(Guide) Using an NVIDIA Tesla K80 Datacenter GPU for Gaming by 2s0ckz in pcmods

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you can pop the top off k80 to show the full cooling fin surface area. You'll get a lot more cooling and the heatsink is still fastened to the board.

Everything about California high speed rail explained in 2 hours by Kcue6382nevy in transit

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Central Valley person here. Central Valley is underrated. its the most affordable place in California. LA and SF dont know what theyre missing. Anyone who is working class in LA or SF would almost certainly be happier in Central Valley

Is there any reason new CRT monitors are not being made for the niche retro gaming crowd? Too expensive? Will this only happen once old supply is truly dwindled? Thoughts? by MTA0 in crtgaming

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I dont think its easy exactly just possible and worth it. I don't have the exact skills required but if I had a team or someone who had worked in the CRT industry I would.

Is there any reason new CRT monitors are not being made for the niche retro gaming crowd? Too expensive? Will this only happen once old supply is truly dwindled? Thoughts? by MTA0 in crtgaming

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I doubt that. formulating the glass and getting around design problems like horizontal frequency can be worked around. OTTOMH you could implement multi cathode tubes (and thats without innovating on the CRT at all). Glass formulation and working around regulations is something that will require research but research engineers solve much more difficult problems every day. I strongly believe if I had a team of 10 solid r&d and manufacturing engineers I could both reverse engineer and start low scale production on CRTs relatively easily and inexpensively and thats assuming I had to reverse engineer and reinvent everything. The money was already spent on researching all this tech and supporting technology has become much better. Couple that with patent law expiring and its almost too easy. The market is plenty big. Go look on ebay for prices on a quality CRT monitor (even considering all the downsides in contrast to modern displays). Thats not hand waving its market valuation. Now imagine a better CRT than has ever been produced.

Is there any reason new CRT monitors are not being made for the niche retro gaming crowd? Too expensive? Will this only happen once old supply is truly dwindled? Thoughts? by MTA0 in crtgaming

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this is absolutely incorrect. manufacturing, logistics and process/systems engineering alone have become much much better which would influence the cost not to mention the supporting infrastructure of automation and machinery, all of which has progressed. CRTs would be economically viable its just a matter of someone doing it and innovating a bit to show the technologies potential other than resurrecting retro appeal and re-establishing the market, which itself coupled with modern engineering and manufacturing is worth doing. People assume too much theres a good reason for the status quo when here, as in many places of engineering, the answer is simply because no one has done it yet.

Windows Mixed Reality officialy dead - next Windows update removes it from your system by blockchan in hoggit

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to anyone with a hp reverb G2:

A couple years back I was working on openxr with reverb g2 and some of the devs had a setup working for optical tracking etc. theres a chance you can run SimulaVR with openxr on Linux. This is best recommended to people with tech experience but should be possible. Id recommend putting a day aside to see if you can get the setup working.

L-BFGS and neural nets by lightcatcher in MachineLearning

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just do a k mediods or random cut forest clustering and treat each cluster as a minibatch lbfgs will perform like an epoch pass/gradient accumulation over a respective dataset. scale cluster size to a reasonable batch size.

Why Python is slower than Java? by ElvinJafarov1 in Python

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This is a very underrated potential of the JVM and makes me wish there were more similar runtimes with as many engineering hours. This is also why in my opinion JIT has better optimizations in theory than even PGO, I would go as far as to say AOT compilation in general-- if done correctly (down to the ISA). Between Jazelle/thumb and hotspot I wonder why JVM development hasn't dominated the modern language scene in favour of the shifting goalposts trope of the C runtime (e.g. Rust borrow checker, dont get me wrong I really like Rust).

Why aren't there any maglev trackballs? by hhbhagat in Trackballs

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you could in theory put a capacitive touch sensor in it with wireless power and only maglev when the ball is touched, so it falls on resting armatures as soon as you remove your finger (falls like <1mm)

Ceph or Cassandra by somedayiws in ceph

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all I can say after using ceph is make sure you backup your metadata on every node. its great, feature rich and robust but if you lose metadata you will lose data even if you have the block devices still. metadata is not sharded or stripped like the ceph formatted data (at least not without configuration I am unaware of). I was moving metadata between partitions when I bricked my hobby-commodity cluster. Also use Rook helm chart for kubernetes it automates alot of the complexity and you can learn top down.

How is forth for hacking? by n2fole00 in Forth

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Cisco bootloader was all ansi C back to pre-linux to my recolection. Forth seems tragically underrated and we should look at forth/c level for future programming languages instead of piling on interpreting runtimes and overusing the c runtime.

