There's even a Linux project called x32 to make use of these features, while limiting the address space to 32 bits per process for potential speedups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What's really needed is a version of Firefox that doesn't use so much fucking memory that we need a 64-bit version.
x86-64 is about much more than the address space.
PS: Google Chrome is better, but not much - 500Mb. IE can do it in a "mere" 200Mb. WTF happened to 'coding'?
Being only for Windows, I imagine IE makes more use of the OS libraries. Firefox and Chrome are available on multiple OSes, so they need to include a lot of cross-platform libraries.
Heh, I just sold a 7970 today, with one remaining. Certainly the strongest AMD cards I've had. One machine has an integrated APU which is newer than those, but mostly unused due to a GTX 750. For most of my purposes, those little beasts are almost as fast, but only use about 1/4 the power; the machine in question is a Mini-ITX box with a fanless power brick.
There are many professions that make little provision for people who don't want to become 'managers'. The classic examples are police, nurses and social workers; if you want to carry on engaging with people, you can't accept promotion.
Not really the best examples, because management involves engaging with people. Not quite the same kind of engagement, but not completely different either; for starters, these professionals will have plenty of the people skills that tech geeks typically lack. I know some fellow teachers who are interested in getting into management, and I don't doubt their skills.
Of course, management isn't all about people skills, and it would be great to see some of the systemic/rational thinking of techy types in management. Besides, being introverted doesn't mean lack of people skills.
The reason why people are healthier in universal health care countries, is the government has an incentive to keep them that way because it is much cheaper. The reason why people are sicker if for profit health care nations because everyone has an incentive to keep the sicker to extract more profits out of them before they die.
The terminology does not compute. How can something "universal" apply to a single country only, instead of the entire observable cosmos?
Seriously, though, I live in one of those evil socialist countries Nordic. We have our increasing share of the obese, the type 2 diabetic, and the cardiovascularly cursed. That is in contrast to the flip side of universal^Wnational health care, extreme nannying. I guess people here find it easier to eat themselves to stupor, due to the strict regulation of alcohol. There is barely any discussion of the decriminalization of cannabis et al, with arguments going in circles like "drugs are bad, because if you get caught using them, bye bye future employment".
The random generator passed only 9 of 15 standard randomness tests of NIST. Not surprising - it is unlikely that the two inverter branches are identical to the atom level, and that is a prerequisite that the thermal noise has exactly equal chance of flipping either branch.
The NIST tests aren't necessarily that great for judging randomness. For example, too long streaks of ones or zeros will fail the test, even though they are possible in genuine random sources. I imagine one could devise an algorithmic, repeating stream of numbers that passes the NIST tests.
The issue of unequal chance for 0 and 1 is common in HWRNGs, and there are simple solutions for debiasing the output. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Specifically in the area of Cognition and personality low digit ratio has been linked to:
...
Mathematical ability[93]
Decreased mathematical ability[94]
...
That doesn't seem very conclusive. The general idea seems to be that a low digit ratio makes one more "manly" in the traditional sense. So how do you explain all these skinny computer geeks?
For instance, my digit ratio seems to be close to 1 -- the ring finger clearly isn't any longer than the index finger. It's a pretty high ratio in this terminology. I have a Master's degree in Physics from Cambridge. I wouldn't touch Java with a bargepole, but I've done some groundbreaking stuff with FPGAs and OpenGL shaders, for instance.
There's also a general idea that highly talented and creative people have features of both genders. I'm too tired to dig up any references, but this makes sense if you're trying to think outside the box.
In a very practical sense, Snowball Earth is a harder scenario to escape than Greenhouse Earth. Both have high albedos (due to snow and clouds, respectively), which helps reduce temperature. It's pretty impractical to replace much of the energy contribution of solar loading by burning terrestrial sources of energy: sunlight is too bright, and the Earth has too big a cross-section.
Agreed. I guess I was thinking of a more local scenario and heat engines; in a Snowball Earth, you have a very nice cold reservoir for running your power plants. With a larger temperature delta they are more efficient.
I live in central Finland, I'm pretty sure it gets roughly as cold here, and I think the winters are longer here. For a nice example, during my military service we had a two-week camp in the North, living in tents with temperatures around -30 C (-22 F). The record lowest temperature from that time was -45 C (-49 F).
