BooneJS

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   by BooneJS 6y ago

   While not as devastating as some shown here, 44.3171003, -91.2593236 will show you one frac sand mine in Wisconsin where they’ve leveled an entire hill and shipped it out west. They even built a plant and several new railroad tracks for it.
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   by BooneJS 6y ago

   What’s the strategy for operating systems, compilers, and/or language runtimes to figure out what a RISC-V chip supports? It used to be one thing checking which SIMD units an x86 had, but the nature of an open source processor lends it
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   by BooneJS 6y ago

   My village’s Facebook page offers a counter-example to this article. When it comes to wearing masks or virtual/in-person school, there’s no amount of vitriol the most vocal won’t say.
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   by BooneJS 6y ago

   Meanwhile, my 2 year old mobile device...
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   by BooneJS 6y ago

   Here's the best image we could get: https://imgur.com/a/ZOmP3k4
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   by BooneJS 6y ago

   Right. Because AMD had the same instructions (but presumably different pipeline timings?), they kept their secrets behind a bit of a wall which added friction for people who would have liked extra performance but not been willing to jump th
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   by BooneJS 6y ago

   It also makes building high-performance open source software challenging. Intel or AMD? If Intel, is the MKL library installed? The support matrix grows a bit out of hand.
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   by BooneJS 6y ago

   My daughter and I found a hill outside of the city. We could barely make out a smudge in the sky with bare eyes, but binocs and dSLR managed to capture it. Fun!
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   by BooneJS 6y ago

   I think “shockingly bad” is a bit dramatic. OpenCL, Metal, and Grand Central Dispatch are all technologies Apple created to help developers take advantage of the hardware Apple ships. I think a fair criticism would be the noise created by d
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    It's true that Intel (note, I'm a former employee) has had a mixed track record in creating new businesses outside of desktop and server chips. However, I'd like to point out a few things. 1. When Intel released HT as a way t
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    Intel is making silicon for an entire industry. The "white box" industry flourished by assembling a box of parts and shipped them out the door with no other value added. Intel hyperthreading is ancient at this point, but for years
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    GF's 14nm lab in Malta, NY is not going to be upgraded to 7nm also. They cancelled it.
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    Probably not for the same power envelope.
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    "Step 1: Install NodeJS" I think what got people excited about Xi with Ropes and CRDT and Rust was that it was going to be a modern codebase with performance. Now that Moore's Law is buried next to Denard scaling, we need les
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    Lots of NICs for large supercomputers have special message passing offload engines. But JSON is too ASCII and too random to find a reason to accelerate it.
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    Team Rubicon is another NGO that provides disaster relief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Rubicon
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    20 years ago I got a job and went from Windows to Unix. Tinkered with both emacs and vim, and for some reason had this craziness where I'd start new files in emacs and make small edits in vi/vim. I have dabbled with neovim and vim
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    RSS applications all have a fixed feature set. Subscribe to feeds, check feeds for updates, organize & sync data for multiple clients, and present user's reading list to the screen. There are several RSS readers that all tick these
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    Everyone making ML ASICs would disagree.
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    I transferred out of the Bay Area a year ago, and my FAANG salary was cut 15%. For them, salaries are based on “Cost of Labor”, or the cost of getting a person to join in that area, not “Cost of Living”. I’m still doing just fine.
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    Sure they’re expensive to design and make, but with appropriate volume or margin you’ll get the lowest power device possible for your application. General SoC’s are just that: general. Moore and Dennard stopped helping, so they’re missing w
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    After Walker lost, the GOP assembly, senate, and lame duck Governor passed a bunch of bills to nerf the Governor’s power. Kelly voting with the majority is quite tame.
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    I got one will continue to work from home in Wisconsin and let all of the lab rats head to the bars.
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    We use Duo to let our kids talk to my father, who is out in the woods with an iPhone but no broadband. It works pretty well compared to FaceTime. One day the kids may get to visit him again!
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    I filled my car in Wisconsin for the first time in 2 months at $0.989 for 87 octane. I think the last time I paid that price the attendant filled it for me.
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    Can you refer to figures and have the name rendered? For instance, a piece of text referring to a figure and the figure’s label will both get rendered to “Figure 2.8” regardless of paragraph edits and figures inserted or delete before it?
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    by BooneJS 6y ago

    Is it not common for companies to control what apps are installed on corporate computers, and where company data is stored (cloud providers, etc)? I get the whole Zoom backlash, but this is taking a specific instance of company and app and
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    Unemployment putting people to work.
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    Well, and whenever Google sunsets a product.
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    by BooneJS 7y ago

    I lack wheat and rye flour, otherwise I’d have made a starter by now.