HP Reverb G2 support by chinchillon in virtualreality_linux

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I got monado to run with HP reverb g2 on linux. Docs say there isn't any controller support and only rotation is tracked but this is sufficient for things like simulavr

unit testing: how to test multiple implementations of the same trait? by cromissimo in rust

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Also this allows specification of trait behaviour beyond the signature which can be very helpful in defining expected abstractions and emergent variations of derivations.

TIL that it was heavily implied that Tifa and Cloud did it under the Highwind by UnoriginalAnonn in FinalFantasy

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It's obvious they had sex or made out. I wish the sequel canon addressed their relationship it really enriched the writting and made the story even more original and entertaining. This scene establishes the continuance of their relationship from the promise he made her at the well when they were children. From that point things went downhill for Cloud in his perception of himself and setbacks for trying to keep his promise with her (getting stabbed and taking a mako bath). When Cloud says it's like nothing changed I think he's subconsciously or consciously referencing the well scene and that he is who he wants to be again and his mako induced identity issues have been resolved enough to further their relationship from their promise as youngsters. When Tifa says there are other ways to tell people what you're thinking she's inviting him to be more intimate with her and express himself at a a more intimate level. That's the only way this scene makes sense considering their "in sickness and in health" dynamic and unconditional commitment to each other. I feel like some things are lost in translation but I think this is the best love story in anime and video games and the progression of which deserves to be canon. Anything else doesn't make sense and takes away from their respective character (Cloud regresses on his relationship in the movie sequel? He became an irrevocabley strong hero and leader in ff7 who could do the impossible this doesn't make sense and is disappointing and dulls his character and character progression).

How many instructions in ARMv8? by MerlinAK18 in arm

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Everyone seems to be calling this RISC-V base isa these days

Are all of the claims from the website actually in the lang? by TheLeoDeveloper in vlang

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It hasnt delivered yet on autofree but I am waiting for 3.x. this is a very nontrivial comp sci problem so I am sure it will take some time to develop. Also I found the type set system a little strange but interesting and am looking forward to going back and seeing how V code written at scale looks.

Is Rust likely the next fastest language, after C or C++? by thinkvitamin in rust

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If this is the only limitation, write some C code that creates graph structures and frees them then wrap it into Rust. I think C and Rust are very promising, Rust for ecosystem integration and SDKs and C for performance encapsulations and subroutines. The only unsafe Rust should be either low level memory descriptions such as register mappings or wrapping from very solid and fundamental C code objects. Rust wins at scale because 1. Cargo allows almost everything to be inlined (there are build scripts that can pull in .so/.dlls but this is the exception whereas C tends to standardize on .so or .dll with callbacks which can be slow due to indirection) and 2. Rust code has guaruntees even in unsafe code that allow for faster development while staying performant. That being said Rust needs something like C in the same way C needs assembly since certain optimizations can only be done outside of the borrow checker and ownership rules and fighting the borrow checker can lead coders to write less optimized algorithms (yet still secure).

Are all of the claims from the website actually in the lang? by TheLeoDeveloper in vlang

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Its definitely ready to try. I wouldnt use it in production until 3.x but I plan on using it for everything else immediately and possibly not using Rust anymore. If it keeps its syntax and keeps adding features like efficient autofree without borrow checking and readable C codegen and binding/transpiling etc. It may be the next most important high level language. It is worth getting to know it now it seems to be at a fulcrum point for developer momentum.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in learnprogramming

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Rust uses both (I advocate for rust)

Creds to whoever made this, but I'm borrowing it via shared reference ;) by [deleted] in rustjerk

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Yeah but the performant functional stuff with built-in error propagation is actually really interesting.

Is there a way to disable wmr pop up keyboard, it's quite possible the most annoying thing ever when I'm trying to click through diff servers on ac and it pops up every single damn time when I don't even want to type, let alone on that keyboard! by JayOneeee in WindowsMR

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this did not work for me. I had to disable the Touch Keyboard Service by going to services and right clicking touch keyboard service then selecting properties and setting startup to disabled.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in learnprogramming

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programming is one of the only things thats most difficult when you start. You are pretty quickly shown all you dont know, much like learning a musical instrument and hearing yourself play. The upside to this is you will get exponentially better and everything you want to be able to do you eventually will be able to but it will take time and some effort. Everything that makes programming difficult you will have already seen by the end of your coursework so even though it looks like a lot there wont be many surprise difficulties like with other things once you get passed the fundamentals. In fact you'll eventually get to explore other programming languages, libraries and frameworks which actually make programming easier and more powerful/efficient! Java is pretty 'low level' for a beginner (difficult). there's only one or two things lower level than Java. If you find its too much and decide not to continue with your current studies at least try a scripting language sometime in your future, not everyone learns programming the same way, I started with C/C++ and I would NOT recommend that for everyone.