Anyway, people need to get a grip on this subject and meet in the middle...
Silly attempts to look "fair & balanced" on the climate is a big part of the problem--as soon as you start doing that, you've caved to the anti-science crowd who think that, if they tell themselves enough fairy tales, they'll become true.
For a practical example, let's meet in the middle with the Flat Earth crowd, and agree that the Earth is a very oblate spheroid.
I'd say we can't really handle getting warmer any better than we can handle getting colder.
In a certain fundamental sense, it is much easier to handle getting colder. Heat is easily generated by various processes, but it cannot be destroyed. It can be moved around, but that won't help if it's hot everywhere.
If you want to maintain an illiterate underclass of passive users, then by all means keep degrading mainstream Internet into speech and video. Let us 1337 h4x0rs be the only ones who can read and write. Somebody needs to maintain and develop this damn thing anyway.
Wow, you need to burn in hell even suggesting women can't be exactly the same type of role models as a man would be.
Not sure if trolling, but I'll reply anyway. Perhaps my wording was off (being a non-native English speaker and whatnot). My point/concern is that children will grow up seeing men and women in certain roles, and the more diverse/balanced the better, because that will keep their options more open.
For example, imagine being a young boy who wants to be a scientist, but there are no male scientists around. If all your teachers are female, you'll get the impression that academic inquiry is only for girls, and you better become a jock or a rock star to succeed as a man. It's pretty much the same with all these women-in-CS programs -- even though everyone has equal access to education, there are these subtle perception issues about CS being a boys' club.
When men express an interest in childcare or teaching young children they're socially accused of being pedophiles or creeps.
I'm a male teacher, and here in Finland we do have concerns about female dominance in teaching. One concern seems to be that teaching doesn't pay well enough to attract capable men; teachers need a master's degree in the subject they teach, with which you'll have plenty of other options. Although it's not clear why this issue would apply to men only.
There are several good reasons why more men are wanted into teaching. I mainly think of it in terms of role models, especially for children of single mothers. (Which raises the question why single parents are so often female.) Some people think more men are needed to better maintain discipline, but I'm not sure if men are generally any better that way.
(I teach math and science, and generally ages 12 to 16, so perhaps not the best example. Still, males are in the minority when you consider the entire teaching staff, and I sometimes hear jokes about getting the job due to my gender.)
I heard the Drumpf family came from Europe just a couple of generations ago, so I'd steer clear of those Europeans. Just to be sure, better deport anyone with even a hint of European ancestry.
The parents spend 8 hours of a workday in front of desktop computers, and then complain when their kids spend more than 2 hours with a tablet. I'm not sure if all of that adult work is more important, but perhaps there's more to screen time than a single number.
I'm pretty sensitive to interruptions, so something like Facebook in my pocket would totally ruin me. This IMHO is what separates today's tech from the video games and movies of past -- constant presence and lack of focus. When I do stuff on a computer, I like to focus on it, and when I go out I'll leave it home. (Some of my best programming takes place while walking.) In "social" media and "smart"phones, I see a culture of interruptions and multitasking, neither of which are good for getting anything important or interesting done.
Make a stripped-down, fast browser for browsing only. Call it something like "Phoenix" or perhaps "Firebird".
(I remember using Netscape 4.72 on Linux around 1999. Then as the new Mozilla engine was being developed, there were third-party browser projects using that engine for browsing only, such as Galeon. Phoenix was basically Mozilla's implementation of such ideas, and initially worse than the other projects. However, it soon became the only way to stay up-to-date with the Mozilla engine development.)
Between current versions of Firefox and Chromium, I can only think of one thing that FF does better: middle-button pasting of URLs into any "blank" area. Chromium is better in so many other ways.
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Remember when Google used to support XMPP (Jabber) protocol so chat was federated and people could use what software they liked?
I'm using my Hangup^H^Houts account with Pidgin (XMPP) right now. So yes, I do remember it rather well.
x86-64 is about much more than the address space.
Please enlighten us. Ignorant mortals might think they're compiling the exact same code.
More and larger registers. SSE1/2 instructions guaranteed, these are optional in x86. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There's even a Linux project called x32 to make use of these features, while limiting the address space to 32 bits per process for potential speedups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What's really needed is a version of Firefox that doesn't use so much fucking memory that we need a 64-bit version.
x86-64 is about much more than the address space.
