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I don't think I've ever seen a sci-fi rendition of this concept. It means that an advanced enough alien species could come to a planet, from orbit disable all nuclear weapons and p…

I think you can argue that the pervasive use of notebooks is close enough for learning at least, but it's not as good for real development. The edit-and-continue features in Visual…

Exactly. This is the case for my children.

Definitely read https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... if you haven't yet. Then think about what are the requirements your system needs when it comes to na…

Yes, people really need to know that unless you are using the browser plugin, you really shouldn't ask it questions like this. (A good rule of thumb I think is if you can't expect …

All good questions. 1) It is a custom instruction set, you can rean the ISA guide over at https://www.hpc.nec/documentation 2) The main difference in simple terms is that AVX instr…

I am currently working with these. Anything you'd like to know more about?

One thing this article doesn't cover which was a big part of this decision was nuclear waste. Nobody wants nuclear waste sites in their prefectures. There was a plan to use breeder…

As someone slightly involved in the Deeplearning4J[1] project it always surprises me that more people don't consider this option. [1]: https://github.com/eclipse/deeplearning4j

Brings back memories. My first VPS back in 2003 used UML and it worked great. You could also run it inside Windows as well. Could even get GUI apps running by running Xming on your…

I also agree that this estimate is way off, but I think the idea is to think of the total energy use of the phone when you include the energy used by the servers that provide the s…

Systems like Erlang/OTP, Akka, Orbit and Orleans/Service Fabric are built on an actor model where domain objects of the system (e.g. Users, Accounts, Invoices, etc.) exist within t…

This is pretty great. Only I wish it only showed when I clicked on the desktop (Since Finder does nothing else with the TouchBar) or swipe up from the bottom. Parallels actually do…

Aquamacs ( http://aquamacs.org ) get's it tabs from somewhere...

Is there a guide for getting neanderthal running with MKL on Windows? I tried my best but I'm not smart enough to get passed the require statement.

Skymind's SKIL does this. (I work on the team.) You don't have to send it your data though, you can just install it inside your system and have it connect to the data source or str…

More capacity and with one less display to drive. It should definitely last significantly longer.

I know English, Spanish and Japanese. I started studying Japanese in college and I live and work in Japan now. Structured lessons were fundamental in becoming fluent but when I was…

VR headsets that are attached to big PCs are very much a solo-thing at the moment. I can understand wanting to play a multi-player game like Halo while visiting a friend's house. I…

Entity Framework. Microsoft's high-level ORM for .Net.

Except AppCode.

Angular is very similar to the MVVM style of GUI programming that's popular in Microsoft's XAML-based libraries (e.g. WPF, Silverlight, WinRT and now UWP). Which I think is interes…