Comment Just use AI for triage (Score 1) 70
You could just use AI for triage and dedup.
Comment Why bother with it at all? (Score 1) 27
It should have been there since the start. I don't see this as a feature but the MVP finally being complete. Although I have to say appart from its fast compile time and relatively quick learning curve. What is the advantage of Golang over say Rust? Rust is faster, uses less memory, has generic and has a package manager that actually works. To be honest I don't really understand the niche that Golang is trying to fill it's neither a good competitor for high level languages (too low level) nor a good one for low level languages (too slow).
Submission + - AMD Discloses RDNA 2 Graphics, CDNA Data Center GPUs, Next Gen Zen (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: At its Financial Analyst Day, AMD disclosed additional details regarding its next generation CPU and GPU architectures. The tech industry has been referring to AMD's next-generation flagship discrete GPUs based on the RDNA 2 architecture as "Big Navi". However, RDNA 2 isn't just an extension of Navi, but rather a 2nd-gen architecture that brings with it improved performance-per-watt and new features. AMD is referring to RDNA 2 as "Navi 2X," and its follow-up GPU architecture, RDNA 3, was referred to as Navi 3X. While the company isn't ready to disclose concrete details yet, AMD is promising that Navi 2X will arrive this year and deliver "enthusiast-class" performance, excellent power efficiency, and "top-of-stack" GPUs with "uncompromising 4K gaming". While AMD has RDNA for its gaming-centric consumer GPUs, the company is shifting to a new GPU compute architecture, dubbed CDNA, for its High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Machine Learning (ML) accelerators. CDNA has been designed from the ground-up for ML/HPC applications, and will leverage what AMD calls its second-generation Infinity Architecture interconnects. AMD also reiterated that its first Zen 3-based products will be rolling out later this year. On the server side, this means EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors, but the company also revealed that Zen 3 client processors would also arrive by the end of 2020.
Submission + - CRISPR Used To Edit Genes Inside a Patient With a Rare Form of Blindness (npr.org)
An anonymous reader writes: For the first time, scientists have used the gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to edit a gene while the DNA is still inside a person's body. The groundbreaking procedure involved injecting the microscopic gene-editing tool into the eye of a patient blinded by a rare genetic disorder, in hopes of enabling the volunteer to see. They hope to know within weeks whether the approach is working and, if so, to know within two or three months how much vision will be restored. Before this step, doctors had only used CRISPR to try to treat a small number of patients who have cancer, or the rare blood disorders sickle cell anemia or beta-thalassemia.
In this new experiment, doctors at the Casey Eye Institute in Portland, Ore., injected (into the eye of a patient who is nearly blind from a condition called Leber congenital amaurosis) microscopic droplets carrying a harmless virus that had been engineered to deliver the instructions to manufacture the CRISPR gene-editing machinery. Beginning in infancy, the rare genetic condition progressively destroys light-sensing cells in the retina that are necessary for vision. Vision impairment with LCA varies widely, but most patients are legally blind and are only able to differentiate between light and dark or perhaps to detect movement. The goal is that once the virus carrying the CRISPR instructions has been infused into the eye, the gene-editing tool will slice out the genetic defect that caused the blindness. That would, the researchers hope, restore production of a crucial protein and prevent the death of cells in the retina, as well as revive other cells — enabling patients to regain at least some vision.
In this new experiment, doctors at the Casey Eye Institute in Portland, Ore., injected (into the eye of a patient who is nearly blind from a condition called Leber congenital amaurosis) microscopic droplets carrying a harmless virus that had been engineered to deliver the instructions to manufacture the CRISPR gene-editing machinery. Beginning in infancy, the rare genetic condition progressively destroys light-sensing cells in the retina that are necessary for vision. Vision impairment with LCA varies widely, but most patients are legally blind and are only able to differentiate between light and dark or perhaps to detect movement. The goal is that once the virus carrying the CRISPR instructions has been infused into the eye, the gene-editing tool will slice out the genetic defect that caused the blindness. That would, the researchers hope, restore production of a crucial protein and prevent the death of cells in the retina, as well as revive other cells — enabling patients to regain at least some vision.
Comment Racism (Score 2, Insightful) 448
I think this has gone too far. Fighting for equality of opportunities is one thing but being racist to achieve it is another.
Reverse racism is simply racism it doesn't matter what group in targeted. Social justice isn't justice. Feminism is not about equality anymore it doesn't care about other genders it's only about women. People fought long hard against racism and inequality. The last thing we need is to find new victims (ie. Men, Caucasians and Asians this time around) .
