rockdoe

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by rockdoe 6y ago
Maybe you should read the competition rules that explicitly specify what input is permitted.
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by rockdoe 6y ago
It doesn't. But the "particular text file" is a huge chunk of Wikipedia, so whatever you come up with isn't going to be as "highly specific" as you'd think.
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by rockdoe 6y ago
The old hatred flares up every time Windows 10 asks me if I'm really really sure I don't want to default Edge as my browser, or "accidentally" changes it. Nothing has changed.
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by rockdoe 6y ago
How many anti-viruses for macOS are there exactly? If it's the most popular one (whatever that is), it probably doesn't change much about the problem.
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by rockdoe 6y ago
If you read the linked bug, isn't that exactly what's being proposed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1678083#c3
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by rockdoe 8y ago
They already did. Every major browser allows you to configure the language you speak. Of course it doesn't do much because sites do very stupid things like use geolocation.
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by rockdoe 8y ago
Firefox (and I suspect other browsers) allow per-profile configuration of the language, independent of the OS. In the scenarios you describe, it's hard to see how geolocation makes things better, as it has all the same problems, except
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by rockdoe 8y ago
This would have been a valid argument...if they supported Vulkan instead. But they do not.
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by rockdoe 8y ago
In my opinion a similar difference exists between CUDA and OpenCL. OpenCL takes more code to get something simple going. But at least it doesn't break if you upgrade your gcc or use a different GPU vendor.
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by rockdoe 8y ago
Which AFAIK they’re free to do on MacOS as well, they just don’t seem to bother since Apple was doing that work for them I'm not sure. NVIDIA provides updates for CUDA and an extremely limited amount of updates for their graphics sta
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by rockdoe 8y ago
Last week. Nvidia releases drivers for cards that the drivers which ship with macos don't support. That's a tiny part of Apple's lineup though.
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by rockdoe 8y ago
That is not a macOS specific problem. Because CUDA interacts with the compiler, you can have exactly the same problems on Linux with gcc. (Ironically, using OpenCL avoids this problem)
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by rockdoe 8y ago
This is to a large extent because browsers can't make the same assumptions about reasonable graphics drivers being installed as games can.
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by rockdoe 8y ago
XBoxes and PlayStations have been getting more game ports than macOS tho, doesn't take a genius to figure out why.
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by rockdoe 8y ago
Firefox uses OpenGL to implement OpenGL ES. It also uses OpenGL for hardware accelerated compositing.
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by rockdoe 8y ago
They are mostly painfully slow because they do not even use the previous best Cortexes.
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by rockdoe 8y ago
The company employed a 150-person engineering team which included people who had previously worked on processors like Itanium, Opteron and UltraSPARC. Also principal designers of the DEC Alpha and the StrongARM, FWIW. They hired some of t
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by rockdoe 9y ago
What I don't understand is why someone would go to the problems of essentially spending a lot of time breaking their Firefox installation instead of using Tor directly when they care about privacy. Most of the tweaks boil down to turni
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by rockdoe 9y ago
Some sites do break. The problem is that by the time you run into one you'll have forgotten you changed this setting.
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by rockdoe 9y ago
Shield Studies are in the "Privacy & Security" settings: "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" "Follow On Search" is AFAIK controlled by the Telemetry settings in the same dialog in "Privacy &
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by rockdoe 9y ago
"Train" as in do the gradient computation: 64 GPU. Generate the data to do that in the first place: 2000 TPU, each about 45 TFLOPS (or 2-4 x a GTX 1080 Ti).
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by rockdoe 9y ago
Does "fairly faithful reimplementation" not reflect this nuance? I'm not sure what you think was missing from the Alpha Go Zero paper in terms of methods, BTW. The whole thing was fairly simple [1] and all the knowledge is di
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by rockdoe 9y ago
If you use React you basically can't sue Facebook for infringing your patents, so it is giving them a free pass on your IP.
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by rockdoe 9y ago
This is true if only because sane people aren't using React exactly because of this issue.
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by rockdoe 9y ago
Don't ever hope of selling your business if it takes off though. The above may not apply to your potential buyers.
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by rockdoe 9y ago
This doesn't work if there's an explicit grant. You can't pretend the PATENTS file isn't there.
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by rockdoe 9y ago
This is huge.
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by rockdoe 9y ago
I think Vigna's claim is that if you ignore the PractRand tests that fail, it passes. (Really!) The code does explain exactly what the issue is, i.e. that the last bit isn't random: This generator passes the PractRand test
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by rockdoe 9y ago
Wouldn't be surprised if this gets a lot of other people in the field thinking.
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by rockdoe 9y ago
So like reddit.

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