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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Easier to swap the motherboard.
Ah, yes.
I only do that every second Thursday, so it didn't occur to me to make it 4.3% easier to do.
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Why would I need a case big enough to have a mini-bar in it?
Bigger, shirley?
Because you also need room for the industrial-grade cooling, for the beer -- and space for the hoover, to take away all the dust attracted by the magnetic fields.
But if you just don't like big cases, Get a smaller one with the same power kit inside[^].
Or, even better, choose your own kit, and make a case for it.
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My last-but-one personal PC was an SFF.
I liked the fact that it didn't take up much room, but that was its only advantage, and I've got plenty of room for bigger boxes (I built the computer desk myself, so there's plenty of room for everything -- and I use a KVM switch to run four computers), so I never bothered with them again.
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It is a low-level API that provides maximum feature set of the GPU to the web applications. The API is designed for WebAssembly, modern GPUs, and multi-threaded environment in mind. When in doubt, create a new standard
Getting in with this before everyone else adds it: xkcd: Standards[^]
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But at least we'll get 14 (incompatible) updates per year.
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To be fair, the whole problem here is that there is no existing standard, quite different from the situation in xkcd.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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A bigger problem will be when, as usual, some bunch of wallies gets together and sets up standards that are practically useless for almost everyone.
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Listen closely. The sound you hear resembling giant strings of firecrackers going off in the distance is MS management heads exploding.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Russ Miller wants computer science students to think in parallel from the get-go Solving so in is because problems parallel easy
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Because a programming paradigm that causes even experienced professionals headaches is a great way to teach fundamentals  He mentions it's more parallel theory and not so much implementation but why bother teaching something you explicitly know your students won't be able to use? Teach naming, IOC, design patterns, or a plethora of other more commonly used topics.
modified 21-Mar-17 18:38pm.
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Yes, and young children should be taught arithmetic only after they've learned calculus.
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Multi threaded programming[^]
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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LOL  This is an amazing pic, bookmarked, and surprisingly accurate 
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That's bang on. Nice one.
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Lol, yes, seen that one before.
Kevin
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Interesting article. Teaching a mindset should not get mixed up with teaching (current) implementation details.
But on the other hand, when I see so many people writing software in C# lacking an object-oriented mindset... Well, with parallelism I think the probability of failure is even bigger.
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The trouble with teaching students 70% theory, without teaching current implementation details is that you end up with what we've got now: 99% of graduates that are useless in the workplace for three years.
... And often worse than useless, as many of us (Marc most recently, in the Lounge) will testify.
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As far as I’m concerned, the one to watch here is NVIDIA. Their recent Tegra series sees them bringing massively parallel GPU processing to affordable embedded devices. The Tegra 4 had a quadcore CPU and 72 GPU cores. The TK1 has a quadcore CPU and 192 GPU cores, and the most recent TX1 has an octacore CPU and a 256 GPU cores that provide over 1 Teraflops of processing power. These existing devices are very impressive, but NVIDIA are not slowing down development, with the Xavier expected to appear at the end of 2017. Boasting 512 GPU cores and a custom octacore CPU architecture, the Xavier claims to deliver 20 trillion operations per second for only 20-W power consumption.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Boasting 512 GPU cores and a custom octacore CPU architecture, the Xavier claims to deliver 20 trillion operations per second for only 20-W power consumption
Wow!
So we can look forward to ultra-high-res funny cat videos!
... And machines that can run photoshop cc without making grinding noises.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: So we can look forward to ultra-high-res funny cat videos!
What else would you do with that kind of power? 
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Microservices does not mean small applications. It is an application architecture that helps businesses and developers break down their monolithic applications into separate services, according to Chris Richardson, founder of Eventuate, a startup with a focus on transactional microservices. Dude, it's right there in the name
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One man's microservice is another man's library.
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Who was the target audience of this? The need to explain micro-services doesn't exist among devs; it's a management issue. This reads like Distributed Architecture for Dummies.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Sophisticated cybersecurity systems excel at finding "bad apples" in computer networks, but they lack the computing power to identify the threats directly. "One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch, girl"
I'm sure it's brilliant, but this article had way too many "Hunh?" per paragraph. Who let's apples on their network?
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"Hunh" is just not a strong enough grunt.
My fab fave:Quote: A hose or stick can cause you to jump, even if you're not searching for a snake. Similarly, the Neuromorphic Cyber Microscope compares streaming data to suspicious patterns in a time-dependent manner.
Yes'm.
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