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hurryer
3y ago
Pentium was the first CPU which could run two integer operations per cycle.
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3y ago
In modern math all numbers are built on set theory which has the empty set as it's foundation. Empty set is more like 0 than 1. Check mate Unitarians.
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3y ago
17 is well known as the most random number between 1 and 20.
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3y ago
GPU also has 10x memory latency compared to CPU. And memory access order is much more important that on CPU. Truly random access has very bad performance.
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3y ago
Bokeh has a much more sensible API, and it generates an interactive HTML plot by default. Unfortunately it's missing quite a few specialized plots from matplotlib, in particular the popular histogram plot is strangely difficult to draw
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3y ago
You're overthinking it. But anyway, firefox has an option to delete history, cache, cookies. Settings/Delete browsing data. If you are really paranoid, go to the firefox app page, storage, click clear cache, clear data (will reset
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3y ago
I'm curious how you use gimp. Do you use mathy/programming/terminal kinds of editing - stuff applied over the whole image with little mouse usage and mostly setting dialog parameters. Or do you do little edits with the mouse,
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3y ago
Luxury status items are not priced on BOM. That's the whole point, showing that you don't care paying way beyond actual costs. It would be a strategic signaling mistake for Apple to sell RAM upgrades at actual cost, it would decre
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3y ago
> We now know, through the theorems of Kirt Gödel, that there is no definitive way to classify mathematics Is this true?
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3y ago
Let's try the same argument, the other way around: it's sad that Linux developers waste time developing the Linux desktop given that almost all usage of Linux is on the server. Linux developers should dedicate manpower to porting
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3y ago
There is the array module, but it's cumbersome to use. https://docs.python.org/3/library/array.html But unlikely this is what parent meant.
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3y ago
For pure CPU computation Windows is just as fast as Linux since 99.9% of the time it's your code running and not the OS.
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3y ago
int *x; int *y; // ... *x = 5; Because of aliasing, x and y might point to the same memory location, so the compiler must assume that when you modified x to 5, y also potentially got modifed, so at next access it wil
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That's like asking way don't mac developers work in a linux vm instead of wanting a native build. Because working in a VM is inconvenient and has poor integration.
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Your atoms are being replaced all the time, at some point none of your original atoms are still present, yet somehow you feel no discontinuity.
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3y ago
> That means that if you're Apple or Google, you can spin off a company that has no presence in the EU and ship whatever root certificates you want, and it's not like you lose out on revenue. If such a solution would work Micro
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> The EU absolutely has an interest in preventing a US (or Chinese or whatever) entity from falsely certifying an EU site. EU is varied with all kinds of interests and geopolitical orientations. For example Hungary. Should we let Hungary
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3y ago
What's wrong with uploading to a robot body.
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3y ago
5 years? More like 20 years. SSE2 is supported by all 64-bit Intel/AMD CPUs released since about 2005.
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As a dynamic microphone, SM57 is only usable in the studio for certain kinds of vocals/instruments - the loud ones. You wouldn't want to record an acoustic guitar ballad on it.
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3y ago
In was speaking in general about remote attestation, not about the Chrome only one. A good example is Xbox, for which there is no known custom software, which in turn guarantees the lack of cheating software.
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3y ago
Good professional audio hardware is not overpriced. Sure, there are $15k microphones but you absolutely do not need those, a $1k one is top quality and not expensive if you use it regularly. You are confusing it with audiophile gear. Regard
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It could ensure that an employee laptop is not infected when connecting to the intranet which could prevent customer data leakage which would be a benefit for all of us.
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Why would Samsung have just one distributor in Mexico with very high prices? This doesn't make sense. In EU you can buy from a variety of sellers at various prices. You can buy grey market too and Samsung doesn't disable those pho
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Windows is most valuable because of all the software for it. They need some sort of emulation.
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3y ago
Article says that multiple phone makers do this in Mexico. I haven't heard about this practice in other countries. Could it be that there is a particularly dumb law in Mexico which makes companies do this?