BooneJS

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by BooneJS 8y ago
I make coffee in a Tias Kettle with coffee ground just as the water comes to a boil. It’s the ritual of the whole thing.
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by BooneJS 8y ago
As the yearly pace of processor improvements continues to dwindle, more and more problems will become CPU bound.
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by BooneJS 8y ago
> unfortunately, the use of SIMD can make the code less portable and less maintainable Unfortunately general purpose processors aren’t getting any faster, but they are getting more specialized. At some point in the future package manager
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by BooneJS 8y ago
Back in my day, the rebels just got tattoos when they were old enough. Maybe this generation will survive.
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by BooneJS 8y ago
Load times are through the floor. I bet you could fetch this thing over dial-up in under 10 seconds.
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by BooneJS 8y ago
Madison isn’t called “The People’s Republic of Madison” for nothing.
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by BooneJS 8y ago
If you've got a mature, all-encompassing build flow (hierarchical Makefiles, Bazel, etc), then ensuring a required tool is up to date after a pull is very straightforward. The weaker your build system, the more you really depend on too
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by BooneJS 8y ago
Making libraries concise is key - if you're trying to "write bash" in Swift, then being able to glue things together quickly and easily (as if you were piping to/from curl, grep, etc) is important.
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by BooneJS 8y ago
Depending on your usage, a "script" done in a language like Swift, Go, or Haskell will probably take a little longer to put together than a bash script. Bash merely glues together generally-available command-line tools with pipes
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by BooneJS 8y ago
= are blocking assignments, and they’re what you’re supposed to use in a combinatorial always block. Are you thinking of non-blocking <= used to assign to a dff?
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by BooneJS 8y ago
I presume Bloomberg will release their raw data and pay for the audit. I’ve been wrong before.
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by BooneJS 8y ago
If there were a better way than Instagram to see beautiful photography from the National Parks in the US, I’d use it. As it stands, it’s not bad but I wish they’d just let me see an actual timeline and automatically mark images seen/ar
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by BooneJS 8y ago
The last few years I used Go, but I’d like to learn Rust. This seems like a good excuse to dabble in a new language.
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Amazon “Inferentia” ML inference chip(cnbc.com)
3 points by BooneJS 8y ago|0 comments
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Open-sourcing FBGEMM for state-of-the-art server-side inference(code.fb.com)
72 points by BooneJS 8y ago|7 comments
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by BooneJS 8y ago
...and mobile tutoring as student athletes ride home from a game, and mobile offices for commuters, and anything that can be done in a car to enable productivity during otherwise unproductive time.
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Did Republicans Deal Away the Wisconsin Governor’s Race to Foxconn?(newyorker.com)
1 points by BooneJS 8y ago|0 comments
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by BooneJS 8y ago
after the games end. Live games are still DirecTV Sunday Ticket or some Sunday Ticket streaming service that only "some addresses" are eligible for.
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Cray's next HPC interconnect: Slingshot(cray.com)
4 points by BooneJS 8y ago|0 comments
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by BooneJS 8y ago
Eau Claire area has Cray Inc, Intel, Jamf, and others.
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by BooneJS 8y ago
Yes, sorry. Eau Claire/Chippewa Falls/Menomonie are communities in that area.
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by BooneJS 8y ago
Eau Claire is a nice place to raise a family, but that's not a selling point to recent college grads. Engineers in Wisconsin live in the Chippewa Valley, the Fox River Valley, Milwaukee, and Madison. That's about it.
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by BooneJS 8y ago
JP Morgan _still_ hasn't provided clean drinking water[0] to New Yorkers yet, so it's simply karma. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manhattan_Company
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by BooneJS 8y ago
RISC-V is technically an ISA with a reference implementation. In theory and practice, it can be implemented as a low-power micro controller or augmented with additional instructions to play in the supercomputer space. Processors simply cann
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by BooneJS 8y ago
Google has 3 Titans. 1) Titan for GCP servers: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/titan-in-depth-se... (custom hardware, custom software) 2) Security key: https://cloud.google.com/tita
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by BooneJS 8y ago
On the other hand, Peet's and Starbucks have apps that you pay with and you don't have to enter a tip to get out of the screen. Starbucks lets you know that the option to tip will be available for 1 hour.
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by BooneJS 8y ago
Josiah? I'd be more worried about the viking king Harald rising from the grave to clear his name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth
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Honda will use GM’s self-driving technology, invests in Cruise(arstechnica.com)
351 points by BooneJS 8y ago|245 comments
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by BooneJS 8y ago
A pretty fast way in Haskell/ghci[0] is: λ: fibs = 1 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs) λ: last $ take 47 fibs 2971215073 [0]: https://wiki.haskell.org/The_Fibonacci_sequence#Canonical_zi...
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by BooneJS 8y ago
We've had an iPhone 3gs (30-pin) plugged into a speaker playing music in our son's room for years. He plays the violin, so listening to the piece he's working on and previous pieces is useful and calming for him.

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