QuantumRoar

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   by QuantumRoar 10y ago

   > that's pretty conspiracy-theory-y I don't think that it counts as a conspiracy theory at this point. I think their intent is very clear. Here's Facebooks strategic cookbook according to my experience and opinion: 1.
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   by QuantumRoar 10y ago

   Oh great. Thanks for the pointer to mbasic.facebook.com, I didn't know about that one yet.
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   by QuantumRoar 10y ago

   I rarely check my Facebook on my phone but when I do, I use their website. But for a few days now, every time I tap on the messages icon it bounces me to the Google store app for their messenger. I literally cannot see my messages anymore!
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   by QuantumRoar 10y ago

   This article gave me some confidence in finally trying to boot Arch Linux on ZFS. This will either make my life very easy or very hard.
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   by QuantumRoar 10y ago

   Also terrifying.
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   by QuantumRoar 10y ago

   OpenACC is for GPU programming what OpenMP is to parallel programming. It is intended for general purpose graphics programming, i.e. numerical computations on your GPU, not for replacing anything like OpenGL.
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   by QuantumRoar 10y ago

   Thanks for the explanation!
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   by QuantumRoar 10y ago

   I doubt that there are analog-digital, digital-analog converters and an FFT module in there. I would have assumed that there's only some analog circuit. You don't even need spectral analysis. It just needs to invert the amplitude
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   by QuantumRoar 10y ago

   As far as I know, sound is actually so slow that you don't need to average the noise and make an educated guess as to what to filter. Acoustic noise filtering in headphones should work by detecting the outside noise with a microphone a
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    Yes, because you buy a toaster to toast. And you buy a PC to code. I still haven't figured out why I would need a tablet. I understand why others might, but for me personally, I have no idea for what I would use it. If you are similar
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    It's technically a computer. And the "Super" is not even in the same sentence as the word "Computer." I don't think this is misleading. Furthermore, super just means better than average. The average computer by
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    There are PDFs and ridiculously large TIFFs available for you to download and print [1]. Click on one of the images to see the respective download link. Just bring the PDF to a professional print shop and pick a size. At least that's w
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    Simulation of CMOS-Transistors by a semi-classical approach. A self-consistent deterministic solver for the Poisson equation, Schrodinger equation and Boltzmann equation including small signal analysis and noise characterization of the devi
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    I chuckled when I read that. Apart from the uninformed way this was expressed, the author's actual interpretation of this statement comes after that: "In academia, in order to publish a paper, often you just have to get it to work
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    The title kind of misled me. It's about how scientists with a degree in _biotechnology_ (or a related field) can move from academia to the startup world, not about scientists in general. For many academic fields there's no equival
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    There are just too many assumptions in this article. It says: Use the repeated addition strategy to solve 5x3. That is clearly what the student did. The argument about bundles and bananas is besides the point. But even then it works because
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    If Facebook had EU servers, then they would need access to the data on those servers from the USA. Technically the NSA can still force everything out of Facebook in the USA, I guess. But this will again be incompatible with EU law. Accordin
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    It's going to get complicated for companies working together with US mass surveillance programs like PRISM. US secret services violate the essence of human rights of the EU and therefore it is unacceptable to transfer personal data to
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    Weird. I also learned that -fold is not the same as times. For example, cosmic inflation was 60-fold, not times. But when I look it up, it says -fold is equivalent to just a multiple.
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    Earlier this year, I needed to upload the LaTeX file and it needed to be written with the journal's template. In order to specifically fit into the journal's guidelines, the template was sent to some editing contractor where some
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    I chose an approximation of pi and later e. But I was very close to just typing 42 :)
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    Thanks a lot. I know that steam has some 32Bit dependencies even on a 64Bit OS. I thought it might have only been the steam client's dependency. Unless you're using a 32Bit OS, it seems that Steam, or maybe even Unity3D, enforces
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    Good point. Though, I don't have such a binary.
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    Hooray for Linux! But there's something that has been bothering me for a while about games for Linux compiled with the Unity SDK. Does anybody know what kind of dependencies a game written with the Unity SDK has? I'm pretty cluele
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    From what I can see, this blog post has approximately the same length as the beginners' guide for installing Arch Linux [1]. What a user experience... [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_guide
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    Somehow I seriously doubt it. But I keep hoping such things as well :)
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    Here's a cynical comment: Long term monetization will only work if he can ship version 2 at some point to pull in some more money from the same people who bought version 1 (and the same thing with version 3). The choice of not shipping
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    Here's a question. Is it actually common practice to test your code by leaving it to run for weeks while inputting random stuff and observing if it leaks memory, sets bad values or crashes? If not, why not? That'd catch any "
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    Well said. What always saved me is that brave and devoted individuals wrote tutorials and published them to help me peel away the layers of abstractions. There's no way I could have done that on my own.
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    by QuantumRoar 11y ago

    I know that. The situation got better in recent years. I was trying to point out that as a beginner, it is really hard to find your way and I still think it is. I learned Parsec and solved my problem that way since I could find an okay-ish