gary_0

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by gary_0 6y ago
I'm not an expert so pardon any ignorance, but couldn't compilers be acting conservative about registers due to the "long shadow" of x86? Perhaps the modest increase of 8 registers for x64 didn't cause compiler deve
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by gary_0 6y ago
Cooking streams are going to have to think up new words to refer to certain kinds of olive oil.
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by gary_0 6y ago
The campaigns in the last election cost $14 billion[0] (for Congress subtract the $6.6B the Presidential race used). That's a lot of money to raise. It's likely to be a major factor in Congress' paralysis: some significant am
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by gary_0 6y ago
Hi! The Geolocation API seems to be missing. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation...
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by gary_0 6y ago
The Internet detects geoblocking as damage and routes around it?
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by gary_0 6y ago
How does this compare to what the Space Shuttle offered in terms of delivering large payloads to orbit?
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by gary_0 6y ago
It still gives me a giggle that the flops numbers you're talking about were supercomputer-level when I was a kid, and now I can buy that kind of power with beer money and lose it in the back of a drawer.
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by gary_0 6y ago
Some newer game companies are using Blender, I think. It's definitely making inroads -- I've seen it mentioned in job postings. But larger companies tend to have decades-old pipelines that tightly integrate Maya/3DS/etc,
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by gary_0 6y ago
We can't stop here. This is .BAT country!
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by gary_0 6y ago
Eternal September 2.0
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by gary_0 6y ago
If you're naming something public, you gotta Google it first. This should be common sense nowadays. Searching for "teal language" brings up the Typed Lua one, and a domain-specific language. So the name is taken twice alrea
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by gary_0 6y ago
In the PDF[0] that aveni linked above, they mention they "add wires across scribe line in partnership with TSMC, Extend 2D mesh across die". So the wafer isn't exactly one big chip. [0] https://www.hotchips.org&#x2
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by gary_0 6y ago
While we're all having fun watching people play with GPT-3 right now, I'm feeling the same itch on the back of my head I felt back in the mid-2000's when ordinary people started piling into social media and carrying the Inter
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by gary_0 6y ago
The problem of error handling arises due to type systems and function call semantics. data = open("/var/foo") Most programmers are going to expect 'data', the result returned by 'open', to be a
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by gary_0 6y ago
Only when there's a blatantly obvious reason to. The example that immediately comes to mind is GUI elements: there's both a lot of code that many similar-but-different class instances share, and a strong "is-a" semantic.
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by gary_0 7y ago
Location: Canada Remote: Sure Willing to relocate: Anywhere Technologies: C++, C, C#, Linux, OpenGL/WebGL/GLSL, computer vision, computer graphics, CNC and 3D printing, linear algebra, Python, MySQL, Shell scrip