fierarul

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by fierarul 6y ago
I don't see a PayPal logo underneath the 'Pay' button.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Honestly, I think I heard about the website you are using about donations but I wouldn't necessarily put my credit card in there. It would be trivial for you to also put a PayPal address, which seems safer for one-off donations. You
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by fierarul 6y ago
Seems obvious in retrospect. I didn't believe the name is so important, CoolBeans was nice enough and .xyz was being promoted as the new .com :)
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by fierarul 6y ago
I've spent a whole bunch of time on CoolBeans (now OpenBeans http://www.openbeans.org ), a "distribution" of NetBeans. I assumed it would be possible to do a lifestyle business out of catering to a subset of the ov
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by fierarul 6y ago
> I think that’s the reason the “hype” for RISC-V is “so big”. It’s not because it’s going to be everywhere, but because it’s quite literally hacker news. :-) Your whole post was a pleasure to read.
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by fierarul 6y ago
I agree that the site might have an angle and I don't believe their alternative solution (agroecology) is any good. Still, the article seems to showcase some questionable points about the AGRA initiative. The whole idea of introducing
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by fierarul 6y ago
I learned something, thank you! Considering how performant modern phones are I hope all adhere to SBSA or similar so I can install any OS on my phone just like I could on my 100Mhz PC way back.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Ok, but which facts are wrong? If the outcome was a net 0 compared to the baseline those investments and surrounding legal changes didn't improve things.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Seems fair enough. Still, the hype is so big on HN it does seem like the hope is for RISC-V everywhere. It's like saying soon enough we will all program in Haskell.
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by fierarul 6y ago
What are you trying to say, exactly? The program is supposed to improve agricultural yields and they claim it did not. Is the program just about helping Western investments? So the investments result in unchanged yields?
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by fierarul 6y ago
You should debate the facts not the motives. I had no clue about this situation but it doesn't look very well. Introducing continent-wide IP-law for seeds , getting farmers into debt by having them used only approved fertilisers and t
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by fierarul 6y ago
Are we talking about RISC-V as an abstract idea, the same way we would talk about the benefits of functional or object oriented programming here? Or is the end goal to have hardware in stores that people can buy? Wasn't SPARC a RISC ar
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by fierarul 6y ago
This seems relevant if my corporation wants to put some $M into producing a thing. But I paid like $200 for my CPU and I would love a $500 Ryzen. Either way, I don't really care if 1% goes to royalties -- my price fluctuates more than
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by fierarul 6y ago
I don't understand the hype for RISC-V at all. It's an instruction set that would... just require a new backend for clang/gcc/Java and mean nothing to me unless somebody makes something that just obliterates a Ryzen. Why
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by fierarul 6y ago
Thank you! I came here to ask the same question. Now that we are producing and injecting industrial quantities of Ψ, any chance this will get incorporated in actual viruses or maybe teach the immune system not to ignore it (or maybe even go
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by fierarul 6y ago
I would have bet the move would be towards Lenovo + Linux but no, it was a Lenovo running Windows. Apple gear is nice, but you can't compare the price of a Lenovo having a fast Ryzen with the latest MBP. I bought the Lenovo at 1/3
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by fierarul 6y ago
This I agree with. The only value remaining in the company are its employees, not revenue streams, not products, just employees and potential.
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by fierarul 6y ago
That's not the market way of looking at it. How will a bankrupt company retain their world class employees? They are one missing pay-check and counteroffer away from moving elsewhere.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Not sure what the angle should be here. The founders didn't manage to raise the company; it was soon to be bankrupt. Of course the founders would be wiped out. Still, they have $300,000 worth of shares and "the buyer has agreed to
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by fierarul 6y ago
Honestly everything about the M1 is so hyperbolic it does seem like it could replace super computers soon. So, everybody knows a little laptop CPU and a desktop Ryzen are not the same class but it's still useful to compare. I have a ne
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by fierarul 6y ago
Clickbait article. > My beef, in fact, is more with frameworks like Spring than Java itself. True. The whole article seems to be about Spring. How about I write an article about how the Python is crap because I can't do banking with
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by fierarul 6y ago
> They identified the sequence for the spike protein, plugged that into their vaccine platform, and voila – an mRNA vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. A COMPUTER took two days to develop the vaccine. Think about that.
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by fierarul 6y ago
It's not really surprising that a project that companies use since they don't want to pay RedHat licenses will not get any money at all...
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by fierarul 6y ago
I think you're getting somewhere but in terms of risk allocation. It may be optimal, overall, to allocate a small portion to high risk assets in case of a big payout. But... I think in many ways BitCoin has passed that point. There is
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by fierarul 6y ago
What rational investor sees the loss of 100% a limited downside? By the same logic any rational investor should own some Tesla stock: hide potential upside in battery tech going forward and "limited" downside. Problem is at least
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by fierarul 6y ago
Some, but most would not since I assume that would be a felony.
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by fierarul 6y ago
I think society will soon discover that a certain % of rule breaking is absolutely necessary for it to function. My car has a speed limiter, radio and a computer. Imagine a near future where speed limits are sent via radio then enforced by
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by fierarul 6y ago
Even so, geek themselves are a pretty nice market. Would you not buy an open source printer? I know I hate HP after the last one died just after warranty ended and they have no spare parts whatsoever. Same with other things. I would buy t
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by fierarul 6y ago
And... Why aren't there community done bulbs or printers or cars? The pinnacle of technology is mostly free and open source. Yet, I don't see this in any other industry sector. So... is tech ahead of the curve of the most idealist
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by fierarul 6y ago
Yes, but which one is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and has records since 59 B.C.?

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