nicktelford

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by nicktelford 9y ago
I honestly can't see this going anywhere; Intel have no skin in the discrete graphics game, so what do they have to gain from this? They're not really competing with nVIDIA, except perhaps in the emerging AI hardware market?
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by nicktelford 9y ago
It's worth remembering too that Bigelow Aerospace put their development on hold some years ago because the launch industry wasn't moving fast enough to actually deploy their habitats. I expect we'll see them spinning back up
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by nicktelford 9y ago
Given his aspiration to sell it for prices comparable to economy airline tickets, I feel like the outlay of building the facilities at each end will eat up a lot of the profits. It's a neat idea, but I don't see this funding the M
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by nicktelford 9y ago
I suspect the ambitious timelines are political. Musk has repeatedly stated that others would need to work on a lot of the Mars colony infrastructure. SpaceX only appear to be working on the supporting infrastructure for flights (e.g. prope
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by nicktelford 9y ago
The country the data resides in is irrelevant. If the data is about an EU citizen, that's all that matters. I believe the company in question would also need a legal entity in the EU in order for the EU to prosecute them, as I don&#x27
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by nicktelford 9y ago
The issue here is not the exact value of earnings (which changes with inflation), but the income distribution, which has become massive. To cite the article, in the 50s and 60s, CEOs earned on average 20 times the average workers' sala
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by nicktelford 9y ago
The first major floating wind farm is being deployed off the coast of Scotland right now!
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by nicktelford 9y ago
I think you've missed the main point of this rule. The rule enables you to communicate across the hierarchy, instead of having to traverse it. For example: you can work directly with someone at the same level as you in another depart
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by nicktelford 9y ago
You can't kill an industry; that would imply some kind of obligation to maintain the status quo. These industries are "dying" (or more accurately, declining) simply because they're failing to adapt to the changing nature
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by nicktelford 9y ago
Thanks! I haven't used doobie yet (though I intend to), I had no idea it's API caused IntelliJ such an auto-complete headache. I'm curious how a faster scalac would help in this case though. Perhaps I'm missing something
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by nicktelford 9y ago
I've seen a lot of complaints about Scala's compilation speed (I believe it's either the 1st or 2nd most common complaint), but I've not really had any issues myself. Could people who have had issues with compilation spe
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by nicktelford 9y ago
They stated 2 years OS updates, 3 years monthly security updates in the blog post.
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by nicktelford 9y ago
In my ideal world, PDF would be the next to die. My problem isn't with PDF itself, but that it's overused in places where it really doesn't need to be. Academic papers are the big one, where HTML would almost always be a bett
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by nicktelford 9y ago
My guess is threatening, since they'd be in violation of UK law. Each of those companies have a significant presence in the UK, which I doubt they'd want to abandon over this.
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by nicktelford 9y ago
I'd be impressed if you're using a monitor that's capable of 4k at 144Hz. While 4K and 144Hz monitors are each fairly common and inexpensive these days; monitors that do both are still very rare and expensive.
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by nicktelford 9y ago
As a programmer, being able to run non-trvial parallel builds (e.g. compiling large Scala projects), whilst keeping the machine quite usable for other things is pretty awesome. 5 years ago I'd have struggled to get that out of a deskto
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by nicktelford 9y ago
In Kafka, multiple consumers can recieve multiple partitions. The only thing, from a consumer's perspective, that's special about partitions is that it's the level at which message ordering is guaranteed. That's exactly
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by nicktelford 9y ago
These are some pretty huge improvements to what was previously the weakest link in Kafka's API: the Producer. However, it's important to note that this can only provide you with exactly-once semantics provided that the state/
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by nicktelford 9y ago
There's quite a lot of conflicting information here. On the comparison of queues, wrt ordering, it states: Ensure strict ordering of messages, have no hot spot problem,and can scale out gracefully And slates Kafka with:
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by nicktelford 9y ago
Messages, of course, should be immutable for exactly those reasons. Actors encapsulate mutable state; they essentially serialize access to that state such that access is single-threaded.
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by nicktelford 9y ago
Immutability is useful as a default, but languages should absolutely provide mutable alternatives for situations the programmer deems appropriate. The reason immutability has become popular so recently, and the reason why I say it's th
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by nicktelford 9y ago
Enthusiasts tend to be gamers, and once you have a high end machine, most games tend to be limited on disk bandwidth, which affects load times. By consumers, I meant enthusiasts, since that's who the Threadripper (X399) and Intel'
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by nicktelford 9y ago
I doubt we'll be seeing desktop ARM systems any time soon, especially high end workstation or enthusiast systems. The problem is that the ARM64 architecture is completely different from x86-64, which almost every desktop application is
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by nicktelford 9y ago
The huge number of PCIe lanes is pretty exciting to me. For consumers, the limiting factor in PCs these days tends to be I/O. With this, you could have 4 PCIe M2 SSDs (that's a bit under 16Gbps bandwidth, assuming RAID0), and st
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by nicktelford 9y ago
Well, Intel recently (last week?) announced that Thunderbolt 3 would be licensed for free, and that they intend to integrate it (a controller I assume) in to their future CPUs. I presume that this free licensing extends to AMD and vendors o
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by nicktelford 9y ago
From the article: > [...] the NTFS driver takes out a lock on the file and never releases it. Every subsequent operation sits around waiting for the lock to be released.Forever. This blocks any and all other attempts to access the file s
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by nicktelford 10y ago
Staying in the EU requires no changes to UK law. Leaving requires the repeal of the 1972 European Communities Act; an Act of Parliament can only be repealed by parliament (unless the referendum was made legally binding, which it was not).
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by nicktelford 10y ago
I'm no economist, but prices in the top end of the market come down, making it more affordable, wouldn't this ease demand at the lower end of the market (as more people will be able to afford the higher-end properties)? I'm n
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by nicktelford 10y ago
I fully expect this trend to continue, and even possibly accelerate in to 2017. London has a real problem with wealthy foreign investors parking money in London property; often, they don't even rent these out, leaving them empty. The n
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by nicktelford 10y ago
In the UK, our current Conservative government "won" a majority (and hence control of the government) with only 35% of the popular vote. It's the smallest mandate a UK government has had in modern history.

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