wolfgke

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by wolfgke 8y ago
> AVX-512 is gated, but causes heavy throttling. In its current implemention, it does. Consider that this is Intel's first iteration of AVX-512 and don't forget that in its first iteration, also AVX was plagued by performance p
782.
by wolfgke 8y ago
> Also you'd have to invent a sales/marketing scheme as an alternative to the existing one that is based on increasing clock rates. GHz is to the PC what HP (horsepower) is to the car. The GHz race has been over for a long time
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by wolfgke 8y ago
The Broadcom hardware on the RPi is far worse documented than typical PC hardware. ARM is an immense set of different boards only unified by most parts of the core of the instruction set (which extensions of the ARM instruction sets are sup
784.
by wolfgke 8y ago
> Hardware attacks cannot be prevented by secure boot... But by Trusted Computing (at least in some implementations).
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It would significantly raise the cost and difficulty of this sort of attack. In my opinion, modifying the board layout with the additional chip and modifying the production process for the server boards stealthily already has a pretty
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Perhaps Bloomberg's reporters fell for a conspiracy theory this time. According to > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/04/supermicro_bloomber... "Bloomberg reporters receive bonuses base
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This technology would spot a secret chip in seconds(spectrum.ieee.org)
39 points by wolfgke 8y ago|52 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> - Less outwardness as a social norm. I am sure there will be debate over this. But I think many will agree it is hard to make friends with non-expats even when there is no or little language barrier, compared to many North American soc
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New controversial theory: Past, present, future exist simultaneously(bigthink.com)
2 points by wolfgke 8y ago|2 comments
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Steve Wozniak's $13,200 coding bootcamp is 'broken'(businessinsider.de)
17 points by wolfgke 8y ago|4 comments
791.
by wolfgke 8y ago
> I went through a few repos and the result was a weirdly consistent 30-45 LOC(sans tests) daily for a 2-3 person team The "sans tests" metric is in my opinion some kind of cheating to keep the number small. Let me explain: whe
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Sometimes I see people and wonder which of these two things is true: > 1. They have no idea what the average developer actually is. > 2. They are lying to make it sound like they were elite when they were a freshman in college. C
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> GPUs have enormously more computational capacity than CPUs, and are very weird. They can be programmed in C or C++, but it is not not a natural fit. Neither is C or C++ for most "ordinary" CPUs.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> But on the other hand that makes german much longer. Translations into german (e.g. SW or movie subtitles) are the longest in german than in any other major language. I can believe that if you translate texts that are written in idioma
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Is it das Nutella or die Nutella? > https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nutella&oldid=181...
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Many people feel that the having a formal way to address people is useful. It allows you to express very quickly how close you want to have them to you. A stranger you don't like? Formal. A stranger who seems to be your own age an
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> One thing that I have noticed about English is that it seems to be more concise. There are things that can be expressed much more elegantly and with fewer word in English, while saying the same thing in German may require a mid-sized s
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Apple and Amazon probably have a small set of TS/SCI cleared employees who dealt with this mess. For those who are wondering: TS: Top Secret: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Classified_inform... SC
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Wikipedia mods aren’t expected to be experts on research chemistry or theoretical physics. I agree. That is why they should not make a judgement to delete a Wikipedia page because of irrelevance before people who are knowledgeable on t
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Should every published scientist have a wikipedia page? It's not obvious that they should, not every scientist is notable to the general public. To me it rather shows what a bad judgement the Wikipedia moderators have on notabilit
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Poor people can't afford [...] buying books from the same "right" professor For books, there is (luckily) Library Genesis.
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The godfather of crypto has a plan to keep digital payments and messages private(qz.com)
1 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I usually love Fabrice Bellards stuff, but I have to admit that I don't really understand the how and why of this project. The "why" should be clear here: make money (see Amarisoft's website: https://www.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Those plans were words. As long as they do not offer a legally binding commitment to their users never to track users/never to do ads in their software etc. there is no reason why one should consider this as more than some vague plan.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Salespeople better know what problems a blockchain solves that could not be solved with previous methods. Because this is something that customers will ask.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
The compilers source of Stanford university (on Coursera and now Lagunita) uses a fork of SPIM that seems not to care about subtle parts of MIPS such as the delay slot.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> If your point is that nothing stopped people doing this a generation ago, if they'd thought about it, then I agree completely. > But the key bit is they didn't think about it (or think it was sufficiently important). My op
808.
by wolfgke 8y ago
> That's a fairly weak argument: you can browse an electronic document in a non-linear fashion way easier than a book. How do I make handwritten side notes? How can I create a bookmark for a specific page? How can I view multiple no
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> They can and do. What's most useful about blockchain tech is the eventually immutable chronological ordering bit. > As an example, 2 parties can enter into a contract. The contract details are signed by both parties. The contra
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Interesting. I would have expected that also - VxWorks ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=VxWorks&oldid=857... ) - Nucleus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nucleus_RTOS&o

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