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You cannot pose as a parangon of free speech when your company just fired a dissenting voice.

For all intents and purposes the content of the memo was balanced, polite, and restricted to the Google audience. The adult reaction should have been to punish the leaker (which I believe should be an actual breach of the code of conduct) and organize internal debates to allow multiple viewpoints to confront.

Rallying with the hysterical mass and shutting down the minority voice is certainly not about supporting debates and free speech. It's about throwing red meat to the wolves so the company can quietly solve its all too real gender pay gap issues without making too much PR waves.

Same here. I cannot believe the amount of organized dishonesty. I have a Ph.D. in CS; if anything remotely similar had happened to me, my advisor would have stepped in strongly. Also, my field is a very small world and such a behavior would have discredited the vilain almost on the spot. Maybe this kind of behavior is more common in liberal arts?

We are not created equal when it comes to metabolism. I have an extremely slow metabolism. I'm a 6'3, 205lbs male and I must eat no more than 1000 calories a day to keep a balanced weight, and that includes 1 hour of work out a day.

Parent of 3 kids that fly a lot here. Airlines force you to buy a full seat as soon as your child turns 2. This woman was most likely forced to buy a full ticket for her child.

This is properly inacceptable. I don't understand why this woman complied.

I would not have in her situation and would have made a terrible scene had I been asked to relinquish a seat I paid for.

Please donate any amount to the OpenBSD foundation: https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html

That's just too cool. I have not read such a faith-in-humanity-inspriring moment in a long time.

Here is a publication that describes a more advanced embodiment of the system I mentioned: https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/sc/2015/3723/00/28... ; it don't think it explicitly compares to distributed RDMA-based paging systems but most of its non-RDMA features were implemented to address the shortcomings of PGAS systems (hardware-accelerated or not).

I also worked in that space several years ago. RDMA-based paging is a very tempting (and sexy) concept. There are however several challenges that make it very impractical in commercial scenarios:

1. Availability: what happens when a node goes down ?

2. Page sharing: how should / can multiple writers be supported ?

3. Kernel overhead: how do you hook in the paging subsystem without significant overhead ?

4. Cost/performance: rare are the companies that would blindly jump into an IB network investment; and RoCE is not as fast as IB (although it may be catching up with 25/40/100 Gb cards).

In the end we ended up designing a RDMA-based DHT. Besides, this kind of approach becomes less relevant nowadays with solutions like Intel Optane.

Intuitively it seems easier to build strong inference heuristics for CGRA than FPGA given the more constrained (limited?) degrees of design freedom.

I've always been wary of inference-based systems that target clocked logic. Most of them (especially the C-based ones) are not suited to produce efficient designs and usually require some heavy massaging of the original code to make the inference system happy.

Gotcha. So very similar to what IBM tried to do with LiquidMetal (http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?i...), albeit for Java.

I'll RTFM later, but in the meantime : how to you compare to Chisel https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu ?

Many places in Gallia are off: Vienna is one; Augustodunum is certainly not at the same latitude as Lutetia; Genava is most certainly not south of Lugdunum; etc. Cool map otherwise !

Then quit playing political games and secede. Until then, it's all for the show and to give a big fat finger to the current administration

Nice piece of work, but:

> This is an immature concept

I believe the author meant an immature instance of an old concept, certainly.

Just spend an afternoon looking into the literature about parallel programming languages, data flow programming languages, or flow-based programming languages, and you will realize that this is certainly not an immature concept. Research in that spaces has been going on since at least since the early 70s.

Automatic, yes. Semi-automatic, no. With semi, the driver makes the decision, and the system execute it (the best in class is within 10ms IIRC).

A fully weaponized autonomous ship would be pretty badass.

I agree, but that's beside the original point. There is a moral difference between raping and pillaging a defeated foe and leveling an entire civilian city as part of a war strategy (examples: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, Oradour sur Glane, etc...).

Used to. Sadly.

The same way Kung Fu masters rarely give into these displays. And when they do, they usually kick the ass of their opponents.

The "martial" part is about fighting. The "art" part is about honor, respect, and sportsmanship -- or "giving your opponent face".

> Spirituality and mysticism aren't part of this any more than they are part of trying to run 100 meters as quickly as possible.

That statement simply shows your complete lack of knowledge about martial arts.

MMA, and Krav Maga and Systema, are martial practices. But they are certainly not art forms.

Eastern martial art forms epitomize this "genteel" era. In the western world, it officially ended with the 2nd world war when civilian targets were acceptable, but the ships was sailed already by the first world war.

Of course, we can always go back to pre-civilized societies to justify barbaric behavior.

It's about honor, respect, and sportsmanship. When Mr. Xu realized the superiority of his martial art form, he should have behaved himself in a more dignified manner: let his superiority show without giving his opponent a beating.

MMA is to martial art what modern warfare is to the art of war: achieving supremacy, regardless of the means. A testimony of our times.

OCaml with HardCaml (http://www.ujamjar.com/hardcaml/).

Only for then smartphones though. Space ships of that age will likely be rocking 486-compatible processors.

I'm thinking more along the lines of Deus Ex.

> I think sometimes yes.

Damaging democracy to impose your ideal on the majority is called tyranny. Simply put, you are a totalitarian. Now note that I am not judging. I'm just trying to be accurate and to the point.

It's maybe pride talking, but Chartreuse is most certainly not an obscure liqueur.

French medias are a parangon of complacency, all of them.