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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Full abstraction over dimension is certainly interesting, but often not necessary. Already the capability that is works both in 2D and in 3D is in my opinion reason enough.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I was consulting at a company that's developing a VR real estate app, and the first thing I did was check to see whether they were calculating their rotations with quaternions. You had better checked whether representations are re
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On the Road to Pure Go X11 GUIs(p.janouch.name)
198 points by wolfgke 8y ago|118 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Basically, a JIT allows you to skip the overhead of the GOT. This is a problem that is GNU/Linux-specific. Windows DLLs are not PIC (position-independent code), so they do not suffer from this problem and don't need a GOT. Se
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Another article that centers not around the person, but TempleOS: http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> If you want to argue that we should pay less taxes and let people die if they cant hold a job, then feel free to make that argument. I do not argue for that, but I argue that the behaviour of many people provides strong evidence that
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> If that worked, there wouldn't be mentally ill homeless people because we already have donations. People do not voluntarily donate in enough quantities to handle society's problems This is a democratic vote in terms of money
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Rather than work to better society and contribute I actually do believe that they think that their work improves society and is such contribution. They just work on principles that many people in society do not share. > to cut ta
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> UBI doesn't get rid of a person's agency. Terry was mentally ill enough that he either had to have a guardian, or society had to decide that he held diametrically opposing views from the mainstream and would be allowed to li
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I have followed Terry for a few years now and from my limited understanding he had a lot of support from family. About 11 months ago, his parents kicked him out. Source: > https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/com
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by wolfgke 8y ago
TempleOS Hardest Question in Programming > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uLzaKlZSQQ
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Talk is cheap: the myth of the focus group(theguardian.com)
1 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I'm sure this is similar in other cultures but Japan still has a strong attitude that you're lucky to have a job. Contrast that to us (myself included) spoiled Silicon Valley type engineer who gets job offers often and compan
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The Higgs is the newest fundamental particle to physics, and the first/only known scalar. A question to physicists: Is there (strong) evidence that there might exist other scalars (if yes: at which energy level?). If not: Do there
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> There are many ways to extend the standard model and it would be nice to have additional constraints on the extensions (which would come from observing behavior not described by the standard model). For any experts reading this: what a
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Transmeta style VLIW+JIT frontend seem to be viable, but I think they are as vulnerable to spectre as OoO CPUs. Transmeta's CPUs were in-order VLIW. The in-order property at least makes them at least less prone to Spectre-like vul
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Of course having the microarchitecture and instruction set tightly married is a problem but considering we have a fairly alive ARM marketplace of varying instruction sets from ARM, I think it's not unsolvable from the compilation
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Why can't Intel sell drop in replacements for the existing cpus out there? Can of worms? Even if this were financially suitable for Intel (it is not), a necessity for this is that Intel has a microarchitecture available that &quo
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> However, VLIW-like architectures could give us back the performance of out-of-order execution without the drawbacks since the compiler has much more direct control over the caches and registers used in the CPU as well as branch predict
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How parents act on their religious beliefs linked to atheism in their children(psypost.org)
1 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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The laws of Australia will trump the laws of mathematics: Turnbull (2017)(zdnet.com)
1 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
After chmod775's comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17825777 ), I already suspected something into that direction. Thanks for the independent confirmation.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
I think that one has to apply the microcode patches after startup. For this, you have to obtain the microcode patch file from somewhere. So I am not sure whether this "legal hack" will work.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It's a really sad thing you're being downvoted, as I made a similar comment about a year ago [1] in defense of WikiLeaks to over 30 upvotes. HN seems to be getting more and more active with their downvotes towards information
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Wikileaks is a Russian propaganda machine. > They are only interested in Anti-America leaks, not all leaks. Everybody should make their own judgement on the political bias of Wikileaks (which is, in my personal opinion, a very good
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Why would the legal risk ever be over? I can imagine some scenarios: - A company is bought by another one which has a different legal policy and voids some legal restrictions even retroactively - By some other way, the "illegal&qu
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by wolfgke 8y ago
OK, thanks for the correction. Much better, indeed. :-)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
My thougt based on the HN headline "Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed" (after having read the article, of course): Doesn't this show that it is time for someone to set up some kind of &q
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> That's more or less how a sportsbook operates. However if the action doesn't balance out, the book has considerable exposure if the team with more bets on it wins. Beforehand: I don't do sports betting. So I don't
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Yeah, I never quite understood that part of the business plan either, but it was a data science Meetup, so focus was else where Perhaps because of the regulations?

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