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chillitom··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
“Yes, I hear you Clem Fandango!”
chillitom··on High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons
Can anyone explain why the sand accumulated on top of the rock?
chillitom··on Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL
Our experience on memory usage, in comparison, has been generally positive.

Previously we had to use ProcessPoolExecutor which meant maintaining multiple copies of the runtime and shared data in memory and paying high IPC costs, being able to switch to ThreadPoolExecutor was hugely beneficially in terms of speed and memory.

It almost feels like programming in a modern (circa 1996) environment like Java.

chillitom··on AVX-512: First Impressions on Performance and Programmability
Also trying to let the compilers know that the float* are aligned would be a good move.

auto aligned_p = std::assume_aligned<16>(p)

chillitom··on AVX-512: First Impressions on Performance and Programmability
Initial example takes array pointers without the __restrict__ keyword/extension so compiler might assume they could be aliased to same address space and will code defensively.

Would be interesting to see if auto vec performs better with that addition.

chillitom··on Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999)
They’d probably sucks at a challenge like that because they work on tokens and don’t really see individual letters.

There was a post here a little while back asking AI models to count the number of Rs in the word raspberry and most failed.

chillitom··on Robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less chemicals [video]
fewer ;-)
chillitom··on Dapr – Distributed Application Runtime
not to be confused with Dapper
chillitom··on Fail Masterclass: The Megaprocessor (Game)
this is a fantastic idea, I know some of the game play needs working out but this would have been such a great resource to have in the first year of any CS or EE course.
chillitom··on Build a web service with F# and .NET Core 2.0
Do it, the next person will thank you. If not immediately then within days of them learning F#.
chillitom··on Leslie Lamport: Video course on TLA+
Following your introduction now, it is a great quick-start tutorial, thanks for creating it.
chillitom··on VC++ /arch:AVX option – unsafe at any speed
and is being overhauled in GCC 6 I just read: https://lwn.net/Articles/691932/
chillitom··on Elm is Wrong
To clarify, the aggressive tone is non-constructive, as in it detracts from the article. You're right he makes a constructive point but I bet a bunch of people don't bother reading that far.
chillitom··on Elm is Wrong
Such aggressive tone, no need, very off putting and unconstructive. If I was considering employing the author and came across this article I'd be seriously put off despite the fact he clearly knows a thing or two.
chillitom··on Seattle vigilante reuniting stolen bikes with their owners
Good Priceonomics article on the economics of bike theft.

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/30393216796/what-happens-t...

TLDR; with bikes theives can hit a sweet spot in the trade-off between risk and reward.

chillitom··on Show HN: Triangul-Art – make pixel art but with triangles
Very nice!

An option to choose a hexagon shaped canvas and have it repeatedly tiled would be great for designing bathroom floors.

chillitom··on The Star Wars social network – visualizations and analysis
Brilliant!

Also great response tweet: https://twitter.com/ScottWlaschin/status/676773732413808640

chillitom··on Ask HN: What is the current stable help generation system for Windows?
Put it on the web
chillitom··on Show HN: Steady – Shoot Cinematic Videos
It just throws me out to the home screen, is there somewhere else I need to look for crash reports?

I have plenty of space, it crashes after about 1 seconds of processing the movie.

chillitom··on Show HN: Steady – Shoot Cinematic Videos
Trying it out but it crashes each time I end a recording. (iPhone 5S, UK)
chillitom··on Running ASP.NET vNext on OS X and Linux
Haven't tried zsh but worked fine with bash. GNU bash, version 3.2.51(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13)
chillitom··on Running ASP.NET vNext on OS X and Linux
Also a Linux screenshot: https://jabbrlive.blob.core.windows.net/jabbr-uploads/clipbo...
chillitom··on Running ASP.NET vNext on OS X and Linux
https://jabbrlive.blob.core.windows.net/jabbr-uploads/Screen...

Followed Graeme's instructions and after about 30 mins spent building the latest Mono I was quickly able to get ASP.vNext up and running on OSX.

Found one small mistake in the instructions, the switch --feed should be --source in the kpm restore step.

chillitom··on Visual Studio 2013 released to web
Man! If you're doing C++ then you definitely want to get onto 2012/2013 ASAP, the improvements in tooling are amazing. "Navigate to.." alone is worth it.
chillitom··on Poll: What do you use for Unix process management/monitoring?
Reactive monitoring via Riemann: http://riemann.io/

We use this to monitor services at the application level.

chillitom··on [dead]
Why is it asking for permission to "Update your public repositories (Commits, Issues, etc)."?
chillitom··on Nikki and the Robots: Open Source Videogame Written in Haskell
Is it my under powered laptop or is the character very slow to move around? The graphics seem plenty smooth enough but the gameplay creeks along.

Gorgeous looking game though, I look forward to trying it out again and maybe poking at the code.

chillitom··on CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire .NET programmers
What. A. Moron. Talk about a mega-facepalm! How is bigotry supposed to entice people to your firm?
chillitom··on Flatland: A Forgivably Flat Classic
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/201/201-h/201-h.htm -- read the book here.. got to love Gutenberg
chillitom··on Ask HN: After almost 30 years the romance is over - What now?
Teach?