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by ableal 6y ago
Is anyone looking into the memory accesses for the operation? Fifty years ago multiplication was vastly slower than RAM access. Nowadays it's pratically free compared to even getting data out of cache ...
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by ableal 6y ago
But you may be slightly sad that a newer generation, growing with shelves full of books right in front of their eyes, is never seen picking up and leafing through a single one of them. They were into some children's books on their way
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by ableal 6y ago
Please stop downvoting this. If not an unpleasant truth, it's at least a widely held perception, which must have a reason. (And I suspect that reason is because it's true ...) > this is a valid email address apparently: #!$%&am
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by ableal 6y ago
Maybe this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26278184 Haven't looked yet.
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Covid-19 is practice for our fight against climate change(thenationalnews.com)
2 points by ableal 6y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 6y ago
This may be the starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
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by ableal 6y ago
That brings to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimsy_Were_the_Borogoves
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by ableal 6y ago
It's also a pity that Blake is fairly hard to find in the (old) Tate museum, almost lost in a small loft, if memory serves (I visited twice, last time in 2016). Bosch and Blake wipe the floor with most of Tate Modern, or any equivalent
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by ableal 6y ago
My favorite Wolfe, after all these years, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_of_the_Mist - a Roman (pre-Republic, 5th C BC) soldier wandering around classical Greece, suffering daily amnesia, against which he wri
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by ableal 6y ago
IMHO, "Yes album covers" is worth an image search, if you never saw one.
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Edmund Clarke, 2007 Winner of the Turing Award, Dies of Covid-19(hardware.slashdot.org)
4 points by ableal 6y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 6y ago
1968 ACM Turing Lecture by R. W. Hamming (in case the PDF is not convenient)
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by ableal 6y ago
> caring about in the 2010s Earlier than that, the PDA/smartphone market (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPAQ ) was ARM a decade before, and the iPhone was in 2007. I believe MIPS CPUs were in laser printe
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by ableal 6y ago
> tracking every conceivable performance metric Technically it's not a metric for one-of rendering, but memory leaks by an open browser tab have bugged me a bit lately. Safari does a per URL report in MacOS, and the ancient MacBook
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by ableal 6y ago
I think single quotes are still prevalent in books.
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by ableal 6y ago
This Wikipedia page doesn't have a bibliography, but the russian version shows some works, namely: Pareto, V. 1916. Trattato di Sociologia Generale (Treatise on General Sociology). which a cursory search indicates was also titled The M
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by ableal 6y ago
It wasn't just the USA. Even in the conservative Portugal of the 1960s/70s a small wave of "modern math" (as it was called here) washed over the high-schools. I believe it was more of an experimental thing, with partial
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Interview: A Conversation with Dan Dobberpuhl(researchgate.net)
1 points by ableal 6y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 6y ago
The whole piece reads well, but the final paragraph is worth a look, in case you bailed out: Earlier this month, Tesla opened up 12 new charging columns in the Schöneberg neighborhood of Berlin. The fact that it wasn't just any old fu
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by ableal 6y ago
Thought it would go the way of fictitious book reviews by Lem, Borges, et al. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem%27s_fictiti... May be too hard to get right about software. Anyone tried?
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by ableal 6y ago
Some people may also be leery of scams in the "hallo this is windows support" vein ...
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WaterRower Rowing Machine Model #300 S4 in Walnut Wood(store.moma.org)
1 points by ableal 6y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 6y ago
Thanks, link for convenience: https://www.gvidomusic.com/
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by ableal 6y ago
> the Slackdot effect Supposing this was a typo, I'll trade you for one "rear window defrogger" and half a "string loaded door".
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by ableal 6y ago
"[...] —a policy called congregación . This sort of European settlement pattern, featuring nucleated and typically walled urban centers with largely vacant fields surrounding them, was the product of centuries of total war in which w
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by ableal 6y ago
A few years ago a young woman jogging on the beach near Lisbon was struck and killed by lightning. I wouldn't bet my life against those natural shortest path algorithms ...
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by ableal 6y ago
> (carbon emissions correlate strongly with wealth). Until they don't, and only the poor who cannot afford better energy sources use fossil fuels. We're told something similar happened with personal calorie intake ...
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by ableal 6y ago
The way car manufacturers are pumping out BEVs and PHEVs with 50+ km range, and buyers are gobbling them up, I think that nut is showing serious fissures ;-) Personally, I'm expecting to reduce fuel spending by about 80 or 90% ...
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by ableal 6y ago
> can get the home addresses of all their co-workers When mammoths roamed the earth, there was this "phone book" thing listing the full name and address of anyone with a phone line in the city, except for unlisted numbers (tho
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by ableal 6y ago
> Every day of the boat's life is burning money Yep, "a hole in the water you throw money into" is the definition I heard ;-)

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