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www.bloomberg.com 7y ago

Corporate America Gets Ready to Monetize Climate Change

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skylum.com 7y ago

500px Founder Joins Skylum (photo editing software)

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www.nikonweb.com 8y ago

Kodak Professional digital camera systems 1987-2004 [pdf]

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sites.hks.harvard.edu 8y ago

Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market (2003) [pdf]

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Diabase's $5K USD, 4 or 5 axis 3d printer/milling machine

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Elon Musk talks demographics, low birth rates in the 21st century

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www.rand.org 8y ago

[Gates Fdn Spent $575M on Teaching] Rand Corp on Teacher Effectiveness

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www.bloomberg.com 8y ago

Twitter to Face Claims by ‘White Advocate’ Over Banned Accounts

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www.kickstarter.com 8y ago

Questbotics (kickstarter) edu robot programmed via blocks

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civic.mit.edu 8y ago

Considerations in Crypto Backdoor Policy

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fingfx.thomsonreuters.com 9y ago

Facebook: greater than 15% of employees are H1Bs

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web.stanford.edu 9y ago

Unix for Poets [pdf] – processing text via Unix CLI tools

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mesosphere.com 9y ago

Locked-In and Losing (Mesosphere on Snap's S-1)

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

1000s of times every month,we give governments information about Apple customers

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www.nytimes.com 9y ago

How LBJ Won [1948] Election He'd Lost (1990)

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rt.com 12y ago

Fukushima radiation levels underestimated by five times – TEPCO

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twitter.com 12y ago

Wordpress.com employee threatens "Game" blog owner with takedown

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www.themuse.com 12y ago

The Muse: Team

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If I felt that Microsoft was delivering high quality software and was a meritocracy I would cut them a lot of slack, no matter what opinions they espoused and who they favored or excluded.

Unfortunately I have to use Skype for Business literally every working day and it's symptomatic of a company that is fat dumb and happy, secure in its cash flow.

You can do an image search on your favorite search engine and look for someone like Donna Brazile, who has been in politics for a long time and understands appearing on TV.

Then you can look at the clothes she is wearing and realize that in every photo where she is wearing a lighter dress or jacket, the automatic exposure settings of the camera adjusted for the average lighting of the scene and underexposed her face.

That is why, because Brazile has done countless TV appearances for decades ... in most of the photos you can see that she wears darker jackets or clothing.

Take a raking kind of light, and shine it on a beige to brown colored wall, so that the light will be stronger on one side and gradually fade in intensity (that is, less reflected light) across the field of view.

Now place a different shade of brown upholstered chair, in front of this wall.

Take a photo using the Hasselblad X1D, currently considered to have the most accurate color of mainstream cameras.

Now try to print it accurately, even with the best quality paper and a high end inkjet printer.

Even master printmakers will struggle with it.

Why?

Not only that but they would change the behavior of a chip between revisions, so drivers for one revision, if they didn't take into account the changes, would suddenly stop working even though you bought the same ( but unknown to you, newer) version of the card.

(source: me, who worked at a company that made commercial Linux drivers for Matrox, ATI,NeoMagic etc. chips )

Everything you say is accurate, but, grad students have to start somewhere. If they can make a 65nm version that runs at say 500Mhz, that would be better. Remember that "real work" was done on desktops on a Sparcv8 chip that ran at 75Mhz or less.

For 100 gb that might grow to 1tb:

2x NVME drives, each 1tb in size. Buy pcie adapter as needed.

Buy used 256gb RAM server off eBay.

Install drives into server. Put all data on the nvme drives and all other files on regular drives.

Everything will fit in ram after the data is touched the first time after each boot. Can't get faster than that, usually.

Create user accounts for each user, set up git etc. for code storage and to encourage reuse.

I am certainly looking forward to trying it out!

ZFS is a great filesystem and being able to possibly have a better implementation than we do at the moment, or at least, be able to spur additional development and optimization, is very welcome!

K7 Tutorial 7 years ago

Thanks for the reminder. I had seen it before, but I now see that it is active, with the last commit 8 days ago. I compiled it on my Linux box quickly and will be testing it out...

K7 Tutorial 7 years ago

Alternatively, you can look at the completely free www.Aplusdev.org, "A+" language that was also created by Whitney.

There is also GNU APL which I have been playing with and has some good ideas also, including the ability to create scripts.

And just like Canada abandoned the Montreal (IIRC) goals just before they were due to take effect and destroy the economy, this law has no force or power until it actually goes into effect, starting 6 years from now.

Tldr : it's meaningless virtue signaling.

You want to clean up the planet? Start with the ten most polluted rivers, all in India or China, and the lead smelting industry which was forced to close in the US and then, predictably, moved to China...

Why let the facts get in the way of your unexamined beliefs?

References a paper from 2009 (classified research could well have been much earlier):

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-u-s-navys-next-hawkeye-...

Guess what emits UHF/VHF? Terrestrial TV stations and 900Mhz and 700Mhz cell phone towers , like Sprint and Nextel used to operate in the USA before their spectrum was traded/sold back to the government.

China claims can track F22 fighter even in stealth configuration: https://news.yahoo.com/stealth-no-more-china-claims-02470090...

And this is what is publicly released for public consumption...