but Penn Jillette has empowered manchildren in a pretty fun way. Libertarians love him, because he's a libertarian, but this is the same block who is so quick to cut down celebrities who express political views. In other words, you're getting your talking points from a financially successful magician.
..but being smart isnt good enough for you. He also has to be unsuccessful. Thats an odd combination to wait for.
I'll be skipping both the RNC & DNC....tired of voting for the lesser of two evils, and in this case, it's a dead heat...I don't care for either of them.
As Penn Jillette has said, When you vote for the lesser of two evils you are still supporting evil.
IIRC when I was younger my parents were paying something like $10 a month for phone service that's $30 in today dollars
Your parents paid per minute for anything outside of a couple neighboring towns. It was called "long distance" and carried a premium.
Today a family can easily spend north of $200 a month providing a cell phone + home internet.
Because you want unlimited everything. If you used your cell phone as little as your parents had used their old land line, you would easily get by with $7/month for your phone service. Your parents also spent most of their life without cable television. They just watched what was broadcast over the airwaves. But you think cable television is somehow essential. $200 - $7 = $193. If you are paying $193/month for home internet then you are a complete idiot.
A few years before the State Democrats didnt think Lieberman was liberal enough for them, the State Republicans decided that Weicker wasn't conservative enough for them. In both of these cases they ran independent and won.
The keyword is "being confirmed". It take time to confirm that a truck running over people is a criminal act and not 'just' an accident.
Why exactly does it have to be a confirmed terrorist act first? Seems to me that it doesn't. Send the alert out with the existing relevant info for all suspected terrorist attacks, and then update the alert as more information comes in.
I can only think of one reason not to do it this way, and its because some people for some strange reason feel that it has to be a confirmed terrorist attack first.
You are one such person. Please explain it to us, why exactly does it have to be a confirmed terrorist attack first?
Note how he included a june build of asmfish, and that asmfish is leading even against july builds of stockfish.
Which "metric" should we use?
Nodes per second? asmfish is faster than stockfish.
Time to depth? asmfish is better than stockfish.
Playing strength? asmfish is better than stockfish.
I wonder what metric this guy is going to want to use that retains his wishful thinking of C++ supremacy. Maybe the number of lines of code?
The authors of the c++ version have attributed the speed gains to better register usage. The author of this asm version says he hasnt actually started optimizing yet.
There are also some pretty stupid limitations in C, for example, no access to the "carry" bit.
This isnt a "stupid" limitation of C. Its just that the C abstract machine isnt low level in spite of the claims of modern C programmers.
In 1980 if you said that C was a low level language you would have been laughed at. By 1990 C had become so popular that the collective wishful thinking of C programmers erroneously adopted the notion that C was low level.
Now here we are today. C programmers are convinced that C is low level and cant imagine how anyone could have the knowledge to beat the compiler, because after all if they are low level programmers and dont know how, then how could anyone?
The farce is this large group of completely wrong people wishfully thinking that they are low level programmers. They dont know what the carry bit is that you mentioned. In their view, only a "master assembly language programmer" would know that stuff, because that certainly cant just be ordinary "low level."
They are full of caches, pipelines, predictive execution, parallel operations, and numerous other confounding factors
You are using all the same arguments C/C++ programmers used in 1995 but if the discussions wasnt about assembly language but instead the discussion was a comparison of compilers from 1995 with compilers from 2015 you would be telling us how terrible those 1995 compilers were at optimization even then.
The fact is that it doesnt require an expert to beat a compiler at optimization. The fact is that your idea of an "average assembly language programmer" is actually a terrible assembly language programmer. When you dont consider someone that learned C/C++ a month ago an average C/C++ programmer, why do you then consider someone thats literally never actually taken assembly serious as the benchmark average?
..and if you are "confounded" by caches, pipelines, superscaler techniques, and so on ("cause surprise or confusion in (someone), especially by acting against their expectations.") then its because you are ignorant of the architecture. Your ignorance doesnt define reality.
