BruceIV

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by BruceIV 13y ago
I found a couple relevant links - a blog post of the author's about GPU optimizations [1], and an early paper on this work [2]. [1] http://blog.theincredibleholk.org/blog/2013/06/10/some-simpl... [2
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I read through the user guide in the git repo, but it hasn't been updated for a year, and doesn't tell me what I'm most interested in (namely, what kind of optimizations does the compiler do, and what's the win for this
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Yeah, as far as I could tell, you only used them to talk to the old man in the swamp - you'll find them periodically in your traps, though - I had 8 or 10 by the time I finished the game, so don't worry too much about losing them.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
How did you get a bayonet? I never found one.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Yeah, he'd be justifiably pissed if he got 50% of the maximum advertised bandwidth, but 98% - Who's his ISP, and do they have service in my area?
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by BruceIV 13y ago
you're nearly done, you just want to upgrade it with the alien alloy you found in the bore sites
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the heads up.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I was merely saying that I don't feel like arguing the morality of it, whereas he'd need a very clever lawyer and a sympathetic judge to get out of the treason charge should he ever stand trial.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
There was something about not being able to get a fair trial stateside. Although, I don't know what the laws are like in the States, but in Canada you can go to jail if you have security clearance and reveal information that if true
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I think it's a little rich that Snowden is complaining about being labelled a traitor - morality aside, what he did seems like a pretty clear-cut case of treason from a legal standpoint (IANAL).
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by BruceIV 13y ago
HN "hellbans" users who have karma that's below a certain threshold (0, I think) - the site looks normal to them, but no one else can see their posts. You can see the post if you turn on "show dead" in your profile.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I think that getting decent speedup on this kind of non-obvious GPU problem is an impressive result. Their presentation here is somewhat lacking in academic rigor (I for one would have liked to see a description of how they got their timing
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I've been using Windows 8 on my (multi-monitor) desktop for a few months now, and the feature I'm most excited about is the ability to launch Metro apps on both screens. There still aren't many good ones, but it's annoying when I want to pl
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I believe that "magical incantation of mouse movements" is a right click. (Not claiming it's discoverable, just that it's not complicated.)
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I'm a student, so I get to take advantage of this, but if you aren't, a bare git repo in a Dropbox folder makes an okay poor-man's private repo. You need to be careful to let Dropbox sync before you shut down your computer, and, though coll
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Github as private wiki, interesting.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Agreed. I'd be making twice (if not three or four times) as much if I went and got an industry job instead of pursuing my CS PhD, but my stipend is sufficient to live comfortably enough on, and the pay raise wouldn't be worth the loss of au
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Lecturers sometimes don't have PhD's, tend not to do research, and get stuck with all the courses that the tenured profs don't want to teach (and don't get paid much better than their TA's to teach the course).
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by BruceIV 13y ago
C++ is a beast of a language that has semantics which are pretty much too big to keep in your head - I think the best potential for this is some of the new languages targeting some of the same ends (Rust is closer to the capabilities of C++
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Once an alias gets old enough, I think it counts as "standing behind your comments personally" - if you cared to go looking, you could find some pretty dumb stuff I posted years ago on other sites when I was in high school, but I'm still us
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by BruceIV 13y ago
I'm in the same boat - I've been BruceIV nearly as long as I've been on the 'net, and it would be pretty trivial to find my actual name, location, etc. if anyone cared to look. I used to take more care to avoid links from BruceIV to my meat
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by BruceIV 13y ago
When I turned 16 (within the past decade), Dad spent $1400 and bought a 12 year old old Mazda hatchback - the thing was completely gutless and didn't even have a stereo, let alone airbags and traction control (ABS, maybe, I feel like it's b
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Actually, my elementary school math textbooks were American, awkwardly pasted over to use metric for the measurement unit, so I can keep the Imperial liquid measurements straight by just remembering that there are "2 half litres (pints) to
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by BruceIV 13y ago
The smoothness of the transition in Canada is somewhat debatable. We use this weird mix of Imperial and metric now - people and food are (generally) measured in Imperial (I couldn't tell you my weight in kilograms, I can only remember my he
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Car accidents kill orders of magnitude more people than terrorists do. I think even if the number of car bombings jumped to 10 times its current level with autonomous cars society would still likely come out ahead.
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by BruceIV 13y ago
So get the driverless car that isn't run by Google. I get that there are privacy issues, but I still think this article is overly alarmist. As an aside, I expect autonomous driving to be phased in gradually - I'd wager freeways first, the
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by BruceIV 13y ago
This isn't only of use to Windows users - lazy ZSH users can set up a suffix alias for .txt, so that you can open README.txt just by typing its name, but that doesn't work for files without extensions (like README).
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by BruceIV 13y ago
As the lab TA for a first year course in Java, I don't know how many times I repeated "A variable is like a box: it has a label (the variable name), and it stores something." - it's a simplistic analogy, but not far wrong (at least for Java
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by BruceIV 13y ago
Yes, but where you live is as much of a choice as where you work. If you want to live far from work, that's your prerogative, and it's a choice that generally implies car ownership, but it is a choice. (Tradespeople and the like who may not
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by BruceIV 13y ago
The comparison with cyclists isn't completely apt, though. I can't really think of an empirical benefit for human-driven cars over computer-driven (assuming there's a manual mode that can be activated outside the cities and off freeways), b

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