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by abainbridge 9y ago
It seems a shame that Nvidia don't make a NUC like product from the Jetson TX2. See: http://www.nvidia.com/object/embedded-systems-dev-kits-modul... . They'd need to sell it for about $400 though, with case an
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by abainbridge 10y ago
Thanks. Hilarious/awesome is about what I was aiming for. Your comments are very sensible. I'll see what I can do.
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by abainbridge 10y ago
LOL. Yes. That's what inspired me to write my own Windows text editor with smooth scrolling: http://deadfrog.co.uk It's a bit rubbish. It is written in the Amiga style of every-byte-matters though. If it wasn't fo
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by abainbridge 10y ago
Is this speech-to-text or text-to-speech or something else?
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by abainbridge 10y ago
People put experimental digital blocks in ASICs all the time, it isn't necessarily that expensive. Its a bit like taking an extra pair of shoes on holiday - in general, I'm a bit concerned about reaching the airline's baggage
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by abainbridge 10y ago
His blog title is an anagram of "code overuse ruins fetish".
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by abainbridge 10y ago
I'm guessing that isn't a direct quote. It looks like the difference between truth and reality was a bit of a theme for Einstein. For example, his "I don't believe in Mathematics" quote sounds like it might be tryin
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by abainbridge 10y ago
As I've cycled around Cambridge, UK for the last 17 years, I've noticed now diesel cars that seemed OK when new (ie no noticeable soot or smell from the exhaust) become problematic about half way through their life - presumably du
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by abainbridge 10y ago
Imagine you've lost your keys. You've already looked everywhere for them. Now how long will it take you to find them? This what software estimation feels like to me. Simple tasks regularly turn into "find out why this simple
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by abainbridge 10y ago
Western governments seem to think that economic growth is absolutely necessary. Dunno why. But obviously that isn't sustainable for much longer on our current planet.
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by abainbridge 10y ago
Even Mars' pathetic magnetosphere is probably better than nothing (ie what you'd get on a Stanford Torus). Either way, meteor showers will be life threatening, instead of pretty, like they are on Earth.
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by abainbridge 10y ago
Presumably I can use this to display when the command started (PS0='\t'). I've wanted that forever.
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by abainbridge 10y ago
I can't find a GI for honeydew melon, but water melon is higher than table sugar, even before I eat the celery at the same time.
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by abainbridge 10y ago
I understand ( ) about dietary fibre and glycemic indices. Celery has more water than pretty much all fruits (www.herefordshireccg.nhs.uk/download.cfm?doc=docm93jijm4n7467.pdf) Celery also has more fibre than honeydew melon - 1.6% vs 0
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by abainbridge 10y ago
Indeed. And Food Unwrapped (UK TV programme) explained how the supermarkets don't need to say how much sugar is in those ultra-sweet Piccolo tomatoes because they vary and it's impractical to measure. In fact, it's worse than
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by abainbridge 10y ago
> Of course eat whole fruits those are ok. Why's that any different from eating say table sugar + celery? I just had a slice of a lovely honey dew melon. It was like drinking sugar syrup. I'm pretty sure it was bad for me. Sure
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by abainbridge 10y ago
Yeah. But humans haven't had fresh fruit available all year round until recently. Similarly, there was never a wide range of foods available. I'm not sure we've got enough evidence to say that changing our diet to include lot
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by abainbridge 10y ago
Interesting point. However, just to be pedantic, if memory bandwidth were the only bottleneck, you'd expect video decoding to generate output faster than memcpy, since it wouldn't have to read as much :-) My Intel NUC cost me £300
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by abainbridge 10y ago
Not in many cases. Things like Bluetooth and WiFi chips have a simple CPU and then lot of custom digital logical and fancy RF components on the die. The CPU is only a small part of the design, both physically in the amount of area it takes
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by abainbridge 10y ago
I do agree that the working class wanted to vote against the system and this was the only option they had.
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by abainbridge 10y ago
Prevent exploitation of the working class: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Time_Directive Making big companies pay their taxes: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/07/eu
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by abainbridge 10y ago
"In this Brexit vote, the poor turned on an elite who ignored them" Not in any rational sense. They voted for the even more elite: an ex-stockbroker (Farage) and an old Etonian (Johnson). If anything I'd say the leave camp is
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by abainbridge 10y ago
It's fun how occasionally people suggest that a graphical form of programming is the future. Whereas, this article shows that an industry that had a graphical language to express logic, got rid of it and never looked back. It's no
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by abainbridge 11y ago
I saw him present the material from Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air at a lecture in Cambridge. It remains the best lecture I ever saw. He crammed months' worth of learning into my brain in an hour. And he invented Dasher. Top bl
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by abainbridge 11y ago
The solar and wind stuff keeps getting better. We're already at an inflection point where the renewables are cheaper than the fossil fuels, in some areas. Oil is going to have continue to get cheaper if it wants to stay ahead. The long
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by abainbridge 11y ago
Sucrose is composed of glucose and fructose, connected by a single chemical bond. That bond is quickly broken after the sucrose enters your body. As a result your body reacts to sucrose in broadly the same way as it would to a 50-50 mixture
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by abainbridge 13y ago
Moore's Law remains halted. Nobody figures out how graphene will help. Programmers continue (see below) to move away from Java in favour of C to claw back some performance. * See http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/cont
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by abainbridge 13y ago
This is a terrible article. It contains no information about how what is going to be testable. It also contains sentences that make no sense, eg, "Researchers at the WMAP space telescope recently discovered a force 10,000 times larger