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by sparky 10y ago
If you're earning $300k/year in California, you're paying ~$22k in state income tax, so you should be itemizing on your federal return with or without the mortgage, and subtracting the standard deduction from the benefit does
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by sparky 12y ago
This? http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-lin... http://web.stanford.edu/~engler/BLOC-coverity.pdf
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by sparky 12y ago
Cheapest possible toaster oven + cheap multimeter thermocouple for manual temperature control + {paste flux, solder paste+stencil} works better than you'd think for soldering BGAs. Even honest-to-goodness reflow ovens can be had on eB
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by sparky 12y ago
The only real similarity to PCIe is that they're both high-speed differential signaling standards. This article has a good overview of what is known: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7900/nvidia-updates-gpu-road
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by sparky 12y ago
Yeah, I think that comment conflates three things: 1) The regulatory burden of going public (Sarbanes-Oxley compliance et al.) pushes companies to stay private, which keeps the average Jane from investing in those companies via the public m
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by sparky 12y ago
Propagation velocity in copper is within a factor of 2 or so of c; you would have to length-match even at vp=c, given a short enough clock period.
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by sparky 12y ago
Isn't that for a 1000x ROI? 1000%=10x, so even selling 1% on Kickstarter at a 200M valuation would yield something like that.
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by sparky 12y ago
I think he means you get an 80k refresher every year that vests over 4 years (20k/year). After 4 years, you have a full pipeline and 4 tranches (80k/year total) vest every year.
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by sparky 12y ago
Aliasing conflict! This is about doing histogramming on an FPGA, not a tool to group FPGA dice into speed grades :) Would be interesting to see how an FPGA stacks up against a GPU on this problem. GPUs are very fast at parallel histogrammi
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by sparky 12y ago
The lack of palletization on Target's trucks seems inefficient at the store level, but may be justifiable at the company level, since Target owns its own distribution centers: * Trailers are 9-10 feet high, so a fully palletized truck
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by sparky 12y ago
LLVM has an open-source PTX backend, and newer versions of the official CUDA compiler use LLVM to generate PTX internally, but PTX is a device-independent intermediate layer, and the PTX-to-SASS compiler is closed-source.
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by sparky 13y ago
They need not be destroyed[1] : Goods that are seized and forfeited as bearing a mark that is a counterfeit of a registered trademark, piratical of a registered copyright or imported in violation of distribution rights agreements
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by sparky 13y ago
The "stereo" part likely adds significant work (up to 2x), since you're rendering from two points of view.
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by sparky 13y ago
fifty times as much storage.
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by sparky 13y ago
Same in Chrome 34, Ubuntu 13.10, GTX Titan, NVIDIA 331.49.
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by sparky 13y ago
We also aren't that far off with 1TB mSATA (about 1x2 inches) drives available today. 2.5" drives are obviously much bigger than 8 microSD cards because the form factor was designed for spinning platters.
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by sparky 13y ago
Yeah, the paper talks about how to vary the parameters to simulate powder, wet snow, slush, etc. These techniques were developed for the movie Frozen, and to my eye (I grew up with snow too) they did a great job of simulating all manner of
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by sparky 13y ago
Likewise, a beep and a statement of fact on a screen ("target has been missed") is a far cry from screaming. If the work can fundamentally be measured on 15 second intervals, what is the rational basis for not doing so? If your i
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by sparky 13y ago
This sounds like you're advocating a free market approach in this case, where BART employee wages should rise until their employer can no longer operate. As in other markets, the sticky part is switching costs; one big reason employees
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by sparky 13y ago
What part of that is objectionable? I worked logistics at a big box retailer 10-ish years ago, and that kind of thing was completely standard. The feeling was that, yes, the beeps were annoying when you were helping a customer, getting an
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by sparky 13y ago
This is great news, thanks guys! Are there really no limitations on the number of calls and text messages? I imagine many businesses and other use cases could operate indefinitely with a single phone number and unlimited calls/texts,
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by sparky 13y ago
> other sources of itemizable expenses The interest payments in the first half of most mortgages get you close to the standard deduction. Only works for owners, but it's still a relatively common one.
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by sparky 13y ago
Many credit unions are part of a large co-op with lots of no-fee ATMs all over the place ( http://co-opatm.org/ ). You can also deposit checks/cash at many of these ATMs. They may not be on every street corner like m
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by sparky 13y ago
I was about to coin the term "Uncanny Valley of Accents," but in Googling around I found that several others already had :(
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by sparky 13y ago
If you think the tank or a hose is leaking, rub some soap on it and see if it bubbles.
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by sparky 13y ago
He wants lower carrier frequencies, not more receive bandwidth. For example, HF [1] is 3 to 30MHz, and cannot be received by HackRF without an upconverter, which adds another board and another $43 [2] to the equation. Also, if you want to
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by sparky 13y ago
Man it'd be nice if this (or BladeRF) went down to DC like the USRP, so you could also use it as an oscilloscope. It's easier on the USRP because of its motherboard/daughterboard architecture, which adds some cost and comp
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by sparky 13y ago
As stated in [2], it's the current President who is coca-growing, not the former one they want the US to extradite.
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by sparky 13y ago
With no other information, you probably can't. But imagine the metadata as a graph; phone numbers are nodes, edge weights correspond to the length and frequency of calls between the two phone numbers. Clique ( http://en.wik
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by sparky 13y ago
If you compile the code on said absolutely-latest-CPU, -mtune=native for GCC and Clang, -xHost for ICC. I don't use MSVC, but /arch:AVX will get you the AVX instructions found on Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge. AFAIK, there is no generic "tun

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