hpcjoe

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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Most of my rental cars now use touch screen interface. Elsewhere in this page, a developer complained that we "just don't take the time to learn what we need to." No. Just ... no. A critical control system should be simple,
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Been using Linux as my primary desktop for 17 years now. From ancient Redhat, through Mandrake, SuSE, Ubuntu, now linux mint. Linux mint on my 7 year old laptop (very high end for its day, still no slouch: 16GB ram, updated to SSD, and NV
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Dan Gilbert has created RocketFiber. 1Gb for $79/month residential and business in Detroit. 10Gb available for reasonable amounts. When I was running my own company, I came quite close to looking at spots there. I was in Plymouth (3
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I'd say snubbed. The Detroit-Ann Arbor corridor and metro area is 5-ish million, with a strong tech scene, quite a bit of airport capacity (DTW, and if they wanted to use it, Willow Run). Cheap (and I mean cheap) housing, active and
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
This is stylistic. It's basically setting a scale factor for you, that this isn't a small breach, but a noticeable fraction of a billion. I could have written it as 1.34E+08 though fewer people would have understood this, though
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I will be blunt, and I am very incensed by this. My comments ... https://twitter.com/hpcjoe/status/906549917509980160 This is an extinction level event for Equifax. They need to be disassembled, their stored dat
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
It's not just C++ though. If I have to add logic to my code to handle explicit type changes (casting, et al.) for something that, honestly, is not important to my algorithm, then this increases the likelihood that I will make a type
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Uh ... no. Type safety is rarely a problem from my personal experience (YMMV) in code dev. The issues I run across have to do with whether or not the code is an accurate reflection of the algorithm in question, or even if the algorithm it
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
While I agree that HSBC is at fault, to be blunt about it ... determining fault and pointing fingers doesn't pay the bills. Banks can and will screw you over, hard. I may one day write my own experience up as an object lesson and caut
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
... no ... the essence of free speech is free association and dissociation with people, ideas, and narratives. There should be no compulsion or "made to continue giving" if they disagree. In this aspect, google would be well with
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
TOMS has a long and storied history, mostly on numerical codes. I was looking through it in grad school in the late 80s/early 90s for better saner methods in numerical software. Better PRNGs for simulation is definitely in its bailiwi
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
As someone whose family the nazi's took great pains to eradicate ... I'd like to come out strongly in favor of not suppressing their speech. If for no other reason, than idiots tend to self-identify, and I really don't want
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I've been reading HN for years, and this is the first time I've seen/heard of Elixir. Sample size of 1, self selected, your mileage may vary, things in the mirror are closer than they appear. That is, it isn't really me
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I'd also like to note that the Hessian matrix elements should have a \partial{\partial{l}} in each numerator, not a single \partial{l} [1]. If you aren't using LaTeX for formatting, then think partial^2 of l. FWIW: I just found t
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Have a look at edgemesh[1]. They are doing an interesting take on CDN. Disclosure: they run on my day-job's systems. [1] https://edgemesh.com/
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I find it somewhat humorous that more than 25 years on, we are effectively reverting to static linking and bundling [1]. Way ... way back in the day, the argument was it would save memory, encourage reuse, etc. While some of this may have
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Also an introvert to some degree, and I've worked hard at overcoming this so I am indistinguishable from an extrovert. Working in front facing customer support, sales, marketing, management, fund raising ... yeah ... introvert is a bi
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Hmmm ... at $dayjob-1, I watched one of the major Indian IT houses take over a large US companies infrastructure in the interests of cost savings. Driven in large part by your standard gaggle of very expensive (and often clueless) big name
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
One important point about this. I've been lifting for 41 years now. Mostly on, with some off (end of grad school until my daughter was born, and some other intervals). Be careful with on/off/on type modes. Squats and deadl
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I've had back pain on and off over the years. Usually due to muscle cramping from poor posture. I had to make a conscious effort not to slouch at my desk. What I've found helps with back pain, sciatica, knee pain, are stretches,
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I am sorry that I have to agree with this. The HR filter is a hurdle that can be engineered around (I am not arguing that it should be, but hey, if they erect technological measures in the interests of efficiency of filter process, they sh
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Honestly, I've been down this road a number of times before. With ARM specifically and the Calxeda experiment. Here is what I wrote in 2013 [1] "2013 was not the year of ARM. It was the year of ARM hype. But for reasons having n
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
It should be understood that numpy is written in C, and is an example of the "2 language problem" that Julia solves rather well. The question really is the converse ... given how deft Julia is with general programming as well as n
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I am going to disagree with the "it beats php, perl, R, and lots of things in readability and package coverage". PHP maybe, but Perl, R, etc. are quite readable. Often I find digging into others Python code, that it is written w
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I had a guy work for me once, I was trying to transition him from hourly to salaried. He had some longer weeks prior to this, and made the assumption that this would always be the case. He said, "I don't want to do this, because
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I know this is true on the nvidia side, but I think it is less true on the AMD side [0]. The old AMD drivers may have been like this, but it appears they have changed. [0] https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
One of the major concerns I have with this code, and codes derived from this, has to do with specific numerical underflow that can be seen to be happening before the series is summed. 1st: let pi_major = 3.1415927f32; let pi_minor =
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by hpcjoe 10y ago
> It's currently not enterprise-grade fault tolerant - that's the worst thing I can say about it. Its getting there quickly. BeeGFS v6 has metadata mirroring via buddy groups, and data mirroring the same way. A few things are
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by hpcjoe 10y ago
Actually Lustre isn't the only game in town for this. BeeGFS ( http://beegfs.com ) does a very good job at this as well, has better small to large scaling, understandable by mere-mortal error messages, doesn't require a
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by hpcjoe 10y ago
I generally write simple things in bash shells, and save more complex stuff for Perl these days. Trying to move more actively to Julia and others for this though. Perl6 looks like it extends on good things in Perl5, but, of course, in the

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