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Wait, is that _the_ James Mickens? https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf
by Chlorus 11y ago
Wait, is that _the_ James Mickens?
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf
- outsidetheparty 11y agoThe Mickens of fame and fortune. I aspire to someday be the kind of guy who gets the definite article prepended to his name
- JadeNB 11y ago> I aspire to someday be the kind of guy who gets the definite article prepended to his name Some comedian (Demetri Martin, maybe?) called this "the American version of royalty."
- eyko 11y agoAt least it's not hereditary.
- coliveira 11y agoThat's not necessarily something to aspire to. For example, many people refer to Mr. Trump as The Donald.
- hga 11y agoI never imagined there could be an essay that funny on the failure of Dennard scaling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling) and the period immediately preceding it when hardware designers had more transistors than they knew what to do with. Yeah, thinking about it: 386: we can put a 32 bit CPU on a die 486: we can improve that, add a serious cache, and FPU on die Pentium: more than one instruction at a time Pentium Pro: and out of order Pentium 4: No one listened to those warning that “THE MAGMA PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR OUR MISTAKES.” (Intel high level engineering management frequently screws up big, see also the multiple memory architecture errors, two resulting in 1 million part each recalls.)