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by jlebar 10y ago
Windows only. :(
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by jlebar 10y ago
> The problem in this case is that many of the DUI laws don't distinguish between private and public property. Neither do injuries caused by drunk drivers.
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by jlebar 10y ago
> I'd also look at what problems need solving, in case they can be solved without function tracing. Without speaking to the specifics of xray, which I'm not so familiar with, I'll say that the folks who developed xray are
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by jlebar 11y ago
In fact I think at the moment almost everything, other than the memory-space alias analysis and a few pass tuning tweaks, is in. I know the former will be difficult to land, and I suspect the latter may be as well. I don't have a lot
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by jlebar 11y ago
> the paper mentions in the conclusion that a SASS spec is not publicly available. It would be interesting for someone involved to comment more on that. Experiments on reverse engineering the compiled PTX results? I'm one of the peo
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by jlebar 11y ago
Still, how many of these boxes are we talking about to match the performance of the #1 from the top 500 in 2005? 10? 20? That's still under $3m for 20, which is pretty impressive to me.
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by jlebar 11y ago
clang now has a mostly-working CUDA frontend (disclaimer, I work on it). And it has an AMD GPU backend (whether this is in a good state I don't know). I don't expect that putting these pieces together would be a huge project.
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by jlebar 11y ago
If you think "making work fun" so you can pay people less is "taking advantage" of workers, I encourage you to hang out with some food-service workers, or retail workers, or migrant farm workers, or...basically anyone wh
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by jlebar 11y ago
> But it's definitely a very callow, naive thing to say. Agreed. Doesn't sound like the kind of place I'd want to work. Possibly a bad business strategy. I'm merely disagreeing with the author's explicit claim
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by jlebar 11y ago
You and I may choose not to work at such a place, but is it morally wrong ? Is designing your business in this way equivalent to racism , as the author explicitly claims?
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by jlebar 11y ago
If you reduce everything that Lyons is saying that that one quote from the CEO, perhaps the evidence is slim. But if you take the observations he's making together, as a whole, a different picture emerges I guess I don't see the
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by jlebar 11y ago
Let's take this in context? Here's what he said in the interview. I have a lot of confidence in young people, and I have a lot of confidence in everyone’s ability to do more than they think they can do. I have very high expectat
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by jlebar 11y ago
It's like naming a company Death Star. Or like making a mission patch that's an octopus with its arms around the earth, with the tagline "nothing is beyond our reach"? It's all about audience, right? Palantir use
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by jlebar 11y ago
OP talked about manufacturing both on the moon and "in orbit", making no distinction between the two...
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by jlebar 11y ago
How is sending up raw materials better than sending up completed parts? At best, the total weight is the same, but if you're doing manufacturing in space, you also have to send up tools.
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by jlebar 11y ago
Presumably it's substantially cheaper to reuse their existing production processes.
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by jlebar 11y ago
And you're favoring people who work for employers generous/savvy enough to offer this benefit. I don't get it.
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by jlebar 11y ago
My experience is that Quanta Magazine specifically is quite good about this stuff in general -- many steps above your regular news outlet.
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by jlebar 11y ago
> annual data durability of over 99.9999999999% I know dropbox isn't the only company to publish numbers like this, but it really bugs me. This is 12 nines, or 1 in 10-trillion. To put this into perspective, the earth is 4.5 billio
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by jlebar 11y ago
Your definition is off by the way, writing fast code and doing optimisation doesn't necessarily mean that the code will be less understandable or become brittle. OP said Optimization often involves making code less clear, more britt
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by jlebar 11y ago
Highly quick-and-dirty: $ git log origin/release_37..origin/release_38 --no-merges -i --grep \ 'ppc\|power pc' --pretty='%ae' | grep --only-matching '@.*' | sort | \ uniq -c | sort -rn
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by jlebar 11y ago
I think roc would give me a sly smile for pointing out that this doesn't really answer the "why". It's what he's going to do after he leaves. Doesn't quite answer why he's leaving.
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by jlebar 11y ago
> the "worse is better" principle that correctness can be sacrified if it makes things too complicated To be clear, in systems designed with the "worse is better" approach, responsibility for correctness can be pushed
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by jlebar 11y ago
I use phabricator for the llvm project (whose canonical repo is still svn), and I also find it pretty frustrating. One thing I particularly dislike is that (as far as I can tell) there isn't a way to pull metadata down from phab into a
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by jlebar 11y ago
Note that this sort [in 2012] was 500 times larger than the GraySort large-scale requirement and twice as fast in throughput as the **current 2015** official GraySort winner. (emphasis mine)
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by jlebar 11y ago
> The problem is people using R without trying to learn about the language itself It's not the user's fault. Like, congratulations on being better at R than the author of TFA. Maybe you're smarter than him, maybe you&#x27
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by jlebar 11y ago
It's worth noticing that most of the optimizations here are for "space" -- reducing the working set size or the number of memory accesses. CPUs have gotten much faster than memory blah blah. This is the sort of thing where
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by jlebar 11y ago
> What in holy blazes, 60 gigabytes in a month just for one fucking stupid app? I didn't get the impression from the article that this was exclusively snapchat. I agree you'd have a hard time hitting 60gb/mo unless you&#x
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by jlebar 11y ago
> The market isn't losing valuable insights from people who are investing in index funds. Even if they were confident enough in an individual stock to buy shares, that doesn't mean they have any real insight about the company.
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by jlebar 11y ago
Bloomberg has correct the headline to read 2% instead of 63%.

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