Sanddancer

To sandblast the oxide layer off the GaS ingots.

Yes, I know what it means and includes. Android, which is one of the biggest unixes right now, doesn't use GNU. iOS, which is another one of the biggest unixes right now, doesn't use GNU. Most embedded linuxes don't use GNU. So yes, for the parts of unix which are visible to most people, the gnu parts are not very relevant at all.

How many of them actually intimately use the GNU userland as opposed to Xorg and whatever libc's installed? GNU's an increasingly irrelevant portion of unix and unixlike systems -- most of the actually important userland portions are python, ruby, the aforementioned Xorg, etc.

True, but I'm curious to see what the rest of the Threadripper line shakes up to be. The $599 chip only has 28 pcie lanes, which isn't enough to run two gpus at full speed. In comparison, the $300 ivy bridge-e cpu has 40 lanes. Especially with their Zeppelin line, AMD's got a chance to shake up Intel's stagnant IO situation.

Consultations tend to be relatively inexpensive, and a lot of lawyers in the realm of employment law will work on a contingency basis -- you pay a certain percentage of the settlement/award amount. If you lose, you don't owe the lawyer anything.

Using any sort of device -- be it a phone app that keeps track of random number seeds, or an old school blackjack computer that works via foot taps -- has been illegal for a long while. It makes things no longer a game of chance. Much like how a casino's not allowed to use weighted dice, you're not allowed to use your own probability shifters. Now, if the people that are being discussed were doing this in their head, it wouldn't be illegal. The casinos would be angry at these people, call them mean names, and probably blacklist them, but it wouldn't be a crime. It's only once you add that device to make it something other than a game of chance does it become a crime.

I've worked on a codebase where a jsp app would call an API served by a mod_perl app, which would call a remote API to a c++ app. Technical bankruptcy can and does creep up even in services made in the micro style. They may not be as common now because the microservice trend is fairly recent, but as years go on, I'm betting you're going to see more issues with microservice systems where code done may be using a decade's worth of changing Best Practices.

Yes. There are a bunch of cores, plus SMT. The datasheets for their parts give equivalent performance depending on how many threads you have. XMOS chips are in that category of Neat and Weird, which is perfect for an Amiga type system.

It's targeting the chromebook market of a curated marketplace for apps.

It needs a lot of pins because it's an I/O monster. The socket is going to support their high end server chips with 8 memory channels. Plus, all of their high end line supports 128 pcie lanes, and will have on board an unknown number of usb, sata, and networking lanes. All that adds up to needing a very large socket.

The media isn't biased as much as you think. It's anti-confrontational, which means stories about things people are upset about often get minified. However, the Washington Times, which you linked to, is fantastically biased. It's owned by the Unification Church, and has been repeatedly criticized for its pro-Moon stance. If you want to know what's really happening, don't read the washington times.