You need to communicate. Clear, concise, eloquent, and precise use of english* allows this to occur. The reason that this breaks down is because too often people resort/revert to using slang or not thinking before they write.
You end up with text equivalent of 'verbal diarrhea'.
I do not know what 99% of those "pacman" faces are supposed to mean. Maybe it's because I'm on the Autistic scale and I have trouble reading expressions, maybe it's because I'm an 'old fart' and these kids need to get off my lawn.
I understand that emoji are just a simple evolution from emoticons. I do not understand why we needed to expand on:
=) or =(
TFA posits that emoji are "body language" for internet communication. If people just wrote what they fucking meant this wouldn't be an issue. (Look at the constant misunderstandings that arise from sarcasm or lack thereof, for an excellent representation of poor writing.)
*Disclaimer about my own ignorance: I don't know if non-english speakers suffer the same follies as english. English is a sloppy, imprecise language. It takes effort to clearly convey a message that cannot be misconstrued.
Not pyro-based fun, BUT a fun project nonetheless.
Take a laser-pointer(s) and at multiple intervals map the trail of the reflection. Find out where the focal point is, and post for fun.
For bonus geekiness use some dry-ice to better illuminate the path.
It's really inspiring and impressive the stability of these kites. The weight to lift ratios are also fantastic. The linked National Geographic articles are very informative and interesting.
Methinks this would make an excellent platform for a kite-antenna.
The planet; as-in this rocky, water-world orbiting Sol, will exist for BILLIONS of years.
The _life_ on this planet AS WE KNOW IT is dying, along with ourselves. That is a huge difference and one that needs to be repeated with as much clarity as possible.
Will homo-sapiens still exist in 10,000 years? maybe.
100,000 years?
doubtful.
1,000,000 years?
nope.
Will single-celled life forms, virus, prions, etc still exist?
Probably.
This entire pyramid that we have existed at the top of is brutally fragile and will not continue as it is forever. To repeat one of most favorite quotes:
"Nature is in a constant state of recovering from the previous disaster."
This is the distinction. Something as immutable as granite can't die. We can barely wrap our brains around the concept of water being able to erode such permanence. How can you expect them to believe such histrionics? But life, that is more delicate and temporary then a snowflake in the Sahara.
Am I the only person who thinks that the UI peaked at Windows2000?
It seems to me that in Win2000 the entire 2D interface/look was perfect, it refined the Win95/98 interface. Sharp lines allowing for easy visual separation between elements. Excellent colour scheme. Buttons were buttons and an obvious visual clue that they were 'clickable'.
No, I have no public sources I can share. Just relaying what our CDN's have shared with me. I also can't provide anything specific. Sorry, I know it's unreliable and rumor but it's all I can provide.
Depends on what you are doing.
ZFS storage servers: Hell yes
High-value data in my DB? Hell yes
email server: Nope
super cool gaming rig: Nope
* Cluster: Hell yes
General office workstation: maybe.
I don't have the budget for 20 redundant copies.
I do have the budget for slightly more expensive RAM.
Especially on my ZFS storage arrays.
ECC memory is like Insurance. You hope you never need it. One real downside that I have found, is finding out _when_ that memory correction has saved your ass. RAID arrays can alert you when a disk is dead. SMART mostly tells you when disks are failing. I haven't found a reliable tool to notify me when I am getting ECC errors/corrections.
I was unintentionally vague. I should have said 'output'.
At the bottom of this post I have copy/pasted output from my original tests.
That was not CUDA, the task I was working on specifically (and only) used the NVENC encoder (via ffmpeg). I don't know if the situation has changed but these were my observations.
All of my tests were done in 2015, so the situation might be different now.
The k80 could output upto 4 "streams" (aka outputs or threads) at once. A 780Ti can only do 2.
According to nvidia-smi the K80 "appears" to be 2 GPU's on one card. You can actually designate which GPU you want to process ffmpeg streams on.
As soon as you had both devices installed in the same PC, the Nvidia drivers disabled the output of the K80 so that it too would only output upto 2 streams per GPU.
IIRC, there was even a status message that got displayed when installing the Nvidia binary blob:
paraphrasing from memory from 3 years ago
Warning consumer card detected. Limiting available GPU's
Here is a copy/paste dump of my findings at that time.
(The formatting is screwy with the nvidia-smi optput.)
I was glad to see that somebody understood the point I was trying to make, and expanded upon it.