JoshuaJB

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Intel 14nm CPUs in short supply, claims report(techspot.com)
8 points by JoshuaJB 8y ago|0 comments
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by JoshuaJB 8y ago
According to the linked article, Threadripper 2 uses the equivalent of 4 Ryzen 7s, however they disable the memory busses on two of them which yields only a 2x increase in memory bandwidth. You're correct that Threadripper tends to clo
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by JoshuaJB 8y ago
Hey, I work on the web platform team at Microsoft. Do you have any more information about this? I'm not sure this is a bug that we're aware of. If you've personally experienced the bug, could you pull the Windows build number
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by JoshuaJB 8y ago
Yes. Threadripper is essentially just four well-binned Ryzen 7s tied together with a creative interconnect. The memory bandwidth doesn't increase as proportionally as the core count, but each individual core should operate just as fast
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by JoshuaJB 9y ago
Just wanted to say that I met Sanketh ^ along with some of the rest of the Smartcar team at a HackDuke last fall and was really impressed. The team was enthusiastic and their pre-production API beat so many of the production APIs that I&#x2
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by JoshuaJB 10y ago
If the datacenters are really too complex for the people running them to understand, I would expect failures like this to drive the airlines towards AWS, Azure, or some similar service.
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by JoshuaJB 10y ago
For other readers wondering what SLC, MLC, TLC, and QLC stand for: SLC -> Single-Level Cell MLC -> Multi-Level Cell (now mostly means 2-level cell?) TLC -> Triple-Level Cell QLC -> Quad-Level Cell It seems like a lot of the high
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by JoshuaJB 10y ago
The company's Facebook account only appeared on May 1st and their Twitter sometime since then [1][2]. It also appears that their website only became public on May 4th [3]. Given the recentness of their public presence, I would not imag
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by JoshuaJB 10y ago
From what I've seen, Google's desktop Linux systems are just customized LTS Ubuntu images. (Source: visits to Google office) They appeared entirely normal, eg. Unity, Gnome Apps, etc. but I am sure they made some Google-specific c
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
In comparison, Nissan only sold 170k LEAFs from 2010-2015.[1] Three years of Nissan LEAF sales in 24h? Fantastic! [1] http://evobsession.com/nissan-leaf-sales-climb-to-over-17000...
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
I have a friend who has one of these, and he's stopped using it entirely because of unreliability. The WiFi performed poorly (e.g. in same room, on same router, multi-second latency) and the radios seemed to crash to the point of requi
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
It doesn't look like it builds yet. See https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/wiki/Roadmap .
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
"In the future, we are committed to bringing it to other platforms, starting with Linux..." Nice to see a change of heart.
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
I've had a good experience with the web app [1]. It's a surprisingly well designed piece of software compared to it's competitors (e.g. Spotify or Pandora). The library could definitely use better curation though. [1] https:
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
Technically it's 0 A.D., but that's a minor note. For those unfamiliar with the project, check out http://play0ad.com . It's a very mature codebase with over 10 years of development behind it. Everything is free as
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
Just an X11-client would be interesting. It would theoretically allow you to transparently offload UNIX applications to a remote server.
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
I visited Airbnb's headquarters this past summer, and they are very impressive. For example, their conference rooms are themed off actual listings. So you have the African hut meeting room, the elegant Milan room, and the tiny Japanese
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
I would argue that in this case it is a waste of education budget. Their high cost and non-core use sounds like it raises costs without cutting anything. For technology to work in the classroom, it needs to be attractive to administrators.
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
Engineers have presented some of how their algorithms work at conferences and in other places.
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
Yep! It's based pretty heavily off how AoE and later games do it.
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
> with plenty of "kids these days" rants I'm a student at a top 4 year university, and I find the lack of student backbone nauseating. The current trends in university culture go entirely counter to the reasons that we hav
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
We'd love help in any of those areas! If you'd like to help with programming, take a look at [1]. For other areas, the processes is less structured and I'd suggest starting on our forums [2]. In both cases however, jump on ou
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
Just the long-range one in this release[1], but the short-range replacement is targeted for the next[2]. [1] http://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/1756 [2] http://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/1942
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
Campaigns are on the roadmap. All the required code to support them is complete, we just need to build the scenarios.
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
That's almost entirely fixed with this release. Since I help develop the game, I'm rather biased, but I think that it's as stable or more so than most triple-A titles released today.
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
The changelist make it sound rather underwhelming, but this release contains almost three years of work on a new pathfinder.
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by JoshuaJB 11y ago
This makes me sad. I used ChromeOS as my daily driver for over a year, and it worked beautifully. Always secure, always up to date. The available fast and elegant SSH and IRC clients combined with Google Drive alone covered most of my daily
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by JoshuaJB 13y ago
I'm one of the developers for 0AD, and I have to say it's really not that hard to get started. I began checking out the source code and developing patches only about eight months ago (I didn't know /any/ C++ when I