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by nhaehnle 11y ago
I'd agree with you, but vixen99's post does not actually articulate an awareness of criticizing a particular part of the government. There's talk about "dependence on the government" by 70% of the public (probably t
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Make that 100% of the American (or really any state's) public. Do you think your life would just go on without any troubles at all if government suddenly disappeared? I guess what I'm trying to say is that everybody [0] depends o
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
The story of how Norway came to be the country that survived oil is fascinating. The crux is they had the insane luck of a young but experienced Iraqi geologist with the right mindset showing up on their doorstep at just the right time -
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Are the full slides available somewhere?
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
There is actually a nugget of thought in the article beyond the explanations you always hear (and which make up all the comments in this thread as I'm writing this): Even if you base your project schedules on accurate estimates of the
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Your first sentence is phrased too extreme :) People who agree about objectives can still have (non-moral) policy arguments. That may be due to a misunderstanding or a lack of knowledge by some of the parties, or simply because society (and
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Yeah, that's actually mentioned in the article ;)
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Compiler optimizations as part of libraries is definitely something I would like to see more languages explore. I think this is something that could fit quite well into Rust, actually, with its philosophy of allowing compiler plugins. A sim
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Surely there are thousands of people on Earth who had the required skill and knowledge at the time, probably much more. Hash cash and Merkle trees had been a thing for a while. On the other hand, a comparatively smaller number of people see
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Thanks to @climagic on Twitter, I recently learned that sort -R and shuf are not in fact the same thing. (sort -R doesn't actually shuffle...)
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
This is one of those threads where having spoiler tags would be useful ;) A hint / related keyword for a quick Google search for the answer is that yours is a question about fix points in permutations.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Yes indeed, the HBM memory in the latest AMD GPUs is stacked. This press release is extremely frustrating, by the way, because it's full of fluff and hype. Through-silicon vias have been in discussion for a long time (and, as you said,
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
My line of thinking when I saw the headline was very similar. If you believe that your brain decides something without you, that just means you don't have a good understanding of who/what you are.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Why would an answer to this philosophical debate change anything about how we deal with crime?
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Precedents for surprising meta-structures arising from the interaction of a huge number of smaller objects with complex interactions are playing an increasing role in science (think Wolfram's book, biology and the understanding of the
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
This is really the correct answer: Why do you want to participate in an open-source project in the first place? If it's to gain brownie points for your CV, it's quite likely that you'll get nowhere, because that's a moti
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
As much as I would like to believe that there has been a massive qualitative change in the meaningfulness of GDP caused by the internet, I would like to see a comparison across multiple countries. If that qualitative change is real, then
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
While it's true that the R9 290 uses the older radeon kernel module, that older kernel module isn't going anywhere and is definitely still supported. What's more, a large part of the usermode driver ("radeonsi") is
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
They also didn't have to worry about basic life support. Sure, sweet water supply and scurvy are issues on long sea journeys, but compared to a Mars mission, they really had it easy.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
To be more precise, GPUs are optimized for embarrassingly parallel workloads. AMD's GCN, for example, has scalar and vector instructions, where the vector instructions are 64 items wide. For graphics, this is used for running a shader
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
There is an assembler for GCN in the AMDGPU backend of LLVM, which is what Mesa uses to compile shaders. I haven't actually tried to use the assembler stand-alone, but for any serious work in that direction, it makes sense to use that.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
> 1+1=2 is only true because it doesn't contradict our experiences. Not quite. In the mathematical sense, 1+1=2 is true because (a) it is a well-formed sentence in a certain formal system and (b) there exists a proof of it in that f
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
I find your exchange of comments very nice because it so perfectly illustrates a pet peeve of mine. The assumption "free market = good" is so widely spread and deeply rooted that anything which is identified as "bad" is
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Given cooperation by a miner, you can probably do it in principle (though I have not checked), because of transaction fees. The recipe is this: Create a transaction with a transaction fee corresponding to the amount of BTC you want to destr
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
For most practical purposes I agree, I would just like to add that restricting yourself on top of a non-restricted language is something where technical help is useful: that's basically what lints are about. This is not to say that the
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Stigler's law - that is, the fact that eponyms often deny credit for an invention to many people who were relevant for it - is one of the reasons why I try to avoid eponymy where possible. The other reason is that eponymy is often a sy
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Can you give details? If it's with the open driver stack, I may be able to help. Contact me at username at gmail if you like.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
> AMD's stability (on linux at least) is pretty poor. Have you had any concrete issues recently? This may be one of these things where public perception changes slowly, unfortunately.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
I found this a bit confusing as well at first, but it's really simple enough: The point of the article isn't the scripting language itself. It's that the author encountered a bug in the scripting language implementation that
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
To expand on the monosyllabic sibling answer, rr is completely language agnostic because it works at the level of machine code, (ab)using platform features like performance counters to do its thing. It should basically work for every x86 an

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