keldaris

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by keldaris 8y ago
Well, that's exactly the point - I was arguing against the (by now ubiquitous) definition of the "actual problem". Your analogy further illustrates exactly that. The actual problem (as in, the thing you are actually solving w
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by keldaris 8y ago
Even though many of the technical points are highly debatable, my biggest issue is with the sentence "the programmer is freed to work on the actual problem" listed among the "advantages" of automatic memory management, a
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by keldaris 8y ago
By dispensing with even the pretense of elementary civility you've demonstrated exactly why some measure of censorship is often crucial.
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by keldaris 8y ago
I still use X220s for all my portable computing needs as it was the last model before Lenovo ruined the keyboards. As they invariably die off or just get too slow (or architecturally different - can hardly profile code on them nowadays) I h
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by keldaris 8y ago
While I mostly agree with you, there is one caveat to that position. Increased warfare precision also affects the rules of engagement directly - strikes that may have been considered impermissible due to high collateral damage may become fe
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by keldaris 8y ago
Since you said "for the world", I'll just point the obvious counter-argument - given how politically unpalatable large troop losses have become since Vietnam, less asymmetry in favor of the U.S. military might well make the k
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by keldaris 8y ago
From my perspective (computational physics, not machine learning) the situation with GPU compute is very simple. If you are fine writing everything from scratch and won't need the CUDA ecosystem (which is really all there is for good s
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by keldaris 8y ago
I don't particularly disagree with you, I was simply making an observation that the original claim of "thoroughness" didn't seem to me to imply any assertion of perceived validity. Besides that, the perceived validity of
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by keldaris 8y ago
I don't think the parent made that assumption, though. They stated it was "thorough", not valid. While I have no idea what a "valid" interpretation of Islam means (it seems like an unprovable honorific, bestowed arb
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by keldaris 8y ago
Running AdNauseam - no such irritations when opening the link, and it's likely at least marginally more efficient at annoying the adtech industry than sarcasm (not mutually exclusive, of course).
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by keldaris 8y ago
I only found Drepper's paper 4-5 years ago, but it would have been a godsend back when I learned how modern computers work. It took a lot of inefficient effort to scrounge together the basics, having a single source that covers most of
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by keldaris 8y ago
Not at a 10x price difference it isn't, at least if you're at all price conscious and looking for workstations / small clusters. This makes it far cheaper to just re-run simulations as necessary to get the same statistical gu
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by keldaris 8y ago
Are there plans for Linux / Windows support? I don't own any Apple hardware, so I can't even try this, but if it works well I'd be happy to pay for it.
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by keldaris 8y ago
If you can find other people who share your desire and present the developers with a clear case for making decent money that way, I'm sure either they or a third party would take up the challenge soon enough. Many of us who have no per
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by keldaris 8y ago
Most of the complexity of C++ is entirely optional too. That doesn't make the observation any less valid.
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by keldaris 8y ago
Those of us who have compute-bound workloads (scientific simulations in my case, but this often comes up in gamedev and elsewhere) often complain about how unusably slow debug builds impede our workflow in C++. One fairly common solution to
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by keldaris 8y ago
It worked out rather the other way around, though, did it not? Namely, the consequences of the risks taken by the big banks in pursuing aggressive lending policies were effectively socialized, while profits remained private. Even in the cas
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by keldaris 8y ago
Halide seems like it might have immense potential for fairly general applications in scientific computing, but all of the documentation, tutorials and examples seem dominated by image processing. Could someone elaborate on the limitations o
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by keldaris 8y ago
> A full on political union I suggest is the opposite of stability. That really depends on the countries involved and the form of the union. Even in your version of events, with a reversion to an EEC-like state, I expect we would eventua
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by keldaris 8y ago
While many of the objections you list resonate widely (even though I personally don't share most of them), I would also point out the obvious - that for all of its problems, it is because of the conscious, organized (and yes, largely e
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by keldaris 8y ago
Everyone understands those notions when they benefit them and everyone is quick to discard or gloss over them when they don't. It's a simple economic calculation, China just happens to be on the other end of it compared to the res
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by keldaris 8y ago
As a fellow European, I think we'd do well to remember history - the previous global hegemon, the British Empire, was very similar in most regards. Arguably the domestically least repressive major society of its time - albeit also meas
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by keldaris 8y ago
I think it's fairly conservative to estimate the Chinese incarceration rate at twice their official number when you factor in not just the Uyghur internment camps (which account for up to a million people by some estimates, though the
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by keldaris 8y ago
Within the scope of my comment I was using a far narrower definition of internal repression than you are. That being said, I don't disagree with you to any significant degree, although I would not count obesity or tropical disease. The
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by keldaris 8y ago
It's not ridiculous. It merely conflates (as do most statements in this thread) two orthogonal aspects - how repressive a society happens to be internally and how much of a threat it poses abroad. Historically, there doesn't seem
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by keldaris 8y ago
Unfortunately, not really. There is some community work in that regard [1], but it doesn't seem to get as much attention as one would like. Some people have gotten it to work, but official support (guaranteeing maintenance and decent d
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by keldaris 8y ago
Wouldn't that also disable other features as well (push notifications, maybe?)? Animations are something I disable permanently just to have a better user experience, I wouldn't like to sacrifice anything else.
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by keldaris 8y ago
Can you just disable animations on Apple devices the way you can on Android?
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by keldaris 8y ago
Isn't that just ridiculously slow animations for the most part? I still use an ancient OnePlusX that I got when it came out and I've disabled all UI animations, toggling most settings (with legitimate exceptions like activating th
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by keldaris 8y ago
Anyone have any insight on the relative popularity of C in Asia?

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