slackito

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by slackito 2y ago
Depending on which European country it's not necessarily forbidden. "Compliance reasons" may also mean "the company must pay overtime at the appropriate rate" and they just don't want to deal with that.
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by slackito 2y ago
The fact that you're comparing CUDA to using triangles and shaders makes me think you might be confusing OpenCL with OpenGL. OpenCL is meant for general computation (the C is for "computing") rather than graphics, like CUDA.
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by slackito 3y ago
> Pixels are a unit of area like an acre or square meter. Some computer graphics experts don't agree with this: http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf
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by slackito 3y ago
> there is no mechanism to unionize wait staff, or kitchen staff, dishwashers etc. included There is, however, a "union" of restaurant owners who lobbies against improving minimum wage and working conditions for restaurant work
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The Road to PS5(youtube.com)
3 points by slackito 7y ago|0 comments
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The curse of staggeringly slow code(positech.co.uk)
1 points by slackito 7y ago|0 comments
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by slackito 12y ago
Anyone interested in how GPUs work should read the series of blog posts by Fabian Giesen "A trip through the graphics pipeline": https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-...
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by slackito 13y ago
Thanks for the pointer to zopfli. I've used p7zip in the past as a "better gzip", and it gets good results for this one too :D $ curl -s http://danlec.com/st4k | gzip -cd | 7z a -si -tgzip -mx=9 compressed.
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by slackito 13y ago
I did the same for C++. I hate many aspects of the language, and it feels really ugly compared to newer languages like C#, or even D, but it's still my language of choice for some projects (mostly because the tools are mature and almos
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by slackito 13y ago
The GPU doesn't execute Javascript. It runs small programs called "shaders", written in GLSL (the OpenGL shading language), which are compiled on the fly by the graphics driver to something that can be actually executed on the GPU.
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Software transactional memory in gcc 4.7(natsys-lab.blogspot.ru)
1 points by slackito 14y ago|0 comments
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by slackito 14y ago
I think a valid, although not legal, motivation for that could be "I just want something Microsoft will activate because I want a clean (i.e.: without applying a random crack from the Internet which could install malware) Windows install, a
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by slackito 14y ago
I'm getting the same from 149.11.24.18 (home Internet connection, Spain) and te-4-4-gblx.sto1.se.portlane.net (from a US-based VPS).
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by slackito 14y ago
Giving a browser plugin the ability to run any program on the user machine without any kind of validation or prompting is so stupid/evil that they deserve the worst PR backlash they can get. Also, that's probably the quickest way to get the
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by slackito 14y ago
In fact, the concept of "freestanding implementation" (as opposed to "hosted implementation", which is a implementation of the full standard) exists in C, and is sometimes used in embedded systems: a conforming freestanding implementati
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by slackito 14y ago
Six months of unemployment per year of employment? Where are these figures from? For unjustified firing, the employer has to pay 33 days of salary for each worked year (was 45 before the recent labor law reform)[1] Not even the unemployment
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Avi Rubin TEDx MidAtlantic 2011 - All your devices can be hacked(youtube.com)
1 points by slackito 15y ago|0 comments
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The Netflix simian army(techblog.netflix.com)
2 points by slackito 15y ago|0 comments
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Are There Too Many Beautiful Women and Powerful Men In The World?(whywereason.wordpress.com)
1 points by slackito 15y ago|0 comments
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How to use debug information in separate files with gdb(slackito.com)
1 points by slackito 15y ago|0 comments
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Finding uninitialized memory and corruption(altdevblogaday.org)
4 points by slackito 15y ago|1 comments
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by slackito 15y ago
Except for the "g++ >= 4.6" part, AFAIK.
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Live visuals coding(iquilezles.org)
2 points by slackito 15y ago|0 comments
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Automatic memoization in C++0x(slackito.com)
2 points by slackito 16y ago|0 comments
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Google Recipe View(google.com)
2 points by slackito 16y ago|0 comments
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by slackito 16y ago
Yes, in control flow hijacking exploits like these ones, you make a given process execute external code (typically a shellcode, i.e. a small piece of code which launches a shell). Any code executed this way runs with the UID of the original
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Data structures: one size does not fit all(altdevblogaday.org)
3 points by slackito 16y ago|0 comments
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Making Crash Bandicoot, by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin(naughtydog.com)
136 points by slackito 16y ago|25 comments
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Facebook is a console(altdevblogaday.com)
1 points by slackito 16y ago|0 comments
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Peer-reviewed biology paper about bee behaviour written by 8-year-olds(rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org)
2 points by slackito 16y ago|0 comments

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