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 Saw this in my roaming through the Google news:
"BBC Studios is developing a six-episode TV series inspired by Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books."
Found it here: Terry Pratchett's Discworld is Being Adapted to TV
If this is true, I may just have to subscribe to BritBox or something 
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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And Amazon is making Good Omens - which should be pretty damn good!
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didn't they do a movie already? The story with the tourist (and of course luggage)
- but from memory was a bit chopped down from the book.
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This[^] is pretty useful.
This space for rent
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stoneyowl2 wrote: I may just have to subscribe to BritBox or something
Don't need that - just use a VPN - you can get most Brit TV doing that plus Hulu shows a lot of Brit TV (including Corrie!).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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It seems that the new firewall rules they've implemented prevent us from running Qlikview. Finally. Something I can't complain about...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Are there other things for you to work on though?
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Well, actually, no. Even Visual Studio is currently hosed on my machine (package manager console doesn't work).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Quote: Huh, because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth…
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So, which one is the most likely to be the next step?
a) Have the firewall rules revised so it runs again
b) Somebody makes the decision to migrate everything away from Qlikview and rewritten with something else (that'll turn out to be even worse)...
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Is pesticide when a moth gets too close to the candle?
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In my opinion, moths can never get close enough to candles.
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No, but it will be furnituricide, curtainicide and a few more 'cides' all at once when the cat spots that moth.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Much as suicide is jumping off the side of a sewer; matricide wearing out one's welcome (mat).
As for fungicide - a bunch of guys having a good time?
Pesticide, however, is merely a lethal overdose of a basil compote.
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regicide - when you have a license to 'cide someone?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: a lethal overdose of a basil compote
Wouldn't that be pestocide? Or is the plural of pesto, pesti? CPallini, you want to weigh in here?
Software Zen: delete this;
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You gotta larva nerve to post that here!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Anatomy of High-Performance Matrix Multiplication[^]
I found this from this answer[^] and it got me thinking that C# is making me lazy. I no longer ever consider the loop order nor issues such as page size, memory cache, vectorisation, not to mention the possibilities the GPU offers.
Anyone here writing truly performant code, or is everyone thinking Javascript rocks because node is meant to be so fast? Man I feel old today...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The stuff I work on has to be very high performing. I use OpenMP and also have to explicitly distribute the load across three or four other machines. In the end we, we have on the order of 80 to 100 threads working on the problem, twenty per machine.
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I begun with machine language and hex keyboards. Computer graphics were my first love and even today a GPU is one of my favorite toys.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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His name is GOTO so he just has to optimize!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I try occasionally. I've tried matrix multiplication too but I couldn't get further than around 28 flop/cycle (on a Haswell so the target is 32 flop/cycle), that already took some weird trickery.
I'm learning AVX512 but so far just theoretically since I don't have the hardware (I could just buy it of course, but I want VBMI2 and some other extensions too and they're not out yet).
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Chris Maunder wrote: Anyone here writing truly performant code
Heck, I'm always complaining about the lack of performance, documentation and consistency of all the ridiculous ways things "have to" get done where I work. A website for requesting access, hardware, software, etc., that's so obtuse nobody actually knows how to use it. Spreadsheets used as forms to submit releases from development to QA to production. A job scheduler that is only smart enough to launch .bat files that then trigger SQL SP's or application EXE's. An SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle) app that takes more time to figure out how to submit a release than to write the damn code. Corporate guidelines on the configuration of a development computer - W7, 4GB RAM, archaic 5400 RPM drive. Oh, and giving up after 15 minutes on hold at the corporate help desk because I still can't connect to my box using remote desktop because the request got lost in the aforementioned "automated" request website.
So, performant code, IMHO, starts with performant people and processes, then performant tools, then performant designs, and at some point you might need to actually look at loop order and memory utilization. I've written complex multithreaded analysis tools in C# that ran circles around the previous C++ versions because I worked on optimizing the design of the code. Long gone are the days when I had to count CPU cycles and worry about odd/even byte addresses to see what I could fit into the 1.6ms or so (IIRC) of the vertical blanking interval of a video display. 
Sorry, didn't mean to turn this into a curmudgeon's rant. I spent this week dealing with these things, computer reboots due to security updates, and other non-performant issues. 
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Let me get you a whisky
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Here I am, and in single thread to boot.
I had to document, debug and complete in Assembler: a library for fast conservative rotations on 8 bit images; build the same library for 16 bit images; design and develope a normalizing / lut applicator library.
The last time I used assembler inline was to make fast integrations across columns on a 16 bit image and to devolve the 3x3 Sobel algorithm from a bidimensional algo to a single pass linear one. I brought down the execution times by 66% only using assembler, after having them already halved with proper cycle ordering and pointer arithmetics.
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