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by vegabook 4y ago
Does this have soft real-time preemption capabilities like Erlang? IE: Do I get the BEAM's latency ~"guarantees"?
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by vegabook 4y ago
yes this is an issue. Our eyes and brains are hardwired to focus on moving objects in a static scene, and this shifting aliasing distracts attention from the content.
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by vegabook 4y ago
An oblique thing I love about the Elixir ecosystem is that there is a strong focus on visual and aesthetic attention to detail. I mean look at those multibars in the asciinema. They're gorgeous for a console. In this, I'm reminded
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by vegabook 4y ago
Any plans for releasing an API spec that would allow for access from languages other than Python?
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by vegabook 4y ago
worth mentioning that Vulkan is the only API that runs on all three major platforms. Natively on Windows and Linux, via MoltenVK on MacOS.
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by vegabook 4y ago
I'm 52. My life was a total mess, and I'm talking messed up relationships with my family, smoking like a chimney, debts, drinking and more . I cannot agree more that it is not the destination that gets you out of it, it's the
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by vegabook 4y ago
What is the latest state of play of data science graphics in Elixir/Bumblebee? Is there something comparable to Matplotlib, or R's ggplot2?
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by vegabook 10y ago
interesting point, which raises the question of which structure works better at bringing inventions to market. Wasn't it Thomas Edison, credited with tons of patents and produced many actual groundbreaking products , who had an army o
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by vegabook 10y ago
No browser?? No netflix? If you want these there are umpteen devices in your life giving you instant access already. This is about pureplay gaming . Nobody buys a console to browse anymore. I can literally do browsing and netflix with 3 de
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by vegabook 10y ago
too cool - I'd love one of these for those long meetings / dates / presentations etc so I can just casually "feel" what time it is without being noticed looking at my watch or phone. I'd have to learn at least
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by vegabook 10y ago
Doesn't "death rate" refer to people who have a confirmed infection? Which of course is much lower number than the number of people born?
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by vegabook 10y ago
I have no idea what Pocket is, but as a Firefox stalwart and a person looking to learn Rust, the fact that Mozilla is actually acquiring stuff gives me confidence on its financial stability. Very important issue in the decision making proce
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by vegabook 10y ago
Ah okay. I guess this reflects the large VMs then. Still not ideal.
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by vegabook 10y ago
As a scientific programmer interested in functional-flavoured (ie undogmatic) languages, I would do Rust immediately if it had a REPL. Dying to dump Python. This post is very convincing on Rust's design decisions: http://sci
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by vegabook 10y ago
quite a decent perf from the ML family at around 19 seconds (F# and Ocaml). Top of the functionals, at least, twice as fast as Haskell. Also look how ginormous the binaries are for all the VM languages. Kinda would have thought it would be
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by vegabook 10y ago
If the 32 core Naples server Zen, due Q2, has anything like this kind of price/perf versus Xeon, Intel is in trouble.
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by vegabook 10y ago
unfortunately this is true. For one thing Go doesn't have a REPL - major problem for data science/AI/scientic programming. And it's very committed to old-style procedural/imperative paradigm. Numpy is carrying Pytho
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by vegabook 10y ago
and many (like me) who have painfully moved to Python 3 will find that they have gained nothing important there either other than avoiding the "end of life" blackmail.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Jony Ive has become too senior to be effectively challengeable by more engineering types. That's why all the Mac hardware since he was elevated to his current position, always errs in favour of design at the expense of high end functio
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by vegabook 10y ago
All you see is the capital angle? You're hijacking the comments with your company valuation thing instead of thinking about the workers for once as is the whole point of the article.
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by vegabook 10y ago
these are the specs on an ASUS motherboard.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Who needs a Xeon now? The only chink in the armour here is the 64GB max, which admittedly is bad for the science/Machine learning folks, but the vast majority of these chips is used for databases, web serving, app serving, etc, for whi
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by vegabook 10y ago
100%. Everywhere else including spinning disk, SSD, ethernet, TCP/IP there is error correction.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Even so, ECC on Ryzen would make said servers cheaper, even if only by forcing Intel pricing lower. ECC on Intel is very overpriced.
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by vegabook 10y ago
As soon as you are putting a noisy dataset through multiple iterative algos, though, if a bit error hits the control flow code or data structure delimiters, you face the possibility of massive silent, propogating corruption. Imagine your ha
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by vegabook 10y ago
AMD has been really smart. Freesync is a huge success. It's outperforming Nvidia by about 20% on Vulkan and DX12 on similar hardware because game makers can use their optimized code from the AMD-equipped consoles. On Ryzen, it appears
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by vegabook 10y ago
This question comes up constantly. Anybody doing anything with more than 16GB, especially data science (think all the R and Python people, all scientists), anybody running a memory cached data store (all server side people on mongo, redis,
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by vegabook 10y ago
Amd is prepping a 32 core server beast. Considering Intel just launched a 24 core chip costing 9000 dollars , and considering the AMD IPC is looking good, Intel execs must be gnawing down to their elbows at the prospect of AMD walking in t
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by vegabook 10y ago
An AMD 40Mhz 80486 was my first build so I also have a soft spot. At the time it was the fatest x86 one could buy. Gees I even remember lusting after the Ati 8514 Ultra, one of the earliest GPU accelerators, clone of IBM's high end wo
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by vegabook 10y ago
computers are addictive. Every noticed how top coders look like they've never seen daylight?

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