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by Cullinet 6y ago
this immediately reminded me of SGI's Open Performer and the subsequent failed OpenGL++ efforts : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL_Performer
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by Cullinet 6y ago
sometimes I cry a little over the fact that people who only have access to under powered phones are the most incentivised to criticise apps despite being consigned to ultimate futility regardless of their actions, whilst it's a rare oc
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by Cullinet 6y ago
it's also just harder to rebuild and renew any downtown infrastructure, wherever located. in the UK, town centre development has been hindered particularly by the effects of having caused a diverse small business and retail environment
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by Cullinet 6y ago
ah, I am promoted thus to reminisce upon my boolshitten youth spent vainly stabbing out crud most fervid and amorous to dump the vilest cores to jest with that naivest child me to know it better than to presume that my brittle logic could a
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by Cullinet 6y ago
I read your "indebted with society" and the word that formed in my thoughts was "indenture". if you are saying that we're become indentured to modern society, I have never thought of it like this before but I am imm
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by Cullinet 6y ago
I have no idea how true this is, but my friend who claimed to have verified his research most thoroughly and was hell bent on attempting this against everyone's advice for he wasn't the outdoors man by any means, asserted the enti
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by Cullinet 6y ago
Nikon have just published a complete free and quite sophisticated photo software suite, most useful summary of which here : https://bythom.com/newsviews/nikon-launches-new-software.htm... Ed; "Everything is there:
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2020 CD3 [pdf] temporary orbiter of the Earth–Moon system(arxiv.org)
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DIY microscope lenses on BMD pocket 6K camera(schweinert.com)
149 points by Cullinet 6y ago|68 comments
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by Cullinet 6y ago
hi! thanks for your reply, and notes gratefully taken! in fact it's avoiding touching memory that's important for vms clusters since the model is shared storage but nothing else. the language support hopefully leans towards implem
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by Cullinet 6y ago
ahm yep! I can't stop making the same mistake unfortunately, I have attributed this to the similarities with the worrying about my payload that I experience about the same sending 6 figures of hardware to a stranger as I have felt when
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by Cullinet 6y ago
tldr : ripgrep immediately strikes me as holding incredible medium term potential effects routed via the needs particular to openVMS; particularly complimenting the dramatically improved economics of the x64 port and the profound potential
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by Cullinet 6y ago
actually more horsepower isn't necessarily helpful - I was reading earlier today about a point cloud architecture application that preallocates larger jobs by guessing the capabilities of the multiprocessor available. This isn't a
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by Cullinet 6y ago
Keyshot and Redshift have put PIXAR level rendering within reach of anyone with a modern GPU and can make great use of 64 core AMD now too.
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by Cullinet 6y ago
HP Remote Graphics is very popular and widely deployed in post production and artist graphics suites. Azure has been taking high end graphics workstation seats in the GFX and compositing and film production industry at a clip for close to a
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by Cullinet 6y ago
as someone who would make a diversity hire myself I am aghast at how this situation isn't taken as a opportunity to show the fools who hired me how utterly wrongly they've judged me. this reads like it's creating the very con
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by Cullinet 6y ago
foreign function interop ideally at the system (or intermediate) level does so much. before getting distracted by dot net and mono, I feel I have to lay the blame (and my nineties) at the feet of CORBA and the Object Management Group. Serio
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by Cullinet 6y ago
I see this reflected as in the DBASE - *gres impedance. ~ the one end Ashton Tate delivering a shallow learning curve declarative language for semi referential data that SOHO novices can create applications with, and at the other, Stonebrak
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by Cullinet 6y ago
we simply need a radiator or exchanger design to plug in to our domestic water supply at least I'll be very happy with either free compute or free hot water pov depending.
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by Cullinet 6y ago
iirc wasn't until recently available in the HEDT line, but the user base is equipped with scalable xeon boxes not awfully constrained desktop chips.
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by Cullinet 6y ago
37ef_ has covered why AVX512 is plenty in use internally everywhere I know. Shrink wrapped products, not so much.
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by Cullinet 6y ago
can the situation be thought of as "Intel has problems with porting all their 14nm tweaks to 10nm" and therefore is it reasonable to expect Intel on 10nm nodes to pick up all the similar node advantages over again?
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by Cullinet 6y ago
under the related articles is the 1990 spill of the tanker "Mega Borg". After reading the first time about "the front fell off", I am given to think that the earlier comedic opportunity has gone sadly missed. [Ed. but I
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by Cullinet 6y ago
take a look at VMS to behold how elegantly and seamlessly we wrote software in whichever language suited the task most appropriately, barely conscious of the concept of foreign functions being a horror story for future generations instead o
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by Cullinet 6y ago
but there's a significant albeit rarely seen or sought for ecosystem for managing software on mainframes the source to which is long lost and the authors deceased and the the machine code is what you have to work with. you can't d
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by Cullinet 6y ago
in one specific case I will willingly describe where that is precisely the reality that needs to be faced. (hardly gladly will I recount my experiences, I am barely past the stages of pure shock, I became homeless as the result of extensive
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by Cullinet 6y ago
a couple of decades ago the bloomberg was massively more than that already
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by Cullinet 6y ago
absolutely agreed I'm all cash since 2018 in fact, which is why I'm sensitive to the cost of that liquidity. I noticed a comment sadly without details reporting a third party obtained a crypto collateralized 7 figure loan obtained
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by Cullinet 6y ago
no the strangest thing isn't how it was out in the open - that's precisely how to get away with fraud...the message and the reality aren't the same but the message is pumped into echo chamber
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by Cullinet 6y ago
I sincerely hope that the corollary doesn't apply edit meaning that you at least wouldn't want that to be exclusively true

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