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by oriolid 4y ago
I noticed that 1080p version of The Sandman streamed at average 3 mbit/s. I would expect that kind of numbers from Youtube, not supposed high-quality stream. The picture is still sharp and doesn't have obvious compression artifact
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by oriolid 4y ago
The weirdest thing is that at one point, I think it's now almost 10 years, they had somewhat OK recommendations. It's not like "you bought programming books and Battlestar Galactica DVDs, so you might be interested in Neal St
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by oriolid 4y ago
> There are lots of them. I need names. Especially those that don't require a long history of GPU programming or PhD in a related field to even get an interview. Bonus points if they're not a startup that is about to fail and i
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by oriolid 4y ago
> I didn’t say that, don’t make assumptions. In that case I don't really understand why you had to ask who says that. > I haven’t heard a lot of people saying any and all optimization is bad, even after profiling. That’s just com
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by oriolid 4y ago
I'm not expecting anyone to know what Knuth actually wrote, but the comment about premature optimization is quoted a lot out of context, usually with "premature" left out. Whether it was a joke or not, it's now taken as
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by oriolid 4y ago
Yes, sounds like the 194 could have some extra from stress or something interfering with the measurement and 187 would be the usual maximum.
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by oriolid 4y ago
It took a while to figure out how the comment was related to the discussion. But I never said that CUDA would actually be difficult, just that I've never met a manager who would not turn down a programmer's suggestion to do calcul
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by oriolid 4y ago
If CUDA feels bad, there's this cross platform API called OpenCL. It's even possible to generate OpenCL from C++ without directly writing kernels with Boost.Compute, and I wouldn't call C++ an esolang. And if you're fine
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by oriolid 4y ago
Finland got Cartoon Network at 2017, and I'm not sure if anyone paid for cable TV at that point. Back in the day there were lots of European-produced shows that had production outsourced to Japan, but the content was still very Europea
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by oriolid 4y ago
> I'm not getting even close to my max of 194 I've seen before starting going to the gym when I tried to climb the tiny hill close to my house on my bike. Are you sure that you are climbing fast enough? Gym training isn't
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by oriolid 4y ago
In my experience a big obstacle is that GPU programming is considered really difficult and a normal programmers shouldn't touch it on employer's time because it will just waste time and maybe produce difficult bugs if they get so
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by oriolid 4y ago
I have met one. His excuse for pushing broken code to trunk was "but it passes the unit tests". The same person also managed to write unit tests with >90% line coverage that just didn't check any results.
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by oriolid 4y ago
Physics seems to attract the sort of people who have the sort of arrogance it takes to look at a product or business and say "This is not great. I can start work from first principles and build a better one". Elon Musk is certainl
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by oriolid 4y ago
The whole point is that people who do not have a fixed diet would spontaneously eat less after exercise because they do not feel hungry. This by the way matches my personal experience and there are several other comments saying the same thi
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by oriolid 4y ago
Exactly. And you don't always need a lot of traffic, so even if your code survives load testing doesn't mean it's correct. Just last week I ran into a serious problem with a piece of code that handled infrequent events from s
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by oriolid 4y ago
Masochist? Think about the poor programmer who has to maintain GP's code :)
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by oriolid 4y ago
No, but it is used for "serious audio" as in professional music and other media production and is Unix as in Apple went and paid Open Group to certify it as one. I thought this was fairly common knowledge and you'd be trying
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by oriolid 4y ago
Does MacOS count?
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by oriolid 4y ago
No. You do that by not enabling support for all that stuff that's available in the kernel but you don't have any idea what it even is.
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by oriolid 4y ago
The question isn't really about finding duplicates in a list, but a slightly backhanded way to ask "do you remember high school math and can you apply it". A less artificial problem would just make things more complicated. Al
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by oriolid 4y ago
I think it's a part of the problem that consumers keep buying race bikes even if they're really not good for all around riding without support from a team mechanic. It wouldn't be difficult to make a reliable and affordable r
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by oriolid 4y ago
Somewhere between 2000 to 2010 was a golden age when bicycle components were much more cross compatible than before or after. SRAM was almost all Shimano compatible (cog spacing, freehub splines, etc, IIRC the only difference was cable pull
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by oriolid 4y ago
I understood it as that learning math is easy and fun in high school but becomes hard and boring work at university level.
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by oriolid 4y ago
I was totally expecting hardware designed by GAN :) Using genetic algorithms for hardware design is already old trick.
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by oriolid 4y ago
It goes the other way too. One of my worst memories from Java was when OpenJDK authors decided that they want the maximum array size to be the same (signed int32 range) on different CPU architectures and heap sizes without testing it or any
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by oriolid 4y ago
> I also wrote a 16 bit compiler for DOS, with 16 bit ints. I know all about it :-) I've also developed 8 bit software for embedded systems I designed and built. I've written code for 10 bit systems, and 36 bit systems. I'
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by oriolid 4y ago
> Only if one is pedantic. There's no practical problem at all customizing C compiler semantics for weird architectures. After all, everybody did it for DOS C compilers. Resorting to non-standard extensions locks you in with that sp
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by oriolid 4y ago
> I remember one person who responded to me about a DSP that had sizeof(char)==32, and how it was wonderful that the C Standard accommodated that so code could be portable. The support for 32-bit char doesn't automatically make code
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by oriolid 4y ago
It's 32 bits only if you ignore microcontrollers and DSPs. Also, the size of 'long int' is definitely not constant if your code needs to be portable between Windows and something else. I have written some DSP code that was po
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by oriolid 4y ago
> Netflix is at it's core, a tech company that solves technical issues with streaming. Netflix used to be a tech company that solves the problem of content discovery, too. Then they chose to not generate recommendations based on dat

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