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by ramchip 16y ago
Instantaneous gravity exists in Newtonian mechanics but not in modern theories. Gravitation is thought to be transmitted by gravitational waves, which have a finite speed of c. It is not possible to transmit information at a faster speed th
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by ramchip 16y ago
Yes, it's C99. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxpcomp/v8v101/top...
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by ramchip 16y ago
Even as a Haskell programmer, I don't really agree with this particular example. This kind of parallelization is extremely easy in C++ and offers a lot of control if you need to do more complicated things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open
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by ramchip 16y ago
Count hardware design and embedded systems in as well. Many of us work in a morass of proprietary tools and obfuscated IP cores.
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by ramchip 16y ago
My point was not aimed at the Tera specifically, but rather at this architecture as a solution to the memory problem in general. As you say, supercomputers have been using multi-threaded code for a long time now, so it's not a technical pro
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by ramchip 16y ago
Isn't there a much simpler reason - that programs are generally single-threaded? I imagine it would take a lot of work to port basic tools like a web browser to such an architecture without it running much slower. A lot of applications do l
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by ramchip 16y ago
If I understand correctly, GCC now has an extra switch to support some additions to regular C that the Plan 9 compiler offers related to the manipulation of anonymous fields in a structure. I don't think it has much significance for the vas
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by ramchip 16y ago
You're right about Emacs+Slime being nice for CL, but I don't think Emacs is very good for C++ and Java code. Visual Studio (and similar IDEs) have some killer features: Intellisense/autocompletion that "just works", an extremely good debug
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by ramchip 16y ago
Common Lisp is both imperative and object-oriented, with one of the most powerful OO systems out there (CLOS). It's a lot less oriented towards functional programming than things like Scala, Haskell, or even Clojure, which is probably more
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by ramchip 16y ago
A lot of people on HN, myself included, consider votes to signal contribution to the discussion and not agreement/disagreement. Your comment is right in that they are often used as such, but I don't think it's desirable.
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by ramchip 16y ago
That was quite an interesting read. I don't know if it has been on HN before, but if it hasn't you should submit it.
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by ramchip 16y ago
Why was the reply killed? It's very relevant. ----- 1 point by jws 1 hour ago | link [dead] The energy consumption of a fully laden Apis mellifera is in the neighborhood of 55mW. http://www.culturaapicola.com.ar/apuntes/anatomia/130_efecto
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by ramchip 16y ago
> who could have expected there'd be a 9.0 earthquake Your comment makes it sound like the defect had an incidence, but it's specific to reactor 4 alone, and reactor 4 was empty when the earthquake happened. For all we know putting the
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by ramchip 16y ago
But will it leverage my team's core synergies and bring a critical competitive advantage to take us to the next level?
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by ramchip 16y ago
Wouldn't you still hit a wall due to the maximum field in the superconductor? I'd expect the wires needed to transport gigawatts of power to be pretty large and require exotic metals to build, so much that it may not make economic sense com
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by ramchip 16y ago
Upvote/downvote isn't meant to be agree/disagree, but rather something like insightful/irrelevant.
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by ramchip 16y ago
The debugger vs no debugger "problem" has been discussed through and through countless times with little result. I don't think we'll reach new insight this time. People just work differently.
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by ramchip 16y ago
There's no point endlessly debating the numbers since Tepco releases them in full: http://www.tepco.co.jp/tepconews/index-j.html Here are the latest ones for Fukushima-daiichi: http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/betu11_j/images/110316c.pdf
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by ramchip 16y ago
Why would his post deserve being downvoted to hell without so much as a discussion? You and I may disagree with him, but he has a valid point and doesn't appear to be trolling.
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by ramchip 16y ago
I think close cooperation between private companies and the government has been a trait of Japanese society for a long time. Instead of a single governmental alert service, you'll get the government, NHK, cell phone companies, transport com
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by ramchip 16y ago
I'm... not sure what the point of such a comment can be. It's interesting in unintended ways.
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by ramchip 16y ago
You're comparing L1 cache with L2 cache. Even a modern CPU like the Core 2 Duo only has about 32 KB of L1 cache per core.
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by ramchip 16y ago
Related discussion from Less Wrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generaliza... http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Generalization_from_fictional_e...
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by ramchip 16y ago
Of course, it is subjective, but that's the point. I understood the same thing as jhuckestein.
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by ramchip 16y ago
You seem to be living in Canada, but perhaps somewhere else? Our views are pretty different. I'm a francophone, born in Quebec. I have never seen a francophone (from anywhere in the world) speak in English to another because the accent was
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by ramchip 16y ago
Here (in Quebec) the title of "software engineer" or "computer engineer" is regulated like any other professional engineer, ie. you need a bachelor's degree in computer or software engineering, which is a year longer than CS and includes st
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by ramchip 16y ago
I think there's been some serious improvement anyway. Many examples on the Internet use outdated libraries and engines, but if you use modern tools like XeTeX and Biblatex, things get better. For example, using a font with the Opentype feat
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by ramchip 16y ago
I think the math is bit off. Let's say you have the 1,2,3, and 4th of the month off. Assuming total randomness in the days off (unlikely, as csomar commented), your friend has 1/30 chance of having the 1st off, 1/30 of having the 2nd, ...
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by ramchip 16y ago
> all my programs were imperative styled, not OOP Nitpicking here, but I'm quite sure OOP and imperative programming are orthogonal concepts. Clojure is a mostly functional OO language, while Java is a mostly imperative OO language.
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by ramchip 16y ago
According to Amazon, the HD595 is actually heavier by 10g than the HD555. Is the headband different?

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