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> And, no I don't have to be careful about saying things like this. I think it's an extreme failure of our modern society to side with those very, very few that truly have a physical disability that causes their emotional problems (ie, brain damage) compared to vast majority of people that simply have emotional damage, something that can be overcome with personal responsibility and having a reason to change.

So while I applaud your story of overcoming 'grumpiness' and 'sugar addiction', it's laughably less serious than those living with debilitating mental disorders and hard drug addictions which you seem to pass off in your writing as something you would be able to overcome with the same ease.

Perhaps you are a statistical outlier with a super powerful mind or DNA code to pull that off. But the main issue is that you've invalidated the whole spectrum of people suffering from depression and drug addictions as nothing more than a lack will power, will offend a lot of people, including those that volunteer their time, studied the subject or have experienced drug addictions in their past.

It's very easy to assume everybody is like you. It's also easy to view everything in absolutes. It's difficult to keep an open mind and accept everything is relative at first but eventually with enough life experience you will learn to put yourself in other peoples shoes, which ironically seems to me one possible explanation behind your grumpy nature. I found it peculiar that you had to convince your own daughter who initially did not feel you had changed at all (I didn't get that vibe from reading your comment). Usually, others notice if you did change without you announcing it if it's genuine.

I hope that you can maintain your 'grump free' attitude towards your family and continue your path to improving. I just wish that after some time, you will see your faults about making blanket statements about people with mental disorders and addictions after beating such a dangerously addictive substance like white sugar.
I've run into this before and gave up and just ran things on physical hw. It baffles me that we're running in to this crap in 2017.
It would make it basically impossible for me to know what my overseas and East Coast friends have been up to in their lives.

I don't get my news or amateur opinions from social networks so it doesn't affect me there.
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Fractional reserve blanking is not a real thing.
I want to add to this discussion I have never changed completely on my own. I have always had some kind of help from others in some form. Either by their example, their stories or direct encouragement. Even sometimes their criticism has helped snap me out of my delusions to see things for how they really are.

I don't agree with "just try harder", I think something needs to change, sideways. I've never changed anything in my life by the "just try harder" method, I think it's bunk. If that is what it sounds like I am suggesting, I want to clarify that it is not.

I am saying look for the answer and don't give up until you find it. Try something small to change your path. Just one day, when you would normally complain, don't. Instead, find something good in the situation. And just keep making tiny, small possibly changes.

After awhile you may be surprised what will happen. You may start to see that some people in your life actually care about you, where before you thought they were against you. You may find new friends or notice the sun shining, when normally you would be looking at the ground.

When I decided that I didn't want to hurt (physically) anymore, just sitting at a desk all day, I decided (not a "try hard") to start running. I ran decided 10 minutes a day is more than I was doing, and it was a start. And I timed my morning activities and found I wasted 10 minutes consistently, and it seemed an easy thing to achieve. So I ran 10 minutes in crocs and my pajamas (fleece pants). I gave myself no excuse, I just did it. I did it 6 days a week for 3 months. And it changed my life.

The year before I couldn't barely pull my kids around in a sled, that winter, I not only pulled them around for a couple hours, I chased them around and wore them out. From 10 minutes of the lamest running you would ever see.

I got up to a mile in 10 minutes. (you can almost walk a mile in 10 min) I lost weight, my physical pain went away (general aches from sitting for years) and I learned that if you try to be like the buff nuts on youtube, you will likely lose. But you _can_ do 10 minutes a day. Anyone can.

I have a friend who is 85 spends a few hours in the gym a day now. He started getting wobbly and almost falling over. The doctor told him he needed a walker. Instead, he started doing balancing exercises and walks just fine now.

Will any of this help everyone? Nope, but I think most people can benefit from people like my friend. He showed me it's possible, and I believed him.

I know you can "do" something different in your life. Maybe you can't change your thoughts and feelings right away. But you can physically alter your habits and actions. And from that, many things are possible.
It's nice to see displays with a wider gamut coming to market, but they're only useful when you can get more than 8 bits per pixel. The monitor itself seems capable of 10 bits per pixel, but getting that end-to-end in Windows is problematic at the moment.
When I was running my p-2-p startup I wanted to try capitalizing on this. It's the reason why GPU instances cost an arm and a leg.
I believe that the reason we saw Bitcoin Cash start out trading like this, several hundred percent higher than the rest of the market, is because the tape painting bot was unleashed on this trading pair too early.

So, the Coinbase spike was not due to "insider trading" but a bot and they should investigate the bot? The amount of wild theories is just mind boggling.

