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by knappador 13y ago
The order of magnitude chosen to calibrate the metric on doesn't change the prefix magnitude. 1 kJ = 1000J 1 kg = 1000g Adjusting prefixes puts the units on the order of magnitude where they are easy to write in typical domain problems
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by knappador 13y ago
Controller latency. Hierarchy of all memory and cache has a complexity/memory-size correlation in the controller that directly affects performance. Also, power density in hot-spots is the issue, and fundamentally you want all the fas
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by knappador 13y ago
Using zero reminds you that black is 0, 0, 0 in 24bit integer rgb, while white is 255, 255, 255, not 256, since you only have 8 bits and 2^8 - 1 = 255, not 256, and calling black 1, 1, 1 makes no intuitive sense. Using zero indexes saves a
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by knappador 13y ago
Perhaps short-sighted. Audit, yes. Github, no. Totally interested if there's really a poster-child failure of contractors hawking closed-source tools here, but we have be be very objective and professional if we ever expect to benef
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by knappador 13y ago
Close 2nd for me. Freshman year down at the student union after getting totally sick of working with Codeblocks and MSVC++ on Windows for trying to make something meaningful in OGRE, installed Debian, got it working but wasn't making
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by knappador 13y ago
It was at a magnet school, as were the C++ and OOP classes. The class was self-paced. I was the only student. We only had about fifteen three-hour lectures before the prof basically said, "and that's all I got." Book was
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by knappador 13y ago
Did a micro-architecture directed-study in highschool covering the MIPS architecture, MIPS assembly execution, implementation of many fundamental components such as latches, MUX's, ALU's etc, pipelines, caches, and many other topi
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by knappador 13y ago
I studied the Dao in a Chinese History course only briefly and one of the statements that I particularly like is wrapped up nicely here: http://www.myrkothum.com/the-meaning-of-the-finger-pointing-... It's almost obvio
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by knappador 13y ago
In some ways, the actual execution of code is opaque to compilers. Modern x86 processors further divide their instructions into op-codes in the instruction translation units. AMD and Intel both have their approaches to this internal instr
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by knappador 13y ago
Wah. While this was going on, I finished a re-write of the Android billing APIv3 integration in Kivy. https://github.com/knappador/billing-example Please test the provided binary and post logcats of failures. Inte
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by knappador 13y ago
It's impossible to express or study something that is ineffable. It's like extrapolating an underlying mechanism to quantum physics. You might get a model. Your model might be consistent, but the model is never guaranteed to be
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by knappador 13y ago
The problem only exists if you have it. It doesn't really exists, but seems to exist if you let it exist. Ostensibly this advice seems not helpful as it doesn't solve the problem, but by not acknowledging it, the problem is solv
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by knappador 13y ago
We really ought to be investing more broadly in fusion technologies. Please spread the word to scientists that they can back this recommendation if they agree. http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/index.php?option=com_l..
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by knappador 13y ago
Doesn't hurt to dream. Maybe a controller somewhere on the grid got compromised (SCADA?) as someone generously performs a series of hi-pot tests. Can't wait to move my operations to HK servers in spite of having nothing to prote
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by knappador 13y ago
I tried introducing them to crowdhoster =) Anyone with the appropriate networking, please do your thing.
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by knappador 13y ago
Producing net-energy is a different story than collecting net-energy. NIF just blows up a canister with a pellet and takes forever to reload a shot. On the other hand, an at-least-as-promising technology like Dense Plasma Focus ( http:&#x
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by knappador 13y ago
You're probably not very good yet, just judging on experience. The best way to have a happy relationship is for you, the party causing the most risk, to charge a flat-rate for the final product and eat the costs of overruns and tangen
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by knappador 13y ago
It's a matter of time until RFID or other solutions are cost-effective enough that we just roll our shopping carts through the door and our wipe our NFC phones across a scanner. Faster still. NFC or some other technology as Apple is
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by knappador 13y ago
"You don't. You teach hardware about web developers." I mean I hate the limitations of C macros and the esolang that C++ can become, as well as facets of every language, but seriously, if language is a barrier then how did a
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by knappador 13y ago
The problem is, how much better is it really? The flatness of the cover by its very nature implies awful tactile awareness compared to Cherry MX's or any other such device wholly designed to aid tactile awareness. Looking at the image
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by knappador 13y ago
Ah, yeah, true innovation alright; an application specific touch-UI? Dang, tablets will never be able to offer that XD. In the comments: "Apple has a patent for a similar device. However their touch sensitive keyboard is also an e-in
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by knappador 13y ago
s/IF/IR/g
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by knappador 13y ago
Not sure to what degree we're talking. ARM + x86 has basically everything covered. Even -if- ARM support is bad now, completing it would be easier than creating exactly the custom toolchains that LLVM was designed to abstract away.
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by knappador 13y ago
Can we just get LLVM on browsers to compile embedded IF with JS-to-IF (or existing VM) as legacy? Think about it. Every three months, "omg THIS in Javascript!" and every fourth month, "omg THIS language becomes Javascript!&
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by knappador 13y ago
Have definitely had an excellent experience using an experimental MVC setup in Kivy. Can't chip into any MVC death exclamations. First I should mention that Kivy uses data-binding liberally. It's not events, it's publisher
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by knappador 13y ago
virtualenv is your friend
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by knappador 13y ago
Kivy developers are the primary movers behind Python for Android. Typically we are using Cython so that a great deal of the application is actually running in C without the Python runtime eating up overhead. This leaves a budget of about
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by knappador 13y ago
Hahaha, I take it you were hoping for the story of the actual trip? It was badass. I'm not sure that every developer out there gets what is happening with Stack Overflow and Github. This is based on the kinds of software I see being
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Welcomed to the Bay Area
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by knappador 13y ago
IIRC HTML templates never quite let me auto-detect what JS to include in the builds. The manual configuration was too much of a pain. That 7-8 line file is sitting there saying RTFM for something that is trivial when taking the path of le

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