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Comment Re:Latency probably sucks (Score 2) 20

It's been my general impression that physical latency (as measured in ns) is roughly constant across all DDR generations. But it's interesting to note that the best latencies are seen around DDR3. The latest generations seem to want throughput at the expense of latency.

"Why people think "performace" means "throughput" is something I'll never understand. Throughput is _always_ secondary to latency, and really only becomes interesting when it becomes a latency number (ie "I need higher throughput in order to process these jobs in 4 hours instead of 8" - notice how the real issue was again about _latency_). " -- Linus Torvalds

Comment Re:I see nothing wrong with subscriptions (Score 2) 109

Facebook needs to flip their description of the situation. Make Facebook into a service where everyone pays. Then by allowing add you get billing credits.

That simple restatement solves all of the EU issues. There is no 'right' in the EU to access a commercial service for free. Restating it this way makes it clear that Facebook is a commercial service which needs to be paid for, and then you are given the option of which currency you'd would like to pay with.

Comment old school btc (Score 2) 26

This is old school pump and dump. not bitcoin, which is new school pump and dump.

Just like "unicorns", "weed stocks", "ev stocks" etc etc etc... they will valuate this thru the roof, IPO and dump.

Stock market is pure gambling now. The only advantage is that USA law requires your retirement manager to place bets. c'ching!

Comment Re:Hypothetical question (Score 1) 26

PS: Alternatively, you can imagine to unroll the time-space-curve around the Black Hole into a flat surface, and if you then plot the hyperbolic curve of your object onto that flat surface, you will notice that it winds infinitely often around the singularity before leaving the Event Horizon.

Ah, a -funroll-loops solution to a Slashdot problem.

Comment Re:compression algorithm should not be reducing no (Score 1) 81

The whole point of JPEG compression is that high frequency components (grainy noise) can be discarded while maintaining the image similar for practical purposes. In a lossy compression scheme, some things must go, and this was a sensible choice at the time. These days, decent compression schemes will recognize grainy noise and regenerate it upon decoding.

Comment Re:I get it, he doesn't like introverts (Score 5, Insightful) 112

If you get getting a CompSci degree just for the money -- don't. I have had many employees over the years and there is a direct correlation between people who don't really like to program (ie in it for the money) and getting yourself fired. Go find something you actually want to do for a career.

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