While there are serious doubts on Tether this seems a stretch just to tie thing to Bitfinex.
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Nobody wanted to do this, but the lousy state of OpenCL compared to CUDA left them no choice. It really is so far ahead that OpenCL was never an option. It’s on AMD to fix that, since NVIDIA certainly won’t.
Shh, this is the best time for side projects to add to the CV. You snooze, you lose.
Amd had always had first class support for openCL, cuda is Nvidia proprietary and although Nvidia "supports" OpenCL, it's quite bad. Issue #22 on tensorflow is regarding openCL support.

AMD has done some interesting work on HCC (a more proper gpgpu compiler approach with llvm base) and that is showing promise. See here: https://instinct.radeon.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/...

Additionally, they support cuda decompiling to HIP which is an intermediary that can be built to target Nvidia (via nvcc) or amd (via HCC).

Nvidia has built a lot of tooling for DL, such as cudnn, and the new Tesla cards have dedicated silicon for tensor calculation. Amd does have a cudnn equivalent called MlOpen. They have also ported caffe via HIP and it works well. Work is being done by amd right now to torch, mxnet and tensorflow to add support for amd hardware with minimal burden to the maintainers of these projects.

You can read about some of the DL toolkits available here: https://instinct.radeon.com/en/6-deep-learning-projects-amd-...

I think it's particularly bad form on behalf of everyone in the DL framework and library world to cator only to Nvidia and cuda, and that they very much walked into this shake down with open arms.

The original comment is correct in that contributing support for OpenCL (which works on mobile too) will alleviate this to a fair degree. It's one of those things where the more momentum is behind it, the more device manufactures will focus on ensuring their opencl compiler is building properly optimized kernels for their hardware.

Start contributing to OpenCL or adding hip support to existing projects and we'll see some viable alternatives pop up from not only AMD, but players like Qualcomm and Samsung.
is this a serious reply? do you know how bad is AMD's OpenCL support? how bad was the attitude?

have a look, people had to make a petition to ask AMD to fix their craps.

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d...
I wonder if this is the same Gregory V Perry who claimed there'd been an attempt to backdoor OpenBSD IPSec code: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-security-announce&m=12923753140...

Just like this one, his story back then didn't quite add up either.
Every word (the thing what author calls a "variable") has a binding. In short, it's a pointer to the namespace where value associated with that word resides.

Blocks can nest any other value, including words. At any point in runtime you can change this pointers (bound word to some value) for every word in a block or for separate words.
Just going to say, just because tensorflow supports it won't mean much. The ecosystem as a whole is still largely cuda. This includes the database tech(kinetica,mapd), the resource managers (mesos/yarn), not to mention HPC.

There's also just not much incentive for people to move to AMD here. There's a reason NVIDIA gives out these graphics cards like candy to academia. It's because they want to make their margins in data center while keeping the broader developer community locked in to cuda.

People on HN make broad and sweeping comments about "if you open it they will come and everything will be magically better".

It's a lot more complicated than that. The market incentives just aren't quite there yet. Could it happen one day? Yes. Will it happen today? No. It's going to take a lot more than this for other vendors to start supporting AMD.

What I will say: There will be competition and the space is heating up. AMD is one player.

Now let me put my commercial hat on here: What would it take for me as a deep learning vendor to support/care about AMD?

1. Show me the money. I need a clear revenue stream. AMD has some hope here. Customers don't care about which gpu they use as long as it fulfills a use case they care about.

2. Code: Show me something that's actually a robust. A 1 off fork of any deep learning framework (see the random 1 off caffe forks that aren't actually caffe by nvidia, intel,amd)

3. Share the burden. Put the code out there and support the broader community. Actually maintain and follow up with the latest innovations (hint: this is hard. throwing code over the wall once doesn't mean anything)

4. Amazon will be key here. Google cloud (look google is great but they aren't the leading cloud player by a long shot and likely won't be anytime soon) - get them on board with some AMD cards.

5. (Disclaimer I know the founders) - make opencl not suck. https://vertex.ai/ is an interesting player in this space.

So look, I won't say it's impossible. Let's just not ignore the actual commercial market forces that are also at play here.
That explanation doesn’t make any sense. Why wouldn’t they just own the property and lease it, like any other landlord?
You know that methods in ruby can have many aliases, right? Can you clarify your statement?
Hip caffe is also quite well underway.
On how to deal with sunk costs, Seth Godin once said [1]

"Everything you own, all the clothing in your closet, your academic achievements and beyond is simply a gift. It is a gift that your past self is giving to your present self, and it’s up to you to decide whether you want that gift today.

It is as simple as that–you owe your past self nothing, other than the consideration of whether these gifts are helpful in the here and now."

I use this way of framing business decisions a lot nowadays. It's a very effective way of removing the emotional baggage that sunk costs come with, and focus on the actual goals you should be achieving.

1 http://www.breakthetwitch.com/gift-past-self/
>since 90% of everyone is undateable. [0,1]

Non-Seinfield non-Youtube citation needed.

