slackito
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Comment · 1 year ago
Depending on which European country it's not necessarily forbidden. "Compliance reasons" may also mean "the company must pay overtime at the appropriate rate" and they just don't want to deal with that.
Comment · 2 years ago
The fact that you're comparing CUDA to using triangles and shaders makes me think you might be confusing OpenCL with OpenGL.
OpenCL is meant for general computation (the C is for "computing") rather than graphics, like CUDA.
Comment · 2 years ago
> Pixels are a unit of area like an acre or square meter.
Some computer graphics experts don't agree with this: http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf
Comment · 2 years ago
> there is no mechanism to unionize wait staff, or kitchen staff, dishwashers etc. included
There is, however, a "union" of restaurant owners who lobbies against improving minimum wage and working conditions for restaurant workers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Restaurant_Associatio...
Comment · 12 years ago
Anyone interested in how GPUs work should read the series of blog posts by Fabian Giesen "A trip through the graphics pipeline": https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-...
Comment · 12 years ago
Thanks for the pointer to zopfli. I've used p7zip in the past as a "better gzip", and it gets good results for this one too :D
$ curl -s http://danlec.com/st4k | gzip -cd | 7z a -si -tgzip -mx=9 compressed.gz
$ wc compressed.gz
14 84 4048 compressed.gzComment · 13 years ago
I did the same for C++. I hate many aspects of the language, and it feels really ugly compared to newer languages like C#, or even D, but it's still my language of choice for some projects (mostly because the tools are mature and almost everywhere).
Comment · 13 years ago
The GPU doesn't execute Javascript. It runs small programs called "shaders", written in GLSL (the OpenGL shading language), which are compiled on the fly by the graphics driver to something that can be actually executed on the GPU.
Comment · 14 years ago
I think a valid, although not legal, motivation for that could be "I just want something Microsoft will activate because I want a clean (i.e.: without applying a random crack from the Internet which could install malware) Windows install, at the minimum possible cost".
Comment · 14 years ago
I'm getting the same from 149.11.24.18 (home Internet connection, Spain) and te-4-4-gblx.sto1.se.portlane.net (from a US-based VPS).
Comment · 14 years ago
Giving a browser plugin the ability to run any program on the user machine without any kind of validation or prompting is so stupid/evil that they deserve the worst PR backlash they can get.
Also, that's probably the quickest way to get them to release a fix.
Comment · 14 years ago
In fact, the concept of "freestanding implementation" (as opposed to "hosted implementation", which is a implementation of the full standard) exists in C, and is sometimes used in embedded systems:
a conforming freestanding implementation is only required
to provide certain library facilities: those in <float.h>,
<limits.h>, <stdarg.h>, and <stddef.h>; since AMD1, also
those in <iso646.h>; since C99, also those in <stdbool.h>
and <stdint.h>; and since C11, also those in <stdalign.h>
and <stdnoreturn.h>
So yes, a conforming (freestanding) C implementation without printf for embedded systems can exist.