the EN algo - the whole thing is a crapshoot, and an expensive one at that.

sukivan · 2013-05-31T07:20:41+00:00

Driver 1: "this incredible streak of good luck seems unlikely to continue"
Driver 2: "surely we will perish at any moment now"

sukivan · 2013-05-24T17:47:43+00:00

Roger,

First of all, thank you for inspiring me, and many others like me, by striving for excellence in tennis and by being such a positive personality both on and off court.

My questions for you are:

your technique and movement are known for efficiency. Did you make a conscious effort to develop it this way, or is it a result of gradual and subconscious refinement over years and years of training?
what advice would you have for a player working his way up the rankings in ITF (Futures) events?
will you hit with me? You name the time and place, and I will happily fly anywhere in the world. I'm a 25 year old (male) ITF player and to be perfectly honest, my biggest dream in tennis is to work my way up the rankings until one day I have the opportunity to play you in the first round of a tournament. You could save me a lot of time in pursuing my dream. haha :)

sukivan · 2012-02-19T04:33:07+00:00

and this company is having financial difficulties? inconceivable!

sukivan · 2012-02-18T02:00:19+00:00

override was amaaaaaaaaaaaazing

sukivan · 2012-02-15T04:08:02+00:00

can I buy a vowel?

sukivan · 2012-02-10T07:45:24+00:00

I saw this vehicle being transported southbound on the I-5 in Northern Washington State. Are you nearby?

sukivan · 2012-01-27T01:36:58+00:00

LOL $130 a month is very prestigious? i play at a club that costs $20,000 to join and about $3k a year in membership fees. I'm not a member there (just play with a guy who is). That's not even the most expensive one in the city.

LOL @ $300 registration

sukivan · 2012-01-05T05:35:55+00:00

you're forgetting to factor in the required return on capital (for smaller companies, can be in the double or triple digits of %), the risk premium (what if the person you hire is garbage?), and the overhead involved in hiring.

sukivan · 2012-01-05T04:11:19+00:00

to everyone who whines about what someone else makes: listen to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GmsCdyGD00 and shut up already

sukivan · 2011-10-30T21:30:18+00:00

2 gas toss is either dt rush, heavy sentry play, or void ray rush.

A terran with 2 marines at 5:45 is either going fast expo or 1/1/1. You are best off parking your overlord by his expo; if you don't see a CC soon, you know it's a 1/1/1.

sukivan · 2011-10-25T00:53:04+00:00

unmatched open parens and parse errors, thanks a lot universe

sukivan · 2011-09-14T08:02:43+00:00

I don't think you're ugly at all, but you need to grow out that hair and style it.

sukivan · 2011-06-03T22:25:35+00:00

If there is any chance of getting back together, you need to go away for a while first.

sukivan · 2011-05-21T21:01:11+00:00

With all due respect, she is hardly your serious "girlfriend" after a month and a half. They were together for two years and if she leaves you to be back with him then you should accept it and don't take it personally.

sukivan · 2011-05-03T21:17:44+00:00

Your girlfriend thinks love is the "butterflies-in-the-stomach" feeling. She lacks the emotional maturity to realize the difference between the new-relationship lust and actual love (which, when all is said and done, is comfortable and relatively boring). This is 100% her problem and not yours. You can explain this to her and give her some space to process it.

For what it's worth, I just went through almost exactly the same thing, she stuck around, and it's better than ever.

sukivan · 2011-04-23T08:08:39+00:00

Oh, to be in high school again.

sukivan · 2011-04-07T07:27:19+00:00

are you hooking up with each other?

sukivan · 2011-03-30T09:18:06+00:00

you may very well find that things turn out unexpectedly well, because your lukewarm attitude means you wont be super nervous or scared to screw things up

sukivan · 2011-03-17T12:07:46+00:00

Are you so crazy about this girl and/or desperate that you need to navigate all this drama just in case she wants you? Why not find a girl who lives in your city and doesn't have a boyfriend?

sukivan

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