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  1. Re: couldn't hurt on Do We Need More Emojis? · · Score: 1

    Both of you have way too much karma to burn.

  2. Re: That's some BM! on Uber Hires Hackers Who Remotely Killed a Jeep · · Score: 0

    But the service they provide brings a better value for consumers.

  3. Re:PDEs on How Weather Modeling Gets Better · · Score: 1

    Well that sort of thing seems typical of many HPC computations, which are a well studied topic.

  4. Re: A minor correction. on Facebook Awards Researchers $100k For Detecting Emerging Class of C++ Bugs · · Score: 1

    It's not avoidable unless you're limiting yourself to a subset of CRTP.

  5. PDEs on How Weather Modeling Gets Better · · Score: 1

    Isn't weather forecasting just solving PDEs?

  6. Re: A minor correction. on Facebook Awards Researchers $100k For Detecting Emerging Class of C++ Bugs · · Score: 1

    Unless you're doing CRTP.

  7. Re: Debug runtime typing system on Facebook Awards Researchers $100k For Detecting Emerging Class of C++ Bugs · · Score: 1

    static_cast does not allow casting between unrelated pointer types, you need reinterpret_cast for that.
    reinterpret_cast is known to be dangerous and is therefore avoided.
    There is also the C-style cast, which is even more dangerous than reinterpret_cast.

  8. Re:We need a bigger station on Growing Vegetables In Space, NASA Astronauts Tweet Their Lunch · · Score: 1

    Raising cows is not really the optimal way of synthesizing proteins in a constrained environment.

  9. Re: string.. on How To Shoot Down a Drone · · Score: 1

    You realize looking at people in swimsuits is not a big deal right?
    If you're considering being this violent ovee nothing, you should definitely consult with a psychologist.

  10. Re: May you on Google Rejects French Order For 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    Traditional military power is useless. It's just expensive toys.
    What matters is economical power.

  11. Re: Missing the big picture on Google Rejects French Order For 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    But Google already applies US law worldwide, why not Europe?

  12. SLAM is not new on MIT Is Improving Object Recognition For Robots · · Score: 1

    Where are the news here?

  13. Re: So what? on HP R&D Starts Enforcing a Business Casual Dress Code · · Score: 1

    If you want a carefree lifestyle, don't work for a company that expects you to have some decency in your get-up to work?

  14. Re: So what? on HP R&D Starts Enforcing a Business Casual Dress Code · · Score: 0

    I wear those everyday, to me that's normal casual clothing.

    Seriously, I worked in government offices and universities where I wore jeans and t-shirts every day. Professors even taught classes in Hawaiian shirts and shorts with flip flops. People were happy and productive. They didn't look like slobs, either.

    That sounds very unprofessional, but then civil servants and university teachers tend to be hippies, so that's understandable.

    Millions of students go to college every day in jeans and t-shirts. Heck, some go to class in their pajamas. They still work hard, make the grade, and many even discover new things - just like an R&D division

    That's not enough if you ever want to make a name for yourself, build your reputation, get a raise, responsibilities, have clients ask for you or people demanding that you specifically take part in a critical project.
    If you want to succeed professionally, you have to be professional and not look like a care-free zealot.

  15. Re: Title condradicts summary on AMD Forces a LibreOffice Speed Boost With GPU Acceleration · · Score: 1

    You are greatly misinformed. I was surprised to wake up and see so many bad answers, and my answered down-modded to oblivion.
    An good multi-core CPU is 500 GFlops, and it's reasonably easy to attain it. A good GPU is 1.5 Teraflops, and it's nearly impossible to reach that in practice.
    And that's for single-precision floating-point, if you want double-precision, like all of science does, it's not really that good.
    Sure there are different models, exact numbers might vary, but it's in that ballpark, especially if you factor in the very high price of the server GPUs, which is what you need instead of gamer cards if you want reliable data.

    I worked as a scientist in high performance computing dedicated to CPU optimization for a very long time. Yes there are silly people that make outlandish claims of having 200x speed-ups thanks to GPUs. Those articles are usually kindly rejected from publication in any serious journal. This is not proper science, just people that let themselves be had by trends and marketing.

  16. Re: So what? on HP R&D Starts Enforcing a Business Casual Dress Code · · Score: 5, Informative

    Business casual doesn't even require suits. A shirt or even a polo shirt is fine.
    All it requires is basically that you don't look like a hobo.

  17. Re: Title condradicts summary on AMD Forces a LibreOffice Speed Boost With GPU Acceleration · · Score: 0, Troll

    A GPU is not 500 times faster than a CPU, more like 2 or 3 times, and that's if you have more computation than data.
    The speedup is caused by writing the software correctly, not by using magic hardware.

  18. Re:C++11 on Microsoft Officially Releases Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 · · Score: 1

    It's partial but significant, just as I said.
    I already report bugs to them regularly, but there is only so much they can do: MSVC is built on completely inadequate technology after all. I tend to contact the developers directly, going through Microsoft Connect doesn't work very well.

  19. Re: Interesting; likely more limited than advertis on Pocket SCiO Spectrometer Sends Chemical Composition of Anything To Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Most of the materials you cited are usually marked with a symbol or code that you can look up.

  20. Dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) might not be bad, but fracking certainly is.

  21. Re: Investment opportunity on Pocket SCiO Spectrometer Sends Chemical Composition of Anything To Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously using Slashdot for research?

  22. Re: So the good questions were ignored. on Interviews: Brianna Wu Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    You didn't understand 1, of course she's not transgender, she is just not following her own standards.

    And yes this person should be accountable for what she did and asked the hard questions. She's a chronic liar that still to this day manipulates people to give her donations and publicity.

  23. Re: By Neruos on 19-Year-Old's Supercomputer Chip Startup Gets DARPA Contract, Funding · · Score: 1

    From what I've been able to read it doesn't look that different from other projects like Tilera or Kalray MPPA.

  24. Re: $805M budget on Smithsonian Using Kickstart Campaign To Save Armstrong's Moon Suit · · Score: 1

    Because unlike other budgets, the military is useless. We need healthcare, not weapons of death.

  25. Re:Poorly described on Company Aims To Launch Spacecraft On Beams of Microwaves · · Score: 1

    Is this thesis written with Word or something?
    I thought scientists used LaTeX.