castratikron

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by castratikron 11y ago
Really wasn't expecting a Terry Davis comment at the bottom.
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by castratikron 11y ago
Quantum mechanics? Just sounds like plain old induction to me.
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by castratikron 11y ago
A good reference are the Microchip ANs (Application Notes). They'll tell you all you need to know about a specific IC or technology. They even have an AN about electric motors.
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by castratikron 11y ago
Grabbed 4.0.5 from kernel.org and counted 19314709 lines.
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by castratikron 11y ago
And PDP-11s still run nuclear plants.
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by castratikron 11y ago
The number is higher.
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by castratikron 11y ago
The drift speed of an electron in metal is actually much, much slower, somewhere on the order of millimeters per second. The electromagnetic wave in metal propagates a lot faster, and it's usually pretty close to the speed of light in
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by castratikron 11y ago
You can also use the -S flag of gcc to output assembly instead of binary, or if the program has already been compiled you can use objdump on it to read the assembly alongside the source code.
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by castratikron 11y ago
Is this really HN worthy?
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by castratikron 11y ago
Just thought I would mention that only the client is libre; the server is still closed.
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by castratikron 11y ago
Can your analogy really scale to hundreds of billions of dollars?
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by castratikron 11y ago
Right, maybe I should have said that instead. In my mind locality implies arithmetic intensity, but intensity may not necessarily imply locality.
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by castratikron 11y ago
SSE is probably more common than a $1000 GPU.
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by castratikron 11y ago
I'm skeptical of the 8x speedup for several reasons, the main one being that this particular problem does not fit the paradigm of problems that work well on the GPU; the GPU cache is not used at all, and there are also many branches. Y
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by castratikron 11y ago
If I ever come across a page with a lot of ads I usually just open it up in links/lynx.
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by castratikron 12y ago
SpiritF in the F-Droid repo, although it says you'll need root.
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by castratikron 12y ago
"Inductively coupled rather than RF coupled"? What's the difference?
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by castratikron 12y ago
One thing that radiation can do is demagnetize permanent magnets. If the robot uses permanent magnet motors that aren't shielded against radiation this could cause the robot to stall. But I'm sure they've planned for this alr
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by castratikron 12y ago
>I don't know where people got the idea that open source is not a synonym for free software. It was always meant to be a synonym. Probably from rms himself. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-
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by castratikron 12y ago
Just tape a Mountain Dew button to the back of my xbox controller.
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by castratikron 12y ago
People have been talking about this problem for decades. The only information from this era likely to survive is what's stored in plain text or other easy to interpret format. Do you really think people 500 years from now will be able
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by castratikron 12y ago
Chromebooks are locked up now? I thought you could install your own Linux on them. Don't some even use coreboot?
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by castratikron 12y ago
What would happen if they raised the plate a few inches from the bottom? With this experiment they're only looking at a cross-section of the wave.
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by castratikron 12y ago
The voltage wouldn't change, but the energy would decrease. The energy stored in a capacitor is a potential energy, which means that the energy depends on the orientation of the capacitor's plates. The decrease in energy is equal