Optimizing CUDA is almost, but not quite, as arcane as optimizing assembly code by hand. It requires a deep knowledge of the underlying architecture. The addressing, the memory read patterns, and the role of each of the tiers of memory and the cost of moving between tiers, the size restrictions on each buffer, and how to coalesce the whole mess into a coherent answer. I once got a 30% performance increase by offsetting the addressing on my memory buffers so that they didn't all start on 16-byte boundaries. It allowed the data to be read in parallel and avoided collisions from the different processes trying to access the same block at the same time. The problem is most programmers aren't particularly hardware oriented, so CUDA comes with a steep learning curve if you want to do it well.

That is a fact. I was willing to put up with Sprint's craptacular 2g network where I live, since I was mostly using it for voice at the time, but a handful of issues with my wife's phone and we packed up and went to Verizon. Lo and behold! Friendly service, no dropped calls, no weird echo-feedback on the line, competent 3g speeds, and once their share-everything plan came down the pipe, reasonable pricing! I will never go back to Sprint. What good is unlimited data anyway when your "4g" connection only lets you maybe download at 3g speeds anyway.

More to the point with a detention like that where you are not free to go but not under arrest they also typically cannot transport you. However the second you get the "you are not free to go" then your immediate response needs to be "then I am invoking my right to remain silent" (you may be required to identify yourself, depends on jurisdiction). If they then proceed to Mirandize you, then the only other thing out of your mouth will then be "I want a lawyer".

No, no, no. Do not take a step away until you have been informed that you are free to go. One step after they tell you to stop and you can easily find yourself in trouble. If you are in fact under arrest then you have just resisted. If you are being detained then there's usually other laws you're running afoul of. Otherwise you are right about speaking in a soft voice and not being confrontational.

It wouldn't take much to cross-contaminate it and make it utterly worthless though. It's hard enough to filter out one reference sample (victim) from the perp's DNA to get a clean read. And labs have to take some pretty extraordinary measures to make sure none of the suspect's reference sample mixes with the crime scene sample to avoid a false positive. Throw a random mix of a bunch of other people's DNA in there and you would probably mess it up enough to make the sample worthless. Granted, I wouldn't want to bet 20-30 years of my life on it, but I guess if you were going to commit a crime anyway it wouldn't hurt in trying to cover up your tracks.

Harsh penalties for possessing DNA avoidance systems in 3...2...

From my experience that software is so named because it will sap the life out of you before, during, and after implementation. Three deaths and some divorces for a major rollout is mild in that market.

Is this some kind of meta-humor where you answer his post ironically by responding with a superior attitude to his comment about assholes exhibiting a superior attitude, or were you one of the people that interviewed him in his story?

"Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

People often say treason when they mean sedition.

Yes I do. Because math.

You have a finger, we found a gun three blocks from your house. Obviously that's probable cause to toss your apartment looking for drug stashes.

When you are able to see how your statement is equally absurd you may rejoin the conversation. Until then please stop trying to erode my rights.

A better example

It would be worth a hundred 9/11 level attacks to preserve our liberties and defend the rights and principles this country was founded on. And one hundred such attacks would *still* be less than two-thirds of the brave American men who gave their lives defending that liberty during World War Two. Man up Nancy.

I lost the key a long time ago (I think it was destroyed in lava) and I forgot what was in there.

I forgot the password I used, it's been so long now. I don't remember what I put on there anymore.

Not quite. If you're arrested they have to read you your rights. If you're being detained (which they can do without transporting you while investigating if they do in fact need to arrest you) then you still have the right to remain silent, but they have no obligation at that point to inform you of that right. This is entirely separate from a consensual encounter in which you are free to go, though they'll usually game those so that you are free to go by the letter of the law but you get the distinct impression that you are not.

In the instant discussion however a traffic stop is technically an arrest with immediate release on promise to appear (for which they also do not need to Mirandize you). You are not free to go if you are pulled over, and leaving without the officer telling you that you can go is resisting arrest, a vastly more serious offense than a traffic violation. Also signing the ticket is not an admission of guilt, it is a promise to appear only. In all cases though you are better off not engaging the officer in conversation, and only providing the information you are required by law to provide. Though again for traffic violations it's usually a fine and maybe traffic school/points on the license - an inconvenience really, not something serious like potential jail time. Just whatever you do do not consent to a search of your car.