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This could be useful for embarrassingly parallel workloads but 2 points:

- the backend is OpenGL so it won't be as performant on NVIDIA hardware as CUDA (NVIDIA don't like OpenGL)

- I don't see any explicit GPU memory management so you might not be able to setup a pipeline of operations which all operate GPU memory (aka the big pipelines you see in ML). That would be another performance hit.

Having said that it looks like fun and I'm going to check it out!

So much hands wringing these days about TikTok - a Chinese company which might pass information to the Chinese government.

The big silicon valley tech companies hoover up your data. What could possibly go wrong? Affect the outcome of a democratic election with targeted advertising?

I don't see anything wrong with the Apple app store - they just need to be forced to bring the Apple percentage down (they clearly won't do it on their own).

It's nice work. I always thought it would be a pain to implement a Wireshark decoder but I was wrong!

One other approach that could have been taken: to add the desired protocols into the camera directly. I assume you're just adding a control channel and the video stream encapsulation would be minimal.

In case you missed it, this is not a programming language parser/validator: it's to validate data objects in an information system. Validating a form submission would be a good example. It looks to be along similar lines to JSON schema.

From the LIVR docs:

"Rules should be able to change results output"

My opinion is that if you're going to use a declarative validation engine like this then it should not be able to modify the data entity being validated.

"renting them out for this PR stunt just cost them the missed rental time"

Because renting them out generates no revenue, right?

"Maybe around 20.000"

At least the article used a formula for the calculation. You just picked a number at random.

Many companies are Microsoft shops and will use Lists even if it's inferior. I imagine the Airtable people are not at all happy about MS entering the market even though they will no doubt spin it in the way you mention.

"consumer spending growth from the top 10% is enough to offset loses in the bottom 90%"

Bold prediction - let's check back in a year or two!

It's such a b.s. article and is likely written by the nuclear industry. There are many factual problems but I'll just point out one: the idea that wind and solar will never be enough. Here's a study that includes wind, solar & storage and gets 100% coverage:

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/ee/c7ee03...

I seriously hate open plan. Which turkey came up with that idea?

I became one of the ahole's at one small office when I opened a brie and ate it at my desk. The guy next to me said that cheese made him vomit. Did he want me throw my brie away? I kept on eating but never brought in cheese again. That guy never said a word to me again :-(

They mention a 94% budget saving but there's no mention of the drop in accuracy (which I'm sure has occurred)?

I think having those capabilities is fine but I hate the endless notifications to use them from every damn web site! There should be a second and much more subtle notification system which does not obscure content or attract attention.

What is it with Americans and their loathing of one another? What is the problem with sitting next to a stranger? Maybe it's time for a spoonful of concrete.

The goals of the site builder and the end user are unfortunately not always the same. Airbnb doesn't want the user to have too much control (sorting by dollars), Facebook and Google also come to mind (being able to easily filter out ads would be great).

This browser extension is targeted at the end user.

The financial problems seem to be happening at regional preprints like Indonesia or Africa. The people who run the service for them are surely using western labour. The obvious answer is for the regional preprints to switch to using local labour - ie run the service themselves. That would be a significant saving.

I'm going to counter the "therapists are great" theme that I'm seeing here. I think they're a waste of money. Cognitive behavioural therapy is a great tool. With practise and courage you can use it to reform the way you think. It won't fix something like schizophrenia but it might be useful for a narcissist who wants to change.

AMD has something called HIP which is a portable version of CUDA (compiles to either nvidia or amd hardware). They made a tool called HIPPIFY which can auto translate CUDA source to HIP. Haven't used it myself so I can't comment on it's effectiveness.

I've been running rocm directly on Ubuntu 19.04 for a while now. I didn't have to build from source either. It's odd that they haven't updated their docs about this yet.

Without actually knowing the truth, my guess is outsourcing: Cisco thought it would be a great idea to save some cash on technical staff so they now do a lot of the grunt work through company X in country Y.

This is outstanding work. You should feel proud that you created something this complex from scratch over a number of years and did not give up! I'm in awe

I'm an occasional sufferer of depression and I know a few people who suffer it to varying degrees. For me there are a set of symptoms which are always pretty much the same and nowadays I notice pretty quickly when it hits me. It can definitely be a driver of the other things you mention. It might be good to start there

I'll give you some government funded counter examples: space flight, the Internet, WWW.

If a company has a persistently high market share and has had for a long while, it has an effective monopoly whether or not it has ineffectual competitors.

However I believe the reason nothing changes despite these obvious market distortions is that super profits are self perpetuating: companies invest in politicians to keep the distortions in place. The technical definition of monopoly is just a smoke screen.

KDE is an extreme distraction and a waste of developer man hours. Not just for the people who made it, but also for those who wrote apps for it. Imagine how much better the Gnome ecosystem would be if all that effort was channeled there instead? Even a fork of the Gnome ecosystem would be better than a completely different API.

As a user, Gnome works just fine. Get over yourselves KDI guys. Sometimes you just have to walk away!

I love the cynicism :-)

There's no silver bullet replacement for the Google ecosystem. However there are plenty of choices for many important services such as Email, file/ photo storage, contacts / calendars, etc. You just gotta take the plunge!

If she goes on and on about the same thing, to me that seems like she wants your approval. Give it but also try to gently direct her to do something different?

"the party line"? That sort of emotive language sounds like something from Fox News or Heritage Foundation.

A small number of huge American tech companies have most to lose on this. These are the ones who play fast and loose with people's privacy.

If these new laws change the focus of business investment in Europe to those who respect privacy, that's a big win for all European citizens.

Now it's time for Margrethe Vestager to start cutting those huge American tech monopolies down to size!

Don't make calcium supplements (ie Tums) a regular part of your diet:

https://nutritionfacts.org/2018/03/22/if-calcium-supplements...