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by mbell 12y ago
I see what your saying and that was the type of thing I was getting at. If i understood the article correctly, the claim was that it was faster because the first 2-4 checks could be optimized by avoiding the idiv. But even if you optimize t
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by mbell 12y ago
I'll take a different tilt: Your biggest problem is that you have 4 people listed on your team page yet there are two with the title 'Project Manager'. From what I can tell from playing with the site, it just lets you build &
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by mbell 12y ago
I'm left with a feeling something else must be going on here in addition to the 'fast mod' optimization. It looks like the optimization would only be used on the first 2 or 4 calls to isEvenlyDistributed() which doesn't
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by mbell 12y ago
There is a saying I've heard a few times in regards to aviation that seems to apply here, not sure who it should be attributed to: "Flying is hours of boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror." On the gaming front, I th
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by mbell 12y ago
I think inevitably we all look at languages from the angle of our own experience. For me, thinking of Go as any sort of replacement for C/C++ comes down to the fact that I've used those languages almost exclusively at a very low l
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by mbell 12y ago
> Go has been fairly expressly billed as a C/C++ replacement. I think the community at large has billed it as such, but I haven't seen such a direct statement come from anyone on the Go development team. This is really the core
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by mbell 12y ago
I keep seeing a lot of 'Rust vs Go' discussions, including in this thread. To me they seem to be targeted at different use cases. i.e. Rust is a C level replacement for low level direct memory access coding while Go is a garbage c
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by mbell 12y ago
> It takes me a few seconds to rewrite foldl from rote understanding: foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f x) xs, because it takes a function, a 'zero', a list of head and tail, and calls itself again with the same function, a zero &#
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by mbell 12y ago
> Hardware headphone amplifiers are obsolete. Software equalizers are the solution. Huh? Equalization and amplification are rather orthogonal concerns.
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by mbell 12y ago
I'm male and not particularly small, 6'2" 195lb. The moto360 is specced at 1.8" diameter (unclear if that is the screen or the entire device). Either way, the top of wrist is 2" across, so yea, it's better, but
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by mbell 12y ago
Unfortunately this is exactly what I feared smart watches would look like. It looks like a house arrest ankle monitor more than a watch. If they can get cut the thickness by a factor of 3 and the width/height by about half, I would be
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by mbell 12y ago
I was actually surprised by how big some of these guys are. Romelu Lukaku in particular, 6'3" and 208lbs, that is much bigger than I would have expected a striker to be.
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by mbell 12y ago
> Multi-master means exactly what you'd expect: N (where N >= 2) masters But the FAQ says it only supports 2 masters? > each of which can accept writes, which will be propagated to all the other nodes Bucardo knows of. How are
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by mbell 12y ago
I'm a bit unclear what they mean by 'true multi-master'. The overview and FAQ lead me to believe this is a perl script with it's own _singular_ db sitting between multiple databases. Specifically what are the CAP guarant
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by mbell 12y ago
I find it highly unlikely too, but I think your math is a bit off. You don't need to excite a single nerve, but the entire system. I don't know anything about physiology, but I wouldn't be surprised to be told that there are
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by mbell 12y ago
> Honestly? Using 512GB of ram is pretty hard. It's extremely easy. Insert 512GB of data into postgres, there, done.
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by mbell 12y ago
I think there is value in this ruling beyond 'what is a computer'. For example I founded a startup a number of years ago to do traffic monitoring with an FMCW radar based sensor. In the process of researching patents in the area I
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by mbell 12y ago
The author follows the intro to that topic (which says nothing about EM waves causing 'sound' I might add) by saying: Finally, there's a body of empirical evidence that makes this theory more appealing. A study funded b
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by mbell 12y ago
This article heavily confuses sound waves and EM waves in places. Just because they are both described in Hertz doesn't make them equivalent.
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by mbell 12y ago
I think the section throwing out the BS 'computer system assembly' bit may have the largest impact. I've read a number of patents that use that as their only real mechanism to be granted (see page 16 section C).
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by mbell 12y ago
> I think this must be a standard ARM thing. What your describing is just configurable IO pin routing and peripherals with DMA. That has been common for decades and has nothing to do with ARM, nor is it at all related to Cypress's P
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by mbell 12y ago
> Is it a single block? No. The 'winning chain' is determined by total difficulty, not block count.
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by mbell 12y ago
Any idea if their materials have changed? He speaks of Platinum and Titanium Dioxide as the materials they are using. Even discounting the cost of spinning up the necessary fabrication facilities, I would think such materials would keep the
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by mbell 12y ago
> In particular, I like the new trash can icon. Craig Federighi made a note of the time they spent refining this particular icon and the effort definitely shows. Was it lost on the author that Federighi's comment on the trashcan was
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by mbell 12y ago
> using 4 rockets Looks like 8 to me, 4 groups of 2.
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by mbell 12y ago
Google's ToS used to, and may still have, a clause that only allows the geocode API to be used in conjunction with maps, i.e. you can't use the geocode results for whatever you want, they have to be intended for display on a Googl
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by mbell 12y ago
I think at least part of the confusion here is the definition of 'embedded'. To some people 'embedded' means 'within the same process or thread as the core application', to others it means 'firmware runnin
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by mbell 12y ago
It's more that sound waves aren't simple 1D sine waves varying over time. Sound is a 3D pressure field varying over time. A single microphone on the outside of the can doesn't give you a full picture of what noise is entering
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by mbell 12y ago
> The transforms aren't complex... They're inverted. Again, It's not that simple. Most ANC headphones use a digital feed-forward control system using a variant of the LMS algorithm to provide coefficients to an adaptive FI
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by mbell 12y ago
That's not really what happens in noise-cancelling headphones. The transforms required are fairly complex, simple mixing is a long way from what is required to achieve good results.

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