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by zeotroph 9y ago
(while most here understands CPU RAM RAII DRY etc., you might want to mentions that SNP means "single nucleotide polymorphism", which are mutations where just a single base pair differs.)
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by zeotroph 9y ago
Neurons practically never die, so the DNA itself will not directly reflect what a decades old braincell stores, though some mutations might influence how or if at all a certain neuron stores something. But since these mutations are random t
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by zeotroph 10y ago
In the linked example it first says "Points" (implying more are better), and then "Lower is better" for some timed benchmark. That is not and indicator but text for which one has to slow down to read it, for skimming o
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by zeotroph 10y ago
All these nice graphs, but only few publications get that an indicator towards "better" (more points, fewer milliseconds, more fps, fewer watts) greatly improves comprehension speed, especially when multiple graphs using different
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by zeotroph 10y ago
Whenver IEEE 754 and its quirks are discussed a potential alternative (but so far without hardware support) called Unum - Universal Numbers - should not go unmentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)
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by zeotroph 10y ago
Unfortunately in Window Maker the left/right edges of the screen move a window to another virtual desktop (by default), so this would have to be limited to the top or bottom edges which do not seem to have an action tied to them so far
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by zeotroph 10y ago
As someone still using Window Maker, these mini-DockApps are a a reason why I keep using it. The dock is on the left or right, so it does not take the more precious vertical screenspace. And dockapps are reasonably sized (64x64 pixels by de
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by zeotroph 10y ago
The closest to that is mrustc [1], a reimplementation which skips the borrow checking part can generate C code. Eventually you might be able to compile rust code on more platforms, though you should still develop with the official rustc for
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by zeotroph 10y ago
Running this without amazon seems to require replacing the hardcoded "{}://{}.s3{}.amazonaws.com" url with the location where the s3 compatible service is running on the local network. Now if that was just a default an
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by zeotroph 10y ago
Last I checked, you still had to pass -Qunused-arguments to llvm/clang to supress a few warnings, but other than that it works fine.
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by zeotroph 10y ago
Now you just have to explain to the language pedants why you called an audio fingerprinting tool "deja vu" (already seen) and not "deja entendu" (already heard :)
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by zeotroph 10y ago
And maybe Mill Computing can follow through with the claim that their belt based, general purpose DSP CPU design can beat all other offerings at least with regard to power use. I wonder how long it will be until physical chips are out. Or a
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by zeotroph 10y ago
Another interesting piece of Enclave-Exclave history recently came to an end when Bangladesh and India exchanged some territory to "simplify" a part of their border [1]. It also featured the worlds only 3rd order enclave, i.e. a p
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by zeotroph 10y ago
The idea is brilliant, however > If you don't like the 3 words it gives you After trying some locations, I think they should have purged their dictionary of obviously negative words. Ending up with `glorified.bodily.passage` is just
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by zeotroph 10y ago
Apart from Jai [1], are there any languages which support transparent conversion from one format for the programmer (who will prefer AoS) to the other for the compiler/cpu/cache? This feature - plus the inversion of the `inline` k
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by zeotroph 10y ago
and originally (CC licensed, and attributed) with a few nice illustrations from http://mosaicscience.com/story/why-do-we-have-allergies where they even credit a `Fact checker`. And on first glance, that website seems q
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by zeotroph 10y ago
The part about "The bacteria's ability to oxidise methane and carbon dioxide is of particular interest." -- which seems to mean "ability to oxidise carbon dioxide" -- can't be right. Maybe the meaning is methan
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by zeotroph 11y ago
The general point about Science Fiction deviating from the usual Fate-Destiny-Prophecy-ChosenOne narratives described in Campbell's "The Hero With a Thousand Faces" finally nailed down my personal vague aversion for most stor
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“Star Wars” despots vs. “Star Trek” populists (1999)(salon.com)
4 points by zeotroph 11y ago|2 comments
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by zeotroph 11y ago
On the '5D' claim: "The information encoding inside the disc is realised in five dimensions - the size and orientation of the nanostructures, in additional to their three-dimensional positions inside the disc." Those nan