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by CHY872 4y ago
I might be wrong but it seems a little suspect to call Ia64 superscalar because of that. When I hear superscalar, I generally expect to see a processor dynamically checking data dependencies at runtime, and perhaps executing multiple instru
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by CHY872 4y ago
Building a solid computer stack (hardware through software) is an exercise in mechanical sympathy, understanding the traits of the underlying components which enable the practitioner to get as much out of it as possible. The software should
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by CHY872 4y ago
I'd expect your claim to be true whenever the callee is inlined into the caller. In this case, the compiler has all the relevant information at the right point in time. As other commenters have pointed out, by enabling inlining the aut
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by CHY872 4y ago
To make sure I understand your point, is the argument that without a revenue tax, you're incentivised to sell as much of your stuff as possible, whereas with a revenue tax you're incentivised to maximise your margin, and this make
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by CHY872 4y ago
Oh man, it was always awesome to find something from this dude! He'll be missed.
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by CHY872 4y ago
While semiconductor fabs are highly automated, the machines are complex enough and do extreme enough things that they break a lot, requiring human intervention. MTBF for many of the machines used can be measured in hours, it's not like
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by CHY872 4y ago
Yes, the gpg piece provides that functionality nicely. However, it’s exceedingly common for the mirrors to not be provided over TLS for cost reasons. Netflix switched to serving video over TLS for no other reason than to promote the usage o
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by CHY872 4y ago
Charging 20 Teslas at maximum rate sure, but that could also be viewed as fully charging 1600 Teslas per day, or steady state providing the energy for about 12k Teslas (assuming 10-15k miles per year per car). Likewise, based on my own elec
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by CHY872 4y ago
I think the ability to put TLS in front of a non-TLS'd website comes of a few properties: 1. It's probably better than nothing. 2. It's a legacy thing. A company like Cloudflare has to make a choice - how frequently do we bre
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by CHY872 4y ago
In the UK you usually have 1-3, fewer since we left the EU. However, the number of ballots is relatively immaterial for two reasons: Spend: In the UK, price of counting ballots is far lower than price of paying poll booth staff. It costs ap
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by CHY872 4y ago
In the UK all ballots are hand counted, and the counting is done within a day. I would expect that the amount of time it takes to tally a paper election is related to how many people you have counting.
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by CHY872 4y ago
There are many excellent problem solving techniques in software engineering. Taken as religion, to extremes, most of these will lead the zealot to destruction. Microservices have their place, as do monoliths. The author's most valuable
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by CHY872 4y ago
It's not necessarily much in the way of extra steps. The Elasticsearch Cloud-on-K8s operator IMO does this quite well. You define 'node sets' which each play a role in the cluster. Node sets can have tags applied to them, and
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by CHY872 4y ago
I don't think GP was particularly making the point that it was innately impossible to tune an organ and a piano the same, just that it's common for them to be tuned differently (especially in European churches). Same with harpsich
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by CHY872 4y ago
I don't think that's quite GP's claim. They're not necessarily saying that organs and keyboards of the same heritage had different tuning (though it's well documented that instruments had different tuning according
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by CHY872 4y ago
The purpose of a patent is to encourage global innovation by granting exclusive rights for commercialising technology for a limited time in response to sharing how it works. Roughly, if you invent PageRank and keep it internal to your searc
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by CHY872 4y ago
Plants could also hit the amounts required. If worldwide, 10% of all farmland was used to grow bamboo, you'd be able to harvest enough carbon each year to cover the rest of the world's emissions. That's still a frighteningly
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by CHY872 4y ago
The mistake of this article is that it assumes that the cost of energy would be constant for such a large user of electricity. Firstly, the $0.07 industrial price for energy is driven by grid consumption. You're paying for some very ch
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by CHY872 4y ago
As a software engineer, the software is pleasant. I have a Unix OS for development tooling and the standard set of applications (browser, preview, file management, IDE tooling) just work. It seems far more likely that something works first
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by CHY872 4y ago
Most large companies do at least some elements of multicloud. This may be as simple as doing ETL in AWS and then pushing the data over to BigQuery for dashboarding, it might be using all AWS and also Office365, it might be building applicat
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by CHY872 4y ago
The advantage of K8s isn't really in the virtualization technique used, but in the orchestration it can be made to perform for you. You can for sure configure K8s to use a host per container, if this is what you want. Example of thing
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by CHY872 4y ago
Generally, the result of US diplomacy and projection of power over the last 50-75 years has been hugely beneficial and highly cost effective for the US. Why does anyone invest in anything? Because they want to see a return. The US has seen
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by CHY872 4y ago
The early ones are smaller than you think. The Leyton House car he designed is about 4.4m long, 2.1m wide, and about 1m tall, sitting the top of the driver's head about 70cm off the ground. The current ones are ginormous in comparison,
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by CHY872 4y ago
This isn't a competition for 'most secure' necessarily. Rather, simply reducing the surface area for attack is positive from a security perspective. If there's some vulnerability in iOS that come from being able to make
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by CHY872 4y ago
Apple are down 26% ytd. It wouldn’t be unheard of in this market. What should hopefully be clear is that stocks such as Tesla are not particularly correlated to the fundamentals of the company, there are whole-economy effects driving price
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by CHY872 4y ago
So the problem is what happens to the old and new processes after the fork. To CoW, you need to mark all the pages read only in _both_ old and new which means that every memory write in the caller will now pagefault since the OS now has to
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by CHY872 4y ago
Yeah no. GP is arguing that most people should not buy an electric car for a reason that's invalid for the 99th percentile of people, and saying that it's too expensive to install a solution that is not what you need to make an el
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by CHY872 4y ago
For some of this stuff, there are compiler extensions that allow extra type checking to be added e.g. Google Error-Prone: https://github.com/google/error-prone with stuff like: https://errorprone.info/b
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by CHY872 4y ago
Also, the JVM can frequently totally avoid compiling large swaths of the code (my methods ended up with about 10 uncommon traps in each method). https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/29-uncommon-traps/
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by CHY872 4y ago
It would not be hard to write a quicksort which could be automatically vectorized. For example, this is a perfectly valid partition implementation of the pivot operation. int partition(int[] array, int from, int to, int pivot) {

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