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by shriver 8y ago
If I'm understanding you right, what you're suggesting is that the individual silicon modules will be fixed, but they will be contected in a single package in lot's of different ways. If that's correct I'd love to s
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by shriver 8y ago
> a new architecture that could in one fell swoop kill off the general purpose processor as a concept and the X86 instruction set as the foundation of modern computing. Do you want me to think you're a credulous idiot? Because this
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by shriver 8y ago
I use iTerm2 all the term and I can honestly say I've never given a second thought to responsiveness. What are you noticing specifically? Are you typing super fast?
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by shriver 8y ago
I think if you look at the incentives in that situation it's very understandable to not speak out. If you're a good employee working at Riot and you have a problem with the culture you have two options: Speak out or leave. If you
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by shriver 8y ago
Well let's be clear - Barry is a product manager. It's not really his area of expertise to change an entire culture, and arguably it shouldn't have been his problem. So it's hard to criticize him for his attempts to impr
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by shriver 8y ago
Part of the point here is that you can run a secure store with quality controlled apps by charging companies to appear in the App Store. That charge cannot POSSIBLY be 30% of sales. Not least because the cost of checking the apps that go in
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by shriver 8y ago
> Sure, it provides extra security, but at a heavy cost. There is nothing stopping Google and Apple charging a fixed fee for the cost of verifying the quality of submissions to the App store. The 30% is just pure rent-seeking, and frankl
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by shriver 8y ago
Well he says he doesn't know why, but that seems disingenuous. If they had said they don't have confidence in his abilities to take the company forward that would be a reason - he could disagree but he would absolutely know why. S
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by shriver 8y ago
You don't just get rid of the founder and CEO for shits and giggles. I'd love to know what it was that prompted this, although I'm not sure if we'll ever find out.
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by shriver 8y ago
The key is that if your design goals are ambitious but achievable then you end up with a killer product. If your design goals are unrealistic or unachievable you tank what's achievable chasing a dream. Being frank the difference is pro
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by shriver 8y ago
It's remarkable how little we've seen from that acquisition. It's perfectly possible that Intel has butchered the acquisition the same way they have with many others.
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by shriver 8y ago
Uber seem to have two really key problems: The first is that self-driving is super difficult, they don't really have the expertise, and a lot of their progress seems to have come from being able disregard proper safety procedures. So t
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by shriver 8y ago
That's impressive, but I don't really have any use for a 5 Watt CPU. I've literally just pulled the trigger on moving to a 15inch MBP because of the 47 watt TDP of the parts. The challenge for ARM is crawling up to 45W, 65W,
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by shriver 8y ago
I think when you look back at the pedo comments, and the market manipulation tweets you can easily see him as being in the middle of the breakdown. The question isn't whether he'll break down, but what his next outlandish fuck up
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by shriver 8y ago
> Efforts are underway to find a No. 2 executive to help take some of the pressure off Mr. Musk, people briefed on the search said. I don't know how anyone could read this and not realise that's a direct search for a replacemen
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by shriver 8y ago
That's actually incredibly complex - generally the way the revenue model works is that the Movie company will negotiate a certain percentage that depends on how old the movie is. So in opening weekend 100% of the revenue is probably go
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by shriver 8y ago
Well last time I looked, the answer to question 1 for the Intel OpenCL SDK is actually no. And while yes, it's expected to be slow compared to the native functions, that's not the problem. It's slow compared to simulation.
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by shriver 8y ago
Again though - these aren't things imposed by the markets. Time and again these impositions are imposed by Musk himself. He set the 5,000 car per week target, he missed it. The markets reacted when he set it, and they reacted every tim
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by shriver 8y ago
While I agree with you that software projects aren't unique in having difficulty trying to estimate things, I think that emotionally it's different. If you're digging a tunnel and hit a seam of unobtanium you can go to your b
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by shriver 8y ago
Actually it's not as clear cut as you'd expect. Obviously you can't represent every number in floating point, so you have to choose a way to round numbers - and for simple operations like add you can correctly round the resul
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by shriver 8y ago
There are a number of real issues with the emulation approach even now. Firstly, emulation isn't accurate - if you do floating point math in your application it will give you different results (within the tolerances of the OpenCL spec)
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by shriver 8y ago
> To be clear, when I made the public announcement, just as with this blog post and all other discussions I have had on this topic, I am speaking for myself as a potential bidder for Tesla. Elon Musk sent an e-mail to all his employees o
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by shriver 8y ago
I wish I were as optimistic about Musk as you are. This seems a lot like a convenient re-imagining of the conversations he had to try and persuade people that he wasn't deliberately manipulating a short-squeeze. He's just some cou
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by shriver 8y ago
That's not the endorsement. The endorsement is that it's okay for a single product to be suboptimal as long as the system is optimal. It's more optimal to prevent or slow down a number of innovations in order to protect the v