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by sparky 16y ago
GP may have meant "great" in terms of support; that's one of the most often-cited benefits of Linode over other providers. They appear to give a crap about their customers and are very responsive over several open communication channels (f
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by sparky 16y ago
Has anyone gotten one without showing up on this site? http://addicted-gamer.com/cr48-tracker/ If so, I can stop compulsively checking it :)
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by sparky 16y ago
There is a rational debate to be had about the relative merits of the two architectures and programming ecosystems; this isn't it. 1) A GPU "core" is loosely defined. Those "512 CUDA cores" are 16 streaming multiprocessors with 32-wide SIM
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by sparky 16y ago
If I can believe this ( http://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html ), SHA-512 can still hash data at tens to hundreds of megabytes per second on a single couple-year-old core. Bcrypt lets you configure the slowness of your key generation wi
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by sparky 16y ago
"A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme" by Provos and Mazieres. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.80.... An HTML version appears to be here: http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix99/provos/provos_html/node... Some of the
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by sparky 16y ago
They could mean that wafer-starts-per-day were back up to their normal levels within 2.5 days, but the pipeline bubbles that result from destroyed wafers anywhere in the process almost certainly won't be filled for another month. It's easy
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by sparky 16y ago
bcrypt or scrypt ( http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html ). bcrypt lets you more or less arbitrarily set the computational complexity (in terms of instructions) of key generation. scrypt is newer (2009), but has the attractive property that i
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by sparky 16y ago
GCJ is itself similar to the much older ACM's ICPC ( http://cm.baylor.edu/welcome.icpc , around in some form since 1977 http://cm.baylor.edu/ICPCWiki/Wiki.jsp?page=The%20Early%20Ye... ), though of course it's not limited to college stud
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by sparky 16y ago
I would imagine their ad earnings, at least in the short term, will receive a bump due to them adopting more intrusive forms of ads. The constant text ads in the corner were only moderately distracting and annoying (they tend to cover up p
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by sparky 16y ago
He's off by a "'s". St. John is one of the US Virgin Islands.
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by sparky 16y ago
The Cortex-A15 (Eagle) design will have the option of hardware virtualization support ( http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/virtuali... ). No word on exactly what that means yet. ARM's lower IPC and frequency may increase
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by sparky 16y ago
"Salesforce.com's biggest differentiator in this commodified market is its decade-long track record of providing a solid Software-as-a-Service." Freudian slip? I guess the two interpretations ("the market has turned into a toilet" and "t
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by sparky 16y ago
Works for me too, about 10FPS in Chromium 9 on 64-bit Ubuntu, 2.4GHz C2D, Nvidia 8400M GS.
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by sparky 16y ago
I must be one of those intellectually inconsistent folks, so take this for what it's worth. This particular piece of information doesn't bother me so much. As somebody else mentioned, it seems to my layman mind that, to a first order, thos
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by sparky 16y ago
Patients getting infected because somebody didn't wash their hands is an abomination, we can agree on that. This thread was originally about decision-making power being shifted from doctors (M.D.s) to insurance companies, administrators, re
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by sparky 16y ago
You thought right, it was a great find; thanks :)
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by sparky 16y ago
This seems a more appropriate response to Alex3917's "at least question the journal articles" bit, as it supports phunel's point fairly well I think. The "as many as 18%", "admitted to hospitals" and "Iatrogenic injuries" bits make this art
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by sparky 16y ago
How do you figure, even assuming these figures are (still) accurate (many of them are 10-20 years old)? By my reading, "mistakes made by doctors" applies to the "Medical Errors" row in the table at the top of that page. 98,000 deaths per
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by sparky 16y ago
I think the high concentration of tech jobs and employee-favorable IP ownership legislation are a great combination for the states you mention. Causality could easily work either way here though. CA, WA, and NC are some of the only states
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by sparky 16y ago
Great demo. I couldn't figure out another way to reach you privately, so check your YouTube messages.
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by sparky 16y ago
On the flip side, much of the value you are able to create may come as the result of the infrastructure and colleagues provided to you by that same "someone else". Seems particularly true at a place like Google. When you work for yourself,
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by sparky 16y ago
Works for me (64-bit linux chromium 9.0.595.0)
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by sparky 16y ago
I feel for the guy, entrepreneurs are a competitive bunch and losing is never easy to take, particularly when it can be interpreted as a shot against your startup's idea. That said, this comes off as nearly unadulterated sour grapes. Sugg
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Green500 (Top500 for energy efficiency) List Released(green500.org)
2 points by sparky 16y ago|0 comments
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by sparky 16y ago
I wouldn't characterize it so much as a feature (I know that's the article's wording, not yours), but some features meant to deal with a potentially problematic situation called "mouse-ahead". I found the explanation in "Why X is Not Our Id
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by sparky 16y ago
The website ( http://www.green500.org ) hasn't been updated yet, but this seems to be an accurate top 10 from the BoF session at SC. Looks like GPU-powered machines are in #2, #3, #9, #10, #11, and #12. A corollary I'd like to see to the
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Green500 (Top500 re-ranked by FLOPS/W) released at Supercomputing 2010(pressroom.nvidia.com)
1 points by sparky 16y ago|1 comments
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by sparky 16y ago
For posterity: it was revealed that the Kinect has a Marvell PXA168 (1GHz ARM + many peripherals). Source: http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4210757/Teardown--Ki...
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by sparky 16y ago
Most supercomputers with multi-socket nodes have had something like this for similar reasons. The earliest reference I can find is here http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefi... , but more modern examples of the ide
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by sparky 16y ago
If you believe that the trend-line that has held surprisingly steady for the last 17 years ( http://top500.org/lists/2010/11/performance_development ) will keep going, than by my crude eyeballing it looks like about 2019. Granted, there

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