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by Fronzie 7y ago
> Smaller transistors use less power. Don't the smaller transistors also have higher leakage? I thought that below 10nm scaling down further would not give power benefits.
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by Fronzie 7y ago
In the introduction of the space-x launch broadcast, they mention that in real aborts, military will be involved. With helicopters, rescue personnel will be dropped of. Also there, it still takes a while for boats to arrive.
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by Fronzie 7y ago
There's a controlled way of doing that. Prototype in python, as soon as it's clear what/how things need to be done, implement in C++, add python bindings for manual testing, unit-tests to solidify things. The bindings will en
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by Fronzie 7y ago
The C++ language cannot be parsed with a context-free parser. A large part of the build times, however, is due to optimizations. In the early days, clang was much faster in compilation than gcc. Over the years, it has improved on optimizati
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by Fronzie 7y ago
For computational tasks, I've seen SMT give a roughly 50% performance increase compared to not using SMT on the same machine. Much of that depends on how 'regular' the executions are. A highly optimized FFT or BLAS routine wi
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by Fronzie 7y ago
It seems they replaced the c code by optimized assembly, and improving the existing assembly that was there. I think loop-unrolling is one of the things they did, but am not sure: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git
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by Fronzie 7y ago
> They already won't allow aspheric side mirrors because those "confuse" drivers (even though cars in Europe have them). It is so nice to not have a blindspot larger than half a car. That leaves all attention for bikes and
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by Fronzie 7y ago
It's partly a historical reason as well. There are many projects with very complex Makefiles. Those are hard to integrate into your own project. Header-only is the other extreme: No makefile at all. With package managers like Conan and
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by Fronzie 7y ago
Diffuse reflection might help as well. A sphere and a cube have very different maximum reflection values.
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by Fronzie 7y ago
That's one way. Or someone could have him launch a bunch of telescopes into orbit.
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by Fronzie 7y ago
France is one. Speed on a long stretch between boots, go to the gas station. Average speed is ok, still quicker at the destination. Can't particularly recommend it, but it does happen. Pro-tip: bring enough cash to pay the fine, becaus
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by Fronzie 7y ago
Although I agree with your point, cmake+vcpkg goes a long way for hobby projects, cmake with a bit of custom scripting goes a long way for larger scale projects. The cmake language might not be beautiful, but it does allow for simple sub-pr
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by Fronzie 7y ago
For big (legacy) code-bases, just upgrading the compiler is a project by itself. All 3rd party C++ libs need to be upgraded, all internal projects need to upgrade in an orderly fashion. On top of that, just the change of the compiler will e
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by Fronzie 7y ago
Although the authors list is quite comprehensive, there is a (very slow) convergence to a few systems. The professional world seems to settle on CMake. In open source, meson is quite popular. The C++ world is still way better than the hardw
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by Fronzie 7y ago
After reading, I do wonder, though: If one would work out the 'packet' datatype of the Eigen ( http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page ) library, wouldn't that give the same kind of parallelism? To
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by Fronzie 7y ago
The publication itself also seems freely accessible: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50234-9.pdf
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by Fronzie 7y ago
It was also a surprise for senior republicans, giving disapproving comments on president Trump. This is something they rarely have done before. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mcconnell-joins-othe...
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by Fronzie 7y ago
Note that https://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/scan-build.html is another llvm-based static analyzer. It does a more deep analysis into the control flow, whereas clang-tidy does (mostly?) comparatively simpler checks on the AST.
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by Fronzie 7y ago
The country works together with private business to promote the charging stations. The country office provides an overview of where they are, but the ownership of the stations is private. Details (in dutch) https://www.eindhoven.
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by Fronzie 7y ago
Hamamatsu is still around and still excellent at the design and prototype stage of optical sensors. They seems to have a company culture of very open technical discussions on pros and cons which I'm not so sure is common in other Japan
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by Fronzie 7y ago
Since C++11 there are types like 'uint_fast32_t', which does allow for platform independent code.
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by Fronzie 7y ago
I have good experiences with rentalcars.com, both in US and various countries in Europe. Have not had any surprises in added fees. They will ask you for extra insurance. Even when not taking that, they all have been reasonable when returnin
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by Fronzie 7y ago
Training a neural net with analog circuitry would mean an extra challenge in the reproducibility of results. That's currently already a challenge, tiny changes have large differences in performance of the network.
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by Fronzie 7y ago
> but Rust does not provide the Intel _mm256_cos_pd() instruction yet. That might be part of the reason. Even with experience it's really hard to optimize code without detailed profiling. Either with a profiler that shows clock-tick
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by Fronzie 7y ago
Didn't the feasibility of fusion increase with advances in magnets. I thought the much stronger magnets being available today allowed for much smaller (volume per watt generated) systems, smaller even than the Iter design.
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by Fronzie 7y ago
There are higher-level JIT libraries for C++ as well: https://blog.quarkslab.com/easyjit-just-in-time-compilation-...
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by Fronzie 7y ago
That missed the semiconductor revolution which brought us GPS, internet and pocket mainframes. Weather forecasts have improved tremendously, giving tornado warnings which are useful. Knowledge is instantly available instead of just hoping t
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by Fronzie 7y ago
I've always lived in the Netherlands, but I've never seen anyone opening a door that way. We do, however, look in the rearview mirrors before opening the door.
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by Fronzie 7y ago
Strip the company into pieces and sell those is another option, that's what KKR did with NXP. NXP is now again healthy, but that's thanks to a CFO who pulled all sorts of tricks to reduce the huge debt that KKR put on NXP.
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by Fronzie 7y ago
You could assign it from a lambda function.

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