m-j-fox

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by m-j-fox 9y ago
2035 is a long time from now. Hope someone hatches a practical energy plan in the meantime.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Sure, but in silicon valley one thing to do with your smalltime IPO winnings is buy a house and rent out your old one to someone who has yet to hit paydirt. Maybe part of what pushes prices up, but I like to think my renters are getting a b
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Seems like a good opportunity for someone to register disparage.org and start recording complaints against the uncomplainables.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
The one that confuses me is AB 71. Aren't 2nd and 3rd homes basically rental stock? Owned by individuals and not the Irving Company if you care about that.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Not really, publication quality. Just a Sunday-morning effort to understand the ceiling on the phased-execution model. All resources like decode, #pipes, cache and branch prediction are unmodeled, assumed infinite. I'm sure anyone can
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
It's good he recognizes that most code won't benefit from switch optimization. But certain tasks like pattern matching benefit greatly. For that, I suggest: http://www.micronautomata.com/ Micron will eat 1000 nest
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
If true, that'd be a very high number. Intel can get 2 on some benchmarks, but system-average IPC tends towards 1. (In terms of instructions standardized for cross-platform comparison. I take data on ARM servers and I'm jellous of
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
I think security was not fixable, at-least not to the user's and browsers liking. You had to disable flash for safety and stopping the most annoying ads. The other issues could be left to consenting adults. But browsers and IT departme
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Yes, but the embedded platforms that are interesting for high-level scripting are mostly phones. Worse than desktops, they won't bother with 32-bit compatibility layers. Using the other meaning of embedded (I embedded a Lua script in m
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
I looked over the code to guage how big this 32-bit problem is. It's going to be a lot of work. 32-bit is hardcoded everywhere. Compiler, linker, libc calls. So, on one hand, there's massive cross-platform support. On the other ha
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
> I've spotted tens of times more ticks on me than I've actually been bitten How many total is that? Never mind. You convinced me to never go outside, even if you were advocating the opposite.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Is Linyos Torovoltos a joke name?
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
What's the application for DBM? Sounds like a way to trace and JIT already-compiled programs for performance reasons, maybe to take advantage of newer CPU features than the original compiler could target, or maybe to port between platf
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Emacs offers to let you edit ASTs in Paredit mode for lisp if you want to experience it.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Side question: Do you use your Yubikeys for GPG? I tried to make two identical keys with the same GPG key, but still I get "Please remove the current card and insert the one with serial number: ..." if I try to decrypt a file with
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Does it matter a lot for this sort of application (which I assume is interactive data analysis)? I think if you're worried about performance then you want a back-end to map your computation out to a big cluster, no? Like, write OCaml,
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Please tell me about the parallelism problem? I love that Haskell can auto-parallelize and is very safe. But, I'm ready to kick it to the curb over stupid lazyiness-induced memory explosions. But I'd be sad to go back to having to
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
I find this design clean and appealing. Compared to the current fashion of all these Python libraries, it's a breath of fresh air. But I wonder if it can work. Python has going for it: kitchen sink of tools, easy to learn, tooling that
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
And like, why? To save power? Money? Performance? Maybe run some benchmarks and compute the bottom line.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
One idea that I think gives the best of both worlds is to use lisp to generate your C++ (or whatever) boilerplate instead of dealing with the maddening vaugeries of template metaprogramming, boost, STL, etc to achieve genericity.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Wow. So damp. Someone's going to get electrocuted. Where's Chinese OSHA?
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Ha! Now I know.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
You, sir, are a badass. You should sell wifi power cycling sockets. I will be your first customer.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Agreed. But more specifically, how can VCs be more discriminating and also not make getting money harder? There was another thread today about an interview with some rockstar VC and his wisdom was: invest in ideas that sound stupid, but tur
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
I don't know about SGX but worked on HDCP and maybe the license charge is for the same reason: lazy or malicious partners could leak a key and compromise the whole system. All the charges pay into the fund to pay damages to the injured
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Classy. I've seen too many situations where the old man wouldn't die or relinquish power but also wouldn't contribute anything but obstruction. There should really be more of a mentorship model rather than the assumption that
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Yeah, I've been working on LLVM lately and it seems like they've solved all the problems. Somehow, they solved them in standard C++. I've been through a bunch of compilers and I could barely hang on. In LLVM, everywhere I go,
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
We're still doing Kickstarter? Thought we all got burned on that AR/wifi deal and never went back.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
Hadn't heard about Hello. Their product sucked but I assumed PT was in for more than one hand to prove his point.
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by m-j-fox 9y ago
But they can sell 1 FPGA used to prototype the machine-learning ASIC.

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