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by awalton 11y ago
I look forward to seeing the parody of this on Silicon Valley next season.
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by awalton 11y ago
Actually it's even more interesting than "Intel makes a bitcoin mining chip," which really shouldn't be surprising given how much application-specific accelerators have been making noise, and how many of these chips are
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by awalton 11y ago
>Intel is buying Xilinx, I'm going to need a citation for that. The rumor for quite some time has been that Intel was going to buy Altera to integrate some dynamic hardware programmability into their next iteration of Xeon Phi-like
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by awalton 12y ago
However there are implementations for Xilinx FPGAs, like this OpenCores one: http://opencores.org/project,sata_controller_core I can imagine a couple of students with a lot of free time could get it ported over to the newer
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by awalton 12y ago
It's the markdown getting in the way. You can tell by the varying italics.
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by awalton 12y ago
"It's too expensive to make the whole internet free." Translation: "It is not lucrative enough to us to make the whole internet free. We only want you looking at things where we stand to make money off of you, not anyone
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by awalton 12y ago
Boolean parameters aren't the problem. It's that people use booleans when they mean "something that has two choices", they're too lazy to enumerate what those choices are, and most crucially, it cannot be easily inf
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by awalton 12y ago
> I really hate all the desktop IPC bullshit. IPC frameworks are pure fucking evil. COM, D-Bus, XPC, everything SUCKS. > If you want completely separate programs on one machine to talk, use UNIX domain sockets D-Bus does use UNIX doma
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by awalton 12y ago
> Syntax highlighting is a complex problem, because it needs to be fast enough, and the more token types you have, the longer it takes. Yes, it scales with the number of tokens. Why wouldn't it? This isn't a problem. It's
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by awalton 12y ago
> That puts "com" first as you read it, despite the fact that it conveys no useful information. They are little more than flavor-text that is annoyingly required for uniqueness purposes. Except that's not true at all. The
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by awalton 12y ago
Wow a cliffhanger article on the web? Bold move. Tragically stupid, but bold.
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by awalton 12y ago
Perhaps if people would tip IT professionals we'd have a lot less "Hello IT, have you tried turning it off and on again," "IT is incredibly incompetent" stereotypes. I would tip my IT people if they did an outstandi
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by awalton 12y ago
This is really not a "standalone and lightweight glib", this is a generic data structure library in C, and it's quite blatantly obvious they're designed for different purposes. glib is a platform and portability library
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by awalton 12y ago
> Many Legacy-playable cards will set you back hundreds of dollars each, and a deck can hit $10,000+. This is why Vintage is basically a dead format. You either have to have been playing from the dawn of Magic and just so happen to have
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by awalton 12y ago
All four combinations exist in nature: Open source code with plenty of eyeballs, open source software with no eyeballs, closed source software with tons of reviewers, and closed source software with no no reviewers. It'd be interesting
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by awalton 12y ago
> I hear what the proponents of non-DRM browsers are saying, but for media streaming companies content is their bread and butter. I am not sure what the alternatives are. And the DRM does absolutely nothing to stop anyone from doing wha
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by awalton 12y ago
Sublime devs released a build today : http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17509 The product is alive but understandably slow with a single developer.
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by awalton 12y ago
I have a 2014 Macbook Pro and it's sluggish there. I have half a dozen Linux machines around me daily and it's entirely unusable on them. You can visibly tell when the GC is running, it's that terrible.
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by awalton 12y ago
It needs to be amazing at something though. And well... it isn't. The biggest thing I can tell is that it's "hip". Meanwhile Sublime Text spins around it at 40MPH doing donuts. I tried. I really tried to use Atom. But
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by awalton 12y ago
This was found as a part of an ADHD study of close to a thousand young children, in which one kid may have had SJS, and another kid had a non-serious suspicious rash, and that was enough to kill the whole study with no such repeat studies
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by awalton 12y ago
Well, you can write that code that tries to decide, or you can let GCC emit that code for you: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FunctionMultiVersioning All you need to do is figure out what's the best version of that func
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by awalton 12y ago
Well considering you're an outlier, I probably shouldn't waste my time replying, but because you felt the need, I will reciprocate. The average web page is what we're talking about here. Even your page which is demonstrably u
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by awalton 12y ago
> this is mainly due to having many images on your website (memory can store uncompressed images to save CPU cycles when rendering) If your webpage has that many images, you need to redesign your webpage. An uncompressed image at my scr
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by awalton 12y ago
Ok. Google prompts me to "Upgrade to Chrome" all of the time.
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by awalton 12y ago
I was wondering why I missed it. The video wouldn't load for a few minutes and when I finally was able to start viewing again the rocket was already T+2:35ish :/
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by awalton 12y ago
Honestly, this is not so much a problem. Cryptographers like to write simple C public domain implementations of their algorithms and then people go to work for months and years squeezing performance out of them, cryptanalyzing them, recodin
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by awalton 12y ago
Everyone in this thread keeps railing on its floating point perf, which is about on par with parts like nVidia's Tesla and similarly priced... but its integer performance is why people are really buying these cards up. All GPUs are f
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by awalton 12y ago
They're also entirely disenfranchised as a living generation, since both sides of the political spectrum in the US are more interested in fighting battles for companies like Comcast and AT&T than caring about problems like the big
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by awalton 12y ago
I think in a strange way, this tool is actually not a terrible idea. Git is not a configuration management tool, no matter how hard people try to shoe-horn it into that role. A simpler Git designed for configuration management is indeed a g
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by awalton 12y ago
Diff isn't the world's best way to look at this. e.g. the source for securityd was still released, it's just under a different directory now (Security-57031.1.35/securityd/).

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