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Anton (computer)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by vault_ 13y ago|0 comments
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by vault_ 13y ago
Syntax is syntax, whether it's Lisp or C. What I mean is I hardly think that a new language is what GPU programming needs to break into the mainstream. What I believe GPU programming needs is tools that people can easily add to their c
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by vault_ 13y ago
Things like NumbaPro[1] and OpenACC[2] are going to go much further towards making gpu programming more mainstream than a lisp dialect. NumbaPro is a python library that let's you JIT python into CUDA or CPU vector extensions via decor
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by vault_ 13y ago
> Use a model to guide research. This I'll concede. I misinterpreted your point and tone as "don't rely on anything you haven't already measured". I would also agree that it's rather grating to read things t
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by vault_ 13y ago
If you were to be sending a probe to the edge of the solar system, what exactly would you use to plan and predict its journey if not models then? Would you wait until you have a way to measure what happens at the edge of the solar system be
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by vault_ 13y ago
That's not a debugger though; that's a compiler. All of the debuggers I've seen are line based with the option of single stepping through assembly. Hopefully the LLDB people will be able to modernize debugging to the degree that the clang g
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by vault_ 13y ago
Mueller wasn't saying that it wasn't done intentionally. He was saying not to assume that its removal had been maliciously hidden.
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by vault_ 13y ago
I would argue your solution is exactly backwards. The job of the compositor is to draw a window how it asks to be drawn. The window in question is extending that choice to the user: "how do you want me to look." It then tells the compositor
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by vault_ 13y ago
It's not uncommon in C as an alternative to exceptions. You don't want to be using it for every-day flow control, but when you're checking results from syscalls repeatedly, using a gigantic nested if-else chain would get more messy than usi
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by vault_ 13y ago
I sent a pull request with heap things, a couple sorts, and interpolation search.
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by vault_ 13y ago
Is it nonlinear even if you have a maximum number of digits in the numbers you're sorting (like say, 64-bit integers)?
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by vault_ 13y ago
This is a pretty limited list of algorithms. It should definitely include linear time sorting algorithms (e.g. bucket or radix sort), as well as graph algorithms (shortest path at least, but also probably all pair shortest path and minimum
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by vault_ 13y ago
Check out deviantArt's infinite scroll implementation. If you go to their home page, and scroll to the bottom, there's a big green "Show More" button. No infinite scrolling happens until you explicitly want it to and you are able to get to
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by vault_ 13y ago
Why wasn't I aware of this guide last week when I had to write a kernel driver for my OS class?! One thing that's surprised me with Linux development is how nice the APIs are to work with. Things like the file_operations struct, and the lin
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by vault_ 13y ago
That's assuming that Intel gets a decent cut of tablet market at all. Intel making a decent low power CPU isn't going to make Arm go away, and Arm is only going to work its way up the ladder from its current dominance in the embedded and mo
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by vault_ 14y ago
I don't think equating languages that compile to javascript with C++ improves the analogy all that much. If anything a better analog would be a language that compiles to C like Chicken Scheme or Vala. I also don't think that comparing one's
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Apple and the Platonic Calendar(endless-turtles.com)
3 points by vault_ 14y ago|0 comments
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by vault_ 14y ago
This is basically what computers do, it's called speculative execution. Modern computers actually have several pipelines, each for a different function. This is what makes a computer "superscalar". Basically, the CPU tries to keep the pipel
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by vault_ 14y ago
You may be able to find it on high-end workstations sold by server companies (read, a 4U server turned on its side, with added feet), but by and large it's a server-only thing. The reason being it's only really necessary to have the level o
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by vault_ 14y ago
The webm container format is a subset of Matroska, so that should widen its base to some degree.
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by vault_ 15y ago
The goal of brainfuck is to be as minimal as possible. Being bad is just a side effect of that. If you want a language that was designed to be bad look at Malbolge or INTERCAL.
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by vault_ 15y ago
This comment is a fantastic example of what is probably the most insidious form of trolling.
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by vault_ 15y ago
You can set per-user shortcuts for this. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html I'm unsure if it works in 10.7 though.
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by vault_ 15y ago
Neither Windows nor OS X comes with an office suite installed by default. It wouldn't be unprecedented if a linux distro were to come without one.
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Package signing comes to Archlinux(allanmcrae.com)
3 points by vault_ 15y ago|0 comments
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by vault_ 15y ago
If you have any spares I'd love one as well. My email is in my profile.
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by vault_ 15y ago
Are people really that distracted by the blue search button? I've seen it mentioned a couple times now about how the search button draws their attention away from what's actually on the page. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I tend to look at
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by vault_ 15y ago
> A traveling wave tube—basically an inverse klystron—captures most of the particles’ flux kinetic energy and efficiently converts it into electrical energy Anyone else think this sounds like sci-fi technobabble?
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by vault_ 15y ago
Awesome is composited (well, has support for compositing). You just have to use an external compositor. xcompmgr and cairo-compmgr are two that I know of.
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by vault_ 15y ago
It kind of reminds me of the story of the development of the Graphic Calculator application. http://www.pacifict.com/Story/

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