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by tspiteri 15y ago
I would think that they are talking about clock frequency. They do say that you can either have the 37% performance increase, or use less than half the power when at the same performance.
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by tspiteri 15y ago
The New York Times has an article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/science/05chip.html The article links to some graphics: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/05/05/science/05chip_...
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by tspiteri 16y ago
I agree that there are too many comments. Perhaps a fix would be to discourage users from commenting by asking them politely not to. For example, the "add comment" box could be removed from the story page, and you might need to click on a l
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by tspiteri 16y ago
For (c): create a limit to the amount of votes a user can use, for example, make it impossible to vote on more than 5 items in 24 hours. Story votes, comment upvotes and comment downvotes would all count towards this limit. This would be us
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by tspiteri 16y ago
I don't know about JPEG, but JPEG2000 definitely has a lossless mode.
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by tspiteri 16y ago
I'm not sure pointer arithmetic on function pointers is standard C. Using the -pedantic flag, gcc 4.5.2 does give a "warning: pointer to a function used in subtraction".
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by tspiteri 16y ago
Sorry for posting a comment and deleting it, but just after posting I saw repeat: ... goto repeat; which is an endless loop, even if it is not a for loop, and just deleted the comment. Evidently I did not delete fas
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by tspiteri 16y ago
> bah e^(0.5τi)+1=0 nah e^(τi)=1
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by tspiteri 16y ago
The man page says that if path is omitted in find [path...] [expression] the current directory is used. I don't know if it's just that way for GNU find, or if it's standard Posix find behaviour. Regarding the wildcards in search st
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by tspiteri 16y ago
Is 22π equal to 2 times 2π or is it equal to 11 times 2π? That is, is 22π equal to 2(2π) or (22)π? If 2π is a single symbol, then 22π would be equal to 2(2π), which would be really confusing.
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by tspiteri 16y ago
> In many ways it does a better job of finding files by name than find does. Your du command is: du -a | grep -y "$1" | grep -y "$2" | awk '{print $2}' The find command I would use for the same effect is: find -iregex ".*
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by tspiteri 16y ago
Looking for files in the article is completely broken. To look for a file named syslog.conf, you need to say find -name syslog.conf otherwise find will not look for that filename in all subdirectories. So the shown find /etc/
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by tspiteri 16y ago
I really don't see the point of the tone the article adopts. If it is aimed at C++ users, badly mouthing C++ can only put them off what could be useful advice. If it is aimed at C++ bashers, they don't need the C++ advice anyway.
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by tspiteri 16y ago
How does the article get it right? If the answer can be "him", the question should be "whom", and if the answer can be "he", the question should be "who". Having said that, "Whom am I speaking with?" does sound pretty weird, "With whom am I
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by tspiteri 16y ago
I do not think the GPL restrictions are aimed at users, but at other developers who may be competitors. Some developers might be cautious about opening their source using BSD-style licenses because their competitors may then use the free co
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by tspiteri 16y ago
cosgroveb: Don't like the terms of an author's library? Go write your own then. jedsmith: I really hate this attitude. Isn't the point of the Internet to bring developers together to work on things? Can't we put our collective capabilities
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by tspiteri 16y ago
... if the expression can't be reduced to multiplications/shifts/addition due to division by a constant. Ah, I missed that. Even on normal processors, for the following: int div60(int i) { return i / 60; } int mod60(int i) { ret
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by tspiteri 16y ago
I am not saying that division is not expensive, or that the modulo operator is not just as expensive. I am only pointing out that the modulo operator is not more expensive that division.
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by tspiteri 16y ago
Article: "Well a little thought shows that C = A % B is equivalent to C = A - B * (A / B). In other words the modulus operator is functionally equivalent to three operations." The integer divide instruction returns both the quotient and the
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by tspiteri 16y ago
Norway is not an EU member.
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by tspiteri 16y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE
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by tspiteri 16y ago
I agree with you. I don't know why some people have no trouble believing that you have to be the right size to be a top weight lifter, and that you have to be the different right size to be a top marathon runner, but then they believe that
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by tspiteri 16y ago
I don't afford a Porsche. But if I could afford to buy one, I would still not buy it unless I could afford to park it anywhere. That is, there is a difference between affording to just buy a Porsche (perhaps as a status symbol), and affordi
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by tspiteri 16y ago
Empathize with the reader, try to put yourself in their place. If you are proposing an argument, imagine you are a reader and have no idea about it, and try to make yourself understand it in the first reading. Many paper writers write as if
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by tspiteri 16y ago
I agree that evolution did play the crucial part in developing the drinking method for cats, which is now part of their instinct, but the precise frequency can be learned during their lifetime, it does not have to be instinctive. Cats train
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Did Scientists Overclock Human Brain Using Electricity?(portal.itproportal.com)
1 points by tspiteri 16y ago|0 comments
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by tspiteri 16y ago
Maybe the author just loves text.
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by tspiteri 16y ago
What some people are missing is that before Google's Go, the Go! language was so obscure that even googling for "go" would not have found it. In fact, the second comment ( http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9&cnum=500&... ) on
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by tspiteri 16y ago
When I saw that I didn't see it as cold, but as cool. You can't expect to block anyone from using a name they like just because you would like to use it for your hobby project. While I understand the Go! language designer having a go at it,
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by tspiteri 16y ago
The wires in the switching system are not exactly hot and neutral; they are hot and disconnected. Neutral is connected to the mains (mains has two connections, hot is the high voltage connection, and neutral is the connection at around zero

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