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Introduction to Linux Intel Assembly Language(heather.cs.ucdavis.edu)
63 points by 0x12 15y ago|8 comments
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by 0x12 15y ago
Ah, yes, apologies. KWh should have been MWh, I'll edit the comment above. Thanks for the correction.
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by 0x12 15y ago
That's a special case of what I believe is called the ratchet effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_effect
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by 0x12 15y ago
I'd be more inclined to sympathize if it had actually worked. As it stands it is a perfect example of how little knowledge of what goes on under the hood is present with the current generation of programmers. That's sad, because even if you
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by 0x12 15y ago
> No details about the planned solar panel array or its potential power output are known at this time Taking the 171 acre figure we can compute at least the limits of what it could do. 171 acres is about 700,000 square meters. At a sola
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by 0x12 15y ago
Very large numbers of Amazon servers are used for something else than cranking out HTTP pages. Expect a lot of them to be crunching numbers for bio-informatics problems, physics simulations and so on. That's why there is a CUDA enabled inst
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by 0x12 15y ago
Nearly 100 upvotes for a page that fails its stated goal and which spends 100's of lines to do something you could do with one system call (sys_write) and a string constant? http://asm.sourceforge.net/intro/hello.html
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by 0x12 15y ago
At a guess, then you'll mail your daemon to fetch the page, to be mailed back by the daemon?
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by 0x12 15y ago
You don't hire a missionary with a vision to pat yourself or your audience on the back. That's like expecting Sylvester Stallone to do higher mathematics or Mother Theresa to do an arms deal for you. Some people are what they are and their
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by 0x12 15y ago
But you do remember the talk and you are still willing to promote it, so from his point of view that's mission accomplished.
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by 0x12 15y ago
You either have a maid or you are a maid. Even some of the maids have maids, go figure.
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by 0x12 15y ago
So, 3 years ago you'd have called it revolutionary. Technology moves so fast these days that if you don't place the bar for your product sufficiently high you won't be able to get happy customers even if you give it away.
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by 0x12 15y ago
One of the most tiring responses to a comment is 'did you read the article'. Yes, of course I read the article. I thought of doing a 'point by point' because that seems to be the only way to respond a pile of nonsense like this without gett
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by 0x12 15y ago
They didn't have much choice in the matter. For a few months now there is a torrent floating around with most of this stuff in it.
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by 0x12 15y ago
That first referenced paper is very much in 'don't try this at home' territory.
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by 0x12 15y ago
What a load of junk. Pardon my French, but this is not slavery by any stretch of the imagination. This is modern slavery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery Poor impulse control with respect to buying gadgets, thinking you
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by 0x12 15y ago
A thing like Siri might benefit tremendously from being open source. Everybody with an itch to scratch and time on their hand would help to incrementally improve Siri for 1000's of specialist applications.
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by 0x12 15y ago
"Rather more revealingly, Gates concluded that the “solution” to the problem of patents was “patenting as much as we can… A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That pr
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Woz tells Paul Allen to stop trolling (news.cnet.com)
11 points by 0x12 15y ago|5 comments
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by 0x12 15y ago
If your stock drops 12% when your profits drop 73% you're doing just fine. Anybody that thinks differently should short this stock. We'll talk in 24 months ;)
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by 0x12 15y ago
chugger == troll. A good one, but still a troll. http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=chugger
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History - Significant new inventions in computing since 1980(stackoverflow.com)
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Kodak: Plugged In - We Had No Idea (first digital camera, 1975)(pluggedin.kodak.com)
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by 0x12 15y ago
Apparently a chunk of engineering went to Intel, another to AMD.
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by 0x12 15y ago
So, you got me curious. It turns out that the IP ended up with Intel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha , I can't seem to find out who owns the brand, but the DEC brand definitely ended up with HP.
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by 0x12 15y ago
The end of DEC was the end of an era. Alpha was (and possibly still is) one of the most elegant cpu architectures ever designed. It just arrived too late to save DEC and that's a real pity. DEC pretty much pioneered interactive computing an
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by 0x12 15y ago
Because it just so happens that this is where we are. Earth can only sustain so many people, and since we do not currently have a viable way to get off this earth and/or to terraform other planets (hell, we can't even agree on a common plug
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by 0x12 15y ago
Whatever the limit is, there is a limit. Because there is a limit to the earth. Whether that limit of sustainability is 2 or 50 billion is something we haven't figured out yet but that there is a limit seems to be something you can't around
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by 0x12 15y ago
Yes, but that's not 'small businesses started by drop-outs'. If it were then the odds would be substantially less. People start businesses at all points in their life, and the failures skew significantly towards inexperience.
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by 0x12 15y ago
That's a common misconception about the Thiel foundation. Their main point is that they think that going into a multi-year debt in order to get an education is a losing proposition for many people and that because of that you might be bet

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