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zeusk
9y ago
>> No, it isn't - just like the subject in the Chinese room experiment cannot understand Chinese yet is able to reply with perfect language to given input. > Oh, come on. This is silly semantics. That is the exact point of the
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> Why should an employee be investing 50K of their own money into the company every single year? It's bad enough that someone would invest 50K in a single company: one that picked them Recruiting and hiring, after new grad level, is
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> Oh, come on. This is silly semantics. Human written engine doesn't "understand" the game state any more than an AI does! You don't seem to understand the difference between predicting what could be next compared to
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9y ago
> But if it can predict animation frames perfectly (it cannot), it is practically a game engine (for that particular game). No, it isn't - just like the subject in the Chinese room experiment cannot understand Chinese yet is able to
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9y ago
The jobs aren't getting transferred to H1Bs, they're getting contracted out to TCS and Infosys who are known for abusing the program by "lending" out their employees as contractors. They're akin to the predatory hir
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9y ago
heterogeneous big.LITTLE implementations are in consumer android devices since late 2013s.
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They're not down 10% and market gains are not risk free. Performance can really only be compared with risk free returns (ie. TIPS). Anything else and you have to look at a bunch of other factors like volatility, VAR etc.
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9y ago
The natives of US were pillaged by the European immigrants who arrived way prior to 1920s. Ironical, given Thanksgiving is a few weeks from now.
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Sure you can customize /etc/sudoers to your heart's content but that's not the point here. (btw, you can use group policy to enforce password at UAC prompt and limit users from system wide changes to Windows). The point
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Well, the same is true of any osx pre high sierra. A malware can disguise as installer utility and it can make modifications to system or install kexts after user okays it (keychain saves the password). Linux makes you type in the password
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Because: a) Adding a root CA to the cert store requires UAC elevation prompt. b) The certificates are more useful in verifying if a given driver was issued by the manufacturer it says it was issued from.
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9y ago
Surely you don't use a default non-100% zoom, it is crazy how Google who also happens to make a browser can't get such trivial details right. Also, the zero margins are not helpful on a large display. These alone make the experien
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9y ago
On Desktop, it is horrible. There are no margins, and zoom is messed up on Chrome/Firefox.
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zeusk
9y ago
your website at instalocate.com seems to be down (I get `No such host at :80`).
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zeusk
9y ago
Are you open to non-summer internships (spring)?
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zeusk
9y ago
The job postings doesn't have any developer internships; where do we apply?
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zeusk
9y ago
A cheeky name for logisim: http://www.cburch.com/logisim/
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zeusk
9y ago
You should try Logism!
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zeusk
9y ago
They use upTDP (20w~24w). Also, you'd be surprised. Even while gaming, my current surface pro maintains 3.1 GHz and reaches 4.1 on short bursts. Look around the web, if you can keep the surface cool enough, they never PL (power limit)
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The 13" gets 95W brick in dGPU config (same as 15") and houses a 1050 (~45W) and a 8650U (~20W).
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Regardless, they're at-least usable and Microsoft cares about backward compat. Just last week I played a game of Age of Empires II with my cousin, a game which was "released" in 1999 on a Surface with Windows 10. While on my
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9y ago
I already operate a small scale operation near my hometown in India which is almost self sufficient (powered by wind and solar). For deficit, we have connection to the grid but it is rarely used save for rainy season.
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Where does it say that; can't find that part in the blog.
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and what exactly happens if I have prepaid for the service? My current subscription ends May 2020 >:(
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Ryzen based APUs (Raven Ridge) are planned for 1H 2018
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> Wikipedia still says "There is no way to record time-zone information along with the time, thus rendering the stored time ambiguous." It'll be a while for cameras to catch up. Most of my friends and family take their pho
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> I despise Google as a company and I try to avoid their products and services, but their photo solution just works so well on Android (it works like crap on iOS and macOS even if you install Google Photos, but that's a discussion f
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> as a group of n people are likely to have >n different time stamps and at least 2 time zones on their various devices. Which is why we have UTC. > The resultant sort will be interleaved by sets out of order by hours in case of ti
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> "Think of it like The Toys-R-Us of DRAM" except you're completely wrong. DRAM business is booming and is/was the most profitable BU of Toshiba; Their reason to selling it is because of the debt and losses incurred a
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Solar power is really cheap though, I run a smallish scale operation near my hometown and solar is abundant with rare clouds and rain.
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