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by sparky 14y ago
>> Still, only 16% of respondents said they were using their phones to browse the internet. > The iHub report I read said that 88% of Kenyans browse the Internet with their mobile phone Maybe 18.2% of Kenyans browse the internet
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by sparky 14y ago
23.0.1271.64 on 64-bit Kubuntu 12.04 works fine, fwiw.
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by sparky 14y ago
There's some overlap between the two tools. Race conditions often lead to memory errors of the type that ASan can detect. TSan/Helgrind are the way to go if you want to find races that happen to be benign most of the time, or lock orderin
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by sparky 14y ago
You're right (and you should know!), my mistake. I knew it too, and just mistyped. I would edit the post above if I could.
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by sparky 14y ago
This page is a good high-level summary: http://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/ComparisonOf... . I've used most of the tools on that page, including Valgrind. Valgrind interprets your program, and hooks loads, stores, malloc/f
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by sparky 14y ago
Have these patches been accepted? From the mailing list thread, it looks like there are still some minor issues to work through, and I wasn't able to get a sense of whether the mainline committers wanted to do this or not. The fact that i
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by sparky 14y ago
> ATI had mobile GPUs but sold them to Qualcomm Yeah, I think that will turn out to have been really shortsighted. Focus is a good thing when you're as small as AMD, but it doesn't seem like they've done too well in the x86 or high-end
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by sparky 14y ago
Our tendency to minimize cognitive dissonance has a lot of terrible consequences, but the Wikipedia article points out a few ways besides magic tricks that we can exploit it for good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance#Appli
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by sparky 14y ago
"Dual issue" means "can issue two instructions per cycle", independent of pipeline depth or multithreading. In the case of the Epiphany, it can issue an ALU instruction and a floating point instruction each cycle.
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by sparky 14y ago
> Litepanels may ban all LED lights from the market .. all LED lights used for film/video/photography, not for home lighting, electronics, etc. etc. Still bad, but title should be changed. More on topic: No need to weaken the argument
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by sparky 14y ago
Sorry, wasn't trying to be obtuse, just concise. * An inductor is a primitive circuit element, like a resistor or capacitor. An ideal inductor maintains the relationship V = L x dI/dt , where V is the voltage across the 2 terminals of t
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by sparky 14y ago
What do the regulations allow that's not allowed today? Google has already driven 300k+ miles autonomously, with a driver behind the wheel as a backup operator. Also, what's the benefit to the owner/operator? Are you allowed to pay less a
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by sparky 14y ago
Is this an argument that a human driver is required? To me, it sounds like if there's nothing you can do, the computer's job is much easier, not harder.
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by sparky 14y ago
Yep, the horseshoe inductor is a degenerate (single-loop) case of the spiral inductor.
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by sparky 14y ago
EBS unit: Don't worry about this one, they just mean that it's something you can buy from AWS that pertains to EBS. IOPS: I/O operations per second. If you pay Amazon for Provisioned IOPS, they will guarantee that you can fetch at least N
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by sparky 14y ago
OT: Emile is usually a male name of French origin (rhymes with "a meal").
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by sparky 14y ago
Concurrency Kit? http://concurrencykit.org/
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by sparky 14y ago
"You can go on Vastrm’s site and take a short quiz, entering height, weight, body type and waste size .." What does that have to do with anything?
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by sparky 14y ago
Yes and no. Yes, any given multiplier topology will have some fundamental costs, but the lower bound on the energy for any particular set of multiplicands, latency requirements, and precision requirements will often be much lower than bu
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by sparky 14y ago
seems like a great idea. toolchain support may be an issue for a while, especially if you link against libraries with a different ABI. one thing to keep in mind is that the performance gain from e.g. more registers may not be as big as yo
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by sparky 14y ago
'not memory intensive' is an ambiguous term. he meant 'does not use a lot of memory, but may access what memory it does use quite a bit'. you meant 'does not access memory often, and performance thus does not depend much on memory acces
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by sparky 14y ago
Shrinkage encompasses all of the above [1]. The retailer I worked at for a few years (::shudder::) used this definition. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkage_(accounting)
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by sparky 14y ago
Awesome! I just filed a few bugs with patches that let it build out-of-the-box on Ubuntu. There didn't seem to be much in this space outside of levmar ( http://www.ics.forth.gr/~lourakis/levmar/ ); levmar is great for what it does, but
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by sparky 14y ago
CPython interns ints in [-5, 256]. Seems like a reasonable common-case optimization to me.
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by sparky 15y ago
Of all the ways to shoot yourself in the foot with C, recursive mutexes seem relatively benign. The implementation is a handful of lines of code, and they're not always a symptom of bad design, either; imagine needing to lock each node in
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by sparky 15y ago
CSS fail, unfortunately, which is likely not the author's fault. The included style.css sets "vertical-align: baseline" on pretty much everything, including sub and sup.
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by sparky 15y ago
'Liquidation preference' is a term that applies to what I think of as 3 or 4 related-but-separate concepts. In the simplest situation, with no vested options or other complications, yes, the investor would get all $100 million, assuming no
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by sparky 15y ago
Valuation is (Dollars I pay)/(Fraction of the company I buy). In this case, they are selling 10% of the company for $50 million. It's not exactly the same thing as saying that these investors would be willing to buy all of Instagram for $5
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by sparky 15y ago
Is it worse than shorting "integer" to "int" or "begin scope" to "{"?
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by sparky 15y ago
$373.58? $27 assumes a 0.5% return.

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