andars

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by andars 9y ago
They started running three shifts some months ago.
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by andars 9y ago
5 years ago, over 100 million tablets had been sold worldwide and the iPad was entering its 4th generation. Your description is more apt for 10 years ago.
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by andars 9y ago
Mobileye.
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by andars 9y ago
AOT compilation of js is probably not worthwhile.
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by andars 9y ago
Brilliant. I worked on getting rust to run on an arm core a few years ago, and the process was honestly pretty miserable. This is so far ahead from what I had going, it is hardly comparable. Looks like a very streamlined and elegant process
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by andars 9y ago
Decent idea, but unfortunately unconvincing examples. Mendel has been the subject of controversy regarding whether his results were fraudulent. Hardly a great choice for an exemplar, whatever the truth is. Linus Pauling (described as an &qu
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by andars 9y ago
I have. By and large, I agree with you, but there are some arguments to be made in favor of allowing monopolies. I find the story of Bell Labs (mentioned in the article) especially striking: a frankly unreasonable number of innovations and
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by andars 9y ago
Maybe, but unlikely. Lasers need line of sight and would generally be a bad idea at the power levels required (basically a weapon), and microwave power transmission requires large receiving apertures. Current "wireless charging" t
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by andars 9y ago
"consider stationing employees who need to concentrate outside the city" This reminds me of the Bell Lab's old Holmdel research complex. A ton of early microwave research was done there in the 50s when it was basically just a
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by andars 10y ago
Without disclosing the cost.
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by andars 10y ago
That's all fine and good, but the only source NYTimes article you suggested is SpaceX, so you're not getting commentary from any outside experts. Instead, you are just getting quotes and paraphrases from this and previous SpaceX p
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by andars 10y ago
"small performance increase" FT can get 30% more mass to LEO. That is a pretty big performance increase, especially considering that it enables SpaceX to carry the maximum payload of v1.1 in expendable configuration and still land
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by andars 10y ago
Lots of people do write in Java for performance. It is all relative. JIT performance benefits are highly dependent on the language.
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by andars 10y ago
Something is fishy. Author claims 10x "faster" than Node, which seems to imply that they are beating V8. I find this highly unlikely given how fantastically resistant JS is to AOT optimisation and how many talented engineer-years
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by andars 10y ago
> Wrong. I'd say it's more like "not quite". ~10 years ago, the statement was pretty much correct. GPUs were entirely SIMD, so they couldn't truly branch, but could fake it with predication. Longer branches would
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by andars 10y ago
This strikes me as a pretty useless distinction. Github frequently refers them as "sites", i.e. websites, and advertises using them to host Jekyll-generated blogs. This is why we can have nice things. People always push up against
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by andars 10y ago
This was my understanding of that comment. How else could that be read? I am not able to think of another interpretation of that statement or a context when increased access times would be desired.
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by andars 10y ago
> ... just, you know ... you know ... Yes, I know. Do you? You made the suggestion that skip lists are inferior to ordered lists, not me. (good for "increasing access times on ordered lists") I'm still perplexed as to your
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by andars 10y ago
what's your method for quickly searching an ordered list? Binary search falls apart since you don't have free random access.
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by andars 10y ago
If you are interested in this, I would recommend looking up the Extempore programming language/environment and some of Andrew Sorensen's live coding performances. Even if live coding is not your thing, it's definitely interes
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by andars 10y ago
This link: http://www.sunburst-design.com/papers/CummingsSNUG2002SJ_FIF... was posted in the previous discussion on ring buffers. It provides a solution that seems to me to be the best of any I have seen. See page 2, s
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by andars 10y ago
It's a dangerous business, going onto the internet. You step into a site, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing what you might hear.
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by andars 10y ago
It shouldn't. 'Assembly' is the textual code, 'assembler' is the tool used to convert the text to machine code. I don't think the name is worth an argument, but your suggestion is no more correct than that is a
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by andars 10y ago
This proof's use of "clear" is sorta reasonable, since they are probably assuming the reader is familiar with alternating series with decreasing terms. I would agree that it is sometimes fairly annoying. "Proof by intimi
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by andars 10y ago
Could you explain why the left hand side must be zero?
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by andars 10y ago
No. The Feynman Lectures were the lectures in his physics classes at Caltech in the 60s. The notes were adapted into the three volumes of the book.
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by andars 10y ago
(2014)
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by andars 10y ago
And thus the boolean algebra entered digital circuit design. Shannon was such a boss.
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by andars 10y ago
That wasn't the purpose of the war. Here's Lincoln, 1862: "I would save the Union. … If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it."
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by andars 10y ago
Japan was "repeatedly slapped in the face" because of their increasing militarization, invasion of China (also Rape of Nanking), alliance with Italy and Germany, desire for control of all of East Asian (the Co-Prosperity Sphere),

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