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by watmough 4y ago
As usual the poorest will suffer worst. In people terms, and at the level of countries and continents. For those lucky enough to be within clinging reach of the lower middle class, efforts towards energy and food independence will reap huge
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by watmough 4y ago
Pretty sure Kenneth Baker was involved. I'll look into this some more and check back. ... Yes, Kenneth Baker was appointed Minister for Information Technology in 1981, by PM Margaret Thatcher. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by watmough 4y ago
Not sure I like that knock-off copy of WordWise. The original company Computer Concepts, now renamed Xara GMBH are amazingly still around! Wonder if they did a 40 years in business celebration?
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by watmough 4y ago
Bikes are not a kind of car! Yes, yes they are! Sorry if my error bothers you, but bikes are a type of car. Just look it up online. LOL.
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by watmough 4y ago
As much as love Z620's in particular, my experience of a used one wasn't that great. In particular, watch for v1.0/v2.0 motherboard versions that prevent you from using the faster Xeons, and in general, the model seems to suf
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by watmough 4y ago
Can recommend! The rats dig it.
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by watmough 4y ago
The important part seems to be the diffusion model. Explanation linked from same page: https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/diffusion-models-for-machine...
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by watmough 4y ago
Surely people have been wrestling with the 'extensive' iPhone settings for years, and similarly struggling to find things hidden, misnamed or just tucked away in dark corners. I let my iPhone sleep the display too quickly for ages
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by watmough 4y ago
Yes, there's been lots of research for many years on this. https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=ult... And if you want a real tangible example of cavitation, albeit via microwaves rather tha
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by watmough 4y ago
Maybe consider a ThinkPad P1 Gen 4. $$$ but can be had for 40% off. A good spec with the nice screen and discrete graphics is < $3k. Upsides: Great for Ubuntu, everything just works. Screen is beautiful. Keyboard is brilliant. Downsides:
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by watmough 4y ago
Asahi Linux is running well enough to be usable for lots of things. However, no screen brightness control, no sound or YouTube currently. And there's some page size weirdness that means Chrome/Electron (?) is not usable, so no VS
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by watmough 4y ago
Agner Fog's VCL library is extremely approachable. Just download it and get stuck in. Manual https://www.agner.org/optimize/vcl_manual.pdf GitHub https://github.com/vectorclass/version
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by watmough 4y ago
Tiger Lake https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/213803/... Sniff , already superceded by Alder Lake.
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by watmough 4y ago
I think scope or similar is good. Also, see related video here CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “Declarative Control Flow" https://youtu.be/WjTrfoiB0MQ?t=1046
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by watmough 4y ago
Enjoy ... https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11 The 8 and 11 have been made. There was a PiDP-10 in progress, but not sure what the status is on it currently.
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by watmough 4y ago
I'm maybe a bit of an edge-case here, but I use Docker to provide a CentOS 7 compatible development and run-time environment for a CUDA-based visualization app. There are several benefits to this: * The Dockerfile describes my deve
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by watmough 4y ago
I'm happy to believe that the article captures part of success. However, communication is a two-way process, and the following have been important to me in my career journey: * Understanding when to listen instead of talking, * A
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by watmough 4y ago
This is really cool. I just got through doing some work with vectorization. On the simplest workload I have, splitting a 3 MByte text file into lines, writing a pointer to each string to an array, GCC will not vectorize the naive loop, thou
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by watmough 4y ago
Great point! Maybe not so much of a fallacy when you look at how developer management currently works in most mainstream companies. It really does seem more geared to going slowly, and making each tiny step be recorded in some system.
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by watmough 4y ago
Yes, it's great to experience the 10x or 100x developer syndrome sometimes. Using Clojure changed my life somewhat, as at some point I rewrote 2000 lines of C++ (to handle splitting and coalescing NAESB cycle pipeline nominations) in a
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by watmough 4y ago
The Core 2 Duo 17" MacBookPro is the most expensive and worst machine I ever owned. The 13" MBP M1 has been the best, apart from the wretched touchbar.
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by watmough 4y ago
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 on a crisp new Lenovo P1. Expensive but very nice laptop. The powerbrick did self-destruct, but I bought the fancy service plan and support shipped me a replacement after just a few questions with no issues. I would
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by watmough 5y ago
In all honesty I just speak full sentences to my dog. Sure, she doesn't understand it all, but she knows my daughters' nicknames, mommy, cat, pigs ear, bed, upstairs. Pretty good vocabulary really.
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by watmough 5y ago
Go talk to a doctor they see this stuff everyday. Seriously, there's lots of treatments. Lots of different side-effects. Between you, you'll experiment until you find something that works, and you may manage to be in a much better
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by watmough 5y ago
At a house we owned where the well had run dry, we hired the guy who ran the local water treatment plant to come and dig us a new well. Sure enough, came out, dowsed, and duly a backhoe dug down about 10 foot, and we had our new well. This
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by watmough 5y ago
Back in late '80's out of St Andrews and Glasgow, there was a bunch of research into persistent object environments. Here's a paper: https://archive.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/papers/download/MBC+88.p... I
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by watmough 5y ago
I wasn't planning on posting, lots of great answers already in the thread, but has he considered learning Oracle DB administration, the various admin tools, and PL/SQL programming. There is a lot of work out there managing Oracl
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by watmough 5y ago
Awesome!! Posting from it now after about 2 hours or so to backup some stuff and run through the installer with a couple glasses wine. Super slick. No issues.
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by watmough 5y ago
Well snap. I was thinking about dipping my toe in this space. If anyone wants to give me $6 Million, with 100% return in the event of my death, I'm all ears.
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by watmough 5y ago
Interesting! I get this on the Teams Preview for Linux (CentOS 7) all the time. It is infuriating. Other than that, I sometimes need to reboot to pick up my Logitech webcam correctly, when working at home. Otherwise, it really seems pretty

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