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by sparky 17y ago
It probably wouldn't have taken so long if you weren't distracted by the dancing :)
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by sparky 17y ago
Yep. http://fusion.amd.com
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by sparky 17y ago
Two reasons, potentially: 1. Principles. 2. If you find another site that gives immediate pricing, you can use it for any subsequent purchases in a similar domain, or they may also be more respectful of your time in other respects (e.g. sup
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by sparky 17y ago
Here's a good presentation from mid-2008 by 4D Systems, a company that makes integrated display modules http://data.4dsystems.com.au/downloads/micro-OLED/Docs/4D_AM... . I don't think they manufacture the panels themselves, but they stil
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by sparky 17y ago
Forgive me if I'm misinterpreting your question. I believe it should be "Ask HN" (Hacker News) and "Ask YC" (Y Combinator). I haven't been around here for too long, but I have seen many Ask HN threads and none specifically addressed to YC
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by sparky 17y ago
Definitely not in the general case of points in n-dimensional Cartesian space. For instance, in the 1-d case, consider points at 0, 10, and 12. 10 is the closest point to 0, but not vice-versa. Put another way, it seems as though the algo
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by sparky 17y ago
So far it appears as though my initial suspicion was correct. Ocelot seems to present a single CUDA device interface which can use either the Nvidia driver or the LLVM JIT to run CUDA kernels. The eventual plan is to integrate Ocelot into
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by sparky 17y ago
My interpretation, which I will further inform later today by scraping through the source, is that Ocelot takes in PTX from the Nvidia compiler and spits out LLVM bytecode, which can be JITed to run on an x86 (using LLVM's JIT) or compiled
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by sparky 17y ago
I see that "OpenCL" is listed above the LLVM box on the Ocelot page, but I'm not sure why; It is known that several OpenCL toolchains (Nvidia, ATI, RapidMind) make use of LLVM, but it is unclear in what capacity they are used. For the sequ
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by sparky 17y ago
Yep. A detailed status report (last updated a few days ago) can be found here: http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html
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by sparky 17y ago
The language is a Lisp dialect called Arc. The language site is here: http://arclanguage.org/ The source file for HN itself can be read here: http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc
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by sparky 17y ago
I agree that eyeballs + a calculator can go a long way. However, the amperage draw on the back of your power supply or device is typically worst-case (maximum) current, not average current. Similarly, EnergyStar numbers do a little better
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by sparky 17y ago
I haven't dug into it yet, but from the video the sluggishness and network graphs seem to be a great level of abstraction at which to view the UX behavior of your application. One question I have: I can't figure out if this is only for GWT
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by sparky 17y ago
Hopefully this was intended as humor (and it was funny), and not as a straight-faced critique. It is not news that different styles of ad campaign can be effective; Apple has launched a fair few smarmy (Get a Mac http://www.apple.com/ge
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by sparky 17y ago
Create a .ackrc file in your home directory. For you, it will contain: --type-set objj=.j I found this on the ack-grep man-page in Ubuntu. You can set the ACKRC environment variable to give it a different directory (besides ~) to
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by sparky 17y ago
I like the brown noise on http://www.simplynoise.com , personally. They have a thunderstorm soundscape on there too that is nice sometimes.
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by sparky 17y ago
(sic)? Not where the post was written it's not :P
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by sparky 17y ago
In some cases yes. In some cases (i.e. the mask-programmable ROM) you would have to deviate significantly from the original design to provide duplicate functionality on a transistor substrate you don't control.
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by sparky 17y ago
Really? The post title as I am seeing it now is the same as posted here, verbatim.
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by sparky 17y ago
All true. However, the question was not about ethics, it was about the presence or absence of technical countermeasures to prevent less scrupulous folks from using archive.org in this way.
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by sparky 17y ago
The author mentions http://www.bricklink.com/
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by sparky 17y ago
The figure of merit here is really hard drives/square foot. Mainframes use the same hard drives as rack-mounted or blade servers, and it is unclear how much the computational substrate matters in the context of storage capacity per square
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by sparky 17y ago
I like the idea too. Luis Von Ahn has done some work on tricking people to do useful things through play. 2 examples I can think of are Google Image Labeler( http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ ), in which people provide useful metadat
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by sparky 17y ago
I agree that it is technically unsound, but the meaning of "Nx less of something" is still relatively unambiguous when N>1.
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by sparky 17y ago
Good call :) Too late to edit :(
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by sparky 17y ago
Their first release (2009Q1) consisted mostly of patches to mainlines CPython, which improved performance for everybody by roughly 10%. They've added about 10-15% performance on each of the last 2 releases in Unladen Swallow-specific code,
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by sparky 17y ago
It's unconventional, but 9.3x less memory can be seen in some sense as 1/9.3=10.7 percent as much memory. Not defending it, just trying to interpret :P
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by sparky 17y ago
A friend wrote something similar for computer architecture and microarchitecture papers. It's eerie how many papers sound a lot like these lately.. http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~waterman/bs.html
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by sparky 17y ago
DNS and Bind (now in its 3rd edition) by Liu, Albitz, and Loukides. It's an O'Reilly book. http://www.amazon.com/DNS-BIND-Cricket-Liu/dp/1565925122
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by sparky 17y ago
Your best bet is going to be teaming up with somebody who does this sort of thing (electrical/mechanical prototyping) for a living (there are a few individual consultants and small consulting firms, some of them suggested elsewhere in this

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