JoeCoder_

I first read this as "a soldered-on GPU" :O

Wouldn't an ASIC capable of executing hundreds of types of algorithms more or less just be a GPU anyway? At that point why not just use GPUs?

To achieve asic resistance, why not switch between a large pool of different algorithms sequentially, with their order and various parameters determined by the hash of the previous block?

I doubt Adobe's content aware fill could replace someone's eye or a few of the other examples in the video.

How long until I can use this as a Photoshop plugin?

I'm hoping they can use some of this cash to make a better desktop client:

1. That can be minimized to the system tray.

2. That can be used when behind an http proxy server.

3. Doesn't require a phone to use.

4. Doesn't take 200MB ram to run.

And turn crappy music into good music.

No option to minimize to system tray? So I have to have a Signal App taking up room in my taskbar all the time.

uncompressed video file

1920x1080 at 3 bytes per pixel and 30 frames per second is 11GB for just one minute of video, and 186MB per second. That's far too big and expensive to stream, and outside of somewhat special circumstances I've never heard of anyone storing video in such a huge format.

There's no good technical reason not to enable lossless compression

Why would you want to losslessly compress audio or video? The resulting files would be huge--often too huge to steam. Lossy compression is what you want.

I must be misunderstanding the article?

When a private company has a massive failure, customers have the freedom to go elsewhere and the company may go out of business.

When a government agency has a massive failure, we're of stuck with it, short of hoping politicians might do something about it.

Why not develop tox instead, which is open source, end to end encrypted, on more platforms, and seemingly further along in general?

Why not have a "this page would like to perform work in the background [allow|block]" notification?

You could put your propellers outside and away from the cage, with their motors inside the cage. This would also greatly reduce the size and weight of the cage.

From the FAQ. https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor#faq:

"Why all these web workers and why should I care?"

"A: Language services create web workers to compute heavy stuff outside the UI thread. They cost hardly anything in terms of resource overhead and you shouldn't worry too much about them, as long as you get them to work (see above the cross-domain case)."

Maybe that's part of the reason?

"changes one-letter misspellings in DNA called point mutations... it could fix misspellings in DNA that cause Tay-Sachs"

I don't follow. Tay-Sachs is usually (always?) caused by a frameshift, not a point mutation.

The fine structure constant may not have the same value throughout the universe, but I'm still curious if its a measurement error. Changing it by much would prevent the synthesis of carbon in stars. But are you suggesting a different value would allow some other atom to take on properties as useful as carbon? If so I would like to read more about it.

Regardless, if there is a gradient, any meaningful change in the fine structure constant beyond the range at which we could observe anything in the universe, so it still makes sense to only assume carbon-based life.

There is nothing in the manual that requires liquid water, gravity, a planetary surface, carbon, or any of the other ingredients that define life on Earth.

On carbon, this is from [a recent Astrobiology textbook](http://books.google.com/books?id=x83omgI5pGQC&q=%22there%20m...) which probably does count as a manual : )

"There are, after all, only a finite number of elements in the periodic table, and many of these are very poorly suited to support life for any of a fair list of reasons. Consequently, many of the 90-odd naturally occurring elements can be ruled out. So many, in fact, that in the end there may very well be only a single element--carbon, the basis of all life on earth--that is able to support the complex chemistry presumably required to create any self-replicating chemical system. The easiest way to appreciate the special, perhaps even unique, qualities of carbon is to compare it with silicon, its closest cousin.

Many of the properties that suit carbon so well to its central role in Terrestrial life are shared or even exceeded by silicon. For example, silicon, like carbon, is tetravalent--that is each atom forms four bonds, allowing for the formation of a rich array of complex molecular structures. And, while silicon-silicon bond is weaker than a carbon bond, the discrepancy is only about 25%. Consistent with this, both silicon and carbon can form long molecular chains, For example, compounds of silicon and hydrogen, called silanes, with up to 28 consecutive silicon-silicon bonds have been reported in the scientific literature. Likewise, while carbon is the fourth most common element in the Solar System as a while, silicon is many orders of magnitude more common on the surface of Earth. Indeed, silicon is second only to Oxygen in terms of its abundance in the Earth's crust. Nevertheless, silicon simply cannot support the same rich chemistry as its "upstairs" neighbor in the periodic table. The problem lies in both the thermodynamics (equilibrium stabilities) of silicon's interactions with other atoms and the kinetics (rates) of these reactions...

So carbon wins over silicon. But what of the 90 or so other naturally occurring elements? They fare even worse than silicon."

I find this response rather surprising.

I can't speak about law, or the way things used to be, but in software dev I've worked with several women and more men. In my own experience the men sometimes chide with each other to the point I've seen other men complain to management about bullying. But I don't see the women being treated that way at all.

In my personal life I often talk about programming to non-devs. Both genders have some people that are completely uninterested, but it's usually the women. Likewise I have little interest in most female-dominated fields. And that's ok.

Maybe things are different beyond my own limited perspective, but that's what I've seen. It may be different in other fields.

to get more women in CS

As a single male I admit it would be nice if there were more women in CS, but ultimately why does it really matter? Men and women are interested in different things and most women I know just aren't very interested in CS. Is there also a push to get more men into French language culture or studio art drawing? Even though most men would find it boring.

How would this compare to a diagram of degrees of separation from other skill-sets?

[Rossi] "created" a system for turning toxic waste into oil, but this turned out to be just dumping the waste into the environment

Wow, he is literally the villian Captain Planet fought in every single episode.

Here is the TL;DR. This regex matches Tarzan but not "Tarzan":

    "Tarzan"|(Tarzan)

    Tarzania|--Tarzan--|"Tarzan"|(Tarzan)

    <img[^>]+>|(\w+)

    <b>[^<]*</b>|([\w\s]+)

I once worked with a programmer who would not indent any of his code. "It makes it go faster" he said. Wrote all of his code in Windows Notepad too.

Youtube is being slow for me today. If only there were a way to compress the video smaller...

And A is for Anti-Trust avoidance

How much longer until we discover enough logic operations to write a full raytracer in css?