PS: Google Chrome is better, but not much - 500Mb. IE can do it in a "mere" 200Mb. WTF happened to 'coding'?
Being only for Windows, I imagine IE makes more use of the OS libraries. Firefox and Chrome are available on multiple OSes, so they need to include a lot of cross-platform libraries.
Heh, I just sold a 7970 today, with one remaining. Certainly the strongest AMD cards I've had. One machine has an integrated APU which is newer than those, but mostly unused due to a GTX 750. For most of my purposes, those little beasts are almost as fast, but only use about 1/4 the power; the machine in question is a Mini-ITX box with a fanless power brick.
There are many professions that make little provision for people who don't want to become 'managers'. The classic examples are police, nurses and social workers; if you want to carry on engaging with people, you can't accept promotion.
Not really the best examples, because management involves engaging with people. Not quite the same kind of engagement, but not completely different either; for starters, these professionals will have plenty of the people skills that tech geeks typically lack. I know some fellow teachers who are interested in getting into management, and I don't doubt their skills.
Of course, management isn't all about people skills, and it would be great to see some of the systemic/rational thinking of techy types in management. Besides, being introverted doesn't mean lack of people skills.
The reason why people are healthier in universal health care countries, is the government has an incentive to keep them that way because it is much cheaper. The reason why people are sicker if for profit health care nations because everyone has an incentive to keep the sicker to extract more profits out of them before they die.
The terminology does not compute. How can something "universal" apply to a single country only, instead of the entire observable cosmos?
Seriously, though, I live in one of those evil socialist countries Nordic. We have our increasing share of the obese, the type 2 diabetic, and the cardiovascularly cursed. That is in contrast to the flip side of universal^Wnational health care, extreme nannying. I guess people here find it easier to eat themselves to stupor, due to the strict regulation of alcohol. There is barely any discussion of the decriminalization of cannabis et al, with arguments going in circles like "drugs are bad, because if you get caught using them, bye bye future employment".
The random generator passed only 9 of 15 standard randomness tests of NIST. Not surprising - it is unlikely that the two inverter branches are identical to the atom level, and that is a prerequisite that the thermal noise has exactly equal chance of flipping either branch.
The NIST tests aren't necessarily that great for judging randomness. For example, too long streaks of ones or zeros will fail the test, even though they are possible in genuine random sources. I imagine one could devise an algorithmic, repeating stream of numbers that passes the NIST tests.
The issue of unequal chance for 0 and 1 is common in HWRNGs, and there are simple solutions for debiasing the output. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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// chosen by fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random.
Making a RNG from inverters is an old trick (shameless plug). So if there's any news here, it's making an inverter from nanotubes?
Wiki has a whole host of other studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Specifically in the area of Cognition and personality low digit ratio has been linked to:
That doesn't seem very conclusive. The general idea seems to be that a low digit ratio makes one more "manly" in the traditional sense. So how do you explain all these skinny computer geeks?
For instance, my digit ratio seems to be close to 1 -- the ring finger clearly isn't any longer than the index finger. It's a pretty high ratio in this terminology. I have a Master's degree in Physics from Cambridge. I wouldn't touch Java with a bargepole, but I've done some groundbreaking stuff with FPGAs and OpenGL shaders, for instance.
There's also a general idea that highly talented and creative people have features of both genders. I'm too tired to dig up any references, but this makes sense if you're trying to think outside the box.
That is unwisely reductionist.
In a very practical sense, Snowball Earth is a harder scenario to escape than Greenhouse Earth. Both have high albedos (due to snow and clouds, respectively), which helps reduce temperature. It's pretty impractical to replace much of the energy contribution of solar loading by burning terrestrial sources of energy: sunlight is too bright, and the Earth has too big a cross-section.
Agreed. I guess I was thinking of a more local scenario and heat engines; in a Snowball Earth, you have a very nice cold reservoir for running your power plants. With a larger temperature delta they are more efficient.
You clearly don't live in the Northern Midwest.
