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pezezin
6y ago
I seriously doubt it. GPUs are much more than the compute units; there is also the geometry setup, rasterizers, texture units, ROPs, etc. Doing all those tasks in software would be terribly expensive.
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pezezin
6y ago
I totally agree with you. I think what's killing Facebook are the endless reposts, just show me original content, please. I was working on a script to hide shared posts, but it broke after the last update. Maybe I need to fix it and pu
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pezezin
6y ago
Just nitpicking, but uppercase S is symbol for Siemens, the unit of electrical conductance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_(unit) The symbol for second is lowercase s. The SI is funny like that. Other than that,
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pezezin
6y ago
Otsukaresama can also be use a greeting, as in you are walking down the hall and come across a coworker, you will say "otsukaresamadesu". I have also seen people saying it upon meeting their friends. It can be used for pretty much
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pezezin
6y ago
Regarding Spanish language, I'm surprised that they didn't include "estrenar", that means to use or show something for the first time. Sometimes it can be translated as "release" or "launch", but ther
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pezezin
6y ago
Everyone has a different taste, but for me Japanese architecture is horrid. Sure, old temples, shrines and castles are beautiful, but other than that... The tiny streets everywhere, the buildings with only a few centimetres of separation be
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pezezin
7y ago
Shouldn't that be a localization/translation issue? My experience living in Japan is that they will write family name first if using Japanese, but given name first if using an European language.
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pezezin
7y ago
What you want is not markup, but tagged unions. It's a real shame SQL and many other languages don't support them. Also, your example about Spanish names doesn't take into account that nowadays parents can choose the order of
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pezezin
7y ago
What do you mean "the legal surname"? I'm Spanish and my legal name is my full name with both family names. You can't just ignore one. Also, Spanish people have two family names, but they can be composite, so they may lo
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pezezin
7y ago
Sum types is something that I really miss when working with SQL, they would make the data model much more powerful and consistent.