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by milcron 10y ago
This is true! New with the Knights Landing generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi#Knights_Landing available in two forms, as a coprocessor or a host processor
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by milcron 10y ago
The Fed is already rather audited... from Bernanke's blog: The Fed is already thoroughly audited in the usual sense, by an independent inspector general and by an outside accounting firm (currently, Deloitte and Touche),
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by milcron 10y ago
Some graphics cards, apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_... It might just be a hedge against hypothetical CPUs.
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by milcron 10y ago
I notice nobody in this thread has yet mentioned the FOSS (Apache license), cross-platform, encrypted messenger ChatSecure https://chatsecure.org/ The Guardian Project writes a bunch of nice software https://en.w
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by milcron 10y ago
I agree in that I'd call it more of an HD "refactor" than a remake. The HD version supports all sorts of resolutions, whereas the original game was restricted to just 800x600, 1024x768, and 1280x1024!
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by milcron 10y ago
Bringing ourselves to terraform another planet will be very easy -- the one who pushes the button will be one who hasn't looked at the planet long enough to be attached to it.
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by milcron 10y ago
It's aging, but Age of Empires 2 has had a comeback recently.
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by milcron 10y ago
Reminds me of this interesting wiki article, "American Civil Religion" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion
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by milcron 10y ago
That's a good quibble. People should be allowed to organize. I suppose there should be a distinction between political organizations and profitable ones. So a group "Whigs for America" pooling donations is fine, but a for-pro
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by milcron 10y ago
Unfortunately, it seems impossible to acquire a modern x86/x64 chip without such hidden firmware. The last Intel CPUs without it are from 2008, and the last AMD CPUs without it are from 2013. If you can tolerate using a different CPU a
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by milcron 10y ago
How did Intel lose ground with Broadwell?
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by milcron 10y ago
I don't think this boundary would be that difficult to delineate and enforce. Political donations ought to come from personal bank accounts rather than corporate ones. Is it any more difficult than that?
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by milcron 10y ago
Lobbying as a citizen who happens to own a business is different from a business itself lobbying. I'm perfectly fine with the former.
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by milcron 10y ago
The logical continuation of WinRT. "Store" apps that run identically on Windows 10 Desktop, Phone, IoT, etc. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/uni...
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by milcron 10y ago
And coincidentally, is also funding spaceflight research!
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by milcron 10y ago
These buildings look like they were built in one pass. If a building expands piecemeal, "learning" as it goes, I imagine the end result would look better even if nobody was thinking of masses and voids along the way.
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by milcron 10y ago
Yes, I use saffron to cook paella, a spanish dish. Saffron is quite valuable, so it should make a good cash crop!
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by milcron 10y ago
Legalese does have variable declarations, they just look a little different and are used more sparingly. For example, look at section 17 of Facebook's terms of service: https://www.facebook.com/terms The interesting pa
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by milcron 10y ago
A paradox is "a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth". If you encounter a paradox, it tells you more about how your framework of thinking is flawed than it does
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by milcron 10y ago
You need two newline characters for HN to put the text on a new line.
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by milcron 10y ago
The website says there are Python, Ruby, Go, and Haskell implementations of the framework.
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by milcron 10y ago
Personally I take it 45 minutes before expected bedtime (irregularly, only if I feel I need it).
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by milcron 10y ago
The best code is no code! Related, one of my favorite programming stories: the 0-byte program http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55
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by milcron 10y ago
I always love net-negative commits.
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by milcron 10y ago
You can also "like" pages and see content from non-friend organizations in your feed.
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by milcron 10y ago
The bias is a fair point, but it still goes to show that arguments for not incriminating do exist.
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by milcron 10y ago
Not everyone under the sun knows that. Her negligence is worthy of disciplinary action, sure. If this had been discovered while she was still Secretary of State, she may have been fired. But she wouldn't have been sent to prison over i
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by milcron 10y ago
FYI these restrictions are due to Epic, not Microsoft.
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Here is a comparison of the previous generation: https://www.xcelerit.com/computing-benchmarks/libor/intel-xe... They hold their own against GPGPU, but are probably the inferior choice if your code already runs on
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by milcron 10y ago
Static+strong typing is a nice combination, which is probably what hacker_9 meant to say. ML family is particularly nice -- with Hindley-Milner type inference, you get a lot of static guarantees with none of the verbosity of languages like

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