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by dzdt 8y ago
Scala is slower to compile than C++ in large scale enterprise development. (The exception that proves the rule?)
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by dzdt 8y ago
Interesting to see Intel boosting ISPC again. My impression had been that it was a skunkworks project they never really supported or accepted. See Matt Pharr's very interesting blog posts on the development and open-sourcing of ISPC.
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by dzdt 8y ago
The US made slave importation illegal in 1808 -- [1] though see [2]. The slaves in the US between then and the civil war were mostly born here. There is also a data issue. The graphs are generated from US census information. The census
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by dzdt 8y ago
if you write them a cheque, they'll cash it. Not 100% true. I grew up in farm country and there were lots of people (my parents included) who refused on principles to participate in federal CRP programs which would have essentially
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by dzdt 8y ago
Lol. I had that 100-in-one kit and remember the transistor non-explanation. I remember the kit being kinda fun but not nearly so much as programming. With the hardware kit it was almost impossible to make anything outside of the limited
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by dzdt 8y ago
I don't find any mention of screening for steroid use. My understanding is that steroid use is much more common in weightlifting than running. I would have expected them to rule that out as an alternative cause of the effects they ar
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by dzdt 8y ago
I sometimes dump megabytes of text to stdout/stderr as a way of monitoring or debugging long-running computations. Terminal speed matters then.
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by dzdt 8y ago
The desktop user may be less happy if the lifetime of their processor is 1 year instead of >10. Thats the other downside of running hot: shorter time to failure.
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by dzdt 8y ago
The lack of evidence that his death was an assassination is why this isn't the lead. The other parts of the story are factual and supported by evidence. Suspicions about the cause of his death are just that: suspicions.
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by dzdt 8y ago
Ye gods. And I thought build times were long enough already!
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by dzdt 8y ago
Its unfortunate that C and C++ kept the mindset that automatically memory managed variables are stored on a SMALL stack, with the consequence of exceeding that small and unknown size being that your program crashes. For variable sized array
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by dzdt 8y ago
I don't think there are any great advantages for computational viability. He is introducing a new category-theoretic language, but in the end the same computations have to be done. In his language, there is no "tape" because
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by dzdt 8y ago
This deserves some warning: the intense explicit language is pretty shocking even if it is 2000+ years old from a famous classical poet.
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by dzdt 8y ago
Most likely the courses are taught by graduate students who have little experience with teaching, no training in teaching effectively, and little incentive to do a good job of it.
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by dzdt 8y ago
My childhood claim to fame with tetris was to get a negative score on the windows 3.1 version. It turned out the points were stored in a 16 bit integer and wrapped to negative values above 32767. For sure in that version the "hypertap
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by dzdt 8y ago
Academia has no problem with pseudonymous publication. See "Student" of "Student's T distribution" fame. [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sealy_Gosset
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by dzdt 8y ago
It would be more like if Pirate Bay sued an ISP for blocking end users from accessing their site. Aptoide makes it easy to find and install the apps; it doesn't create or modify them.
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by dzdt 8y ago
From the article: This allows the insurance companies to keep insurance costs down for both the insured and the insurers. No! Mathematically the insurance business works the same as long as the average premiums cover the average costs for
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by dzdt 8y ago
The commodore 128 allowed the same trick of moving the machine stack and zero page. But the 6510 processor didn't have useful multiple-push or multiple-pull instructions so the possible speedup wasn't as much. Also in practice
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by dzdt 8y ago
The hardware budget for an arcade machine could be higher because the economics are to sell a relatively small number of units at relatively high unit cost. On the other hand the hardware development budget was more limited than for consum
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by dzdt 8y ago
The "Vigilant" database mentioned is actually a product of a private company. There is essentially zero limitation or oversight on what they do with license plate data. From the point of view of the law, there is no expectation
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by dzdt 8y ago
Correct headline is spelled "Pleasant" -- typo in submission.
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by dzdt 8y ago
I understand AV1 has attempted to avoid existing patents. Is there a consensus that they succeeded? Or might the HEVC patent pool come after them still with lawsuits?
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by dzdt 8y ago
The article omits the Redmonk ranking [1], which is imho much better than TIOBE. The Redmonk approach uses github and stackexchange as complementary data sources, and shows a two dimensional main result. The top 20 in the Redmonk ranking a
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by dzdt 8y ago
We just made it TO Java 8.
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by dzdt 8y ago
There is something amazing about artforms when the performers and spectators have an appreciation for the subtlest details. Mario speedruns are an oddball artform surely, but right now it has enough of a community to appreciate those detai
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by dzdt 8y ago
Lamport is famous in part for his work on LaTeX, the document typesetting language. It is Turing complete. Should no one write papers in LaTeX?
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by dzdt 8y ago
Wells Fargo wasn't really defrauding their customers, at least not at significant scale. Wells Fargo reps were defrauding their internal evaluation targets. The customer damages were incidental and generally small.
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by dzdt 8y ago
I first saw this idea on the cover of Goedel, Escher, Bach . I wonder how old the history goes?
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by dzdt 8y ago
NY's system is pretty good. Something you don't mention but is another nice bit is they have poll observers from each major party watching at each elction site. One thing they don't have but I wish for is that, after the mach

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