Recently a programmer undertook the task of converting the strongest open source chess engine (stockfish) to 80x86 assembly language. He still has done no optimization. He has literally just done a straight simple conversion and its already 10%...20% faster and is now easily beating the C++ compiler version in tournaments.
..and notice how its now 10% faster... or 20% faster... there is a range because it depends which gcc compiler version is used (older versions produce better code.) If gcc has such a large variance in performance, if newer versions are slower, then what are we to think of the veracity of your claims? I'll tell you what: they arent veracious claims. They are wishful thinking.
I'd make the GPU a bit bigger than that. This console will last a pretty long time.
Unfortunately the last several generations of fabs have had poorer and poorer yields, so making larger chips on the 14/15/16nm process probably isnt economical any longer. I think Intel especially is probably going to be stymied by this issue, already not having very useful to do on their older fabs (see their massive layoffs.)
..but while Intel has had a big delay in 10nm, TSMC is moving forward. I don't know what sort of yields they expect, but you can be sure that the 10nm chips that they run off will be sized to give them a decent fraction of working product per wafer.
The Palestinians attacked Israelis as a matter of course long before any settlement existed.
Ah yes that faithful day when Britain so charitably handed the equipment that just won WWII to the minority Israel population. How the Israeli's trembled in fear at only having the best military equipment ever made and used it to immediately and forcibly evict non-jews from what the U.N. decided was Jewish land. Israel has literally been resettling Palestinians since day #1.
Its no surprise that the day the minority got military control they immediately started a campaign against the majority.
Regardless of the past, Palestinian children are born into and condemned to live in an open air prison run by the Israelis and this has been true for more than a generation. Until this fact changes there is no moral refuge to be found in the ill deeds of the Palestinians, for their deeds are Israels doings.
You mean l like coherence-enhancing filters that use a structure tensor to control the shape of a blur and sharpening kernel?
Photoshops implementation (oil paint filter) is particularly poor in performance. I don't know why its so terrible in performance. Maybe its a marketing thing (if its slow, its must be really good?)
For image processing in particular, the fact that branching can in the worst case have a significant penalty on gpu's is moot because the worst case doesnt normally happen in practice. The data is arbitrary but it isnt random.
Sure, that's fine. But what you can do is simply declare the software to be in the Public Domain, since the only thing stopping that from happening automatically is government fiat in the first place!
...and Linux 1.0 is no longer GPL either, now its Public Domain!! Yay!...wait...no?
In short, the IT department at SA Health is run by a bunch of f... morons.
..unless the courts rule in their favor, then they are geniuses.
I view this thing as similar to someone that opts to subscribe to say Photoshop rather than purchase it outright because they figure it would be cheaper, and then cryng foul later when Adobe only offers subscription and purchase options for a newer version.
It shouldnt matter that the older version still works for you. You didnt choose the buy it option, you chose the lease option. But in this case its "OMG medical software!!" so maybe they can twist the courts into making a really fucked up decision.
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Not that he's dumb
but Penn Jillette has empowered manchildren in a pretty fun way. Libertarians love him, because he's a libertarian, but this is the same block who is so quick to cut down celebrities who express political views. In other words, you're getting your talking points from a financially successful magician.
I'll be skipping both the RNC & DNC....tired of voting for the lesser of two evils, and in this case, it's a dead heat...I don't care for either of them.
As Penn Jillette has said, When you vote for the lesser of two evils you are still supporting evil.
IIRC when I was younger my parents were paying something like $10 a month for phone service that's $30 in today dollars
Your parents paid per minute for anything outside of a couple neighboring towns. It was called "long distance" and carried a premium.
Today a family can easily spend north of $200 a month providing a cell phone + home internet.
Because you want unlimited everything. If you used your cell phone as little as your parents had used their old land line, you would easily get by with $7/month for your phone service. Your parents also spent most of their life without cable television. They just watched what was broadcast over the airwaves. But you think cable television is somehow essential. $200 - $7 = $193. If you are paying $193/month for home internet then you are a complete idiot.
