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RenderMan Price Restructuring(renderman.pixar.com)
115 points by amock 12y ago|50 comments
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by amock 12y ago
The car needs to know what's safe regardless of whether or not the instructions are via voice or another method, so inaccurate voice control does not guarantee accidents.
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by amock 13y ago
Can you expand on this? What happened after 130nm that was different than the previous scaling?
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by amock 13y ago
PostgreSQL costs more than MySQL according to http://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/ .
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by amock 13y ago
Why is PostgreSQL more expensive than MySQL?
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A Truly Integrated Functional Logic Language(www-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de)
1 points by amock 13y ago|0 comments
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by amock 13y ago
There are five points on page 3: 1. Linguistically legislated exact reproducibility is at best mere wishful thinking. 2. Of two traditional policies for mixed precision evaluation, Java chose the worse. 3. Infinities and NaNs unleashed with
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by amock 13y ago
The words "grounding" and "grinding" are not related in meaning: "grounding" refers to "ground", meaing the surface of the Earth, and "grinding" is a participle of "grind". See h
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Haskell IDE and Deployment Platform Arrives To Compete With Java(drdobbs.com)
2 points by amock 13y ago|0 comments
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by amock 13y ago
Many people think that the email addresses in their profiles are visible to other people.
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by amock 13y ago
One of the responses notes that they will by eliminating the delay in the future, so you'll only have to put up with this inconvenience temporarily.
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by amock 13y ago
There's also a blog post at http://blog.hatnote.com/post/49342528753/wikipedia-recent-ch... that provides a little bit of background.
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Rcmap: real-time visualization of Wikipedia edits around the world(rcmap.hatnote.com)
15 points by amock 13y ago|3 comments
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by amock 13y ago
Once we get the kind of storage you're talking about Redis will be much less interesting since its big difference is that it stores everything in RAM. If that is no longer an advantage then Redis will become a much more niche tool because y
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by amock 13y ago
Most of these things don't sound like they need OS support. Just writing Go libraries and using Go alongside the existing system can provide a statically linked environment, no need for the application write to use select/poll or worry abou
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by amock 13y ago
There is more to S3 than just serving static objects off of the local drive. Maintaining the integrity of the data and ensuring that the data sent out is consistent is not a trivial task. A constantly changing map with 2 trillion keys is a
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by amock 13y ago
What could you get from an OS written in Go that an OS written in C doesn't already provide? If you were writing a new OS then it might be easier to write it mostly in Go, but I don't think there is any kind of fundamental difference like t
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by amock 14y ago
I use both MacPorts and Fink regularly on all of my Macs and they both work well.
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by amock 14y ago
This can scale up much more than a single RDS database since it spreads the data across multiple machines, but it's not exactly a replacement for MySQL database. It's also possible that this doesn't make use of EBS, which could make it perf
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by amock 14y ago
> Amazon was not immediately available for comment, but in all likelihood, Glacier is based on older hardware that the company wants to wring some extra dollars from before retiring. This seems unlikely. If it were true then Amazon wou
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New NASA Mission to Take First Look Deep Inside Mars(jpl.nasa.gov)
1 points by amock 14y ago|0 comments
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by amock 14y ago
They plan on driving a significant distance, so I don't think they're too worried about contamination of the landing site. I think the real issue is that they have many sensitive instruments and protecting against very small high velocity
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by amock 14y ago
A couple of people from the JPL team talked about why they used the sky crane rather than other methods and they mentioned that the amount of dust caused by using rockets all the way down would cause issues for the rover. So it seems like s
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Amazon juices up its big data cloud services with Apache HBase(arstechnica.com)
2 points by amock 14y ago|0 comments
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by amock 15y ago
Temporary credentials are used specifically to reduce latency, since you get a token that is valid for a period of time and doesn't need to be checked against the auth service on every call. Since the credentials last for 12 hours the work
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by amock 15y ago
The mainframe referenced in the article is from 2005 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_z9 so it probably has significant computational power.
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by amock 15y ago
What's wrong with using temporary credentials?
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by amock 15y ago
> Node does everything that RoR/Django/Nginx* can do, does it better, and does it with less complexity. That's quite a statement. Do you have anything to back it up?
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by amock 15y ago
You can't change biometrics, so once someone forges your identity they will always have access to anything that requires only biometric identification.
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by amock 15y ago
The reply page does not use your topcolor, so it will always be the default.

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