Comment The future is in the past! (Score 5, Interesting) 206
Take a look at Squeak ( http://squeak.org/ ). As it turns out most things in the future will have their roots in the discarded ideas of the past. As far as programming languages take a look at Erlang and Elixir (computer languages are the operating systems of the future). I expect the capability model and the actor model will get a lot more popular in the future. In the future computers will be networks, applications will be distributed applications.
Comment Re:Definitely Elixir (Score 1) 429
Any good developer can learn it. I was able to learn Erlang fairly quickly I don't see that Elixir is any different.
Comment Definitely Elixir (Score 1) 429
Elixir is a functional, concurrent, general-purpose programming language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM). Elixir builds on top of Erlang to provide distributed, fault-tolerant, soft real-time, non-stop applications but also extends it to support metaprogramming with macros and polymorphism via protocols.
Think of it as a mix of Ruby, Haskell and Erlang without too many compromises.
Comment OpenSSH on Windows (Score 1) 265
It would be nice to see OpenSSH on Windows (included the in default distribution).
Microsoft opensource is your friend. Don't be afraid to use more of it!
Comment Not limited to China. (Score 1) 364
This isn't limited to China. North America, Asia and Europe are in the same situation. If I can give one word of of advice it's this SELL.
Comment USB to IDE or Trumpet Winsock (Score 2) 466
You best bet is to get the drive hooked up to a USB to IDE adapter and copy the files.
If that doesn't work get and USB to RS232 cable and a NULL Modem Adapter and connect your two machines. Ideally you should setup Linux with pppd on the new computer. Run Trumpet Winsock on your old laptop and do a manual login and just hit ESC as soon as the terminal window shows up. Once that works install and ftp daemon on one of the two machines and a ftp client on the other side. Then just copy your files.
Comment Re:Population is not a real issue here (Score 1) 625
I noticed that everyone quickly jumped to the population problem. In fact this is not an issue at all.
Everything that grows exponentially has a doubling rate. One could easily argue that the real problem is in the newer generations since they will always represent significantly bigger population than the previous one. So the issue is not people not dying quickly, the problem is people being born. If everyone stopped having kids and would magically become biologically immortal the growth rate would be negative or 0% (due to the fact that people die in accidents).
Oh and by the way the only sustainable growth rate is exactly 0% not more. Anything more would mean it has a doubling rate. It's basic math.
It's true that population is not a big issue. But I am afraid the corrupt would use it to maintain their status indefinitely.
Submission + - FISC Secret Court Chief Judge: We can't effectively oversee the NSA (washingtonpost.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Via the Washington Post: "The leader of the secret court that is supposed to provide critical oversight of the government’s vast spying programs said that its ability to do so is limited and that it must trust the government to report when it improperly spies on Americans. The chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said the court lacks the tools to independently verify how often the government’s surveillance breaks the court’s rules that aim to protect Americans’ privacy. Without taking drastic steps, it also cannot check the veracity of the government’s assertions that the violations its staff members report are unintentional mistakes."
President Obama: "We also have federal judges that we’ve put in place who are not subject to political pressure,” Obama said at a news conference in June. “They’ve got lifetime tenure as federal judges, and they’re empowered to look over our shoulder at the executive branch to make sure that these programs aren’t being abused.”
Not so much, Mr. President.
President Obama: "We also have federal judges that we’ve put in place who are not subject to political pressure,” Obama said at a news conference in June. “They’ve got lifetime tenure as federal judges, and they’re empowered to look over our shoulder at the executive branch to make sure that these programs aren’t being abused.”
Not so much, Mr. President.
Submission + - Carbyne: A Form of Carbon Even Stronger Than Graphene 1
Dialecticus writes: Sebastian Anthony at ExtremeTech has written an article about research into the physical properties of carbyne, an elusive form of carbon. A new mathematical analysis by Mingjie Liu and others at Rice University suggests that carbyne may achieve double the strength of graphene, stealing its crown and becoming the strongest material known to man.
Submission + - Happy birthday, Debian! (debian.org)
stderr_dk writes: According to Wikipedia the initial release of Debian happened August 16th 1993. In other words, it's Debians birthday and you're all invited.
Over the years, Debian has been forked a number of times. Some of the more well-known forks are Ubuntu and Knoppix.
The latest release of Debian pure blend was Debian 7.1 "Wheezy" on June 15th 2013.
Over the years, Debian has been forked a number of times. Some of the more well-known forks are Ubuntu and Knoppix.
The latest release of Debian pure blend was Debian 7.1 "Wheezy" on June 15th 2013.
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