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Comment Re:The 19 year old is a lunatic (Score 1) 150

Talent is not the same thing as experience.

I'm in agreement - experience counts for a lot when doing something new.

Being able to do something does not mean it is a good idea to do it.

I'm in agreement with this as well.

So many people have tried this approach to improving efficiency (MIT RAW, Stanford Imagine, Stanford Smart Memories) and have run into such serious problems (compilers, libraries, eco system, system-level support) that unless he has solutions for those problems, starting it again is not a smart idea.

It is highly unlikely that this will go anywhere (so, yeah - agreement again)... BUT... he is displaying a great deal of talent for his age. The lessons he learns from this failure[1] will be more valuable than the lessons learned in succeeding at a less difficult task.

As I understand it, he proposes removing the hardware cache and instead using the compiler to prefetch values from memory. He says the hardware cache logic gates add 40% overhead to every memory fetch. Whether he can actually produce a compiler than will insert the necessary memory fetch instructions at compile time in an efficient manner remains to be seen, but it is still a worthwhile endeavour for a 19 year old.

[1] Worst case scenario. He might succeed after all.

Comment Re:Ah yes, let's talk about gender politics some m (Score 1) 557

this imagined "terror" of Gamergate,

Basically what you're saying is:

"I don't like what you have to say so I'm going to claim you imagined it all".

You are literally claiming that none of the threats she got were real.

Or perhaps she's claiming that the threats were so non-credible that no cause for investigation could be found. Cops *wanted* to investigate but apparently there wasn't anything of substance *to* investigate. It's easier to investigate when there is, you know, actual evidence of a credible threat.

Comment Re: By Neruos (Score 1) 150

The biggest thing is what we have tried to emphasize, which is the fact that we have an entirely different memory system that does away with the hardware managed cache hierarchy. The rest of the really interesting stuff we have not publicly disclosed (yet), but I can tell you that it is very different from both Kalray and Tilera.

You might have answered this already but I'm not very good at reading walls-o-text, so apologies if this is a repeat: The hardware managed cache design for chips is popular for a reason - it provides a speed boost. If you remove this what kind of process do you propose to replace it with? (Unless you have a design that makes a hardware managed cache redundant. What do you do then? Have software manage the cache?)

Comment Re:The 19 year old is a lunatic (Score 1) 150

"Virtual Memory translation and paging are two of the worst decisions in computing history"

"Introduction of hardware managed caching is what I consider 'The beginning of the end'"

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These comments belie a fairly child-like understanding of computer architecture.

He's young, and he displays much more talent than people twice his age. What's your problem anyway?

Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 216

How did you feel when Windows 7 x64 no longer ran 16 bit applications? Make the remote features into a module. Right now its slow and hobbled together with decades of legacy code.

"Decades of legacy code" == "mountains of debugged and user-required code implementing logic that was never written down anywhere".

"Fresh new code" == "fresh new bugs".

Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 216

-if a little slowly- for me ten years ago on commodity hardware running RHEL.

3-D applications have performance requirements, so in other words, it didn't work for you either.

It only doesn't work if you make up constraints that don't exist. For me, when I made up no fictional constraints, it worked as expected.

Comment Re:A story of how women were (Score 4, Informative) 191

...distracting that critical thinking with irrelevant asides...

That's a flat-out idiotic comment.

[a whole bunch of other confused tripe]

Talking about two housewives in a company that failed before it started is a feel-good story at best, a lame attempt at social justice at worst.

The company was highly successful at the time, went public, and years later failed after the IBM/DOS combination came to dominate. Yet because the company was founded by two "housewives", you deny its success and importance.

It was not "founded by two housewives". It was founded on the basis of a product created by a man who gifted his bored wife with it to sell. She subsequently took the product, kicked him out and failed miserably. Seriously, read the article.

Comment Re:the important detail (Score 1) 634

you imagine yourself as some sort of authority that polices comments

i'd submit your little temper tantrum here is way more off topic than my comment ever could be

you have a social disorder

if you don't like what someone is talking about, ignore it

if you have to attack them because you don't like they brought up a subject, maybe you're just a useless douchebag. maybe you and your attitude is the actual fucking problem here

Quite ironic really - the only ones who throw abuse on slashdot are those who loudly proclaim that they're the victims. When you go around proselytizing your personal ideology don't get all hurt when someone points out that you're simply repeating a pre-prepared rant you've posted before. This thread stands as a good account of how the so-called enlightened behave.

Comment Re:Er...how? (Score 1) 368

They were afraid the drones would be sucked into a jet engine or smash through a windscreen, they are also afraid of large birds for the same reason but there is fuck all they can do to stop natural bird strikes.

To add to what TapeCutter said: you aren't going to find many birds flying that low above a raging forest fire. Ever stood downwind of a bushfire? You'll get pelted by every single living thing that lives in that place as they run to escape the fire. Seriously, there aren't going to be birds above a forest fire.

Comment Re:the important detail (Score 1, Insightful) 634

Whereas your whine about "SJWs"has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

circletimesquare was entirely on-topic and was making an interesting point. He did not deserve your attack.

Really? Care to point out my "attack"? You blatantly throw insults as shown above, but anyone who dare politely question what relevance enforced paternal leave has on an ageism lawsuit is an attacker? Did you ever consider why the phrase "victim mentality" has been gaining prominence recently?

Comment Re:the important detail (Score 0) 634

Today, Fillekes' LinkedIn profile describes her career as a "cheese maker at Mohawk Drumlin Creamery." In 2014, "I bought a dairy farm in upstate NY. I designed and built an on-farm creamery to produce farmstead sheep's milk cheese and yogurt," she wrote.

someone with her education who goes to make cheese... hey, that's really romantic. maybe she burnt out, maybe she has some social issue that prevents competent office interaction

but maybe the real issue here is resume prejudice. where the guy or gal who takes 5 or 10 years off to pursue a passion never can get back in the game. which is especially true of women and the pursuit being having children

the usa should be like the nordic countries, and have mandatory child leave for *fathers and mothers*

that way having kids dings men's careers as much as women. otherwise, as long as child rearing impacts women disproportionately, women will never achieve parity with men in the office. nevermind that men want to spend time with their children and time with dad is just as important as time with mom if we really care about strong families in this country. put your money where your mouth is on your rhetoric about strong families, the presence of a father in a child's life, and family values in general, dear social conservatives, and promote equal family leave for men and women

Do you realise that you veered off into your SJW rant? The story is about a woman who believes she was discriminated against due to her age, and yet you respond about how things would be better if we enforced paternal leave on men.

(PS. Not every discussion should be viewed through the patriarchy glasses)

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