hn_is_vile

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by hn_is_vile 14y ago
Because software development is not the 100 metres. You could spend weeks on a particularly elusive and obscure bug and change one line of code. While you were doing that, your colleague built 2 new 'oh wow' features, banging out hundreds o
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by hn_is_vile 14y ago
Signal processing immediately comes to mind, and that is the use I am planning to put the chip towards. An associate of mine has developed a new method for signal decomposition on non-linear signals which FFT is not suitable for, and which
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by hn_is_vile 14y ago
You will need to cite which law says so. If a business decides to import books published in Thailand by Thai publishers into the US, does the law prevent them from doing so? And if it does, could not the importer take the US to the WTO for
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by hn_is_vile 14y ago
Wouldn't that be a restraint of trade? According to this: http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/countries_e/thailand_e.h... Thailand is a member of the WTO. If you prevent a business in the US from importing goods from Thailand that are not
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by hn_is_vile 14y ago
Looking forward to getting my Epiphany next year. What an exciting time to be alive.
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by hn_is_vile 14y ago
So your baseline for acceptable behaviour is somewhere that women get stoned for wearing a tank top? You don't want to aim just a little higher?
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by hn_is_vile 14y ago
The problem with this particular experiment is the speed and scale of it. Both iron sulphate and iron oxide are being 'dumped' in the ocean all the time, by the world's rivers. The difference being the level of dilution. Algal blooms != alg
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by hn_is_vile 14y ago
Yes, everyone needs parallel computing on this scale, it's just that they don't know it (yet). In the same way that everyone needed 3Ghz single core CPU when they already had 2GHz single core CPUs. GPUs are different to CPUs in many ways, n
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by hn_is_vile 14y ago
1. I don't see a price anywhere in the article. Adepteva plans to sell the 64-core version for $199 and that includes the board. 2. Adepreva plans to open source the hardware and software, does KALRAY? 3. Adepteva have actually built chips.
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by hn_is_vile 14y ago
It's perfectly rational. The primary concern of the corporation is to remain a 'going concern'. This entails certain operational risks, key of which is 'key person risk', where the ongoing operation of the business is exposed to the availab
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by hn_is_vile 14y ago
Yes, HN is censored. This post will be demoted as fast as your first one. Nobody expects a HN censorship. Their main weapon is speed. And surprise. Speed and surprise. And fear. Amongst the HN main censorship techniques are speed, surprise