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by iyulaev 14y ago
The MSRs use molten salts in the sense of ionic compounds, not in the sense of NaCl. They're talking about uranium flouride or liquid flouride thorium.
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by iyulaev 14y ago
On a related note, I'm somewhat surprised that molten salt reactors don't get much interest or press. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor It seems like they have many advantages over conventional water-based reactors and are
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by iyulaev 14y ago
We wrote it in Java. We had some tools for the parsing (something like yacc for Java), we built a parser but it was in another class.
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by iyulaev 14y ago
No, we had gcc :-P but for a compilers class the goal is to write your own. Lots of people used gdb for debugging their assembly programs and probably at least half the people I know used Eclipse for development.
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by iyulaev 14y ago
"I'd argue that auto-complete, one of the major IDE/editor features, is alone responsible for most of the boost I get from coding in an environment. Instantly, thousands of symbols can move out of my brain and into a list that appears as I
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Say what you want about some of their other business practices, but they appear to have successfully destroyed rents in the retail industry, which is great for consumers of retail. Regardless of how they do for their shareholders, that is a
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by iyulaev 14y ago
There's tons of book-sized systems available, typically with lower-end AMD or Intel chips. Throw in a DDR2/3 SODIMM and a SATA drive and you're good to go. These start around $100. Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Oh, having the performance of a static binary would be wonderful. We were more than 1 order of magnitude off.
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Coming from a C & Java (hacking, not really professional unfortunately) background and using C++11 for a performance-oriented application (data processing & compression), the experience is a bit harrowing. It feels like, compared to
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Yes. I've used SciPy for some pre/post-processing but for the simulation kernel, C(++) or Fortran it was. Despite claims of JIT compilation, automatic parallelism, etc that matlab and other languages promised, our C-based implementation cru
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by iyulaev 14y ago
>> On an energy/computation basis they make more sense than x86 processors right now. Does anyone have ANY numbers that back this up? I've heard this refrain many many times but I've never seen any hard numbers to prove this. On a p
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by iyulaev 14y ago
One thing the Thinkpads do right, by me, is the keyboard, which I'm surprised no one here has mentioned. They have just the right depth of stroke, and the backing tends to be very solid to minimize flex. One thing that I wish most manufactu
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Because if you don't get paid in $$$, you're free to do shoddy work...? Crap work has costs that far exceed the amount spent employing the person who produced it.
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by iyulaev 14y ago
+1. Last time I went to Europe I took my olde Nokia E71. The maps function was GREAT - I didn't have data there but I could still navigate the cities I visited without any trouble.
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by iyulaev 14y ago
I'm certainly not going to argue against GPUs (or FPGAs) being used in scientific applications where performance is limited by floating point or vector performance. In certain scientific applications they can hand general-purpose CPUs their
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Hasn't the whole massive multicore thing been floating around the server space for a few years now? I remember HP Project Moonshot and Sea Micro and a few other projects to built multi-chip ARM servers. However, I don't recall seeing ANY be
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by iyulaev 14y ago
F5 networks has their h/w design out there.
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by iyulaev 14y ago
SF isn't the only city where you can live car-free ;) Also, cars are, sadly, much cheaper than houses. My spouse and I share a car and the TCO is not anywhere near our rent. At least an order of magnitude, maybe two.
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by iyulaev 14y ago
How much of it is baked into the cost of living? If my rent is 30% of my salary, and I'm looking at a job that pays 30% more but the rent is double in the area, isn't it a wash?
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Re: real estate prices, go read "The Rent Is Too Damn High" by Yglesias. Yes, it's a problem. And regulation is a big, big part of it. Also, there are plenty of places where you can make money working in tech and have a relatively low cost
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Aren't GPS satellites geostationary? And aren't geostationary orbits like 100 times further out than LEO?
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Already deleted all of them, and don't have access to that e-mail account anymore (never updated from my old school acct).
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Interesting. Did you register just now to post this response?
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by iyulaev 14y ago
They wouldn't ever lie, would they? Who are you going to believe, hundreds (or thousands) of FB users, or FB themselves?
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Wow, a few weeks ago I was joking that if Facebook went through my private messages, I wouldn't be surprised, based on how scummy they've behaved in the past. Now apparently they've done this, except also shared everything with the whole wo
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Cygwin or Mingw?
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by iyulaev 14y ago
I think you should know at least one level of abstraction, in each direction , beyond what you presently know. So if you're writing a C driver, you should know what the assembly will look like and also what the application developer will b
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by iyulaev 14y ago
" I'm curious as to how they handle fuel spillage and if they have to reschedule in inclement weather. " My assumptions - Fuel spillage - For oil, lay down a tarp or a tray. Gasoline, otoh, evaporates very quickly, even faster than water. N
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by iyulaev 14y ago
Wrong. 30% grade != 30 deg incline.
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by iyulaev 14y ago
With a jack, some stands, and some ingenuity, you'd be surprised what can get done :) Honestly for many cars there's not many jobs that require a lift. Even an engine swap can be done with a crane and some clever-ness/swearing. Granted work

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