Sadly, there s will just be used by Alex Jones as advertising, feeding the alt-right  desire to be able to present themselves as victims. He will profit from it and his disciples will lap it up.

When I was in my 20’s, my roommates and I threw a party with a fog machine and dry ice punch. I went to a dry ice manufacturer to pick some up. They only sold it by the ton, so they just let me take as much as I wanted of loose broken chunks. I totally filled my car’s hatch area and started to drive off. An employee…

I am a motorcyclist who rides a Ducati (my fourth Ducati). I also ride other makes so I have lots of seat time for comparison. The Desmo valve actuation is not something you can notice as a rider. And yet we Ducatisti love it and defend it. It is more of a religious thing; you know it’s there (you have service bills…

I hope she wins, and I applaud her honesty. But she is running in NY and that Palestine comment was suicide.

Actually, shouldn’t that be “Ofvladmir”?

Here is a fact that should scare the pants off Netflix and the other streaming services: other than a few flagship shows, I don’t bother remembering which service they are on. I just use the search function on my device. Last night I went to watch Altered Carbon, and I honestly could not recall which pseudo-network it…

Need more info: what will Dark Horse title this series? The only way I am going to remember to get this series is if I pre-order.

My religion does not allow me to serve white supremists. There! Problem solved.

If social media companies are censoring political postings, why are all my feeds brimming with conservative vitriol?

Motorcyclist here. The Harley-Davidson tribe is loyal to the concept of American motorcycles, not the company. In fact, back when H-D resurrected itself with improved products, the zealots got pissed and created the “FTF” (F**ck The Factory) because they were catering to the unanointed. 

Reminds me of Mark Hurd at HP. For a few years everybody on the board loved him as he cut costs, but when he just continued turning the crank on his only skill it became clear that his time was over. So the consensual sexual improprieties that had previously been ignored (maybe even covered up?) became the public…

I hate being an apologist, but in my only recent experience with an ER, I took my wife in on a Saturday night for a situation that turned out to have a 50-50 chance of survival. As doctors freaked out over my wife’s condition, there was also a (white) patient raising a huge ruckus, screaming and kicking things. I…

I am probably guilty of mouthing off and some guys in the Scientific/Military HPC world have gotten salty on me for it. So I will say: this is how it’s done in the financial services world…

There are a few HOC clusters running IBM Power architecture chips, but the $/flop do not favor them. Likewise there are some using ARM chips for the watts/flop advantage, but not many. Also, the commodity software for IBM Power chips is dropping Big Endian support, which is a problem for the Power architected…

Re: recent Chinese clusters - yes, at least one was made with home grown CPUs. There are several around the world built on PowerPC chips, but the cost/horsepower vastly favors commodity CPUs and the advent of decent GPU-centric applications tilts the field even further away from bothering with the absolute fastest…

Frankly, yes. That’s exactly my point. Reports of the “new fastest supercomputer” are just press-release fodder. The hardware is commodified and nearly irrelevant. And the software contolling HPC clusters is fairly boring as well. The real magic is in the public cloud infrastructure providers, who are building…

As a computer engineer, it irks me that these clusters are advertised as “supercomputers.” The supercomputer has been dead for decades. These are commodity servers with slightly tweaked GPU cards and low katency network cards (probably Infiniband) installed. Stack as many as you can afford in a datacenter to produce…

The only Milo that comes to mind is Milo Minderbinder.

The Sorting Algorithm of Deadness (TV Tropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SortingAlgorithmOfDeadness ) applied to Marvel says: be back soon across the board for Infinity War. When characters come back from the dead all the time, it’s hard to feel any drama from this event.

...and then there is the problem of Amazon soliciting the review before the product has even arrived at my doorstep.