Posts by Destroy All Monsters 16005 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jun 2008
Maybe Youtube could start at the C-level
That "most powerful lady of the Internet" who fires her underling geeks because they make her feel bad and make her invent stories about how her kids allegedly ask awkward questions about unsolved social justice problems at dinner sure is busy.
Just goes to show that the debate about "muh tax leeches" is a completely wrong one: US government always spend more than there are.
That's 3.8% of Obama-Hillary useless "nuke from planes" program btw (first estimation). Trump's "small nukes to bust a city or two" program has not seen its cost estimated yet.
+1 El Reg
Have some Greg Egan in return (Permutation City, 1994):
Paul uncovered his eyes, and looked around the room. Away from a few dazzling patches of direct sunshine, everything glowed softly in the diffuse light: the matte white brick walls, the imitation (imitation) mahogany furniture; even the posters -- Bosch, Dali, Ernst, and Giger -- looked harmless, domesticated. Wherever he turned his gaze (if nowhere else), the simulation was utterly convincing; the spotlight of his attention made it so. Hypothetical light rays were being traced backward from individual rod and cone cells on his simulated retinas, and projected out into the virtual environment to determine exactly what needed to be computed: a lot of detail near the center of his vision, much less toward the periphery. Objects out of sight didn't 'vanish' entirely, if they influenced the ambient light, but Paul knew that the calculations would rarely be pursued beyond the crudest first-order approximations: Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights reduced to an average reflectance value, a single gray rectangle -- because once his back was turned, any more detail would have been wasted. Everything in the room was as finely resolved, at any given moment, as it needed to be to fool him -- no more, no less. He had been aware of the technique for decades. It was something else to experience it. He resisted the urge to wheel around suddenly, in a futile attempt to catch the process out -- but for a moment it was almost unbearable, just knowing what was happening at the edge of his vision. The fact that his view of the room remained flawless only made it worse, an irrefutable paranoid fixation: No matter how fast you turn your head, you'll never even catch a glimpse of what's going on all around you ...
Knowing that Google uses Java heavily, I'd wager this is the culprit.
Nope, they are just using the API.
"it fails horribly" == "I didn't read the JavaDoc. 21st century programming style?
In fixed-rate execution, each execution is scheduled relative to the scheduled execution time of the initial execution. If an execution is delayed for any reason (such as garbage collection or other background activity), two or more executions will occur in rapid succession to "catch up." In the long run, the frequency of execution will be exactly the reciprocal of the specified period (assuming the system clock underlying Object.wait(long) is accurate). As a consequence of the above, if the scheduled first time is in the past, then any "missed" executions will be scheduled for immediate "catch up" execution.
Appending -gate to anything under the sun is just dumb though.
"Watergate" was a hotel and the story around it has clear politicial connotations and the smell of corruption in high spheres. No political connection anywhere here, just the usual low-brow smash-and-grabbing.
Would anyone call an event whereby dumb brownshirts smash up H&R stores under the name of anti-racism "H&R-gate"? Well, maybe. It is 2018.
Western Democracies are basically Socialisms for civil servants, nepotists, wall street high flyers and the MIC, the latter two always steaming as close to total destruction as is possible to extract rent.
Socialism works fine until you run out of someone else's money. Modern government has found the nice "solution" to print some more, it's the magical extraction of wealth! No taxes even needed.
When it comes to the point where you actually find telling yourself "The West had a good run, but at least there's still some hope that China will go on carrying the flame", it puts things into perspective.
Use tabs in your shitty indentation, what do I care.
Bullshit.
Unless it is shown that their latest CPU released AFTER they got told about the fault but BEFORE this was public knowledge can be easily fixed at no cost and that a relase instead of a delay was not of consequence to the consumer, there will be balls and ovaries hanging off perches.
Hopefully nobody got hurt when the Play-Doh applications croaked.
Meanwhile, Java code is happily humming in the backend, uses threads and SQL for normal levels of productivity and sanity (btw: Threads Without the Pain) without the Promise cancer, uses only a few bunches of 3rd party libraries AND is killing Node.js in performance benchmarks.
