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541.
by markhahn 9y ago
ow! my eyes burn from the 80's texture background... Synthesis was one of my favorite papers - sort of more Unixy, traditional-ish than Self (another fav from that decade...)
542.
by markhahn 9y ago
ironic to see comments here criticizing Lustre, from people who don't seem to understand it at all. Lustre is for large HPC clusters. It's not for your desktop; it's not for your video editing suite. It is the only way to p
543.
by markhahn 10y ago
"they lacked imagination and like, I feel that we, young people today, like, a new generation, could do better"
544.
by markhahn 10y ago
Apple is in the vanguard of only one thing: marketing.
545.
by markhahn 10y ago
bash vs yml has always been there. you're really saying "declarative vs imperative" - not news. this is relevant, though, because Unix has always been about tools and composition, which is indeed dependent on imperative exp
546.
by markhahn 10y ago
Newbie discovers historical and technical debt, interprets as collapse.
547.
by markhahn 10y ago
No, Obama simply wanted to shift from invasion to engagement. Trump is purely an anti-establishment impulse (lubricated by racism, sexism, etc). To claim it's a reaction against Obama is to claim (ludicrously) that Obama == establishm
548.
by markhahn 10y ago
Belarus, really!?! They look like a fragment of the USSR that simply hasn't gotten the message yet. Where's the burgeoning democratic movement, where's the economic modernization?
549.
by markhahn 10y ago
The US is just pouting, and it's shameful. We need adults in the room, being thoughtful, pointing out, for instance, that withdrawing is not a form of strength, and only permits other countries (China) to fill the vacuum. The vote for
550.
by markhahn 10y ago
the price-demand relation is a curve (which can be nearly flat), not a simple inverse function.
551.
by markhahn 10y ago
Unions want to present themselves as the only possible savior for the downtrodden. But of course! Since when have any two saviors been willing to coexist? Also a bit strange to hear capitalist-incentive reasoning coming from a union...
552.
by markhahn 10y ago
confuses throughput with latency. has nothing to do with OO.
553.
by markhahn 10y ago
Why does the OP imply that there is some relation between the two products? It's true that both use litho and si, but they are dramatically different, internally. Think of flash as a consumable media - it is, since each cell can only
554.
by markhahn 10y ago
marketing is amoral, and we all want to be right. people within the company want to sell products because the products are good (but marketing is amoral, so they'll sell anything.) customers want to buy the right products (but market
555.
by markhahn 10y ago
It's a special kind of creepy when people decide that cats are a problem worthy of public attention. Yeah, they can cause real problems when introduced into closed ecosystems which lack a historical small-predator.
556.
by markhahn 10y ago
ironically, manufacturing is an industrial-age metaphor: people still seem to imagine that it can or could drive the economy, that election-quantity people might be supported by manufacturing, and that location of manufacturing is negotiabl
557.
by markhahn 10y ago
Good response, and indeed the "maker vibe" seems to have been poisoned by commercial concerns... Real makers tend to buy unbranded stuff from Chinese free-shipping places anyway. Branded Arduino is mostly a historic artifact...
558.
by markhahn 10y ago
anyone else notice that some of the transcriptions seem wrong, assuming a fixed 8-bit encoding? for instance. the "rrange" doesn't have two columns with identical bits.
559.
by markhahn 10y ago
you can put host keys in DNS, which can/should be secured. doesn't that avoid the need for this new infrastructure?
560.
by markhahn 10y ago
Important clarification: when the author says "C runtime", what he means is "Python runtime written in C". The C runtime is, of course, libc, libm, etc. I'm not sure why the author thinks Python's high-level
561.
by markhahn 10y ago
joke? the author is self-important in precisely the way that K&R weren't.
562.
by markhahn 11y ago
the big field of an MRI scanner is static and very uniform (there is also an RF field during scanning, but it's smaller). TCMS is very dynamic and tight.
563.
by markhahn 11y ago
Stasi called and want their infamy back.
564.
by markhahn 11y ago
well, except that openvz is an example of linux containers for which Google can't take credit.
565.
by markhahn 11y ago
to anyone who cares: why?
566.
by markhahn 11y ago
Can you give any examples of how FPGAs helped SGI? I'm aware that a certain Voldemort-like .gov liked them at one time, but I never saw any uptake in the real world. Intel is a volume player; this makes FPGAs a bit of a head-scratcher
567.
by markhahn 11y ago
The article was a reasonably persuasive argument for why Python should be your first language. Maybe someone should write "Why I want Swift to be relevant to non-Appleheads".
568.
by markhahn 11y ago
what's that in stationwagons full of LTO6 tapes?
569.
by markhahn 11y ago
none of this is news - what you're describing is really just strong scaling. and sure, most systems already have subsets of nodes set aside for post-simulation cleanup.
570.
by markhahn 11y ago
montecarlo-type simulations are fine in their niche. it's just asinine to claim you can do all science that way.

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