DarkShikari

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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Last I heard (according to Agner), Intel's compiler still intentionally incorrectly detects AMD's CPUs and throws them to the CPU-generic code. x264 has a hacked loader function (borrowed from Agner) to avoid this, though I don't know if t
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
If the author is reading this, x264 now officially supports the Intel compiler, which should make it much easier to benchmark. Additionally, x264 should probably categorized under "no significant floating point calculations".
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Sadly, from what I recall, gcc has some internal limitations which prevent it from making significant use of "restrict". mans or astrange can probably elaborate.
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
The current fragmentation of the "smart TV" market is a mess: it's something that a unified environment could easily tear through. But making the deals with content providers to create that environment is going to be astonishingly difficult
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
RSA cryptography can be broken quickly by quantum computers. There are other public/private key schemes that might avoid that problem, though none are widely used. Some of these rely on NP-complete problems instead of merely BQP problems
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
There are many ways to dramatically lower power usage if you're willing to accept slower speeds. Intel has recently demoed some extremely low-voltage transistors that used power in the microwatts. You can make up for this dramatically low
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Intel seems pretty confident that they will be able to get to 11nm in the next 5 years or so. Past that, pure shrinkage of transistors via purely "conventional" methods will mostly hit a wall, but everyone saw that coming. There's been a l
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
But, in my experience, othering isn't going to drive people away, not in any significant numbers. Are you a straight white male? If so, you probably shouldn't be generalizing your own experience to everyone who isn't. Try talking with so
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Othering . Get that word into your head, and keep it there. Othering . Othering is when you make someone feel as if they don't belong in a community, that they're different from other people there. Making stupid (racist) Asian joke
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
I think what people in some of these countries don't realize is that there is not a big enough financial incentive to do the legal work required to bring certain artists to those regions. What exactly is this "legal work"? The Berne conv
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
If anything, I'd imagine you'd have an advantage. Silicon Valley is filled with programmers/hackers, but the really interesting people are those that come from other backgrounds with different experiences. In most cases, making a successfu
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
That's because most existing VNC applications aren't designed for that purpose. There's no reason you couldn't use a proper video compression algorithm in a VNC application where applicable, or just send the whole image as compressed video.
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Note carefully: though being his usual brand of unfathomably blunt, Linus is talking about the code, not the person who wrote it . He's obviously bothered by the approach the code takes, but he probably doesn't think the person who wrote
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
How overpriced is education in America? Per year... For a UC in California (public school): ~$31000 on-campus, $28000 off-campus (see http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/paying-for-... ). For a private school in California,
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Many of the groups I listen to do do this -- this is certainly not that rare. Sometimes they go for a bit more money by releasing a separate CD with karaoke tracks, for example, but at least if you want it, it's available. Of course, you
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
With bitcoin if I hold my coins in a currency exchange (which is basically a bank) they can obey the court order and reverse transactions. It would be trivial if it was that simple, but the stolen funds were of course withdrawn from Trade
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
There is a slight relevance of Bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions are irreversible. There is no real technical means to reverse a transaction; it is simply not possible. Even if there was a court order to reverse a transaction, unless the ph
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Even compiled intrinsic SIMD beats most hand-coded kernels these days Intrinsics basically are hand-coded assembly: you're specifying every single instruction manually, just in an obfuscated syntax, and without a proper assembler preproce
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
See the most recent versions of NNEDI for a neural network application (in this case, an upscaler/interpolator) that is heavily SIMD-optimized. During the implementation, if I recall correctly, the main desire was to convert it entirely to
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
From Urban Dictionary: brogrammer, n.: A programmer who breaks the usual expectations of quiet nerdiness and opts instead for the usual trappings of a frat-boy: popped collars, bad beer, and calling everybody "bro". Despised by everyone, e
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
and certainly impossible if you don't provide at least object files that can be relinked. This isn't news; this requirement exists on all platforms, not just iOS.
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
x264 has worked fine in many many MSVC applications, even compiled in minGW with gcc. There are some minor catches: 1. If you want a .lib instead of a .dll, you have to make one yourself separately using a tool. Not a big deal, it's just
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
It's an old rule that whenever someone says "I'm not racist, but", they are practically always about to say something incredibly racist. I think this can be generalized to all forms of "I'm not X, but" or, "I don't mean to be X, but", an
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Teaching is a lot like programming in this respect -- if you try to enforce metrics of "performance", you usually end up with optimization for those metrics and dumber, less-educated students. Similarly, students tend to optimize too, ju
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
His children will not inherit a significant proportion of his wealth. This is consistent with statements he has made in the past indicating his opposition to the transfer of great fortunes from one generation to the next. Buffett once comm
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Just because other people have been jackasses does not give you an excuse to be a jackass. I've seen plenty of divorces that ended quite happily because both people were civil to each other. You just don't hear about those because they
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
The company claims that more than 85% of the Fortune 500 now have Yammer networks, including Thomson Reuters, Shell, Chevron, Nationwide and Ford Motor. This reminds me of claims that "90% of the Fortune 500 use our software", when in rea
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
There was no talk; it was an unconference. I'll try to retell x264's story here... Japan has long had a community of x264 developers and users, but for a long time they largely remained insular and didn't make much active effort to push the
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Apple have very respectable margins on their their PC's. That's because they don't participate in the aforementioned low-end PC market. Dell makes respectable margins on their high-end brands (Alienware), too.
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
The worst part is that this kind of thing actually makes security worse. If you force people to bypass security to do ordinary tasks, and train them to constantly enter the root password for everything, you don't actually have any securit

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