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by zurn 12y ago
PCs were for boring suit types in the 90s. Windows 3.1, ugh. Lots of people ran Amigas or Macs at home and RISC workstations at university or work. Then Linux happened and you could run something nice even on a PC. It involved tinkering but
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by zurn 12y ago
Another way to put it is that specialized supercomputers no longer exist, and the top500 is now populated with super-branded racks of PCs running Linux with souped up network cards. For the young ones in the audience, the supercomputer term
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by zurn 12y ago
> At 225 MHz an average 30.5 FPS with some rare 20-25 FPS are achieved when running 'timedemo demo3'. Resolution is the default Doom, 320x200. > To reach the same performance on a PC something like a 486 @ 66MHz and a decent
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by zurn 12y ago
> I think most controllers implement a secure erase feature SSDs lie about this, and the only way to check is to go forensic on the raw flash. Source: Wei et al, "Reliably Erasing Data From Flash-Based Solid State Drives", Usen
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by zurn 12y ago
Google Play is accessible only if you hook your Android device to a Google account AND you Andorid device vendor has put up the $$ to use the proprietary Google apps like Play. The real question is why so many apps are distributed only thro
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by zurn 12y ago
Put another way: Due to the low bitrates used by Netflix, the 4K streams will show a dramatic improvement in quality even on 1080p screens.
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by zurn 12y ago
Would be a bad tradeoff even for trusted on-disk data, since disks are so glacially slow and serialization systems always run into bad data from time to time (due to fs data corruption, io errors, memory corrupting bugs, etc).
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by zurn 12y ago
FWIW it had the opposite effect on me: it sounded like this wasn't some run of the mill corporate middleware project with bland and enterprisey web pages, but made by someone who actually puts their personality into the game. Go has a
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by zurn 12y ago
Are there companies in the US that will buy a house you pick and rent it to you?
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by zurn 12y ago
> Modern file systems like ZFS, which Apple considered but abandoned as a replacement, include checksums of all meta data structures. That means that when the file is accessed, the filesystem detects the corruption and throws an error. T
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by zurn 12y ago
You want unpredictable random numbers, so using bash $RANDOM is no good. hexdump + /dev/urandom + sed would work, incantation left as an exercise to reader as I don't have a Mac around to check limitations of their hexdump(1)
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by zurn 12y ago
Unless you're Iceland, with more geothermal and hydro than you know wat to do wit, and too far away from civilization. One of the largest aluminum exporters in the world.
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by zurn 12y ago
> One of the airline reservation systems is written in some kind of FP. You are probably thinking of ITA and their Orbitz service, using Franz Common Lisp. That is not really a FP language, but a good feather in the hat for Lisp nonethel
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by zurn 12y ago
There are significant changes of semantics according to TFA, for example: > Default charset of ISO-8859-1 has been removed > The 204, 404, 405, 414 and 501 status codes are now cachable. > The Location header can now contain relati
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by zurn 12y ago
It would be very neat to see a Cuda or OpenCL solution
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by zurn 12y ago
The article is about difficulty of reversing obesity, once you become fat. Different problem.
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by zurn 12y ago
You are shifting the argument by cherry picking Australian beef production (vs meat production in general). Overwhelmingly most meat production is fed using harvest from cultivated land, hence the claims are irrelevant to the general discus
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by zurn 12y ago
A vegetarian calling meat eating "the most rational choice" ! It's destroying our planet and causing untold, horrific amounts suffering to animals just because people get a kick out of chewing on other beings. PS. I've b
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by zurn 12y ago
> The GL model, placing the compiler in the driver, is WRONG How does he figure OpenGL mandates this? OpenGL allows a (caching) GLSL compiler to be part of the OS OpenGL support, leaving drivers to consume bytecode or some other kind of
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by zurn 12y ago
Sounds like they got some one-off or short term extra funding. So the reponsibility may lay on the elected officials & voters that decided the schools could only be afforded cash injections instead of more expensive sustainable improvem
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by zurn 12y ago
If you can make that happen with $30k, you can get very rich!
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by zurn 12y ago
SSL is better than no SSL, but for better assurance they should offline sign the downloads.
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by zurn 12y ago
What about ClojureScript?
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by zurn 12y ago
It needs some kind of cleaning cycle (unless all your ingredients are hard liquor...)
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by zurn 12y ago
This is just some PR wildly exaggerating results from a SSD garbage collection paper. The linked graphs show the big improvement in just one of many workloads and only in the case where the SSD is near-full, and don't show what disk&#x
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by zurn 12y ago
I wonder what this means: > the world owes a debt of thanks to Jeff Bush who was the first person we know of to get a full TCP/IP stack working on a cellular data connection IP is natively supported by GPRS and worked from day 1, an
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by zurn 12y ago
Linux works pretty well on many Macbook models. Linus used an Air as his main machine last I heard.
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by zurn 12y ago
SMT solvers sound interesting and this Python example looks very approachable. Anyone know if there are other cookbook-type "here's how you solve practical problem x with SMT" recipes that might serve as a cargo cult-type (th
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by zurn 12y ago
When left to their own devices companies have little tendency to cooperate on that level. The proprietary drivers represent an enormous investment, it would be near-impossible for a new company to enter the market and develop competitive pr
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by zurn 12y ago
That's what I was talking about, those frameworks/engines aren't on a trajectory that's going to lead away from the current graphics programming quagmire.

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