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Robadob

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About Robadob

Research software engineer at University of Sheffield (UK). Spend most my time developing FLAMEGPU2, a CUDA based framework for large-scale complex simulations.

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    I work at a university that is fully invested in Google Apps. We did have unlimited storage, however last week they announced that's soon to change: > A quota will soon be introduc…

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    Comment #34570751

    It's a real shame there's not a built in way to get notified in 6 months to check this stuff out. Guess I'll add it to my calendar.

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    Comment #34322592

    There are still inconsistencies between NHS dentists, visual assessment of cavities and what justifies treatment is inherently subjective. My first dentist retired after I'd had no…

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    Comment #33933076

    I have two yubikeys too, but I definitely found services which didn't allow me to register more than one when I first set them up (a couple of years ago now).

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    Comment #32621123

    My favourite example of this in English is adjective order. Native speakers learn that it should be "big red bus" rather than "red big bus", however most couldn't list the ~7 adjec…

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    Comment #30152586

    I received this email about an hour ago, so it must be being sent out progressively.

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    Comment #28219391

    If I refresh the page twice in quick succession, the same image comes up. By refreshing on my pc/phone at the same time, I managed to get the same image come up too. So it's probab…

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    Comment #27825960

    My parents regularly throw out spare food (bread, meat, fruit) onto their lawn, local wildlife (birds, foxes, hedgehogs) always take it all within 24h.

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    Comment #27632180

    The $769 is referring to the estimated money saved by fixing bugs, rather than the trade in value of the points. > For information on how points are awarded, see the Official Rules…

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    Comment #26940887

    It's not that GPUs don't support fp64, it's that for domestic gamer GPUs fp64 arithmetic is normally ~1:32 performance of fp32 arithmetic. e.g. 1080gtx FP16 (half) performance 138.…

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    Comment #26476180

    All UK AZ vaccines are being manufactured in the UK, the UK government funded these. The UK did not take part in the EU vaccine procurement program. It's my understanding that only…

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    Comment #26476047

    > The suggestion we sell to other countries to make more money is not right because we make no profit everywhere.That's the approach we took and we agreed on that. That’s the agree…

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    Comment #24851485

    Vice posted a new video (about American Apparel) to their YouTube today, was tagged with Quibi at the start and end.

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    Comment #24032215

    Historically there was an emulator mode, where you could build your CUDA code to run on CPU. However, it was removed a few years ago. I never used it, so can't really give you more…

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    Comment #23234093

    The video here talks about the difference between the two approaches. There's a comparison at 2:50. "I think the computers are winning, because in the upper right you can kind of s…

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    Comment #23123381

    We've come across this problem. The major testing frameworks seem to rely heavily on macros for tests. In particular, we were struggling to handle tests of thrown exceptions, as we…

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    Comment #22636076

    The video's here, in Italy, show the ventilators used with a bag over the patient's head to create a bubble of positive pressure (and quarantine off their head). So presumably in a…

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    Comment #22578976

    Recent versions of CMake have also been growing the support for CUDA. There's still a number of edge cases (e.g. passing arguments to the device linker) that have open tickets on t…

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    Comment #21751984

    It states that it's using telethon. That appears to be an MTProto library. https://docs.telethon.dev/en/latest/concepts/botapi-vs-mtpro...

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    Comment #20844969

    Fortnite has been criticised for it's store. Item's are only available for a limited time (24h?), with no guarantee of when they will become available again. This creates the 'Fear…