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by rys 13y ago
You might have been right at one point in time, but respectfully you're not right today. Today's modern GPU implementations -- especially on mobile because the APIs we support are so (intentionally) vague and encode a system with
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by rys 13y ago
I work for a GPU vendor so my viewpoint might be clouded, but there is a lot of competitive information to be gleaned from the source code of modern drivers.
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by rys 13y ago
The article brings up a good point: must you watch the deploy like a hawk and do nothing else while it happens? The author mentions reading HN. What's stopping you doing something else during the deploy that's actually productive,
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by rys 13y ago
Than keeping memory accesses chip local (I guess via thread pinning). The comparison was done on the same hardware platform.
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by rys 13y ago
There's still at least one order of magnitude of performance to be had with ASICs, and honestly that's conservative. The danger is specialising such expensive silicon just on BTC, which is much more likely to cause a wall to be hit, rather
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by rys 13y ago
Agreed, plus we also have a better word than compile for source-to-source compilation at the same conceptual level of abstraction above the machine: transpile.
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by rys 13y ago
I think the point is that the someone should verify the information before reacting on it. Of course you can argue about where in the chain of verification to stop at and how many sources to verify, but I believe that's the basic point. One
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by rys 13y ago
10 links to their own website in that post. Not even links to other content, just root links. I feel bad not having much more to add because I don't really understand their technology, but that really stood out. Probably some auto highlight
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by rys 13y ago
You can get close to 1TF in the GPU space for $99 these days, but at much lower power efficiency. The Adapteva hardware looks to be around 18GF/W, whereas a GPU is about half that at $99.
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by rys 13y ago
I find it incredibly dishonest of Adapteva to equate it to a "theoretical 45 GHz CPU". There are much better ways to talk about the performance level of their hardware than that metric, especially given the rest of the text in their Kicksta
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by rys 13y ago
It's not about superiority. It's about time not being wasted and the act of engineering requiring unbroken long periods of concentration. It's not an attitude. It's just the harsh reality of being in an environment where you work most effic
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by rys 13y ago
Likewise, with the added problem for me that most of my spam is in a foreign language. I own a firstname@gmail.com account where firstname is reasonably popular in a certain country. I get so much spam, but generally it's personal and tied
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by rys 14y ago
That only works if you don't care about fragmenting what features you support on multiple OSes, and trust those codes to do the right thing in all of your use cases for it. For some of the browsers it's clearly better for them to bundle the
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by rys 14y ago
They're both large pocketable handheld phones, regardless of your phablet nomenclature. Comparing them is entirely sensible.
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by rys 14y ago
Probably a separate code to enter into the app to unlock it.
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by rys 14y ago
It uses language that people can relate to and lets the man express his feelings in the best way he knows how. The article was likely a true catharsis for Atwood.
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by rys 14y ago
It's likely they're just using spare infrastructure used to host Basecamp which is essentially already bought and paid for. As long as Basecamp stays alive it's likely this version will too.
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by rys 14y ago
I think you need to clear any cache of the page since I'm still seeing it.
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by rys 14y ago
If you know of better content that the community would like to read about instead, please submit it.
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by rys 14y ago
He didn't set out to get the guy fired. There's no way you can justify calling him a douchebag for criticising a website's design.
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by rys 14y ago
You don't need a root shell to SSH to another machine from an iPhone. You can do that just fine with any number of apps. Some are even free.
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by rys 14y ago
The name cent shouldn't throw you off here as applying only to US currency. Many other currencies have a notional 1/100th unit of the basic one, that usually also exists as a cash value.
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by rys 14y ago
I read it, as someone in that boat who ordered but didn't get their phone yet, despite putting in a successful order less than 60 seconds after the stock went live, that he knew they'd fucked up and wanted to make good and could we hang in
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by rys 14y ago
With the prevalence of other TLDs, I wonder if that's really true these days. Gut instinct says you're probably right, but what makes one TLD more serious than another? Just its de facto position in public perception, or maybe its age? Inte
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by rys 14y ago
The biggest help for me to switch would be for DDG to produce a fork of Chrome that plugged DDG into the Chrome Omnibox as much as possible. I use the Omnibox for almost 100% of my interaction with the browser, mostly typing in URLs to visi
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by rys 14y ago
They're Pentium-class x86 cores and barely any more than front end control processors for the vector hardware. The fact it's x86 is almost incidental, IMHO; the vector ISA is all programmers should really care about on the Phi.
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by rys 14y ago
I'll ask and see if we have a scheme like that at work. I don't own a license of Office for Windows that I can use in a VM or with Crossover, but I'd be willing to entertain that if the price was right.
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by rys 14y ago
"edge cases like this means I can see why it happens" is what I was trying to say.
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by rys 14y ago
I don't think I justified it. I just pointed out that I can see why it happens. Overwhelmingly the post was about wanting to pay for it but being totally frustrated at not being able to, and I was also quite clear that I wouldn't pirate it
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by rys 14y ago
I'm not sure my employer has much to do with my free thoughts on my blog, or how sorry or supportive you feel for me. I'm not IMG personified and neither are they a corporate version of me, so you shouldn't overly couple the two things. I t

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