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by bjwbell 11y ago
This is done often in GPU drivers mostly via patching shaders, related http://richg42.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-truth-on-opengl-driv...
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Amazon Prime - no chromebook or android tablet support :-( Chromebooks, tablets and Arch Linux are all I run. Now I really don't feel bad about pirating.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
I think that was the point. But this really is about what it's like to have a bad manager. Good places couldn't give two figs if you miss the team softball meeting or have/don't have coffee.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
His page http://michaelbrundage.com/note/2005/05/15/xbox-360-emulator... gives a taste of the xbox emulator project. Now I want to learn so much more.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Gwern's authoritative writeup/analysis, http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin I found I had to up the dose to ~15mg to make a large difference. I went from sleep problems 1/4 nights to <1/10.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Yes. It most closely corresponds to the GVT-g scenario in the blog post.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
From somewhat old first hand knowledge. The GuC isn't that complicated of a toolchain, mostly linux based. The GuC itself is basically a pentium processor running a very simple OS.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Could they have open sourced it? Yes. But it was never likely since firmware is almost always done as a binary blob from intel or otherwise. They're actually being more open than most vendors, since skylake isn't even shipped yet.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Some in VS. I didn't use emacs exclusively.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
I stuck out at my job using Emacs with C# and did just fine. A lot of experienced developers have their favorite dev environment. I've never seen it used against them. I spent my own time, i.e. lunch breaks, adopting the company workfl
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by bjwbell 11y ago
He seemed to have beat the system but I guess in the end it won. My dad very recently won a police brutality case with a settlement of ~100k. Technically it's not winning since they settled. After medical (even with insurance medical e
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Intel's pushing OpenCL, which seems to me gives most of the advantages of HSA. OpenCL 2.0 includes unified CPU & GPU virtual addresses (SVM - shared virtual memory).
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Lack of pathogens. For example in 2013 ~198 million people had Malaria and ~500k died from it, mostly in Africa. It's hard to die from cancer when you already died from something else.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Amit's probability of death http://tumblr.amitgupta.com/post/85539436331/filed-under-tab... He's at about year 3 which looks a LOT better than the earlier years.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
I skipped the last half. It's very possible to make climbing articles gripping, this had too much filler.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
She sounds so young and enthusiastic. I don't think I was ever quite like that.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Portland, great weather?! But I agree for quality of life Portland is better. Unless you're one of the very few that work trumps all. Other factors can be more important. I still live in my hometown (Sacramento) because family is here.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
In my experience people don't change. Two out of three items on that list are about people.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
This! There is no substitute for knowledge. Just look at Brendan Eich, if you listen to some of his interviews he exhibits few of those attributes the OP poster listed. But after listening to Brendan no one would doubt he is a lot smarter t
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by bjwbell 11y ago
I'm not so sure. The changes on the graphics side from say Windows 8 to 8.1 were minor, leaving out new features such as directx tiled resources. The windows driver model had its last major revision in XP -> Vista.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
That's why I take melatonin tablets ~20min before bed. It's one of the best known methods to improve your sleep and overall well being. http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Roads, bike lanes, etc are all terrible places to put solar. Look at the difficulties people have with floor heating via hot water pipes, which is a simpler problem to solve and despite that is still problematic.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Key word /may/. I grew up in the backwoods of interior northern california. And have terrible allergies. I take allergies shots, two nasal sprays, and antihistamines. They still only go away in the snow and rock above the treeline
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by bjwbell 11y ago
54 years ago!! Makes you think. What amazing feats of engineering. The abort capsule was even picked up by helicopter. Themselves relatively new at the time.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Could be due to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9180229 (depressed at my job). Interviewers can catch on if you're unhappy and it can also effect your interview performance. Ironic, trying to leave a job because y
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by bjwbell 11y ago
I like yours more. I couldn't read more than a couple paragraphs of the new one without cringing from their 'creative license' with facts.
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by bjwbell 11y ago
I'm waiting for the day yahoo email has 2fa as convenient as gmail's. You don't need to be able to receive a txt for gmail's 2fa. And yes this is an issue for some people. My parents don't have cell phone reception
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Now the Linux Foundation makes sense. Every time I saw one of their marketing/press videos it reminded me of a Fortune 500 company's marketing. I just went to LinuxFoundation.org and the opening text says "open collaboration
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by bjwbell 11y ago
Interesting to contrast with contributing to Servo, https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md . Basically open a pull request on github and wait for review by a project team member. Cloju
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by bjwbell 11y ago
For those that didn't read the article she suffered from fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis. I don't condone her suicide but I can understand it.

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