belleandsebasti

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by belleandsebasti 11y ago
I agree with all the points here. Despite all of this, Linux is still my preferred desktop. Why? The power! I can literally do anything with it. Including writing my own drivers/applications. Linux is my go to for doing things with zer
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by belleandsebasti 11y ago
Fpgas really only accelerate parallel workloads, sequential computation is done easier and just as good with a CPU. Problem with massive parallelism becomes communication costs and spatial routing. Nothing is free. More excited about commod
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by belleandsebasti 11y ago
This is part of Python culture. That's like me saying "can we stop choosing HN usernames that contain programming references?"
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by belleandsebasti 11y ago
The same could be said for Python/Ruby programmers. Pragmatism and nice code are not at odds with each other. Quite the opposite, they are often in agreement with each other.
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by belleandsebasti 11y ago
No. Inline assembly is a static construct targeting the same compute unit as the C code during compile-time. What is needed is "runtime inline assembly" which assembles inline assembly for a different target architecture at runtim
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by belleandsebasti 11y ago
Crazy, that's so relevant to this post.
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by belleandsebasti 11y ago
Whoa, you started matasano?
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by belleandsebasti 11y ago
"Exposure killed my restaurant so I'm writing about it to get exposure for my new restaurant."
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by belleandsebasti 11y ago
That $100 hamburger reference is completely unrelated. According to the Wikipedia link you posted, a "$100 hamburger" is an excuse a pilot will make for the opportunity to fly. It has nothing to do with covertly charging for a pri
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by belleandsebasti 11y ago
Just encrypt each packet individually in CBC or CTR mode with a new random IV per packet. Hopefully things have structured such that 802.11 packets are divisible by video frames.
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by belleandsebasti 11y ago
Welfare is really an economic stabilizer, in the same vein as "printing money," lowering interest rates, and raising taxes. It's a macroeconomic tool government uses to keep the economy stable. It has nothing to do with lazin