That must be some pretty powerful BIOS sauce.
Will it rip out the branch predictor and install a new one?
The Intel CEO should go to jail for what he knew and when he knew it.
That CEO must actually be BRAINIAC. "Stupid engineers! My enormous computronium-based intellect foresees a fault in your design that can be exploited by exquisite cache timing measurements and that will bite us in the arse 10 years later ... SHIP IT ANYWAY!! MUAHAHAHAH! MY HATE SHALL YET BE QUENCHED!!!!"
(decimates the engineering team because punishment must be meted out no matter what)
Welcome to the exclusive Guinea Pig program. You receive early updates with exciting functions -- it's fun for the whole family! I, for one, am grateful that you perform this very important role. Keep it up, and don't forget to yell at MS if you find any issues before Tuesday!
And at the end, there will be cake!
What am I missing?
You may be missing that we don't put computers to such extremely productive uses like solipsistically managing our kitchen recipes in databases no larger than 64KB running at a speed that gives you time to watch "War Games" at the movies and be back before "Processing Completed" appears on the 80x24 character screen.
It may be needless complexity for the computer on your desktop, but it's a different matter when your computing is either under outsourced management or is in a cloud data centre.
Quite correct, but all this hush-hush work should come 100% open and configurable.
"This PSP here runs this OS (provides source code and manuals with appropriate Open License) and anything can be tuned including the key material"
Boardroom roaches would become additional victims of the opioid crisis but that's a small price to pay.
There is structure in primes:
Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy: A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers seems to violate a long-standing assumption about how they behave.
Among the first billion prime numbers, for instance, a prime ending in 9 is almost 65 percent more likely to be followed by a prime ending in 1 than another prime ending in 9.
If we had all done 64 bit properly with Itanium like Intel told us to we would not be in this situation so realy it is our own fault for following the cheap and simple AMD64 route. We made Intel fuck up.
Why are you applying Bái Zuô (white left) logic to this particular case of less-than-perfect engineering?
Anyway, can we bring freedom to downtrodden Intel? Maybe an "IA-64 affirmative action" program and subsidies to increase the dominance of IA-64. I'm totally in favour of a "Free Itanium March" through Washington D.C.!
not just Elon's money, but EVERY! LAPTOP! COMPUTER! MAKER! and EVERY! PHONE! MAKER!
Look here, kid.
I will tell you about hype and vaporeware and how this works and on how engineering is actually hard to do and most ideas fall by the wayside out of various reasons (generally NOT conspiracies).
Now, take a seat.
This laptop was too clever
So for now it's farewell
And maybe it'll come back,
With HP, who can tell?
It's the FINAL RECALL!
Duh-duh-duuuh-doo....
Where were we? Oh yeah NiMH. Well, it will have to be somewhat bigger. This table:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
says maybe a factor 6.
I write C++ REST services.
Well, I hope they don't look all that different from the Java ones (except for the calls to "free", something that really should be out of the mind when doing REST services) otherwise you ain't using the libraries right.
RBMSs? Or even NoSQL? are they doing the kind of things that trigger that slowdown?
If it's not slowing down, it's not a database. (It may still not be a database even if there IS slowdown ... right, MongoDB?)
Processes with little I/O on a machine with few interrupts (not many processes) will be fine. Weather simulations, that sort of stuff.
For frontend ES6+Vue are lightyears away from Java+Swing
Swing has been out for some time now. Please use JavaFX for your GUIs. Maybe Griffon.
As for ES6 beyong light-years ahead of anything.
I dunno. This industry is fully of bad opinions.
Nobody read or understood it then.
Apparently nobody does now.
Perceptrons are one-layer neural networks. Irrelevant to Deep Learning, which are very deep neural networks with Bells and Whistles of all kind.
Back when I was in school, people were well-informed about the problem with perceptrons. They were used as simple models to teach students. Everyone including Pinky and the Brain were working on 3-layer NNs and possibly looking at Boltzmann machines while the first NN chips were being talked about in BYTE and IEEE Micro.
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