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I have become one of those "Citation needed" people. Argh.
America need to choose, either they go with the European model where people pay a certain amount of tax for healthcare and it is shared between the whole population or to make it a private thing and each person will decide for themselves if and how much they want to pay for insurance. Either way it will be cheaper and simpler than the mess it is today, especially with this Obamacare but even before it was completely dysfunctional. Health insurance should not be more expensive than a phone bill.
This is the exact FU attitude that GP is describing. There is nothing about "building the community" that entitles you to prevent other people from living near you.

They aren't trying to use political power to force you to give up what you've helped build, they are trying to buy land and build homes. It simply isn't ok for people to prevent other from living near the so they can turn their "communities" into elitist social clubs.

Foreign buyers are irrelevant. They wouldn't be getting involved at all if homes in CA weren't so absurdly overpriced.
Yes, Avira, Avast (and recently Norton) give us a ton of headaches because of their bad heuristics.

Just to show you how they don't really care, here's a tweet discussion with Avira (dated July):

https://twitter.com/red_lang/status/887970289618829312
When perverse incentives divide constituents and create paralysis then the solution can only come from a higher level of Government, in this case either State referendum or Federal action.
It doesn't seem to be enforcable anyway, what is the point of this change?
Me too. I came in 15 years ago and bought a new house. I think that should have been the last home to be built in the bay area. I built this neighborhood every time I ate at sweet tomatoes and shat there. I just don't see why there should be more homes after mine.
fao, read my other comment here. I really didn't mean to make it sound like anything is anyone's fault, or that it's their "problem" and they just aren't facing it.

If I didn't get help from some people, I would never have recovered. I didn't make my life better in a vaccum. I hope any issues you have in your life get better, and that at the very least I can offer some small amount of encouragement.

If things are not well with you, or anyone, sometimes that is just life, and life can be hard. But if you go and look for someone who has it worse than you, and somehow is still happy, we have to ask why and how, otherwise we may miss an opportunity to gain it for ourselves and those around us.

My mother treated my father very poorly, and she consistently blamed him for her unhappiness. But I found that if I make the people around me happy, even when I am not, sometimes it comes back around to me.

Do you take care of other people happily or out of duty alone? Just taking care of others may seem like a selfless act, but it can also be because of emotional abuse coming home to roost. I also took care of my mother, and she taught me as a child that being abused was normal, and that I should take care of her more than anyone else. So that is not what I meant simply by "worry about others more than yourself". I meant that sadness for your own problems makes you more sad, but sadness for other peoples problems causes you to act to help them. This was a barometer I used to determine which kind of sadness was affecting me, and which I should reject, and which I could do something about.
Wait, did public opinion and political thought change somewhere within the last two decades such that owning property now doesn’t give one rights over that property and rights to shared governance of the incorporated area? Sorry if that comes across as flippant, but it’s a really serious question. I kind of bought this property so that I could enjoy it for at least 30 years. It’s not my fault that it’s appreciated so much. What do you want me to do?
I think you have taken the context out of the comparison.

In terms of CPU, GPU, thermal systems, PSU... yes computing people do whip out a lot of numbers. But when buying a laptop, assembling a gig, we consider of the overall experience, more abstracts and qualitative measurements: ease of maintenance, aesthetics even.

On the other hand, car guys do get nerdy on number crunching when they tune their turbo/ exhaust system, IE: optimizing a very specific component of the system.
> I don’t feel like I’m saying FU at all. My perspective is that I spent over 15 years in a house that I initially took a risk on. I helped build the neighborhood and community and schools that made it a nice place to live. And, now people who didn’t have to do all that work want to live here cheaply. And, they’re trying to use government and political power to force me to give up what I’ve helped build. Why is that fair?

I don't see how this differs substantially from "FU, I got mine." You're going into more detail on how you got yours and you're not cursing, but you're still saying people who have come later than you seeking the same sort of thing you have should be excluded.
Nothing's changed, still jerks.
No hardware docs, no cooperation with the open drivers beyond ensuring distribution install media do work (i.e. basic modesetting).
> It gives the public a false sense that a step has been taken toward having more housing when in fact it’s just an illusion.

This is the same anywhere there's direct democracy. 51% of the people vote in the government that perpetuates the ponzi scheme of rising house prices because borrowing from the bank to buy a house then selling it later for a profit is the quickest path to retirement. Restricting housing supply is one easy way to keep house prices rising. The government needs to feed a story to the other 49%, hence these illusions like in California.

