GCC 7 rebuild of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has hit the repo

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And these cards will probably sell like hotcakes to the GPU crypto-currency mining crowd (which one are GPU minded currently ? Eth, I think ?)
Which...

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In theory it's distribution-agnostic in the sense that they don't design a driver targetting specifically Ubuntu or RedHat.

In practice,...

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Yup, for all 2 of them. Including GLXGears. :-D

More seriously, writing bug-free code is hard.
Don't hold hopes too high about lots...

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I've noticed that my zypper is downloading over 6k packages.
I've checked: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has been rebuilt on GCC 7, and is now available on...

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Small offtopic linguistic question : could you please explain me that expression ? I didn't know it - never heard of it. (I'm not a native english speaker)....

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No, indeed, it's not. It's just written with making GPS coordinates available over network.

A smartphone is *a possible* applicaiton, because...

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Even the performance perceived by the end-user will be the same, once you factor in the crappy microsoft OS they'll be likely to run......

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Random example:
Using google maps on a laptop that doesn't have an embed GPS.
That laptop is going to be tethered to a smartphone anyway (to...

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For C/C++ there are official standards (like C99, C11 or C++14, C++11). If you compiler implements them correctly, it's guaranteed that any program written...

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Since recently, openSUSE uses BTRFS by default (and its snapshotting features) on the root partition.

BTRFS is also the official filesystem...

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Glass Optical Fiber ? (GOF) Yeah, sure. It's an expensive medium, and requires expensive equipment to cut and crimp.

Plastic Optical Fiber...

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According to the blog post,
Logitech provided them with all the necessary docs, guinea pig hardware, and access to original dev team,
and...

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Because, in logitech's case, the "Unifying receiver" isn't actually a mouse dongle.
It's a WiUSB (or another wireless USB. I've forgotten...

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It's not complex physics simulation.
Neural nets don't require that much precision.
e.g.: Google's own TPU is 8 bit

if Intel's...

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That entirely depends of the direction you're looking to.

- If you mean "the Radio TV industry, etc." : yeah they're pretty much...