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42 billions total now, the 32 billions just announced is on top of the 10 billions already put aside last week. And yes with these measures essentially any income is now assured: S…

At first I thought like "hey Carmel doesn't look so bad". Then I realized all the grey stuff is parking lots, not houses.

There's no one keeping track of that as far as I know, but the group picture of kernel maintainers (just picked the first one google brought up) is fairly informative on your quest…

The OpenGL threading model is completely screwed up. You essentially have a global lock per GL context, which means you're restricted to 1 thread for issuing rendering. And in GL a…

I commented a summary on the phoronix forums already, copypasting here. I'm the good cop in the good cop/bad coop game Dave&I have been playing in this. Maybe this helps clear up s…

Complying or not complying to a foreing judges orders is a pretty common problem for any multinational company. Even if they have local presensence, the thing requested (data, obje…

PSR on skl is still disabled by default, because there's some corner cases we haven't fixed yet. In case you wonder: more recent platforms shut down more of the chip in PSR, and we…

Open source gpu drivers on Linux clear all allocations the kernel driver hands to userspace. And where it exists, different clients are also isolated from each another through the …

To all the armchair domain admins commenting here: It's a single-letter domain in one of the traditional non-country TLDs. It only exists because it was grandfathered in in 1993 [1…

It's used to teach CS undergrads programming basics at ETH Zürich. At least a few years ago ...

Entropy _is_ statistics ... it's just another measure for the probability of a given state.

Iirc DVD subtitles are actually a pre-rendered overlay stream. YUV (with uv subsampling) works great for pictures, not so much for text (and has only ever the original DVD resoluti…

In the linux kernel community, you'd get shot for this attitude. Now granted there are not many projects out there with this scale and complexity, but still: A one-liner commit-mes…

This. Math is a tool (and sometimes abused for pure pleasure, 200 years later applied to make hard crypto work). If your definition doesn't make sense for the application, fix your…

Highly unlikely that three runs of the same test are fully independant, i.e. they might match all on the same antibody which is similar to an HIV one but not due to a HIV. You like…

Exactly. All this massive discussions about creating new money somehow ingnores the elephant in the room: If banks with too much leverage would actually be able to default people w…

In my experience people tend to be zealots only in certain very specific areas and quite reasonable everywhere else. I.e. your proposal's running the serious risk of muting and awf…

You've made my day. This is one of the tricks to I often forget about again but just smile upon reencountering. Step 1: Transform to the eigenbasis of your operator. Step 2: Enjoy …

The problem with that approach is that tuning it is hard, i.e. it's rather harder to ensure that the knob somewhat linearly adjust from "not toasted" to "black" and the useable con…

What would really happen is that a second trader would enter the market, offer to buy the laptop for 110$, hold onto it and then sell it on for 140$. Actual prices vary and with en…

I've studied math. The most recent mathematician I can recall by name (due to a few important theorems) has been doing his great work in the 1930s. Most of the stuff is older. I do…

.2 is way to short. Only works when you're anticipating something and have all your muscles prepped for action. The realistic figure is 1 second for an attentative driver, a bit le…

It doesn't because it isn't ;-) In real sword fights the defenders jobs is to deflect the attackers stroke (more or less). If you'd just try to stop it (physically reversing the at…