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That isn't an e-sports specific phenomenon though. Maybe it's the case more with US sports teams, but in something like football/soccer you have teams like Manchester United that have a massive global brand that is attractive to people in multiple countries and may have zero connection to Manchester or England as a whole. People in other countries will choose a team at some point based on specific players they like, a certain style of play, or even who their friends/family are already rooting for. Formula 1 likewise is also just a pure battle of the brands. Pick a team, follow it closely, and cheer for them.

So when it comes time to write the next app that "unified but flexible" becomes the mantra, and yes it is fun at the early stages of a project to fantasize about permutations and invent great abstraction towers to cover these cases. But I think the problem that people have is that they don't respect that flexibility comes in infinite dimensions, and that you can only pick and choose a few specific dimensions of flexibility to cover. Not only that, but each unnecessary dimension of flexibility added makes the code significantly longer and more complicated and just generally difficult to reason with. In hindsight from the previous project it all seemed obvious which dimensions should have been flexible, but making that call correctly up front is incredibly difficult.

It's been bad from day one with Widcomm and later Bluesoleil on Windows. Mac OS X for years had a Bluetooth where after a couple of hours of using the DUN profile it would need a reboot, on an otherwise nicely reliable operating system. Mice on Bluetooth have never worked as smoothly, reliably, or as well as just using a proprietary protocol like Logitech Unifying.

It's not that I necessarily think it's an unsolvable problem, it's just that after a decade with so many multiple implementations that can't get it right I feel Bluetooth itself has to bear some responsibility.

This isn't like other countries which have some kind of constitutional mechanism for holding binding referendums, Parliament always has the final say in the UK.

Normally it might not be that big a deal but it exists in the context of people frustrated with the EU and politics in general for being "undemocratic" and supposedly not listening to them. In this particular case by ignoring the result of it, you would potentially be validating those fears, and play into euro-skeptic views across the whole of Europe.

I'm sure the authors of the article would recommend you read the linked piece on http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Tone_argument

For me what sits a little uneasily is that a huge amount of this directly conflicts with the startup culture and stories of early tech, especially ones which may actually have appealed to certain "nerdy" personalities. Be it your Apple or Microsoft with people staying extremely late living on pizza, throwing themselves entirely into the project, people being almost 100% responsible for their particular portion be it QuickDraw or the SID chip or CP/M or such things, building a sense of camaraderie through the shared struggle to deliver. I agree that long-term it's harmful, and I certainly wouldn't want to work in a company that tried to make it the indefinte norm, but I dislike the insinuation that it is so bad that there is never a time or a place for it (due to leading to harassment etc).

If some people want to draw life satisfaction primarily from their work and getting acclaim for it, is there no place for that in the world?

I don't think if it's government or individual it changes the inherent unfairness of having someone decide to watch you, and just you, for any sign of a slip up and then getting you punished based on it. Heck, I think most siblings understand this kind of unfairness with uneven parental justice.

> You are also muddying up scale. In your example, the government is much more powerful than the individual. In the Gawker case, all the parties are pretty much at parity.

There's an order of magnitude difference between the net worth of Thiel and Gawker as a whole. And that's on a good day for Gawker.

We may all agree that enforcing speeding laws is a good thing, and someone who gets a ticket for it deserves the fine. But if I could fund the police department to have a car permanently follow just you around and nail you for each transgression, it turns something that is fair for each individual offense into something unfair in aggregate. Even if by doing so I was making the roads safer, and you technically deserved each fine.

I think Peter Thiel is doing something similar and even though Gawker is in the wrong in the individual case and deserves to lose, I strongly dislike being able to keep paying to throw the justice system against your enemies.

Wonder if this will still work with processors that use NX-bits, or if that is set outside the ELF header.

Can't entirely tell since there seems to be some kind of backwards compatibility hack on x86 for legacy apps that might have been unaware of the potential for NX: https://lwn.net/Articles/94068/

* It would make all the cards more expensive with better cooling and better VRMs need.

* It would lock them out of much needed laptop wins where they face real pressure to prove they're even needed, as well as Intel with Iris Pro.

* It would harm them in their GPGPU ambitions that is very perf/W sensitive.

There is no benefit to them holding back on die area/perf because that just directly hurts them in their own margins and makes chip fabrication more risky.

The only performance I could see them leaving on the table is to make a bigger chip, and in the previous generation they covered that with the move from the GTX 980 to the GTX 980 Ti. And that was 9 months later (not 5 years) to put out pretty much the biggest 28nm die they could.

As Anandtech points out it gets HDCP, so I'm sure there's going to be some uptake for apps that require a protected path.

http://www.womenofaviationweek.org/five-decades-of-women-pil...

Is it an industry that can get away with relatively low pay and bad hours, because it offsets those by preying on the stereotypical fantasies of young boys "I want to be a pilot when I grow up", thus making it difficult to attract "normal" career minded individuals?

Successful Let's Play personalities like PewDiePie or Markiplier, or even the more critique style of TotalBiscuit, tend to get very similar video view counts if they're covering a $2 indie game versus if they're playing some $60 AAA title. I think there'd be a way bigger difference in video view count if the specific game being played was particularly important.

I installed a hosts blocker on my Android phone after I found myself hitting a large number of sites which would popup ad alerts and then forcibly redirect to another site (where they'd try and get me to download and run an APK). This might be more prevalent in "poor" countries where the fill rate is bad, and so these kinds of scams end up being the only ads available and possibly aren't noticed by the networks.

I'm very skeptical when people do 20 year predictions from the current state of the art into something which is impossible to do today for any amount of money, such as this quantum computing based RSA breaker.

But why am I not seeing this when explicitly looking for it? If I run Memtest86 for 24 hours I certainly don't expect to see an average of 22 errors and just treat that as within spec. I expect to see no errors. Is it a problem with the memory tests we're using, do we need ones which just write data once and then wait a day to read and validate it rather than hammering RAM with reads and writes?

"Jaguar had 360 terabytes of main memory, all protected by ECC. I and others at the lab set it up to log every time a bit was flipped incorrectly in main memory. When I asked my computing colleagues elsewhere to guess how often Jaguar saw such a bit spontaneously change state, the typical estimate was about a hundred times a day. In fact, Jaguar was logging ECC errors at a rate of 350 per minute."

If I take the 360 TB and scale it down to a laptop with 16 GB of RAM am I seeing errors at a proportional rate?

350 errors / 368 640 GB * 16 GB * 60 minutes * 24 hours = 21.875 memory bits changed per day on a 16 GB laptop

That just seems way too high for average users to have not noticed the lack of ECC, and especially for the Jeff Atwood-type non-ECC server crowd (http://blog.codinghorror.com/to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc/). What am I missing?

http://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstractio...

But I don't think it's possible to judge historical significance of anything with so little hindsight available. Give it another few decades and then let's talk about what the most significant spaceflight development was.

I'm not sure any of that would increase my likelihood of buying a Samsung phone, even if they were excellently implemented. Everyone wants to be the lord of their platform with the benefits that come from taxing their locked-in serfs, but I don't know if there's room for more.

Nvidia still doesn't even support OpenCL 2.0 from two years ago. Surely if OpenCL was making significant gains they would be forced to support it, especially since Nvidia is far more popular in any kind of HPC setup with Tesla compared to FirePro?