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by nvoorhies 17y ago
Scribbling in the margins of PDFs isn't very easy, and losing the ability to annotate effortlessly is a big loss for many readers.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
Because this allows you to compile in places and times where a language with more suitability towards compilation but heavier time or memory needs would be unsuitable. One example that pops to mind is shader programs on a GPU.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
Most likely the technical justification is a lack of manpower and schedule constraints. I wouldn't be surprised if things that make long term sense but give incremental benefits at the cost of significant increases in verification work look
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
The homebrew robotics club meets the last Wednesday of every month at NASA Ames in Mountain View. It's pretty interesting to drop in on. http://www.hbrobotics.org/
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
Clearly the cost of checking that AMD's errata is accurate is greater than the cost of having icc produce suboptimal code for AMD processors. The results of incorrect code generation on any given platform would more likely be people ceasing
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
In addition to just the question of what path is optimal, they'd have to keep track of all the bugs in AMD's, Cyrix's, Transmeta's, and other implementations which aren't the same as the bugs on Intel x86 chips. Falling back to a subset of
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
I'm trying to figure out whether this comment is serious, or a quite funny joke about xml being verbose to the point that human readability is sacrificed.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
If someone's here reading hacker news and clicking on stories about achieving goals, chances are they are precisely the people who need to be told that more and harder work is much more important than tricks and systems.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
AES does something completely different though. AES wants to make an insignificant change to the input result in a disproportionate change in the output. Any kind of scoring system where scoring ended up being essentially random like this
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
There's undoubtedly a silicon valley advantage when it comes to doing actual silicon. Presumably there's an advantage on the software (and particularly internet startup, as is the focus of the article) side of things as well. I find it ha
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
Or for that matter gets their intellectual stimulation of choice at work.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
And software that's orders of magnitude cheaper than it would be if error free.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
I'm trying to puzzle out the logic behind chipmakers' products being less reliable than the software that runs on them. Does the weakest link in the chain not break first?
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
I'm a bit rusty on my C++ minutiae, but... there's also the problem that you don't know whether the corresponding new statement was plain new, new[], etc. Mismatches between new[] and delete will generally just fail to call dtors or potenti
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
Apple's likely looking to unify their gui rendering path to the greatest degree possible, and moving things OpenGL is the easiest way to do this and have things still be nice and fast. They might might lose some on a $10 or $15 increase to
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
As I understand it Julliard's got more of a classical emphasis, whereas Berklee's likely a better choice for someone aiming to be involved with rock, jazz, etc.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
It's also worth noting that in places where reliability is worth the massive decrease in productivity (e.g. robots on mars, avionics, etc.) tools like formal verification and multiple implementations for verification of behavior are used.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
He never said it was 3 Earth days.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
I'm rather surprised that none of those are considered "tech" any more.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
A relative lack of dialectical variation in Hebrew might explain it.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
Is the state of development of writing from 2000 years ago referring to the Chinese or Latin alphabet?
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
There's dip switches for mac/PC modes.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
In addition to the optimization reasons, you also end up coding assembly by hand to tickle features in the verification and bringup of new processors and/or processor architectures. Since a lot of the bugs therein may be dependent on a cert
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
They're only doing line-based coverage analysis?
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
There's a pile more information on nvidia's site for fermi at http://www.nvidia.com/object/fermi_architecture.html
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
Is there no similar translation between the creative aspects of chess and mathematics?
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
It's become a blunt, rather crude term for the description of someone whose cognitive abilities are substandard, and thus can feel rather impolitic to use it around people directly or indirectly so afflicted. Kinda like if might be awkward
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
The data is per-household.
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
There's no longer a Kirk's on California. The Palo Alto location moved over to Town & Country village a couple miles away. Kirk's has a few other locations in nearby towns too, though, so I suspect it was more because the California A
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by nvoorhies 17y ago
In the real world 6 would be more along the lines of "hardly any big custom chips". The whole article does suffer a bit from multiple personalities. How are ASICs going to be too expensive to produce in the future if hordes of Indian engin

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