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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 w…

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 "…

> 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

> 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 …

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-thr…

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 -s…

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 …

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 …

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 …

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).

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 the…

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 …

Six months of unemployment per year of employment? Where are these figures from? For unjustified firing, the employer has to pay 33 days of salary for each worked year (was 45 befo…

Except for the "g++ >= 4.6" part, AFAIK.