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by jblow 8y ago
It is pretty clear they are describing the Holographic Principle there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
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by jblow 8y ago
The original Bay Bridge was built in 3 years, with 1930s technology. We used to not be a bunch of incompetent idiots when it came to building infrastructure, but now we clearly are. I understand why people don’t want to pay large amounts of
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by jblow 8y ago
‘judder’ refers to dropped frames in a fixed-frame-rate application, frames that are not dropped but are rendered too late, or, more generally, variance in frame rate of a program that should be smoothly animating.
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by jblow 8y ago
It’s tax breaks. If you don’t employ enough people, you won’t be paying enough taxes to take advantage of tax breaks anyway.
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by jblow 8y ago
The graph states that it is adjusted for inflation.
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by jblow 8y ago
Of course it seems weird to think of Many Worlds as somehow manufacturing universes for each fluctuation. That seems weird and wrong ... because it probably is. A better way to think of it is as the equivalent of the relativistic block univ
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by jblow 8y ago
They used them to research, develop and build every piece of technology you used to post this snarky comment ... ??
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by jblow 8y ago
Many reporters have written many stories they knew to be false in the past, even without this incentive. So I am not sure what your claim is.
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by jblow 8y ago
That's news to me... Also news to some of the biggest hits ever, like Minecraft.
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by jblow 8y ago
Which is exactly why it's a terrible benchmark -- it doesn't tell you anything about what you care about. Which is one reason why it's a terrible article. Another reason is that the author seems to have put a lot more enginee
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by jblow 8y ago
s/Newspaper//g
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by jblow 8y ago
These instructions will be around for a long time, but their performance attributes will change in 5 minutes when Intel releases the next wave of processors. I think given the current state of things it would be irresponsible for compilers
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by jblow 8y ago
I do. I am a Prime member but when Whole Foods cashiers ask I say "no" because I just want to get the bullshit over with and get out of there.
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by jblow 8y ago
Not sure who is downvoting you. I charged my Tesla Roadster on 120v 15A for like 6 years.
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by jblow 8y ago
Last I checked, most homes in the USA had 220v 30A dryer outlets.
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by jblow 8y ago
Many physicists do not believe that collapse of the wavefunction is a thing.
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by jblow 8y ago
> Household wiring will anyway not have enough current capacity to support charging citation needed
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by jblow 8y ago
This isn't really about minimal version selection. It's about how it is bad for your code to change behind your back ... which is a much more general and widely-applicable point.
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by jblow 8y ago
The graphics APIs we use are often just about managing raw buffers of memory -- often different areas of memory that have different performance characteristics (Onion Bus vs Garlic Bus, yo). You simply can't do that under constraints o
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by jblow 8y ago
This is true, but it mainly just mitigates the problem. It can never solve the problem, because the whole concept of this kind of scheme is that the memory manager has some volition of its own ... thus it can choose to do things when you do
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by jblow 8y ago
I get my number from decades of professional game programming. In a 7ms frame, you are spending most of that frame doing the work of rendering the actual frame (unless your game is so trivial that the GC is going to be easy / fast anyw
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by jblow 8y ago
8ms? Where do you get that number from? If your player has a 144Hz monitor then your pause time, rounded to the nearest millisecond, has to be 0ms.
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by jblow 8y ago
Except no, because rhetorically they are using the 62% figure as a good sign, rather than a bound on how bad things are.
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by jblow 8y ago
Did they? I can't tell from the article!
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by jblow 8y ago
> If an initial replication attempt failed, the researchers added even more participants. This is an obvious way to tamper with the results; it's just more of the same kind of p-hacking that bad researchers are so often doing. They
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by jblow 8y ago
There are some quotes missing from this title ... the proper spelling is Data “Scientists”.
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by jblow 8y ago
Limited bandwidth implies limited data per month ... just multiply bandwidth by time.
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by jblow 8y ago
Who said 120v? Plug it into a dryer outlet. My point was that you don't need all this big excessive expensive charging circuitry.
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by jblow 8y ago
As someone who lived through the 80s, I will say the pop music of the time was not particularly good, but it was at least original. It was a new sound, and there were new aesthetics being explored. That is not true today ... is it? Any exam
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by jblow 8y ago
You probably don’t need a charging station. Teslas can charge from a wall outlet, for example.

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