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  1. Re: In other words... on Microsoft Declines To Make a 64-Bit Visual Studio (uservoice.com) · · Score: 1

    how is this different with a 32 bit file and a 32 bit alu? its not. you're right, saying everything falls nicely into a cycle per op is nonsense.

    but 4GB is a pretty small address space nowdays, don't you think?

  2. missing the point? on A $190 Million Misclick for T. Rowe Price (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    doesn't anyone find it funny that a firm that moves a lot of money and employs a lot of people finds in necessary to make a bot that always says "yes, approve this buyout"

  3. you know, year after year I come back here to post a snarky comment and read some stupid commentary.
    even thought i tell myself i should spend that 10 minutes a day more usefully.

    but this is too much. idiotic back and forth about restroom use and laws clearly to appeal to
    idiots who think the whole men dressing up as women thing is just too icky

    not coming back. there is in actuality nothing left to see here.

  4. Re:Why would anyone want this? on Meet UbuntuBSD, UNIX For Human Beings · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would anyone want this?

    FreeBSD is hardly a perfect system. But why would I want to cripple it further by making it look like Ubuntu?

  5. Re:GOOD. on Silicon Valley's Tech Employees Are Getting Nervous (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    sure, maybe the snowflakes deserve some blame. i mean who wouldn't want to bathe in money in
    exchange for working on something trivial like an instant messaging service that doesn't scale or an
    ad distribution network.

    its just that they were so smug and self important about it

    but really, the blame lies in the investment community. they get to bathe in alot more money, and
    ostensibly their job is to direct some fraction of the collective social resources towards efforts that
    will further enrich themselves, and indirectly society as a whole. at least that's my guess as to
    what this whole 'weath creation' narrative is.

    except that they dont seem to be very trustworthy, seems like we get dutch tulips all the time. loans,
    electricity, tech, loans, tech, tech.

  6. Re: Nice and all on A Phone App Helps Day Laborers Attack Wage Theft (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    s/government/employers

  7. Re:We should do it on Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    my guess is you weren't involved in the last SDI development effort.

    just contractors lining up at the trough. an unequivocal waste. they tried to
    keep it open for as long as they could after notable people came out and
    said it will never be useful, but they had to shut off the spigot eventually.

  8. Re:Why does every story need a villian and a victm on Senior Citizens Hit the Road For Uber · · Score: 2, Insightful

    here we have class of people who have, for the most part, worked hard their entire lives.

    and they have shit. social security, medicare, and its not enough. no one will hire them.

    except a company that rewards them $50 after a 10 hour day driving hipster assholes from A to B

    you can call that a fair market trade if you want. i think its inhumane.

  9. wow on San Francisco Still Among Most Dangerous For Pedestrians · · Score: 3, Insightful

    with very few exceptions every single comment in this thread blames pedestrians for jumping out in front of cars

    in San Francsico, crossing a street, within the crosswalk, with the light, is a stupid act of faith that some idiot isn't going to
    mow you down. bikers taking turns without looking, ubers shooting across the street looking only at their phones
    some self important dickhead in a bmw blowing a red 20 seconds after its turned.

    collectively - you're the worst. people who might actually want to walk 10 blocks instead of getting in their cars are effectively
    disposable human trash who should really just be killed for forcing you to slow down for a few seconds.

  10. toolchain? on Want a FPGA Board For Your Raspberry Pi Or Beagle Bone? · · Score: 1

    given xilinx's history in the past, whats the toolchain situation?

    in the past i've had to deal with license servers, multi-thousand dollar licenses, being locked into windows,
    having to reverse engineer internal formats because the tools wouldn't work for me, having day-long
    synthesis/test cycles because their routing was so abysmal, etc

    admittedly I'm an old fuck, so thing may have changed

    i scanned the page, but they dont seem to say a single thing about tools.

      what the situation?

  11. wtf? fma3? on Next-Gen Intel Chip Brings Big Gains For Floating-Point Apps · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    could someone tell me how many separate instruction sets, pipelines and register files I
    get in a mainline CPU these days? i turned away for a second and completely lost track.

    what happens with the 10 that you aren't using? just sitting there reducing the yield?

  12. Re:So...? on Firefox and Chrome Can Talk To Each Other · · Score: 1

    i tried to read the high level material, but its really not very clear

    would it be possible to use this to write a peer-to-peer collaborative application in javascript that just ran
    in the browsers of the peers and didn't require a central server for conrdination, say by passing svg?