I live in central Finland, I'm pretty sure it gets roughly as cold here, and I think the winters are longer here. For a nice example, during my military service we had a two-week camp in the North, living in tents with temperatures around -30 C (-22 F). The record lowest temperature from that time was -45 C (-49 F).
In fact, forget the streaming service.
Anyway, people need to get a grip on this subject and meet in the middle...
Silly attempts to look "fair & balanced" on the climate is a big part of the problem--as soon as you start doing that, you've caved to the anti-science crowd who think that, if they tell themselves enough fairy tales, they'll become true.
For a practical example, let's meet in the middle with the Flat Earth crowd, and agree that the Earth is a very oblate spheroid.
I'd say we can't really handle getting warmer any better than we can handle getting colder.
In a certain fundamental sense, it is much easier to handle getting colder. Heat is easily generated by various processes, but it cannot be destroyed. It can be moved around, but that won't help if it's hot everywhere.
How about Covfefe Lake to match the recent Newspeak?
By refusing to accept any other situation and ignoring the problems and expense of nuclear, Mackay merely sucks the dick of the nuke lobby,
No, he doesn't, unless something really strange is going on. Prof. MacKay passed away last year.
If you want to maintain an illiterate underclass of passive users, then by all means keep degrading mainstream Internet into speech and video. Let us 1337 h4x0rs be the only ones who can read and write. Somebody needs to maintain and develop this damn thing anyway.
Wow, you need to burn in hell even suggesting women can't be exactly the same type of role models as a man would be.
Not sure if trolling, but I'll reply anyway. Perhaps my wording was off (being a non-native English speaker and whatnot). My point/concern is that children will grow up seeing men and women in certain roles, and the more diverse/balanced the better, because that will keep their options more open.
For example, imagine being a young boy who wants to be a scientist, but there are no male scientists around. If all your teachers are female, you'll get the impression that academic inquiry is only for girls, and you better become a jock or a rock star to succeed as a man. It's pretty much the same with all these women-in-CS programs -- even though everyone has equal access to education, there are these subtle perception issues about CS being a boys' club.
When men express an interest in childcare or teaching young children they're socially accused of being pedophiles or creeps.
I'm a male teacher, and here in Finland we do have concerns about female dominance in teaching. One concern seems to be that teaching doesn't pay well enough to attract capable men; teachers need a master's degree in the subject they teach, with which you'll have plenty of other options. Although it's not clear why this issue would apply to men only.
There are several good reasons why more men are wanted into teaching. I mainly think of it in terms of role models, especially for children of single mothers. (Which raises the question why single parents are so often female.) Some people think more men are needed to better maintain discipline, but I'm not sure if men are generally any better that way.
(I teach math and science, and generally ages 12 to 16, so perhaps not the best example. Still, males are in the minority when you consider the entire teaching staff, and I sometimes hear jokes about getting the job due to my gender.)
I don't gedit.
I heard the Drumpf family came from Europe just a couple of generations ago, so I'd steer clear of those Europeans. Just to be sure, better deport anyone with even a hint of European ancestry.
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I'll start my own journal of game theory and gender studies. With blackjack and hookers!
The parents spend 8 hours of a workday in front of desktop computers, and then complain when their kids spend more than 2 hours with a tablet. I'm not sure if all of that adult work is more important, but perhaps there's more to screen time than a single number.
I'm pretty sensitive to interruptions, so something like Facebook in my pocket would totally ruin me. This IMHO is what separates today's tech from the video games and movies of past -- constant presence and lack of focus. When I do stuff on a computer, I like to focus on it, and when I go out I'll leave it home. (Some of my best programming takes place while walking.) In "social" media and "smart"phones, I see a culture of interruptions and multitasking, neither of which are good for getting anything important or interesting done.
Make a stripped-down, fast browser for browsing only. Call it something like "Phoenix" or perhaps "Firebird".
(I remember using Netscape 4.72 on Linux around 1999. Then as the new Mozilla engine was being developed, there were third-party browser projects using that engine for browsing only, such as Galeon. Phoenix was basically Mozilla's implementation of such ideas, and initially worse than the other projects. However, it soon became the only way to stay up-to-date with the Mozilla engine development.)
Between current versions of Firefox and Chromium, I can only think of one thing that FF does better: middle-button pasting of URLs into any "blank" area. Chromium is better in so many other ways.