Sanddancer

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by Sanddancer 9y ago
To sandblast the oxide layer off the GaS ingots.
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
Yes, I know what it means and includes. Android, which is one of the biggest unixes right now, doesn't use GNU. iOS, which is another one of the biggest unixes right now, doesn't use GNU. Most embedded linuxes don't use GNU.
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
How many of them actually intimately use the GNU userland as opposed to Xorg and whatever libc's installed? GNU's an increasingly irrelevant portion of unix and unixlike systems -- most of the actually important userland portions
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
True, but I'm curious to see what the rest of the Threadripper line shakes up to be. The $599 chip only has 28 pcie lanes, which isn't enough to run two gpus at full speed. In comparison, the $300 ivy bridge-e cpu has 40 lanes. Es
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
The high end compute stick has a core m5, not an atom. http://ark.intel.com/products/91979/Intel-Compute-Stick-STK2...
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
Consultations tend to be relatively inexpensive, and a lot of lawyers in the realm of employment law will work on a contingency basis -- you pay a certain percentage of the settlement/award amount. If you lose, you don't owe the l
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
Using any sort of device -- be it a phone app that keeps track of random number seeds, or an old school blackjack computer that works via foot taps -- has been illegal for a long while. It makes things no longer a game of chance. Much like
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
I've worked on a codebase where a jsp app would call an API served by a mod_perl app, which would call a remote API to a c++ app. Technical bankruptcy can and does creep up even in services made in the micro style. They may not be as c
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
Yes. There are a bunch of cores, plus SMT. The datasheets for their parts give equivalent performance depending on how many threads you have. XMOS chips are in that category of Neat and Weird, which is perfect for an Amiga type system.
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Rubber chickens and purple boxes (2014)(talkingmoose.net)
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
It's targeting the chromebook market of a curated marketplace for apps.
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
You have to sign lots of NDAs and other docs, give company details, describe the product you want to develop, just to get a look at the datasheets [1]. To put that in perspective, the datasheets for their latest and greatest processors are
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
Switching tasks is expensive [1]. Twice as many cores running at half the speed can be considerably faster in the real world because you're not constantly stopping to flush the cache, save the kilobytes of register a modern CPU has, et
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
It needs a lot of pins because it's an I/O monster. The socket is going to support their high end server chips with 8 memory channels. Plus, all of their high end line supports 128 pcie lanes, and will have on board an unknown num
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
The media isn't biased as much as you think. It's anti-confrontational, which means stories about things people are upset about often get minified. However, the Washington Times, which you linked to, is fantastically biased. It&#x
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
It's more than a speed increase. There's memory usage benefits -- because it's not a VM, you don't need to dedicate a fixed amount of memory, regardless of what you're doing. The media situation on Linux is much wor
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
I'm thinking so, given they say that they can print displays and memory. That suggests that they can do a pretty decent number of semiconductors, which indeed could be rather useful.
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
The big problem with the E310 is that after you've prototyped something and want to design a custom board, you've got a much more difficult task ahead of you. The AVR needs a significantly fewer number of support chips, as it has
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
It's "only" ten miles, but it connects BART with VTA's light rail system, which means that the 8 miles to Sunnyvale from Great Mall. Given that part of the schedule changes planned for once BART starts is a Mountain View
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
There's already a ferry system in the bay to points where it's feasible to to put docks. However, much of the bay is less than ten feet deep, with gentle slopes, which make ferries to other points, especially in the south bay, dif
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
These are completely separate hires from the rest of the BART system. Because Santa Clara County didn't buy into the system in the 60s, choosing to build a network of expressways instead, VTA is operating these stations completely sepa
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
It's open 20 hours a day, so you're going to need at least 3 shifts. It's open 7 days a week, so you're going to need at least two sets of employees per shift, and there are two stations for the extension. When you start
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
One of the things on VTA's plan for Measure B funds is to extend the light rail further down 85. So, with any hope, you should have a transit station that's a lot closer.
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
The measure to fund it passed, to the money's there. It's just gonna take 10-15 years to build it.
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
Systems like Debian, though, have the ability to add custom repositories. So after the initial, possibly small package that just configures the sources.list, everything's handled with all the other updates. That's something that n
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
FreeBSD has had a package called bsdpan for some time that will register items installed through CPAN with the package manager. You may want to poke at that for inspiration on how to do it for other languages. Offhand, for handling multiple
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
There's a yearly lottery pool based on who guesses closest to the time when the Nenana ice jam breaks up. The tripod falling over signifies when the river's moving. http://www.nenanaakiceclassic.com/
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
They do have an R8 core, but they don't have a trademark on that part of the name[1], they just have one for Cortex. However, the name should probably be changed for removing confusion anyways, because Renesas has an R8C series of CISC
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
There's something screwy with how that benchmark is done on an 8 core processor. Comparing a quad core Ryzen 5 1500X at 3.5Ghz to a quad core i7 7700 at 3.6Ghz, the difference is 10423/10843, or a difference of 4%. The biggest dif
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
There are reasons I try to avoid such "modern" desktop apps. Those choices make them much less usable and much less discoverable. Native widgets aren't some plague, they allow consistency and ease of use.

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