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Comment Re:Old news (Score 2) 53

IAAAP (I am an accelerator physicist), and this is pretty old news. The US muon collider program is actually on its way out. Last year's Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) advised the DOE to defund the muon collider project, redirecting funds toward the International Linear Collider (ILC)-- a 250GeV e+/e- precision Higgs factory-- and other projects:

According to this article it's easier to put energy in particles with substantial mass. They don't seem to leak as much.
So how are they gonna accomplish these 2-3 x higher energies in the ILC over the LEP ? More massive electric fields ?

Comment Re:Why is it news? (Score 1) 60

Because the past major revision upgrade of KDE was a disaster (KDE3->KDE4).
Because the KDE folks are putting a lot of work into their Wayland backend so they might push for inclusion of it early on as well.
It's contraversial because it has the potential to result in another round of great Linux Desktop instability.

Comment Re:Floppy disk? [OT] (Score 1) 368

I've been taking baby steps in assembly at the moment and I wonder a few things, I apologize in advance if this question makes you facepalm:

Then you're doing something horribly wrong and causing all sorts of stalls in the pipeline.

Are there any instructions that give direct insight into the state of the pipeline (like rdtsc for cycle count).
How do you distinguish slowness from faulty "branch prediction", pipeline woes or any other reason on any non trivial codebase ?

Comment Our tastes calcify (Score 2) 361

Our tastes don't really calcify we just don't have any buttload of free time anymore to go exploring new music. So
we stick with what we do know and like. It doesn't help that pop music is an even bigger marketing behemoth than before.
And the length of the monthly pop music carrousel keeps shrinking.

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