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by eslaught 11y ago
Is there a place I can go to quickly flip through all the board states from the game?
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by eslaught 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11134786
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by eslaught 11y ago
No, I think GP is right. Compare a typical long-form piece to e.g. a textbook. A well-written textbook has much more information, but still organizes it in such a way so that you can quickly understand what you're getting into. By comp
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by eslaught 11y ago
The other comments here are true, but it's worth pointing out explicitly: High-quality fonts have already had this done to them, and contain the resulting information explicitly in the font file. Most software packages (Latex since for
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by eslaught 11y ago
I hope there will also be room for researchers to pitch their own ideas. This more focused approach that you've been pursuing certainly has it's advantages, but I'm guessing that the researchers themselves will also have idea
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by eslaught 11y ago
Sorry for being a noob, but if car manufacturing can be automated like this, why can't phones be automated in the same way?
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by eslaught 11y ago
But is that the way we want the world to work, or just something we've resigned ourselves to because we think it's inevitable? I'm pursuing a CS PhD; in my free time, I'm working on a science fiction novel. In some ways,
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by eslaught 11y ago
Definitely agree on both counts. One of the best things I did during development was to do an internship where I could be close to potential users. Porting an existing application was also a helpful forcing function, both for the feature se
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by eslaught 11y ago
So far I've focused mostly on HPC use-cases---generally simulations on a variety of data structures: (multi-dimensional) arrays, graphs, meshes, etc. The more interesting cases are distributed pointer data structures, and our hope is t
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by eslaught 11y ago
Regent actually sits on top of a C++ runtime library called Legion[1] that supports very similar abstractions (tasks, regions, dynamic discover of dependencies, etc.). Unlike most runtime libraries, Legion was intended from the beginning as
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by eslaught 11y ago
Matrices are easy enough: var grid = ispace(int2d, { x = 4, y = 4 }) var matrix = region(grid, float) But beyond that, most things are left to the programmer. E.g., if you want to build a mesh data structure, it's up to yo
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by eslaught 11y ago
The first version of the language definitely suffered from this. (The first compiler was source-to-source targeting C++, and integrating it with anything external was always a pain.) This version is actually more like an EDSL: the compiler
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by eslaught 11y ago
Author here. I'm happy to answer any questions.
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Regent: A Language for Implicit Dataflow Parallelism(regent-lang.org)
60 points by eslaught 11y ago|19 comments
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by eslaught 11y ago
> you're browsing through a catalogue of amazing experiences while you sit at home feeling a little fat. No, I think it's more than that. I have no evidence for this, but I suspect that spending excessive time on the internet w
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by eslaught 11y ago
Renegades I won't dispute. But I felt like Prelude was exactly what it set out to be and did quite well for that too. Both are doing remarkably well considering the budgets they've been given (even Renegades). In this day and age
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by eslaught 11y ago
While we're here, let's also acknowledge some of the fan-funded efforts that have been keeping the spirit alive: http://www.startrekaxanar.com/ http://startrekrenegades.com/ I, for one, am really
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by eslaught 11y ago
Default view of comments page seems to be too zoomed in? https://i.imgur.com/bDrJSHI.png Firefox on Android running on a Nexus 5 But once you zoom out it seems fine. And it's much more usable than the old view.
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by eslaught 11y ago
> > the history of science is full of cases where it didn't know as much as it claimed, > I don't think this is true at all. Name one such scientific consensus that was, like climate change, the result of different source
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by eslaught 11y ago
Cable TV is also not free, but people put up with ads (at least in the US). In fact, I'm not sure people even remember that one of the original propositions of cable was that it was ad free. I think a more accurate adage would be that
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by eslaught 11y ago
The issue is not AOT vs JIT, but one of language semantics and levels of abstraction. You could prove this point in a trivial way by JIT compiling C with LLVM. The binary would have an increased startup cost, but would otherwise run identic
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by eslaught 11y ago
Yes, that is exactly what I did. It still took forever to find the right Google keywords to find what I needed, and figure out the right command line invocations. And I would need to re-learn it all over if I ever upgraded SDL. By compariso
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by eslaught 11y ago
> - Limited consumer benefit. I think people underestimate the extent to which this matters. In fact, I might even say this is the only thing that matters. There are some of us who are concerned with privacy, ownership, security, etc. Bu
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by eslaught 11y ago
I realize this is anecdotal, but my experience has been much more like robbles' than mapgrep's. One issue is that the MacPorts built versions of things don't always integrate in a nice way with other parts of the system. For
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by eslaught 11y ago
> The one annoyance I've encountered is that the installer will move everything in /usr/local out of the way before doing the upgrade and moving it back. This can be a significant point. I thought my computer was bricked w
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by eslaught 11y ago
Can someone comment on what level of court this decision was made at, and how final this decision is likely to be (i.e. how many more appeals are possible at this point)?
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by eslaught 11y ago
The issue is not having the type info available. AOT compilers certainly have that (or at least, enough of it to get the job done). The issue is that most compilers with precise GC---AOT or otherwise---are built around that assumption from
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by eslaught 11y ago
The edit history shows that this notice was put up in 2006: http://www.cliki.net/site/history?article=asdf-install So no, this is not news. EDIT: Actually, the history must be messed up since Quicklisp hadn't been
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by eslaught 11y ago
Except the cert used in that process is one uploaded by the user, and could easily be provided by an attacker. As long as the attacker can MITM the path to the domain's web server, they can provide that cert for TLS and successfully sp
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by eslaught 11y ago
This is not all that different from Java (or Python, etc.), where it is quite easy to hide a call to a native function behind a seemingly-safe interface. The real difference is that native methods in Java must be written in a different lang

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