Wow you are terrible at math.
"per year" has meaning you goat
Doesn't every polling place have observers?
With the exception of maybe absentee ballots, yes.
...but dont tell the SJW's. They dont like to hear facts.
Democrats have been fighting voter ID forever.
Funnily enough, they don't fight them in solidly blue States like Connecticut, which has required voter identification for more than a few decades.
Its only in red States that they have a problem with it.
Maybe they want Opera because its the #1 browser in Africa and a strong #2 in many other places?
DOS had a basic interpreter? I don't remember that. In fact I'm pretty sure it didn't.
Then things that you are pretty sure about are sometimes trivially and obviously wrong.
Both the first shareware and one of the first mainstream open source software used it, that being PC-TALK.
But hey... you arent old enough to know any of this, but somehow managed to think that you were knowledgeable.
Dont forget the alcohol lobby.
Connecticut is special tho.
A few years before the State Democrats didnt think Lieberman was liberal enough for them, the State Republicans decided that Weicker wasn't conservative enough for them. In both of these cases they ran independent and won.
The keyword is "being confirmed". It take time to confirm that a truck running over people is a criminal act and not 'just' an accident.
Why exactly does it have to be a confirmed terrorist act first? Seems to me that it doesn't. Send the alert out with the existing relevant info for all suspected terrorist attacks, and then update the alert as more information comes in.
I can only think of one reason not to do it this way, and its because some people for some strange reason feel that it has to be a confirmed terrorist attack first.
You are one such person. Please explain it to us, why exactly does it have to be a confirmed terrorist attack first?
And this guy specializes in testing the strength of stockfish as it evolves:
http://spcc.beepworld.de/
Note how he included a june build of asmfish, and that asmfish is leading even against july builds of stockfish.
Which "metric" should we use?
Nodes per second? asmfish is faster than stockfish.
Time to depth? asmfish is better than stockfish.
Playing strength? asmfish is better than stockfish.
I wonder what metric this guy is going to want to use that retains his wishful thinking of C++ supremacy. Maybe the number of lines of code?
Spoken like a twat that hasn't got any metrics to back up his rhetoric.
You are right. I dont have metrics. I just have binaries.
C++ version of stockfish
80x86 asm version of stockfish
One of these is faster. I'll let you decide what "metric" to use.
I wanna see a human beat any modern-day compiler to optimizations.
asmfish
10% to 20% faster than the C++ version.
The authors of the c++ version have attributed the speed gains to better register usage. The author of this asm version says he hasnt actually started optimizing yet.
You C++ programmers are delusional.
There are also some pretty stupid limitations in C, for example, no access to the "carry" bit.
This isnt a "stupid" limitation of C. Its just that the C abstract machine isnt low level in spite of the claims of modern C programmers.
In 1980 if you said that C was a low level language you would have been laughed at. By 1990 C had become so popular that the collective wishful thinking of C programmers erroneously adopted the notion that C was low level.
Now here we are today. C programmers are convinced that C is low level and cant imagine how anyone could have the knowledge to beat the compiler, because after all if they are low level programmers and dont know how, then how could anyone?
The farce is this large group of completely wrong people wishfully thinking that they are low level programmers. They dont know what the carry bit is that you mentioned. In their view, only a "master assembly language programmer" would know that stuff, because that certainly cant just be ordinary "low level."
They are full of caches, pipelines, predictive execution, parallel operations, and numerous other confounding factors
You are using all the same arguments C/C++ programmers used in 1995 but if the discussions wasnt about assembly language but instead the discussion was a comparison of compilers from 1995 with compilers from 2015 you would be telling us how terrible those 1995 compilers were at optimization even then.
..and if you are "confounded" by caches, pipelines, superscaler techniques, and so on ("cause surprise or confusion in (someone), especially by acting against their expectations.") then its because you are ignorant of the architecture. Your ignorance doesnt define reality.
