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by smosher 13y ago
"current"—out of curiosity, was it so small before Tesla received the loan?
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by smosher 13y ago
I've read it and fwiw it contains some great information, but only at the lowest levels of cognition. Its fascinating, but his conclusions are not compelling because they're drawn from selective facts that have already been tainted by opini
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by smosher 13y ago
You missed: 51. That we will worry too much. –Joseph LeDoux, neuroscientist Not sure about the other cognitive-/neuro-scientists, but I know LeDoux spent considerable time on the amygdala.
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by smosher 13y ago
It is not a given that there are "more moving parts" in generating C output from a compiler than in using LLVM. While that's a true enough statement by itself, your snipe conveniently skips half of the process in question.
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by smosher 13y ago
More moving parts being more error prone is not generally a controversial opinion.
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by smosher 13y ago
The point is, iiuc, the only rest state is rotating and at a particular rate at that. That's quite a bit different than coasting, which could have various different speeds (or ~none) depending on the amount of inertia in the system—but I th
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by smosher 13y ago
He's talking about acceleration, not really movement. But I don't think it's accelerating either, not really.
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by smosher 13y ago
I wish there was some way to set it up for use with other languages (ones that have Read-Eval-Print facilities.) I can't get very interested until I see that. The UI font appears to be unchangeable. I can understand the motivation for that,
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by smosher 13y ago
The default is 1 isn't it? As I pointed out, this will serve the majority of concurrent code. The best number of processes to use is equal to the parallelism of the solution. Even with highly concurrent problems, this is still most often 1.
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by smosher 13y ago
You know, GP acknowledges those people and makes a good point about it at the same time. You're just being argumentative.
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by smosher 13y ago
Doesn't go just implement Hoare's communicating sequential processes, as does Erlang? They share the same inspiration. Nope: The original Communicating Sequential Processes model[24] published by Tony Hoare differed from the Actor model
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by smosher 13y ago
In my experience the majority of well-written concurrent programs become I/O-bound on a single processor. It's pointless to add more processors to that, and can only slow you down, and Go programs are far better behaved in the non-parallel
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by smosher 13y ago
This went over like a bad joke to the usual suspects on Twitter. It was often much less polite than your comment.
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by smosher 13y ago
Prototypes... that blurs the subject a bit don't you think?
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by smosher 13y ago
Yeah, you're going to have to back that up. CUDA is meant to be supported on all future nVidia cards.
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by smosher 13y ago
It's often a great excuse to do something else instead. If you can't get what you need done without the more difficult option, sure do it. But there's no sense in going down the harder path needlessly. I'm not trying to convince you you don
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by smosher 13y ago
Ok, that tracks better than it being something nVidia in particular did. I don't see a serious problem with the scenario you describe, though. You're not really describing a hostile scenario, just an affinity for commercial software. There
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by smosher 13y ago
So why would you go with OpenCL? Is it portability? For a while I thought that was worth it but I am having a hard time remaining convinced of that.
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by smosher 13y ago
NVidia funds a lot of academics in my space, and I've found academia to be very anti-open source for those reasons, which amuses me greatly. Wait, are you saying academia is anti-opensource because of nVidia funding?
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by smosher 13y ago
Sure fine, as long as there's a "launch handler anyway" context menu option. I don't care what people think they need to say as long as I have a way of doing the things I want to do anyway. Case in point: If I want to save a PDF I usually s
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by smosher 13y ago
Of course. I wish I could use Ioke, but JVM/CLR just aren't in the cards for me for the foreseeable. On the subject of derivatives, I think Oia is at a sweet-spot, being JS-hosted at ~1-2kSLoC (1/5th-1/10th that of Io): https://github.com/
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by smosher 13y ago
I have to plug Io: http://iolanguage.org/
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by smosher 13y ago
This. Who cares if MtGox is down? The same people who already found out the hard way.
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by smosher 13y ago
tl;dr: it's hypocritical to support one amendment without supporting all of them completely.
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by smosher 13y ago
Ever since their CTO was outed as a necromancer they must have run with the army of undead programmers thing. A lot of the recent stuff was in the wings, but the announcements have been coming incredibly fast lately.
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by smosher 13y ago
This is impossible to do with any other type of language. With concatenative programming, a parallel compiler is a plain old map-reduce! This statement (in context) draws a defining line around what is and isn't concatenative, and the sta
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by smosher 13y ago
Mining prevents double spends, that's all it does. That is the level of security in the bitcoin network. It might be a design flaw to assume we can act like responsible adults, I agree. But if you're looking for something that makes end-r
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by smosher 13y ago
There is a correspondence between the output and the resources consumed. If your output is negligible, then your resource usage was proportionally negligible to the end of providing the network with monetary units. Your argument neatly canc
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by smosher 13y ago
Last.fm was excluded due to "licensing issues." I don't mean that literally, I mean that in the same sense last.fm uses it when presenting it as an excuse for the downward spiral they pretend is a service. Whether they're inflexible with re
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by smosher 14y ago
That's too bad, it's very convincing. It's important for interested parties to pay attention to this stuff. Ignoring it is just being ignorant in the connotative sense. It's not absolutely convincing though... I can't succinctly describe al

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