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puivert··on AMD Unleashes First-Ever 5 GHz Processor
> This is pretty important for AMD because they've been having a terrible time matching Intel at per cycle efficiency.

Bulldozer was always supposed to be a high clock long pipe machine, sacrificing some IPC. See eg http://www.anandtech.com/show/5057/the-bulldozer-aftermath-d...

"Per-clock efficiency" is generally not goal in itself in CPU design, absolute performance and efficiency are. Where AMD has stumbled is getting the clock up, probably partly related to their unfortunate fab situation

The speed-demon strategy has seen successes historically, Pentium 4's fate notwithstanding. See eg the DEC 21164 and the IBM z196.

puivert··on “The government does not have access to Google servers”
It's getting to the point that there is no the business case for Google to stay in the US.
puivert··on The cost of hand-to-mouth living
Disregarding biology, an apple has .15 kg * (c^2) -> cal = 3.2 × 10^15 calories
puivert··on Oslo is turning garbage into energy and is running out of garbage
Or process heat for industry, that's how it is used in my home town.
puivert··on Oslo is turning garbage into energy and is running out of garbage
It's better than landfill without methane recovery, greenhouse gas wise.
puivert··on CipherCloud used DMCA Takedown on StackExchange discussion of their cryptography
Exposing charlatans is commonly accepted. Elsewhere in the thread it was implied they hold peoples medical data (hipaa).
puivert··on Google has killed Android (the brand)
This is pretty revisionist. There were lots of years and internet enabled phones between wap and iPhone (eg Nokia symbian devices).
puivert··on Why is Spotify chugging upload bandwidth when it is not streaming?
Internet is peer to peer. If you are a victim of packet beancounters, the onus is on you to filter your traffic and apps to conform.
puivert··on U.S. Taxpayers Are Gouged on Mass Transit Costs
Outlawing unions is a pretty outrageous proposition. it's a basic workers right.
puivert··on Torque 3D to be Released on Github under the MIT license
Strictly speaking Ogre is just a 3d engine. But yes, would be nice to hear how people see this comparing against ogre + pile of open source libs + custom game logic core.
puivert··on Published a Hacker News app for Android (ICS and above only). Feedbacks?
Thanks!
puivert··on Published a Hacker News app for Android (ICS and above only). Feedbacks?
Please make the apk available for those of us who don't gave the proprietary market app or choose not to link a Google id to the phone.
puivert··on ACTA killed in EU parliament: 478 votes to 39
When I visited the EP recently we were told the speaker just does an eyeball estimate from a show of hands when it's not close. Seemed pretty untransparent.
puivert··on Less is exponentially more
Why would you replace real gc with refcounting?
puivert··on As crops rot, millions go hungry in India
People buy meat when they have more money than required for sustenance, which takes much more grain than direct consumption.
puivert··on What’s to love about C?
None of those require C, and are frequently done using high level languages.
puivert··on Europe council unanimously decide to "block websites", enabling web censorship
But they haven't decided to block, quoted bit is just a proposed agenda item for some "global alliance" thing.
puivert··on Europe council unanimously decide to "block websites", enabling web censorship
This doc doesn't say that.
puivert··on This Is the Gyro-Stabilized, Two-Wheeled Future of Transportation
Motorcycles don't have "amazing fuel economy": small cars do <100 g/km and sadly few motorcycles beat that.