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by qb45 9y ago
C/C++: no convenient array support and ugly, noob-unfriendly syntax. People hate C/C++ type declaration. And don't even mention raw pointers, I have seen first hand how a bunch of clever C programmers can screw up trying to d
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by qb45 9y ago
> I think you completely fail to realize that Fortran does have wide adoption, and that there is a big market for commercial and open-source Fortran compilers, and that these optimizations have already been made. 100 times this. Few year
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by qb45 9y ago
That's what I meant by "restrict by default". You can get Fortran-like semantics in C by marking function arguments with the restrict keyword, at the cost of some manual labor (and possibly having to explain this to scienti
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by qb45 9y ago
> There's also this notion that "Fortran is fast" that MANY people hold for some reason. They don't know about what kinds of modern compiler optimizations they're missing out on and what new IPC frameworks are av
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by qb45 9y ago
I have a bad news for you: this is usually exactly what happens.
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by qb45 9y ago
> It's still their property. IMO non-Blizzard individuals have no right to post it. It's not their property, it's copyrighted. He indeed had no right to publish the contents but also no obvious obligation to return it. IMO
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by qb45 9y ago
> fraction of students who wouldn't be able to recover. You got the proportions backwards. It would be a few guys doing something weird that confuses the technically illiterate teacher and disrupts the whole class. I'm all for
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by qb45 9y ago
Forget fees, I once tried to buy something in the US from some stranger and he refused to give me his account number and accept a wire even if I paid for everything (and the sum was big enough that PP wouldn't be cheaper). The guy lite
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by qb45 9y ago
If you opened your PayPal account at all , close it now and open another for the next payment. Rumor has it that PP cares much more about not pissing off new customers than the old ones. This works pretty well for me ever since my first ac
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by qb45 9y ago
> That's why I couldn't pick out which of the second set were a fake, sure there were differences, but there wasn't any visually obvious detriment to those differences. Cheap knockoffs quite often skimp on laser engraving,
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by qb45 10y ago
> I have hit soft errors in every desktop machine that used ECC. Not sure if I should start getting nervous or just your RAM sucks ;) I get ECC errors only if I overclock too much , and I run the RAM overclocked all time. It's actu
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by qb45 10y ago
What's the matter with x8/x16 chips and dual channel? I don't think it should matter. Or do you mean that if you want exactly 8GB then it's hard to find a pair of 4GB DDR4 ECC modules? Well, just get 2x8GB if you are a
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by qb45 10y ago
ECC is officially supported by all AM2/3(+) CPUs and AFAIK all corresponding motherboards from ASUS. As in, you have it guaranteed on the spec sheet. There are also reports of BIOS support in some boards which don't have ECC adver
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by qb45 10y ago
IDK, I have an ARM CB and here removing the devmode warning should in principle be just a matter of downloading CrOS's modified uboot, commenting few lines, building it and writing to a SPI flash on the board. At some point I even want
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by qb45 10y ago
A company I worked for decided to settle after someone broke in, stuck something in the safety switch and got injured while illegaly operating a machine we had made. The reasons were simple: 1. There were no sticker saying this was bad. A
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by qb45 10y ago
> The problem with "you void the warranty" is that one person voids the warranty, then sells the equipment to someone else, and that second person gets upset with John Deere when it doesn't work. No, that's an imagina
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by qb45 10y ago
What's so magical about CBs? With physical access, you can reflash the boot firmware and put unsigned OS images on them without any ugly devmode warning screens. The only alternative is complete lockout and walled garden, thankfully Go
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by qb45 10y ago
Sure, but this Free Software of yours is less free than say, FreeBSD, which also gives Cisco the freedom to extract money from 2nd hand sales of their equipment ;)
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by qb45 10y ago
> A majority of comments here seem to think that literally millions of units of electronics are being shredded wastefully, instead of more meaningfully re-used. Ok, great! This is HN! Where are the calls to start a company to leverage th
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by qb45 10y ago
Also worth adding that it was kiddie pr0n that got the guy fired in parent's story. Quite a lot of people tend to overreact to this for either CYA or moral high horse reasons. If he was fired for meatspin or lemonparty, he would public
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by qb45 10y ago
This would have to be a tiny core with tiny RAM indeed. At 50GHz your clock signal is 180° out of phase after traveling just 2mm. I wonder if there are any practical applications that could benefit from such a thing.
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by qb45 10y ago
Not sure what you mean. You always know which row contains any given address, the problem is that "seeking" in DRAM takes tens of nanoseconds (for contemporary chips), regardless of DRAM's clock speed or DDR/GDDR/LP
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by qb45 10y ago
> Couldn't there be a mode, "hey don't fully open these rows, I just one want one random byte as fast as possible!" As fast as possible is exactly tRP+tRAS. Since the whole row is read in parallel to RAM's intern
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by qb45 10y ago
> I assumed it was because with newer intel CPUs the PCI bridge moved to the die, away from the motherboard, so there was CPU affinity for the GPU. Actually, the PCIe controller doesn't even have to be on-die. The same issue existed
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by qb45 10y ago
> Wow, that is an explosive conclusion. It's very hard for me to come to terms with. 40 MB per second is the sustained read of a spinning platter hard drive Parent is talking about random access. So compare with random access to spi
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by qb45 10y ago
I don't think I have ever been more obviously sarcastic than here. Of course I knew very well that, despite painting prisoners as victims of moral judgments and suggesting that moral judgments are something wrong altogether, you woul
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by qb45 10y ago
We need a program allowing prisoners to serve their sentence as home arrest at foster homes of volunteers to isolate them from their pathological upbringing and socialize them with law-abiding citizenry. To eliminate possibility of unjust m
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by qb45 10y ago
It's quite neat that they managed to access the Internet using some staff member's credentials. Probably not a reason to be proud of him .
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by qb45 10y ago
> Has nobody worked on a decent sized, agile project before ? > Facebook updates their iOS app on a pretty regular cadence which means it is quite likely that removing duplicate assets (if it's even an issue) could simply have tr
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by qb45 10y ago
> I don't see any reason other than pushing users towards Chrome... Well, I often get banners nagging to update to the "faster modern whatever Chrome browser" at googe.com. I really hate this bullshit.

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