..and notice how its now 10% faster... or 20% faster... there is a range because it depends which gcc compiler version is used (older versions produce better code.) If gcc has such a large variance in performance, if newer versions are slower, then what are we to think of the veracity of your claims? I'll tell you what: they arent veracious claims. They are wishful thinking.
The fact is that it doesnt require an expert to beat a compiler at optimization. The fact is that your idea of an "average assembly language programmer" is actually a terrible assembly language programmer. When you dont consider someone that learned C/C++ a month ago an average C/C++ programmer, why do you then consider someone thats literally never actually taken assembly serious as the benchmark average?
Recently a programmer undertook the task of converting the strongest open source chess engine (stockfish) to 80x86 assembly language. He still has done no optimization. He has literally just done a straight simple conversion and its already 10%...20% faster and is now easily beating the C++ compiler version in tournaments.
Couldn't this help to reduce overall consumed bandwidth?
My netflix usage is already well into the re-watching phase of subscriber-ship, but I still wouldnt want to store any of it.
I'd make the GPU a bit bigger than that. This console will last a pretty long time.
Unfortunately the last several generations of fabs have had poorer and poorer yields, so making larger chips on the 14/15/16nm process probably isnt economical any longer. I think Intel especially is probably going to be stymied by this issue, already not having very useful to do on their older fabs (see their massive layoffs.)
..but while Intel has had a big delay in 10nm, TSMC is moving forward. I don't know what sort of yields they expect, but you can be sure that the 10nm chips that they run off will be sized to give them a decent fraction of working product per wafer.
The Palestinians attacked Israelis as a matter of course long before any settlement existed.
Ah yes that faithful day when Britain so charitably handed the equipment that just won WWII to the minority Israel population. How the Israeli's trembled in fear at only having the best military equipment ever made and used it to immediately and forcibly evict non-jews from what the U.N. decided was Jewish land. Israel has literally been resettling Palestinians since day #1.
Its no surprise that the day the minority got military control they immediately started a campaign against the majority.
Regardless of the past, Palestinian children are born into and condemned to live in an open air prison run by the Israelis and this has been true for more than a generation. Until this fact changes there is no moral refuge to be found in the ill deeds of the Palestinians, for their deeds are Israels doings.
You mean l like coherence-enhancing filters that use a structure tensor to control the shape of a blur and sharpening kernel?
Photoshops implementation (oil paint filter) is particularly poor in performance. I don't know why its so terrible in performance. Maybe its a marketing thing (if its slow, its must be really good?)
For image processing in particular, the fact that branching can in the worst case have a significant penalty on gpu's is moot because the worst case doesnt normally happen in practice. The data is arbitrary but it isnt random.
Adobe doesn't prevent you from using it if you already bought it
In this case the customer decided NOT to buy, instead wanting a subscription model.
Sure, that's fine. But what you can do is simply declare the software to be in the Public Domain, since the only thing stopping that from happening automatically is government fiat in the first place!
Careful what you wish for.
Sure. But you can decide that, if they're not supporting it, nobody needs a license in order to keep using it.
If unsupported software no longer needs a license to use, then the license of unsupported software is null and void, correct?
So this applies to Linux 1.0? No?
Lets ask for a standard that doesnt destroy the GPL.
I can't wait to see the court verdict on this one. It smells like abandonware to me.
Adobe no longer sells Photoshop 7.0 Does that make it abandonware too?
In short, the IT department at SA Health is run by a bunch of f... morons.
I view this thing as similar to someone that opts to subscribe to say Photoshop rather than purchase it outright because they figure it would be cheaper, and then cryng foul later when Adobe only offers subscription and purchase options for a newer version.
It shouldnt matter that the older version still works for you. You didnt choose the buy it option, you chose the lease option. But in this case its "OMG medical software!!" so maybe they can twist the courts into making a really fucked up decision.