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The Nvidia story by Jen-Hsun Huang(youtube.com)
1 points by cdi 13y ago|0 comments
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by cdi 13y ago
I think they will find eventually that rationality is a cultural/educational thing.
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by cdi 13y ago
Top Gear is an entertainment show. With staff of writers and producers. Everything is preplanned, everything that is said is said with entertainment and marketing in mind. Almost no factual substance. I think it's hardly surprising that the
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by cdi 13y ago
>What are those features? being slow/laggy on complex designs on underpowered machines
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by cdi 14y ago
I fixed font rendering on linux in IntelliJ for me by deleting hinting information from font in fontforge editor. Google it.
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by cdi 14y ago
What about C++ Web frameworks?
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by cdi 14y ago
because politics, control, money, power.
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by cdi 14y ago
Well, Mozilla didn't make their BananaBread experiment Firefox only: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/bananabread
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by cdi 14y ago
I see no reason why this should be a Chrome exclusive in PC only mode. Firefox supports WebGl.
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by cdi 14y ago
Google is scary. Soon Google will achieve semi monopoly in its ability to develop certain kinds of advanced machine learning / AI and analyze human behavior, due to exclusive access to vast amounts of data. I would prefer crucial advances i
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by cdi 14y ago
>effectively impossible to crack. hack into their servers, steal binaries of game server, modify client to work with local server.
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by cdi 14y ago
It seems author goes from presupposition that economic growth is something inherently good or better than pursuit and dissemination of knowledge. Knowledge itself is valuable for society. If you don't agree, I don't want to know you. Privat
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by cdi 14y ago
>FX-8350 is a 32nm part. My bad. >AMD part has 1.2B transistors on a 315mm^2 die and the Intel part has 1.16B transistors on a 216mm^2 die Yeah, I recently read somewhere that AMD significantly improved die area and power consumptio
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by cdi 14y ago
That's strange. Intel's 32nm Sandy Bridge 2600k is more energy efficient overall and has better single thread performance than AMD's 28nm FX-8350, while having almost equal multi-threaded performance.
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by cdi 14y ago
Let's invade America!!!
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by cdi 14y ago
>Motion means collision detection AI means things like path finding. There are many game types/genres which don't require collision detection or realtime AI.
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by cdi 14y ago
Is it faster than single core on 3770k?
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Everspin ships first STT-MRAM based DDR3 DIMM(computerworld.com)
2 points by cdi 14y ago|0 comments
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by cdi 14y ago
Service sector jobs are not immune to automation. Eventually, inevitably, societies will put those who failed competition for highly creative jobs (something like 95% of population) on some form of welfare.
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by cdi 14y ago
On linux it tries to emulate Ubuntu with default settings, while I have Cinnamon and different theme and fonts, different user name. Didn't terrify me.
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Java's Cover (April 2001)(paulgraham.com)
185 points by cdi 14y ago|180 comments
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by cdi 14y ago
>"obvious" ideas. What was their idea exactly? Be the first to adopt working capacitive touch technology for a phone, and implement absolutely obvious and natural user interface for it? Really? Idea? To me their success lies in timely c
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by cdi 14y ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/08/kishwar-desai-he... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irom_Sharmila
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by cdi 14y ago
Why not just write a similar editor, with same shortcuts, rewritten modules/modes etc, but with new architecture and paradigms?
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by cdi 14y ago
Good straw man here. It looks like you think that meritocracy is some kind of moral theory of what is just. It's not. It's an approach to selecting people for the task. And it works. Universities are mostly meritocratic. Or at least should
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by cdi 14y ago
Thunderbird is far from 'done'. They had plans to replace somewhat problematic Mork format with SQLite based storage since 2008, and it was never implemented.
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by cdi 14y ago
Make Anthrax/Bird Flu at home! Kill billions!
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by cdi 14y ago
Being born talented is luck in itself. Without talent there's no true achievement, success. Random fortune, lottery win at best.
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by cdi 14y ago
Very explainable, if you replace now common mindset of "well being of people, their liberty to participate in market" with mindset of "world revolution, opposition to capitalist, imperialistic powers". Priority of restoration of SU first, a
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by cdi 14y ago
From your link: "Initially, COMECON served as cover for the Soviet taking of materials and equipment from the rest of the Eastern Bloc, but the balance changed when the Soviets became net subsidizers of the rest of the Bloc by the 1970s via

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