TomVDB

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by TomVDB 8y ago
> Which seems rare. I don't think you've spent a lot of time around bikers!
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Counterpoint: for me, buying an easier (in my case: much lighter) bike, was the difference between deciding to ride or to not ride at all. I don't think I'm alone in that.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
That was an awesome move at the end! I loved rock climbing, but overdid it by doing it 2 times per week in combination with squash and badminton. Too much for the tendons of my arms, and it never really went away. One of my favorite child
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I had designed a PCI chip. Our driver team reported that the PC would hard hang under certain conditions. They suspected a bug in the chip. Armed with a PCI analyzer, I figured out that it was a race condition where the firmware on the chip
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by TomVDB 8y ago
They have a nice LCD panel but they decided to not make it touch-enabled. So to enter a street address you're supposed to draw the characters with your finger Palm-Pilot-style on a crappy touchpad. It's absurd. That's on a 20
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by TomVDB 8y ago
It'd be cathartic if Audi sent a questionnaire to my wife to ask her about the dashboard GUI. ("Only a German engineer could design such a thing.", which is a bit harsh: there are plenty of thermostat designers who could do w
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Around 5 hours.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
My rule of thumb from a few years ago: given the same semiconductor process, you roughly have a 40x area difference between ASIC and FPGA for the same amount of random logic. There are few things that can be done very well on a FPGA, but mo
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by TomVDB 8y ago
PCI: 33 * 32 = ~1 Gbit/s PCIe 3: 16 lanes * 8 Gtransfers/s * 128/130 (encoding) : ~126 Gbit/s So, yes, it has changed quite a bit! But so has everything else. If you want performance, you still better do it through DMA t
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I learned high speed touch typing in the eighties, with included heavy use of the caps-lock. There is nothing wasteful about it when you've been trained that way.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
"Our team in Israel also has a laptop design that's based on the P3 core, which, we believe, will be great for the desktop as well."
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Not all. But illegal business practices only have impact on economics. They don't change the fact that Intel had a technologically superior solution in the pipeline that would eventually trump AMD's offerings. That would have resu
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Based on numbers here: https://seekingalpha.com/article/2789035-s-and-p-500-index-r... 1940-1950: 9.3%/y 1950-1960: 20.0%/y 1960-1970: 7.7%/y 1970-1980: 5.9%/y 1980-1990: 17.2%/y 1990-2000: 18.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Why does he need to say that? We already have the benefit of being able to look back. Isn't it totally obvious today that Intel had non-Netburst successors to in the pipeline that were superior than anything AMD had to offer?
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> I'm sorry, that's deeply revisionist history. Intel kept their dominance through illegal market practices [0], despite AMD's tech advantage at the time. While that may be true at the time, it doesn't negate the poin
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Obviously it does not. And that's a pity. Whether or not that justifies a more than $200 difference is up to whoever wants to use it.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
My Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q is almost identical in size to my old (very) Mac Mini.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Probably price. $800 is pretty steep for the entry version, when you can buy a better equipped Lenonvo ThinkCentre for $200 less.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Some people use both ESC and Caps Lock all the time. How else would you bind ESC?
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by TomVDB 8y ago
With ray tracing, you cast an imaginary ray from your eye to each pixel of your monitor and you follow that ray until it hits some kind of object behind it. And then when you hit that object, you cast more rays from that intersection hit po
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Nobody ever said that the RE and the stock market are always decorrelated. But it's undeniable that they sometimes are decorrelated. That makes the RE market a way to diversify your investments. Nothing more, nothing less. There's
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by TomVDB 8y ago
If. You can’t protect yourself against a global calamity where everything suddenly correlates. But look at what happened during the crash of 2000 where stocks and housing market went opposite ways for a nice example to the contrary.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
What do you do after you reach the $5500 contribution limit? For many here, that's probably before the calendar turns to February. You diversify. And real estate may not provide the greatest returns in many circumstances, but it is a d
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by TomVDB 8y ago
If you think that is regressive, wait until you hear about tax basis reset for your heirs.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
If he sells. We have a bunch of rentals around here and we have no plans at all to ever sell. And when we die the tax basis for our kids will be the value of the properties at our time of death. (And I think they can even start using depr
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> Rent costs are directly tied to property values. In the long term, probably. But definitely not in the short or middle term. There can be many years where the ratio deviates from the norm. So "directly" is not definitely not
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I looked that up back in the day when I had to go to Tel Aviv for work during the time of the suicide bombings (2004/2005): The chance of dying a violent death in Israel is much lower than in the US. Cardiff is probably lower than the
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I think that could feed the output of the GAN into yet another network that assesses the quality of the generated image and automatically tweak the parameters a bit until it doesn't look like an alien. In fact, that network is probably
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Ultimately, this algorithm tries to find an single directional vector in a 512 dimensional space that approximates what it means to change skin color. Expecting that this works all the time (or expecting that all points in this 512-dim spac
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by TomVDB 8y ago
That was a different situation though: NH allows trusts to claim the ticket, but only if the ticket is signed by the trust representatives. The woman in question had already signed the ticket in her own name before setting up the trust. Mo

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