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by quantus
Mon Apr 30, 2018 7:16 pm
Forum: Bulletin Board
Topic: daily awesome
Replies: 197
Views: 80103

Re: daily awesome

"If the world ever leaves you feeling hopeless, remember that Star Trek was cancelled twice and deemed an utter failure; then rose from the ashes to become the flagship for all of science fiction, spawning six spin-offs, fourteen movies, and enough novels to keep the fires burning through the Long ...
by quantus
Fri Apr 13, 2018 10:49 pm
Forum: Links
Topic: Facebook makes the world a worse place
Replies: 24
Views: 14033

Re: Facebook makes the world a worse place

https://www.wired.com/story/ted-2018-is-all-about-facebookand-not-in-a-good-way/amp Now TED talks are swinging against Facebook. I like the ending: Will humanity find a way to scrape through? Anderson asked. Harari was optimistic in the most depressing way possible. “As a historian, I know you shou...
by quantus
Mon Apr 02, 2018 10:54 pm
Forum: Links
Topic: Samsung is the world's largest chip maker
Replies: 5
Views: 2625

Re: Samsung is the world's largest chip maker

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker ... -macs-date

Intel to lose Apple business supplying for Macs? Not going to help your case to get back to being the worlds largest chip maker.
by quantus
Mon Mar 26, 2018 7:21 pm
Forum: Links
Topic: Uber self-driving cars: not very good
Replies: 3
Views: 2131

Re: Uber self-driving cars: not very good

Agreed. Their competitive advantages lies in the speed in which they can get a ride to a user. Also, their partnership with organizations that need to provide rides to their constituents. For example, Uber now provides health service which gives rides to patients needing to get scheduled treatments ...
by quantus
Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:51 pm
Forum: Links
Topic: Facebook makes the world a worse place
Replies: 24
Views: 14033

Re: Facebook makes the world a worse place

Exactly why I never log into the Facebook any more and haven't for years. This was discussed openly about the effect of apps on privacy way back before 2011 even https://techcrunch.com/2009/12/09/facebook-privacy/ https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-suspends-app-that-permitted-peephole/ - JUNE 26, 20...
by quantus
Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:52 pm
Forum: Links
Topic: Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018
Replies: 4
Views: 2324

Re: Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018

Googling javascript d3 turns up this: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4062006 You should definitely use this in your next presentation. https://bl.ocks.org/ I made a version of this for showing current compute queue usage throughout the allocation tree and linked it to a nvd3 area chart to show data f...
by quantus
Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:46 pm
Forum: Links
Topic: Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018
Replies: 4
Views: 2324

Re: Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018

It's sobering to realize I'm only senior-developer-good at systems programming (C/C++/assembly). It's been over a decade since I wrote any RTL, so I can't even claim hardware development as a skill. I've done some verification relatively recently, so maybe I can include that. There's whole intercon...
by quantus
Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:27 pm
Forum: Links
Topic: Ojeda
Replies: 1
Views: 1548

Re: Ojeda

Don't you mean: Oh-jed-ah! (hard j)
by quantus
Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:13 am
Forum: Links
Topic: Don't sell opioids, sell drugs that fix the side effects
Replies: 3
Views: 2144

Re: Don't sell opioids, sell drugs that fix the side effects

Very few side effects, other than costing $10 a pill. That's a little better than the one made by Valeant, which is $50 per injection. Sounds like you've done your research. Perhaps there's is a side business somehow for you related to this? Around here within the last few months there been a ton o...
by quantus
Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:54 am
Forum: Links
Topic: Samsung is the world's largest chip maker
Replies: 5
Views: 2625

Re: Samsung is the world's largest chip maker

Way to take it really slow?

What's the cost of these compared to flash?
by quantus
Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:57 am
Forum: Links
Topic: Samsung is the world's largest chip maker
Replies: 5
Views: 2625

Re: Samsung is the world's largest chip maker

What happened to Intel and the next-gen memory technologies? Why are they not being manufactured still?
by quantus
Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:55 am
Forum: Bulletin Board
Topic: WHY IS X-FILES SO BAD?!
Replies: 9
Views: 4902

Re: WHY IS X-FILES SO BAD?!

I'm glad I stopped watching... I was going to go back and blow through it at 1.7x speed, but maybe that's not even worth it :-\
by quantus
Thu Dec 21, 2017 6:55 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Zelda BotW
Replies: 2
Views: 1990

Re: Zelda BotW

The only console I've ever owned was an NES. And maybe you can count the original gameboy...maybe.
by quantus
Mon Oct 16, 2017 6:23 pm
Forum: Links
Topic: Ikea furniture for Vinny
Replies: 0
Views: 1685

Ikea furniture for Vinny

The YPPERLIG collection:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categ ... ons/37119/

How could he not like it with PERL in the name?
by quantus
Mon Oct 16, 2017 6:17 pm
Forum: Links
Topic: well shit the future is now
Replies: 6
Views: 4506

Re: well shit the future is now

today’s inadvertent and erroneous publication of testing materials They're testing the gullibility of their own bots? Or were they really testing how to sent markets into chaos by flooding lots of fake news?! Seems like hackers could weaponize this to crash markets. $2/share of AAPL is $10 billion ...
by quantus
Thu Oct 12, 2017 8:23 pm
Forum: Links
Topic: Unexplained star behavior found during exoplanet search
Replies: 6
Views: 4590

Re: Unexplained star behavior found during exoplanet search

Yay, mystery solved, not back to our regularly scheduled lives on the only known source of intelligent life.
by quantus
Thu Sep 07, 2017 8:11 pm
Forum: Links
Topic: IBM Watson not that great?
Replies: 1
Views: 1512

Re: IBM Watson not that great?

I'm a little wary of that person's knowledge on the issue if they made this mistake: *Correction, Sept. 6, 2017: This post originally misidentified the origin of the name of the IBM supercomputer Watson. I thought there were cases where Watson was able to keep up with large number of drug trials hap...
by quantus
Wed Sep 06, 2017 5:06 pm
Forum: Links
Topic: My world is on fire
Replies: 17
Views: 10822

Re: My world is on fire

If you want to see the data in real time: http://aqicn.org/map/usa/#@g/35.3721/-113.2031/3z Looks like China may be better off than Portland... Or is it: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/755525.shtml Qiu Qihong, an engineer of the Beijing Environmental Monitoring Center, said US and China use the s...