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by spangry 10y ago
It's certainly impressive tech. But, and bear in mind this is just from a consumer perspective, here are the reasons I wouldn't buy it: - ~$8000 USD for a 24 port switch is way beyond my price range. I doubt any consumer market co
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by spangry 10y ago
Oh and to answer you question about Inifiniband, I think the previous poster might be referring to this: http://i.imgur.com/2ciM4qy.png It's also why I figure Infiniband would be a likely acquisition if Nvidia wanted t
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by spangry 10y ago
Yeah, that whole ongoing saga is very unfortunate. Also very illustrative. Reading between the lines, my take is that AMD senior management are a bunch of generic MBA types optimising for higher profit in the present (Windows gaming market)
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by spangry 10y ago
Unless you've got extremely low I/O latency, allowing you to work in smaller batches in parallel without loosing all of your parallelisation speedup to the 'tax' you pay when loading data & instructions from RAM to &
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by spangry 10y ago
Ah, just the man I've been wanting to talk to then :) As I mentioned in another post, I really think Intel are missing an opportunity when it comes to high speed networking. Why don't they drop all the crazy server market lock-in
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by spangry 10y ago
That's how I see it playing out too, assuming Nvidia pull it off. By my reckoning, it roughly goes: HPC -> Mainstream servers (and niches like ML) -> 'Professional workstations' -> Consumer desktops Intel's res
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by spangry 10y ago
If Nvidia are looking to supplant Intel, I think they key, weirdly, is i/o. In a sense, GPU acceleration of general purpose computation is just a specific case of the more general case of distributed computing (albeit the computers are
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by spangry 10y ago
Is it? Your definition of theft is something taken that is: - Physical property - Taken from the rightful owner - Taken without the owner noticing / no coercion So let's say I take your ATM card without you noticing. That's t
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by spangry 10y ago
I've been thinking about the dual-licensing approach. Strategically, one could argue that it still aligns with FSF goals. My logic is roughly: (objective) We want people to use software that doesn't oppress them -> People natur
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by spangry 10y ago
Ok I concede the point. The literal definition of 'theft' is not the same as 'fraud'. Btw, where's your evidence that 'everyone' on HN knows the difference? We are speaking literally here of course, where
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by spangry 10y ago
Same for Australian corporations (directors become liable for knowingly trading while insolvent). Normally they're treated as completely separate legal entities, but not in this specific case. I'm sure there are instances of this
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by spangry 10y ago
I think the author makes some reasonable points. Although I'm rolling out the 'no true Scotsman' fallacy here, real marketers are invaluable in the same way that real designers are. But you need to understand their true funct
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by spangry 10y ago
The process also needs integrity. I've seen a few of these proposals now. The good ones have a clear rationale for relocation: the Australian Federal Treasury, for instance, is moving a sizeable chunk of their workforce from the capita
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by spangry 10y ago
There's a time-tested solution to this: one of the functions of these sorts of organisation could be to provide legal representation for their members. Unions, for instance, will often supply professional advocates (i.e. lawyers, negot
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by spangry 10y ago
I'm not a software dev or tech worker. But I hope you guys do this. I may have just drunk too much HN kool-aid, but software devs seem to be criminally under-valued and often exploited (see Crytek thread on front page, for example). Th
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by spangry 10y ago
The specific skill set crytek game engine devs have is increasingly in demand, which will continue to grow. Specifically, the ability to write highly optimised code (mostly C++) to parallel process large amounts of data on GPUs. If I were r
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by spangry 10y ago
Dammit. That first 'withdrawals' was means to be 'overdoses'.
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by spangry 10y ago
Correction: it's money given under the condition it will be paid back at some point in future. Someone who acquires credit, 'trade-credit' (i.e. deferred invoice payment) or whatever you call the employee/employer equi
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by spangry 10y ago
^^ I'm glad someone here gets it. And these kinds of laws are not at all unusual. In Australia we have the same thing in our Corporations Act: trading while insolvent. Penalties are levied against company directors: $200,000 civil pena
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by spangry 10y ago
Why would (1) be necessary? GPL software is not consigned to the public domain or ownership automatically transferred to the FSF. It is still the property of the original developer, who are simply distributing and licensing its use only to
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by spangry 10y ago
I would have thought the FSF/Stallman would be perfectly fine with this. Their main objective is to maximise the freedom of users by advocating for software that can be inspected, modified, shared etc. As far as I know, they are not op
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by spangry 10y ago
Naloxone is definitely the standard when it comes to treating withdrawals. From a harm reduction perspective it would make a lot of sense to include doses in clean injection kits (if your state has such a programme). Although I suspect the
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by spangry 10y ago
What about 'as_completed' in concurrent.futures? From my understanding, they fixed the performance issues with ProcessPoolExecutor in 3.4.
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by spangry 10y ago
Something about this doesn't seem right. Isn't ticket scalping just a symptom of some deeper issue? I'm not a US-resident or a concert goer. But based on the gripes I've read, isn't scalping just a natural consequen
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by spangry 10y ago
Man, I was so happy when I discovered your library. It's how I always felt subprocess should be. With split('\n') and basic string parsing there's little that can't be automated with sh. Keep up the good work!
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by spangry 10y ago
Whoa, that's very cool. Achieves superconductivity above liquid nitrogen temps. You wouldn't happen to know what the cooling setup looks like for REBCO superconductors? I wonder if you could use some kind of clever magnetic refrig
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by spangry 10y ago
I think this is one of the great virtues of OAuth/OIDC. It makes you realise that, in most cases, you don't care about identity per se when making access control decisions. We just tend to use it as a proxy to infer attributes..
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by spangry 10y ago
There's also Hydra, which looks pretty easy to deploy (fyi: I haven't used it): https://github.com/ory-am/hydra ).
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by spangry 10y ago
When I did a short 6 month stint at the Australian version of the GDS (the 'Digital Transformation Office', or DTO), my team stood up a prototype/demo of an attributes-based 'digital identity' system using OIDC. It&
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by spangry 10y ago
Man I seriously sympathise with you. Allow me to extend my warmest congratulations and an invitation to join the 'shitty brain cooties trifecta' club. Unless you are someone who experiences greater confidence when taking amphetami

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