noipv4

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1. 181.▲
   by noipv4 11y ago

   Bitcoin mining. (although ASICs have now taken over, for a good part of 2010-2013 FPGAs were the king esp. for power limited mining rigs)
2. 182.▲
   by noipv4 11y ago

   It was completely compute bound. Communicating with the host using just an RS232C UART was sufficient to keep the FPGA busy while computing Bitcoin's 2xSHA256 hashes.
3. 183.▲
   by noipv4 11y ago

   coincides with hacking of bitcointalk.org server. Interesting!
4. 184.▲
   by noipv4 11y ago

   It's not OCR, but I would call it Optical Pattern Recognition. I think it's kind of a compression, similar image segments are stored only once in memory and repeated occurrences are linked to the one stored copy. Unfortunately ide
5. 185.▲
   by noipv4 11y ago

   Short of getting whipped, even the PM will learn to code. <sarcasm>
6. 186.▲
   by noipv4 12y ago

   I have finished my 5 year postdoc in bioinformatics, writing mainly 10K lines of C/C++, setting up big-data servers with commodity hardware, for two projects. 1 got published in Nature Methods, one in Nucleic Acids Res. I have no inten
7. 187.▲
   by noipv4 12y ago

   neither, I want BASICA and QBASIC. Do you have the 5 1/4" floppy drive. Will it read the 1.2MB disks or just the 360KB disk?
8. 188.▲
   by noipv4 12y ago

   did you load himem.sys? how about emm386.exe? does your sound card have an OPL3 or the OPL4 MIDI chip? Does your trident VESA card on the ISA slot have 1MB VRAM? stacker, drivespace or doublespace? choices! I just bought me a Seagate medali
9. 189.▲
   by noipv4 12y ago

   In all aspects of education, from primary school to university, the growing swarms of administrators soak up the budget. In some school systems, they vastly outnumber the actual teachers, have better pay, and yet contribute nothing to the o
10. 190.▲
    by noipv4 12y ago

    Why did they choose OTC? Usually the shady penny-stocks or the Qs are traded OTC.
11. 191.▲
    by noipv4 12y ago

    probably, the growing swarms of administrators have soaked up all the budget
12. 192.▲
    by noipv4 12y ago

    HN is a bunch of linear thinking one-dimensional cyborg community
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    by noipv4 12y ago

    I think GMO is OK as long as you are taking a gene that the plant already has and propagating it over other traits that are less desirable, like breeding birds with blue feathers instead of green feathers because you like blue... thats fine
14. 194.▲
    by noipv4 12y ago

    MBA approach to the workplace is what's wrong with the world IMO
15. 195.▲
    by noipv4 12y ago

    We pin-pointed DNA double-strand breaks using sequencing, and found very high correlation with genes damaged by cancer. For e.g. the "ERG" gene which fuses with TMPRSS2 in prostate cancer was one of the genes in our list. http:&#
16. 196.▲
    by noipv4 12y ago

    We have a few Dalco (swiss server co.) servers in our data-center here in Ticino. They are as good as normal Dell rackmount servers.
17. 197.▲
    by noipv4 12y ago

    There's something 'regular citizens' wrestle with that the elites never seem to: a sense of moral duty.
18. 198.▲
    by noipv4 12y ago

    http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf Check out #1, Pg 13.
19. 199.▲
    by noipv4 12y ago

    I also like the simple option to spawn processes in a loop in bash and then wait. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/356100/how-to-wait-in-bas...
20. 200.▲
    by noipv4 12y ago

    Taxes prop up a fiat currency, which by definition is generated out of thin air. Govt does not need taxes to pay for the aforementioned things you mentioned, it can simply generate the required money.