potkor

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by potkor 13y ago
There's supposed to be native Optimus support in the latest drivers. Ubuntu is aiming to support it for 13.10 (and backport to LTS), see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/HybridGraphics Let's hope it works out. There
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by potkor 13y ago
That's single threaded compositing on its own thread.
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by potkor 13y ago
Nvidia software has always been much better than AMD. AMD on Linux is a complet disaster. So if you work on GPU it's natural to go Nvidia.
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by potkor 13y ago
What Krugman said here applies to the EU too (infact he's basing it on IMF research using global data): http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/the-price- stability-trap/ "in the modern world, rapid deflation doesn’t happen, and in fa
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by potkor 13y ago
Triple Town. It's great though it's freemium (150 turns/day limit).
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by potkor 14y ago
Most people's "true public IP address" is just as pseudonymous though.
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by potkor 14y ago
It was not well known (before this came out last month) that putting an unlocked Android phone in the freezer lets you pull off a practical cold boot attack for the flash crypto keys. Here's previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com
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by potkor 14y ago
Maybe stop the whole thing about "let's pretend common nth level domain signifies something about web page relatioships"? It's just baseless.
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by potkor 14y ago
Generally you start with Python and 1) get the code correct (hardest part) and then 2) port the performance critical parts to C/C++. So even they ended up with 0% in Python, it wouldn't "look bad". You got the benefit in part 1. (And as oth
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by potkor 14y ago
You have it the wrong way around. People who cordon themselves off and only leave HTTP working aren't on the Internet. They don't want non-web apps to work. Those networks deliberately rule out networked games, uTP, VoIP, IPsec, WebRTC, et
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by potkor 14y ago
So like others have pointed out, this is not aiming to replace UDP any more than HTTP is aiming to replace TCP. So it's more like a feature rich TCP replacement, a transport protocol that happens to sit on top of UDP (which is what you have
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by potkor 14y ago
People go completely irrational about avoiding writes to SSD's, I've seen researchers at an EE dept spending evenings tuning their Windows installations and going as far as stuffing frequently used stuff onto a RAM disk. I guess the early o
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by potkor 14y ago
This paper from 2011 compares autovectorization in GCC against two proprietary compilers, from Intel and IBM: http://polaris.cs.uiuc.edu/~garzaran/doc/pact11.pdf GCC got a 23% speedup vs 15% for XLC and 28% for ICC. GCC did well consideri
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by potkor 14y ago
> It will probably take another 30 years before you can actually think like a human and perform optimizations like this. ITYM "It will probably take another 30 years before I use a language that tells you what the required semantics of
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by potkor 14y ago
They've been able to port various Windows-centric products to other platforms before (to Mac and Solaris at least). Exchange, Office, Internet Explorer etc. I agree they won't make a huge profit from it directly but I bet it's a good counte
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by potkor 14y ago
Fortunately that kind of wiretapping is a crime in most of the civilized world, finance sector employer or not.
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by potkor 14y ago
If you read the linked Washington Times article, the "monitoring centers" sound like separatete bells-and-whistles products that are not the same as the mandated LI mechanisms. Lots of other vendors market these government espionage tools t
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by potkor 14y ago
Does this also apply to end-users of Ruby apps that are just an apt-get away? I don't really want to learn all that stuff (and remember to redo it on all installs) just to use some tool that happens to be written in Ruby.
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by potkor 14y ago
In practice Itanium only competed with the existing 64-bit architectures from the Unix vendors. Many of whom got suckered into dropping their own stuff and moving onto Itanium, and got wiped out because of the very late & underperformin
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by potkor 14y ago
Intel chips have supported it pretty soon after AMD, since the latter-day Pentium 4s (from 2004 on).
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by potkor 14y ago
32-bit Windows (with the 2GB limit) couldn't run the 64-bit Firefox in any case, so in the context of this discussion the 32-bit build is always getting 4GB of address space.
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by potkor 14y ago
Yes, its triumph over the Java Desktop has been impressive.
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by potkor 14y ago
Desktop hardware has been 64-bit since the 2003 Athlon 64, 2004 Pentium 4 and 2003 PowerPC G5. Servers 10 years+ earlier(X). I guess 9+ years on the desktop is "not too long" if your beard is long enough :) X) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by potkor 14y ago
Latest spin from the .fi copyright mafia is "this demonstrates how we need legislation enabling softer measures for enforcement", cue 3 strikes etc badness.
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by potkor 14y ago
When they last revised the criminal law wrt copyright. It's actually a triply evil twist. First (1) new law says that only for the criminal form can you get jail time, and you need to be making a profit to turn it from a minor offense to a
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by potkor 14y ago
Interesting that there are still shrink-wrapped software packages that cost a lot. In fact you could buy a dedicated computer to run just that for some of the prices and it wouldn't make a big difference in cost. Wonder what other apps like
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by potkor 14y ago
Not mentioned in this article, but the Android compatiblity might be a big thing.
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by potkor 14y ago
Mostly everything except Flash and proprietary games.
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by potkor 14y ago
You have to wade pretty far until this gets to the main user-visible advantage (global routability) and doesn't make a very compelling case of why you'd want it. People have been lulled into this state of apathy about crippled IPv4+NAT conn
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by potkor 14y ago
Cortex-A15 and Apple A6 are the high-end now. Cortex-A9's are so small and (relatively) cheap that they throw 4 of them on $20 tablet SoCs even for applications that don't really benefit from many cores.

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