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by mbell 10y ago
Intel (and probably AMD) have been using neural based approaches to branch prediction since the early 2000's. This isn't particularly new, it's just not a topic talked about much.
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by mbell 10y ago
> My friends both really wanted public transit directions in maps and airdrop but neither feature shipped on the 4S. I also seem to remember that predictive Siri (Google Now-ish competitor, don't remember what they called that) did
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by mbell 10y ago
At least for me, their predictions are terrible. I watched a couple historical documentary series on WWII and for the next couple months my recommendations were filled with Nazi conspiracy theory junk.
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by mbell 10y ago
> Ranked play is nothing other than a mechanic to match you with players of equal skill at a game. Almost all such games maintain some sort of per player rating (ELOish usually) which is separate from ranked play and often hidden. You ce
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by mbell 10y ago
As a baseline I'd say that any game where the 'prime content' is ranked PvP it is a competitive game. Sure HotS and LoL have non-ranked play but they aren't the focus of the game. Another simple metric is to look at eSpo
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by mbell 10y ago
I believe they've always been split, as I recall there are 4 different iPhone 6 models supporting different frequencies / protocols.
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by mbell 10y ago
> I don't think Blizzard has ever been a part of that scene I'd argue that Blizzard was largely responsible for defining modern eSports. Blizzard games helped drive the creation of many of the gaming leagues, ESL/IEM start
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by mbell 10y ago
I'm kind of curious how you came to Docker and PhantomJS being the easiest way, that sounds like the worst possible way to me. To get things started simply with JS just follow instructions here: http://webdriver.io/guid
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by mbell 10y ago
> Using Web Driver also got a steep learning curve. I would recommend not working with WebDriver directly. There are many projects that wrap it in a sane API and make it very easy to use. For example if you're using Javascript then
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by mbell 10y ago
This was discovered in 2007 and thought to be a dwarf planet even then. The new information here is a more accurate estimate of it's size that moves it from 5th largest to 3rd largest dwarf planet. The title is click bait.
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by mbell 10y ago
There still isn't much there, and some of it is just unfounded. For example, while the author claims there are 'crazy levels of duck typing' in Ruby / Rails he provides no such evidence of it and as noted by recent work
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by mbell 10y ago
> The original post went deeper than that. If there was depth, I missed it. The only two points I got from it were 'I prefer static typing over duck typing' and 'avoid dependency hell'. The original post didn't a
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by mbell 11y ago
> It's necessary to have a less-stable, separate, develop branch where features, bugfixes, etc, that were developed off on their own sandboxed branches can be merged and integrated as part of a development phase. I don't think
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by mbell 11y ago
I found myself doing something similar to this in Java more than any other language. Usually because some insane abstraction was built over a concept and some of the implementations could throw something like IOException and some could not
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by mbell 11y ago
> And voila, we've just implemented a query optimizer. It will fetch all issue owners with a single query. If we add an SQL parser into the mix, it should be possible to rewrite real SQL queries. Maybe my sarcasm detector is off but
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by mbell 11y ago
Opening a new shell can take ~5s with oh-my-zsh, it's <1s with prezto. Tab completion is also noticeably slower with oh-my-zsh.
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by mbell 11y ago
> Has the project grown so large that it's starting to run into real-world performance issues? oh-my-zsh is noticeably slower than prezto on multiple 'high end' machines I have with the same 'capabilities', i.e.
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by mbell 11y ago
It doesn't surprise me that there are edge cases where you need paper. It surprises me that those edge cases are numerous enough that you would own a printer and deal with it. All of my boarding passes are covered via phone but on the
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by mbell 11y ago
> Printing tax forms (even if you do them electronically it is much easier to have a file folder of all your info should you get a query from the government) I store them as PDFs and put them on a NAS that with backups to S3 > Printin
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by mbell 11y ago
I haven't owned a printer in probably 10 years and I'm not particularly young (32). I get their usefulness in some aspects of business operations but I'm a bit at a loss as to why an individual would purchase one. What are th
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by mbell 11y ago
I'm curious what you mean by 'synchronous' here, for example an I2C bus is clocked by the master, ignoring clock stretching and that clock need not be in any way synchronous with the processor clock on the slave. And to clari
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by mbell 11y ago
Someone whom wants their planes to work when the enemy jams GPS and/or shoots the satellites down. We're talking about war here after all.
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by mbell 11y ago
> They totally could. Some atomic clocks are quite small. Are they mil spec? In other words do they operate correctly over a very large temperature range, with large input voltage variance, under high G-forces, in high vibration environm
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by mbell 11y ago
> The toughest problem the program is having is matching the timing of the aircraft’s fusion software with its sensors’ software I don't know if I'm interpreting that correctly but what I'm getting out of it is clock skew
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by mbell 11y ago
That assumes the cities have rectangular boundaries, at least the inference I got from the article is that they are also polygonal geofences. If you have a nested series of rectangular bounding boxes you're well on your way to building
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by mbell 11y ago
I'm not terribly familiar with geo algorithms but I'm curious why it's worthwhile taking the two layer approach. Can't you precompute the X and Y minima and maxima for each geo fence and throw out 99% of candidates extre
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by mbell 11y ago
> It's not pretty simple if travel is an insignificant part of your job that you only undertake once every year or few years. If you're concerned over uncomfortable travel 'once every year or few years' then you have
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by mbell 11y ago
Don't work for them, it's pretty simple. I don't know what field you work in, but give that this is HN I assume you're a developer, if so you'll probably not see a better job market, don't put up with shit.
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by mbell 11y ago
It was a fun level :) Anyone know if Stripe is planning another CTF? The last one was great fun.
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by mbell 11y ago
The project from the article is https://github.com/ncb000gt/node.bcrypt.js There, the encryption is handled asynchronously, the event loop is yielded while the calculations take place in a C extension.

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