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by aortega 14y ago
Also, I don't see this technology being compatible with erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. See, even the best glass fiber is good only up to 80 km, that's not enough, but by placing a piece of erbium-doped fiber it acts as a laser-amplifier and
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by aortega 14y ago
While it is possible that cosmic rays affect DRAM, the majority of the single-bit errors are due to a failure in the memory cell itself, as the paper shows a high correlation between error rates and utilization, while radiation-induced erro
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by aortega 14y ago
IMHO Women are doing great in CS. They are not doing great in 20 hs/day crazy devops/IT work that nowadays passes for CS, that only men from 20-30 can endure. Edit: Right, women also can physically endure the developer death march, it's jus
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by aortega 14y ago
Protip: Computer science is not coding. Also it is not a science, it is a branch of math.
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by aortega 14y ago
There is a huge anti-CS degree movement, specially (and not suprisingly) among people without CS degrees. The affirmation that almost 100% of grads can't write a trivial program would mean that somehow CS grads are worst at programming than
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by aortega 14y ago
You need balls to take on Google, Apple and Microsoft tablets, being a small business that started giving away Linux CDs. And actually doing a very decent try at it.
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by aortega 14y ago
Not sure about that. What about buying phones from a vendor that doesn't locks them instead? That said, if I buy something I should be able to do whatever I want with it.
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by aortega 14y ago
AKA the teenager manifesto. Sorry but the feeling of superiority that many hackers have is their biggest weakness. You are not a beautiful butterfly that nobody comprehends. Everybody else is not less intelligent than you, no wonder hackers
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by aortega 14y ago
Haha there is a game engine called Impact http://impactjs.com ! I find it quite funny for very obscure reasons.
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by aortega 14y ago
Have you raised a kid? lets try another example, you get fed up with the puppies barking all day, you could legally kill them all in the spot (horrible I know, but some people do that). Now compare that with raising a kid. If HE don't like
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by aortega 14y ago
>Also, I suspect dogs are actually a lot more work to maintain than kids. Ha, lets see: a Dog can raise a litter of 6 puppies every year with no effort, but to correctly raise 2 or 3 humans you need the time and income of at least two a
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by aortega 14y ago
>I don't understand why people are saying "I have so many things left to do and so many places to visit, I can't have kids now". But you can do all that with kids and have even more fun than doing all that by yourself... Exactly. I have
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by aortega 14y ago
So it in case you don't have a GPU, it only requires a huge assload of CPU to work. Why not turn the damn effects off? it is that hard?
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by aortega 14y ago
You still are talking about a x86 architecture with a discrete GPU. It would be nice if it worked fast with no GPU at all like Gnome 2 did, so it can be used in Virtual machines, OSes with crappy drivers (*BSDs), weird architectures (MIPS,
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by aortega 14y ago
Old i5 from 2011, I hope you are trolling me. You know just how hugely powerful an i5 processor is? the "no graphics card" that you actually have inside your CPU is more powerful than the latest gamer graphics card from 5 years ago. And con
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by aortega 14y ago
Gnome 3 is the "Windows Vista" equivalent of Linux. It looks better? yes, but at what cost? it takes a lot more resources. I hope Gnome 4 pulls a "Windows 7" and comes back as a modern, optimized DE, with a "no 50 watts GPU/CPU required"
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by aortega 14y ago
I'm sure you know Gnome ran on a lot of things that are not Linux. BSDs for example. The implementation of gnome-fallback in OpenBSD works beautifully. I have a small ARM board that consumes about 1 watt, and you could install gnome on it a
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by aortega 14y ago
Yes I was kind of an asshole. Sorry about that. I understand that you are working for free, I really appreciate the work that you people do, and gnome 2 was great. Actually from all the new DEs, unity, KDE, etc. I still prefer the look of t
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by aortega 14y ago
> What we are more after is better drivers Gnome 2 didn't need any driver to work, it was perfectly fine with a frame-buffer. You know what else do not need any driver to work? Windows. Llvmpipe DO NOT WORK except in latest-generation,
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by aortega 14y ago
> Meaning: I wasn't hired, I cannot be fired. Oh I see the problem then. Dude please reconsider it. Do you ever tried to run that stupid LLVM-pipe stuff in a VM? it's impossible, and I have a nice machine. ARM? MIPS? Sparc? forget it.
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by aortega 14y ago
> Mr. Jahnigen told him how soccer helped the children in Darfur cope with their troubles and his efforts to find an indestructible ball. Indestructible balls will only lead to a race of stronger, indestructible-ball-destroyer children.
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by aortega 14y ago
This is insane. I dont know who takes decisions in Gnome but has to be fired immediately. Gnome 2 was a nice and fast DE, it ran anywhere, it was great. They made so many bad decisions with Gnome 3, stopped caring for the user long ago and
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by aortega 14y ago
>Those are crackers, not hackers. No, crackers are people that bypass software copy protections. Arguing about non-formal language definitions is absurd anyway.
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by aortega 14y ago
I like the old-school definition. When I hear somebody calling himself a hacker, it looks to me like when a teenager powder its face and call himself a vampire. Kid, you are not a vampire. Vampires are horrible creatures that sucks blood.
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by aortega 14y ago
I'm a "optics" (actually photonics-crypto) PHD candidate that also can build a RS422 protocol converter. You had luck I wasn't in their team :)
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by aortega 14y ago
This is what I like about FPGAs and soft-cpus. Some "open-hardware" designs use ARM cpus, that are as closed and patented as they can be (I.E. Arduino, Raspberry PI, etc.) You may argue that commercial FPGAs are also closed and while it's t
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by aortega 14y ago
Using an arduino for a timer is a spectacular waste of resources and very bad engineering (unless you already need the arduino), you might as well use a Core i7 to blink a led. The pricing will be about the same, you pay for the plastic pac
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by aortega 14y ago
The first thing you usually do with the 555 is to blink a LED, that's the universal "hello world" of electronics. Then, you can connect a speaker and do funny noises. Can't compare it with a PIC or any uC, they are much more complex devices
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by aortega 14y ago
>Hackers linked to China’s government How they know that? they hacked them back?
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by aortega 14y ago
It was no joke. How I upvote something here?

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