omikun

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by omikun 9y ago
pre·ten·tious - adjective - attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed. The irony here is that her blog rags on the pretentiousness of houses designed to look like better built&#
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by omikun 9y ago
I think there is a fair dose of irony in your value judgement of her value judgement of the buyers' value judgement of McMansions. Her main points are basically unified theme and form follows function and how McMansions often break tho
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by omikun 9y ago
SIMT is inherently more power efficient than MIMD. Less control flow logic/flop. Even then, it makes sense to devote dedicated logic for specific algorithms. Even NVIDIA GPUs (Volta) are going to have special matrix multiply hardware (
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by omikun 9y ago
Not the parent but I have worked for half a dozen tech companies around the US and they're mostly Indian/Chinese/White.
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by omikun 11y ago
1) Who else had 60fps smooth UI on a phone/tablet before Apple? 9) Marketing drives gimmicky features and empty specs - Samsung's hover touch and gaze detect that is off by default because using them is a pain, 4 slow cores instea
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by omikun 12y ago
Add a system wide toggle to Force Touch(TM) all links/buttons to avoid the accidental taps. Personally I think there should be some learning algorithm to seamlessly calibrate the threshold for Force Touch(TM) by evaluating when somethi
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by omikun 12y ago
The 96% number refers to the orange fuel tank. Once you factor in the shuttle, the payload, and rocket engines, it's more like... 94% fuel. Some rockets are 88% fuel, but still only ~2-3% payload. A lighter rocket could mean 10% payloa
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by omikun 12y ago
Amazing! I have a non-combat version in 3d. Now I know what mine is missing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73O8aDN41sU
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by omikun 12y ago
Just wanted to throw out a mouse alternative: you can drag any folder into the terminal and get the path and then you go back to the head of line and cd into it