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by Recurecur 6y ago
You might try reading the article. One example was a large software build taking ~25% less time on a 13" MBP than on a 12-core Mac Pro. I'm curious about FP/vector performance, but I'm pretty sure it's fine. I'
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by Recurecur 6y ago
The only known exoplanets are in the Milky Way - we can't yet detect them around the vastly more distant stars of other galaxies, except perhaps in the rarest of circumtances.
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by Recurecur 6y ago
As someone who’s actually used the language (sigh) the “hype” around Julia is more excitement about a modern language that’s hitting a broad sweet spot in a unique way. Julia is a delightful combination of ease of use, clarity, and performa
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Not enough time. Life on Earth, as we know it, has less than a billion years left. Now, cockroaches might evolve impressively! More seriously, humans will soon escape this particular rock, and things will look a LOT different. Smart people
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by Recurecur 6y ago
This is a very narrow view. I've probably practiced software development longer than almost anyone on this thread - right at 40 years. I'm still a practicing software engineer, doing "enterprisey" software development in
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Redox looks very interesting. It seems one good approach might be to force new apps and drivers for Redox itself, but provide a VM environment that would run sandboxed Linux and other OS's securely. (Similar to the Qube OS idea.) That
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by Recurecur 6y ago
It is pretty much unthinkable from a pride perspective. Processor IP is Intel's bread and butter. I think if they do it it's the beginning of irrelevance, really. What might be more interesting is if Intel became champion of Risc-
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by Recurecur 6y ago
So, I just calculated the orbital speed at 50 km. It came out to 282,378 km/s. The speed of light is 299,792.5 km/s, so we're way into relativistic territory. Good luck having enough energy to build a structure around it! ha
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by Recurecur 6y ago
BTW, regarding "standing" in this gravity field... If there were a structure to stand on, rather than you being in orbit, the force of gravity would be about 160 billion times the force of gravity on Earth (~1,594,000,000,000 m&
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Maybe ships will need laser power . It remains to be seen if near-C travel is at all feasible, due to radiation/erosion from impacting interstellar material. If not, a ship can easily carry its own fuel, it will just be a generation&#x
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by Recurecur 6y ago
It's not that, it's the difference in the gravity field between two points. On Earth, the gravity field is very close to uniform. Near a small black hole, the field changes rapidly and is very strong. It's a "pull"
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by Recurecur 6y ago
That is how Intel is hanging on... The problem for Intel is AMD is putting out a clearly better value proposition in the high-margin server space, with single socket systems beating Intel dual socket systems, and other advantages like more
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Right. It's all about perceived future growth. AMD has a ton of room to grow. Intel does too, but not in the processor business where it's had a near-monopoly in some spaces. Intel also has challenges in other areas, and ARM is lo
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Right, it is directly the "argument by precedent" fallacy. It has happened that way before, therefore it always will! (Waking up in the morning, for instance...) The same exact thing happened with "The Limits of Growth",
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Julia also has plenty of functional features, but is above all a practical, fast, and fast-compiling language. The elegance is free.
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by Recurecur 6y ago
I really enjoyed the artistic part. I wonder if the author was trying to evoke a Martian atmosphere with the color choices. The contrast of the spheres with the columns was very nice as well...the perfect, beautiful spheres ascending into t
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by Recurecur 6y ago
This seems like a fair enough idea, except that there should be provision for "rich content boxes" that might contain images, forms, WebGL or other things that Gemini intentionally forgoes. Having a "web browser" that ca
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by Recurecur 6y ago
> Free to catch COVID-19 in a state where the governor has said that he will prohibit any city from passing laws that require masks? Sure, except you should consider the death rate in Texas compared to some of the Dem run states (deaths
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by Recurecur 6y ago
The funny part is that Austin is one of the most liberal areas in Texas... ;-) As another poster said, no state income tax is a giant win.
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by Recurecur 6y ago
It looks like Apple will be going it's own way with GPU, as tight integration between GPU and CPU enables much better performance. Think vias rather than buses. The higher end Macs should see some large on-chip (or part of chiplet arra
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by Recurecur 6y ago
The obvious interpretation of this is that in some places like Italy, the older population received much more exposure than it did in the US. In Italy, this was due to so many extended families living in the same home. In fact, things would
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Something of a false dichotomy - perhaps. The fact is that allocating at all during realtime operation is frowned upon. Given that the best approach is pre-allocation and then turning off the GC, why carry the overhead of the GC at all? For
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Being a "better, stronger, faster" Python is fairly near Julia's sweet spot... :-)
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by Recurecur 6y ago
I'm a very senior engineer. I've had a strong desire to find a better alternative to C++ since the 90s when I was first exposed to it (I worked with it for about a decade, after a few years with C). Now, decades later, enough ba
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by Recurecur 6y ago
> But why does everyone want c++? Few "want" C++, but for robotics a non garbage-collected language is necessary so latency is predictable. There are few mature languages besides C/C++ in that category. Rust is an improvem
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by Recurecur 6y ago
"I feel like I'm missing something when it still seems like huge number of Covid cases are from nursing homes." There's been terrible mismanagement of this in nursing homes in a couple of states in particular. That was c
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by Recurecur 6y ago
'"What if someone dies" is hard to come back to.' Not really, my response would be "Do you drive on the freeway?". People are generally terrible at assessing risk.
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Given the science around the virus dying in sunlight and heat, and the lack of a single confirmed case contracted outdoors, I suggest that your circle is misinformed. :-) I'm also in the South, and there's plenty of outdoor activi
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by Recurecur 6y ago
Here's the thing: a common sense approach to this could have avoided 90% of the economic misery. The key would have been to allow everyone 60 and under to continue normally unless they have other risk factors. The consequences of a cas
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by Recurecur 6y ago
You're a bit RAM starved at only 32 GB. My preferred environment is yours, inverted. Native Linux (likely Ubuntu 20) with Windows in a VM as necessary. That is making much better use of hardware IMO. It also gives you native Docker, an

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