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AlexeyBrin
11,535karma·1,345submissions·January 25, 2013
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Seems to be available on Amazon US, for about $30.
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> It is also very alarming that people from "tech communities" like this one are "defending" their use of an inferior fake operating system instead of just simply shutting up a…
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You can try, but to be frank you can never be sure. The only 100% way to stop telemetry is to work disconnected from the Internet. A slightly safer version of Windows is Enterprise LTSB but I don'…
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Pretty sure they sell a different version to governments like the Enterprise or LTSB versions. That being said, I would prefer to be able to block telemetry on my paid Professional version too.
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You are comparing apples with oranges here. Metal and OpenCL are different technologies. OpenCL is cross platform and an open specification while Metal is used only on macOS and iOS.
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There is this myth about the correct way in which one should code a game, entity/component is just the current fad of the decade, previously it was OOP.
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Folks were writing CFD codes in Matlab too, that does not mean that it was a good idea (except for 1D or small 2D problems or for prototyping). My point was that some languages are better suited for p…
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> But on x86 & ARM, there's no good reason to write new code in C Sorry, but this is pure ignorance. Please let me know when was the last time you've tried to implement a CFD or FEA c…
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If you are using Windows 10, it should work under WSL (Windows System for Linux).
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Not if you are using Enterprise LTSB.
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You are looking for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB edition.
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Are you seriously claiming that GPLv3 could protect you from CIA ?
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Microsoft provides a lot of open source software with open source licenses, usually MIT.
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Same goes for Eastern Orthodox Christianity if you can accept that religion is form of ancient philosophy, usually Tuesday and Friday are considered fasting days.
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I think you are completely missing the point here. The HPC world is mostly concerned with the speed at which you get results, safety means almost nothing in this domain. What people typically do is to…
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They've promised source code compatibility starting with Swift 3.0 and up. This means that in theory you should be able to recompile a Swift 3 code with the Swift 4 compiler.