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by krapht 5y ago
Most people hack on this stuff for work, and time is money. OpenCL is just a lot less productive than CUDA for most tasks. The NVidia price premium isn't big enough to make people switch over.
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by krapht 5y ago
I'm pretty sure the future is going to look more like Gattaca than Idiocracy. I wouldn't bet against genetic engineering.
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by krapht 5y ago
No need to waste money on cloud computing. Just buy a used Xeon server at effectively 30-50% of the cost of that cloud compute you're using.
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by krapht 5y ago
uMatrix developer moved on to primarily work on uBlock Origin. It is a good successor. I think some people do not like UBo because by default it is a little light on blocking so most websites just work. Well, you can configure it to block m
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by krapht 5y ago
Is not an epic screw-up. More like 99.9% of compute is not done in adversarial untrusted sandboxes, so who cares if another process with a lot of work can extract data from another one. You leave so much performance on the table if you dema
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by krapht 5y ago
Altium is mid-range. Like Solidworks for mechanical enginieering. There's another tier of PCB design tools above Altium with matching cost per seat, e.g. Mentor Graphics Expedition. Unigraphics, for mech Es. Both of the above owned by
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by krapht 5y ago
I mean, the best way to think about it is as a replacement for MATLAB, except with better support for general purpose computing. MATLAB the language syntax is optimized for double precision matrix math - but MATLAB is interpreted with a JIT
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by krapht 5y ago
There's got to be a middle ground somewhere. I've worked in many places where the tech stack fossilizes because the ROE of learning how to use new, more productive tooling is too much effort for the senior devs compared to their e
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by krapht 5y ago
You're missing the value of military pensions and healthcare when you speak about O9 compensation.
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by krapht 5y ago
I tried all the different static site generators, and I was annoyed with how everything was really complicated. I also came to the realization that I was never going to need a content management system with the amount of blogging I was doin
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by krapht 5y ago
Every time I read this, I agree. And then I wonder why people don't do the obvious thing like I do and write C with templates in C++. It is a kitchen-sink multi-paradigm language so just embrace it. Plus, inheriting abstract interface
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by krapht 5y ago
Strong "just rewrite it in Rust" attitude coming through here.
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by krapht 5y ago
I think parent is referring to the fact that for many Linux distributions, you must build packages with the version of CMake they have in the repositories. Even today, in 2021, I have to use CMake 2.8.12 / GCC 4.8.5 in order to build c
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by krapht 5y ago
I think parent is saying to use a package manager.
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by krapht 5y ago
People also curl and execute shell scripts from the internet every day.
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by krapht 5y ago
If you think old, unoptimized, high-human labor business processes exist only in Japan, have I got a bridge to sell to you.
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by krapht 5y ago
Bazel is for the Google-scale companies of the world who must ship petabytes around the internet. Mortals do not use Bazel - a cluster of 80 core CPUs does, and the user just downloads the cached build results. It is extremely powerful but
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by krapht 5y ago
? My CPU actually underclocks itself if I am running a heavy AVX-512 workload. Actually, back when I had it in a cheaper motherboard, my system would crash because the MB couldn't deliver enough power to the CPU. But I agree with the f
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by krapht 5y ago
Mobile data is quite expensive in many parts of the world. Quality is just one factor.
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by krapht 5y ago
Is this a joke? There's a whole world of software out there that isn't web based. Anybody who hasn't switched to a Chromebook uses them every day. I even write terminal user interfaces sometimes to interact with servers that
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by krapht 5y ago
Right. And random drug-testing is infringing on the athlete's right to bodily autonomy. Why would anyone care about the competitive integrity of a video game?
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by krapht 5y ago
It's way more than that. The author explicitly compares making bread with heroic trials princes perform to win princesses. She is referencing her struggle to get a tenure track position in academia.
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by krapht 5y ago
People who get irritated over units of measure are themselves irritating. It is not so hard to round, double it 4 times and then divide by 10.
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by krapht 5y ago
Why?
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by krapht 5y ago
Eh, no, that's not how it works in high-volume manufacturing. There are 70 million washing machines sold per year. Suppose your large conglomerate employer sells 0.7% of that total, or 700,000 units. It doesn't take much of a per-
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by krapht 5y ago
When is the singularity going to happen?
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by krapht 5y ago
Excel and Google sheets? First thing any of my non-technical friends reach for when they need to do some basic sums and calculations.
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by krapht 5y ago
Avoid OpenCL. If you're going to the trouble to use an FPGA, it means you really want performance. In that case, there's no avoiding the rewrite in VHDL/Verilog and specifically targeting the resources that your FPGA hardware
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by krapht 5y ago
You can't make money selling hardware with open API, though. It'll get cloned and manufactured in China, and people buying in bulk will naturally choose the cheapest option. Nobody makes money in open-source selling software, eith
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by krapht 5y ago
What's with all the griping going on regarding javascript? Twine is made for these "choose your own adventure" type games, and it's faster to use it than handcode everything while serializing all your app state to a cook

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