Besides restricting supply, another way to keep the prices rising is to boost demand, so the 51% also vote for the governments that increase immigration, which has been especially successful recently in the western US, Canada, and Australia/NZ. Every now and then, a government comes along that attempts to boost housing supply or restrict demand from immigrants or foreigners, but they soon get voted out because early retirement is the top criteria of voting decisions for the 51%. That government's initiative then becomes another carcass used to fool the other 49%.
It might get hairy if DSL is non-trivial, IIRC Doc has plans to implement meta-DSL wrapper (a la Rascal) sometime after 1.0 launch to ease the process.
Buying a property gives you the right to your property. It shouldn't give you the right to tell other people who live nearby what to do with theirs (i.e. to tell them not to redevelop it at a higher density if they so choose).
I'm not sure if this is directly related to what you're thinking about or not, but I think some of Rust's stdlib has been formally verified. It might be that more work in formal verification can get us the guarantees we want, without needing to change the language itself.
Sadly I did find that with the latest gen $130 card (cant remember the model) there is no driver support in Debian stable, or the driver was broken (I can’t recall which). I have to run Debian unstable to use my card, which unfortunately has a broken ZFS driver...

I read that AMD cards were friendly to Linux, so after removing my NVIDIA card for stability reasons, I switched to AMD only to have other issues.

I’m still looking for an easy Debian compatible graphics card so I can do CAD (Onshape - OpenGL). The AMD card works now, but I don’t know what to do next time around.
> Geh, in reality the Mac didn't get an operating system in the true sense of the word

Indeed.

Apple's operating systems were completely outclassed by Windows 95, AmigaOS and BeOS (and by that I mean both at the OS level and also the GUI).

Even the "merger" of NeXt and Apple didn't give Apple a credible OS for many years after that.

This is why I can't help chuckle when I read comments such as "Lisa was programmed with planned obsolescence because it couldn't support years past 1995".

This is not planned obsolescence, it's just incompetence from Apple's software engineers. Back then, Apple was a lot better at product and hardware than software.

And when I see iTunes, I still think it's still kind of true today.
> Unless you think that people who have chemical addictions like smoking and drinking also don't have control over themselves in a similar way?

I do that think, in fact.
I think you are wrong, because of saving on taxes, and company match, and the fact that many people won't save otherwise, 401ks often make sense. Just chose sensible investments that don't have high fees. I know that's actually nontrivial, but otherwise many people don't have savings.
Mind sharing some or a place to get started in learning them?
If someone is entering your property and enjoying it at the very same time that you are in the throes of enjoyment of your rightful property then you must dial 911 with great haste!
Likely happening? Google “bitcoin arbitrage” ... why would there not be?
instead of "best", I'd say people use what's good enough. electron is good enough for most people, and some people do notice the high resource usage, but they are in the minority, as most users don't attribute sluggishness of the machine on the app that's not slow (and electron can be made to feel fast if you know what you're doing).
So the inside view is "I succeeded at all of these remarkable achievements which lots of other people have failed at, but if they did what I did they'd be able to solve all these problems"

Maybe also think of your experience a little with the outside view which is "For 50 years society has been trying to figure out how to reproducibly cure depression, aggression and weight loss. Millions of people, and tens of thousands of scientists having failed at creating a reproducible way of solving these problems. Over those years several hundred people have achieved those goals and thought that their results were reproducible. None of them to this day have reproducibly solved any of these problems. One new person solves these problems for himself and believe his results are reproducible."

Now there are two possibilities. That one guys stumbled across a reproducible solution to weightloss, depression, and aggression that once it is studied will lead to a new gold standard of therapy for each of these problems.

Or that guy found a unique solution to his own problem that will probably not be reproducible or scale.

If it's the second then maybe think that your very impressive experience with change is not universal.
Angular 2 I would like to never use again. It’s caused far more problems than it’s solved. It requires deep knowledge to build large applications or else it will suffer performance problems.
It's the other way around. A deflationary economy forces the feds to lower interest rates to encourage lending. We've had record breaking low inflation rates for a decade now. A 'healthy' inflation rate would be in the 3.5-4.0% range. Yes, money is supposed to lose value. If it did not no one would spend.
If I understand the underlying issue here, it's that Nvidia presumably doesn't want it's consumer graphics cards used in Datacenters, and instead wants to sell more expensive cards.

Isn't this similar to how movie studios used to require Video Rental Stores pay more money for a film, vs the retail cost?
Any more info on this?
>The streets are filled with people carrying shopping bags, every day of the week.

anecdotes are great, but why don't you search for the numbers of brick and motor retail sales vs online sales?
Unfortunately not the case. Ownership of your property gives you an effective fractional ownership interest in your local radius through zoning and community governance. No amount of state law is going to change that. You can keep fighting the issue (and you might have some traction in a decade or two) or move somewhere more accommodating.
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>even with the WiFi UI shown as "off".

By "off", do you mean when the iPhone WiFi setting is set to off (not green)? How does that work?