  13. yeah, ok, this is silly on DRONENET: An Internet of Drones · · Score: 1

    but think about the utility of having a container standard for smaller objects that would be

        - nestable
        - stackable
        - designed to be manipulated/carried by robots
        - has a self-describing tag or at minimum a reference in a standard form to an internet object

    that you could use interoperably in a variety of storage/transport applications

  14. go sonic on Worst Companies At Protecting User Privacy: Skype, Verizon, Yahoo · · Score: 2

    I know the article is meaningless, but sonic is just great.

    I've never had a provider before who

        - consistently answers the phone for tech support, and provides honest, useful advice and really address problems

        - is willing to own issues with the local loop provider

        - consistently ups my capacity and lowers my rate just because

        - encourages me to run an open access point

        - takes an unmitigated pro-consumer stand wrt net legislation at every opportunity

  15. authoritarian on Coming Soon: Ubiquitous Long-Term Surveillance From Big Brother · · Score: 5, Insightful

    at this point i dont think we need the qualifier anymore.

    'authoritarian governments will soon be able' -> 'governments will'

  16. what do all those people do? on Facebook Prepping For Massive Hiring Spree · · Score: 1

    what possible reason would they need more for

  17. editorial criteria on Open Hardware Journal · · Score: 1

    this is potentially a huge space. do you have any ideas about the segment you're addressing? I can
    image projects that are

        - too dangerous: there are some plans floating around for making a tig welder out of a microwave transformer, which seems
                                                              cool but it might be too dodgy

        - too specialized: tips for grinding fluted cutters

        - too derivative: projects that require alot of infrastructure (i.e. a ccd and a xilinx)

        - too expensive: I found this neat application for my $150,000 low end used gas spectrometer

        - too substantial: construct this working harrier jet in your own back yard out of sheet metal and a file

    do you have a bounding box in mind?
       

  18. Re:who's over-inflated idea of his own importance? on Why Star Wars Should be Left to the Fans · · Score: 1

    that may be true, but that doesn't necessarily imply that every random reader/listener/watcher is
    more* authoritative

  19. who's over-inflated idea of his own importance? on Why Star Wars Should be Left to the Fans · · Score: 2, Insightful

    >> Even the artist doesn't really know what he's created, and a work doesn't become 'something' until given value by an audience: 'the artist is merely the medium for his or her work.'

    the writers, producers, costume designers, actors, etc are really irrelevant in the creative process. no, its the
    talentless consumer thats really the creative wellspring of artistic work

  20. Re:Help me guyise on Quark-Gluon Plasma Observed At LHC · · Score: 0, Redundant

    lorazepam

  21. Re:Why not show hubris? on Microsoft Holds iPhone Funeral Event · · Score: 1

    i worked for a startup and the CEO insisted on having some kind of ceremony in the parking
    lot where...i think we burned some of their marketing t-shirts of our huge 'competitor' that
    we were going to present a serious challenge to.

    6 months later, they had shipped their own technically superior version of our product, and ran
    it on all their existing platforms. they didn't even bother buying us, we just disappeared from
    memory

    does anyone know which startup i'm referring to? or is it really all of them

  22. Re:why not on What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders? · · Score: 1

    sure, i'm not saying no 9th graders can use gimp

    but i would hate to be a 9th grader with no clue stuck in a class during the week
    that someone was trying to teach me gimp

  23. why not on What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    teach them some fundamentals...what is a bit, what is a tube, how the tubes get plugged together,
    maybe how dns works at a high level just to give them some example of a simple distributed system,
    and give some meaning to web addresses.

    what a trivial von-neumann machine looks like

    what a program is at a high level, how images are represented and manipulated.

    how to write a simple game in something like scratch.

    what you describe seems pretty tortuous for a 9th grader (learning gimp, ooo), even for one that
    has an interest

    actually give them some semantic reference for dealing with computers, rather than teaching them
    about the details of the current crop of open source menu-driven applications

  24. implemented on IT Infrastructure As a House of Cards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i guess its ok that the sysadminds coopted the work 'implemented' where one would normally
    say 'installed'

    but that kind of leaves the actual implementors without a word now

    and in this particular usage, its kind of odd, because usually the best time to
    find and fix these problems is exactly when its being implemented, rather than
    when its being installed

  25. throw fits over minor things on How To Behave At a Software Company? · · Score: 5, Funny

    stop bathing
    be awkward around the opposite gender
    come in at noon and leave after midnight
    be extremely condescending towards anyone at the company who is not an engineer
    never admit that anything is your fault
    drink 20 cans of free soda a day
    claim to be a libertarian if you dont already