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by bsaunder 2y ago
Have you looked into profiling with strace? You should be able to see the actual system calls each of your tests are making. This will probably give you some good insights into what accounts for the speed differences.
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EM Drive is back (UFO? UAP?) (2019)(youtube.com)
1 points by bsaunder 5y ago|0 comments
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New Chrome Zero-Day(kaspersky.com)
26 points by bsaunder 7y ago|11 comments
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by bsaunder 8y ago
D3 particularly excels at graph animations and data transforms (as might be helpful to facilitate graphing). Its one of the most comprehensive graphing libraries around. Well written code that uses it looks like pure elegance. Its amazin
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Citibank (India) Account closed because of Bitcoin purchase(reddit.com)
1 points by bsaunder 9y ago|0 comments
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by bsaunder 9y ago
Opiate addiction is an important, yet unrelated problem. With regards to UBI, its no different than a million other addictions (gambling, alcohol, social media, etc)... We, as a society should look at reasonable ways to address addiction i
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by bsaunder 9y ago
As others have mentioned, I think requiring education would be a bit of fighting reality (with eventual automation outperforming humans in many tasks). I think, as in the current world, some people will naturally choose to produce and cont
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by bsaunder 9y ago
I think for UBI to work, it has to be paired with a VAT/sales/transaction tax. Its also not a boolean: no UBI or gushing UBI. In fact it seems much more reasonable and palatable to start small with periodic up/down adjustme
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by bsaunder 9y ago
This is the use case for universal basic income. Its largely not their fault for their current economic situation. They played by the rules. They worked hard. If we could only remove the "necessity" of a job and the puritan sh
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by bsaunder 9y ago
Aren't your own thoughts similar to a CPU's registers or cache? One's thoughts seem to occur within the context of the brain and the billions of neighboring (to the ones inducing the current "thought") neurons. It
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by bsaunder 9y ago
“You have to recognize realistically that A.I. is qualitatively different from an internal combustion engine in that it was always the case that human imagination, creativity, social interaction, those things were unique to humans and could
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by bsaunder 9y ago
Its a NLP problem if your boss/client wants to talk with you. At the end of the day, they don't really "want" to TALK WITH YOU, they want the functionality they get as a result of talking with you. If there are other wa
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by bsaunder 9y ago
> I didn't think would be possible without someone very skilled in photoshop going over the images And this is similar how deep learning will likely erode the need for programming (IMHO). Deep learning won't necessarily write p
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by bsaunder 10y ago
Yes, codec licensing costs are one of the reasons people choose to not use the better codecs. Also, yes there is a CPU trade off as well. The decision is more complicate with many trade offs. But in general, the OPs issues are either fund
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by bsaunder 10y ago
If you're audio sounds great for a network game and crappy for a phone call (to the same person you are playing a game with), its because some one (your ISP, your VoIP software, the other parties ISP, or VoIP software, or any network h
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by bsaunder 10y ago
Old fashioned PSTN lines would secure the full bandwidth needed end-to-end when the original call was established (which was really in efficient from a data utilization perspective). With VoIP you are: 1. Beholden to the bandwidth/late
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by bsaunder 10y ago
Sorry to down vote, but that's completely the wrong vector. Its a network issue (of some sort - bandwidth, latency, throttling).
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by bsaunder 10y ago
So VoIP can be better... at the expense of needing more bandwidth. During the session initialization the two VoIP endpoints handshake over which codecs will be used (kind of like the Accepts header in HTTP). Just like images, higher quali
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by bsaunder 10y ago
I think there will be a growing need for things like this if housing spaces continue to get smaller (and cheaper). I think a service that offers several revenue streams would do well (and able to adapt to a changing market). Perhaps food
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by bsaunder 10y ago
The internet isn't a vice. Over use of social networks and various applications on it may be. The internet in many forms has become the primary means of human communication. Communication is a fundamental need of human societies. I
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by bsaunder 10y ago
I highly recommend Kanos. I backed them on kickstarter and got Kanos for each of my kids. They all got them assembled and running and started working through the programming exercises with them. For some it inspired other follow on progr
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by bsaunder 10y ago
Apple hardware does suck (now) AND its over priced. The OS and apps are starting to suck too (IMHO). I switched a month ago from MBP. I commented elsewhere ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13318525 ) on this thread
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by bsaunder 10y ago
I am such a developer. Just moved from an older MPB to a (soon-to-be) Linux (Ubuntu) laptop. Always preferred Linux as my primary OS, but liked Apple hardware and OSX when I didn't feel like fiddling with things. For me it was a co
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by bsaunder 10y ago
Hi Fred, This is a challenging post, you seem to be getting knocked around with it quite a bit here. Hang in there. As you point out in your since published comment, treat this (and all your vignettes) as a learning experience. To help s
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by bsaunder 11y ago
I like the assertion that the US has 2 economies that are lumped together for statistical purposes. I would imagine there should be some supporting artifacts of this in various reports. Where would one look to see data to support this (two
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by bsaunder 11y ago
I think you make some good points. When reality diverges from perception (as you and the OP seem to suggest, and I agree), it feels to me there a sort of economic potential energy there that may provide an opportunity for someone to capital
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China’s Monumental Ponzi: Here’s How It Unravels(davidstockmanscontracorner.com)
3 points by bsaunder 11y ago|0 comments
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by bsaunder 11y ago
I agree with the premise that machines will increasing exceed our capabilities (and are improving quicker than we are). This seems so obvious as to be not debatable. I also think there are a lot of merits to online-education and Udacity se
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by bsaunder 11y ago
For the open facebook alternative, I believe I was thinking about Diaspora (apparently it's still alive and kicking). https://diasporafoundation.org/ Maybe its worth investigating. As for the "failed because it wa
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by bsaunder 11y ago
In some ways, it may be worse than the OP suggests as we apparently race towards mobile apps. Seems about the right time for PointCast+. Its the proverbial technology pendulum. It seems obvious that we'll continue our momentum and m

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