CalChris

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by CalChris 5y ago
If you go to Washington DC and go to the Watergate Hotel, right across the street and not on Embassy Row is the massive Saudi Embassy, reminding everyone who comes in over Teddy Roosevelt Bridge who runs barter town.
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by CalChris 5y ago
I thought x86 was on its way out in the 90s. It was, but amd64 gave it a new lease on life. We had search back in the 90s. Archie, Yahoo, Lycos, Altavista, etc. But Google brought better ... advertising. What did I expect? I expected hardwa
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by CalChris 5y ago
Speaking of bandying words, when Peterson refers to himself as a classical British liberal , he means free market and not progressive. The NYTimes rates him as conservative leaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan
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by CalChris 5y ago
But these buses are also significantly larger than 32-bit. Picking one randomly, the Cortex-A72 has a 44-bit PA which is in the multiple terabyte range.
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by CalChris 5y ago
The post said "I think a better argument is to look at history" and then left out 12 years of history. x86_64 was on the trailing edge of that history.
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by CalChris 5y ago
The Gordian Knot theory of psychiatry.
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by CalChris 5y ago
I'm using this as an excuse to read through her Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox Yale Law Journal article as it just became more important. Before I might have read it as a dissent; there are lots of dissents. Now as FTC Chair, she has a s
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by CalChris 5y ago
Talking To Strangers was a choice for Zoom book club I was in during the shutdown. I was looking forward to it a little since I recognized but didn't know the name. I couldn't make my way through it and dropped out. He has a New
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by CalChris 5y ago
Is it available on homebrew ?
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Robert Bork had already been Nixon's acting-Attorney General at that point. He became acting AG when AG Elliot Richardson refused Nixon's order to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and instead resigned. Deputy AG William Rucke
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by CalChris 5y ago
Radio Free Europe — The CIA creates its first major propaganda outlet, Radio Free Europe. Over the next several decades, its broadcasts are so blatantly false that for a time it is considered illegal to publish transcripts of them in t
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by CalChris 5y ago
the bug is hard to reproduce locally One of the things I like about LLVM is that it is written as passes. It's possible to stop after a pass and dump everything to IR/GMIR text. It's also possible to start a pass with
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by CalChris 5y ago
A little checking on archive.org shows an example of 15 outages. So it's pretty clear that 100% is not expected. https://web.archive.org/web/20170126004126/https://www.weath...
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by CalChris 5y ago
I short handed it a bit. My point was that this 'low pressure' for heavier riders is higher than it is for lighter riders. If you don't increase your tire pressure, the same pressure will cause more snake bites for a heavier
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by CalChris 5y ago
You can't really rely on the Tour de France peloton for guidance. They're pretty conservative and, to a degree, ruled by fashion and sponsors.
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Slicks themselves are under-appreciated.
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Narrow tires also require higher pressure with a less comfortable ride. Bigger riders, Clydesdales, require more pressure. These rock hard tire inflations are then more prone to snake bite flats. As the discussion section in the article poi
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by CalChris 5y ago
That would make sense. Montgomery similarly advised about China: Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: “Do not march on Moscow”. Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not
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by CalChris 5y ago
Into Thin Air observes that most deaths on Everest happen on the descent.
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by CalChris 5y ago
Instead of thinking of this as a six-year-old iPhone, from the release date, consider when Apple stopped selling the 6S and the SE. In the case of the SE, that was March 2019, a little more than two years ago.
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by CalChris 5y ago
I haven’t read Dio but Tacitus struck me as quite sober. He didn’t mix in myth the way Livy did (Romulus and Remus in a history?).
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Suicide letters where he commanded people to commit suicide? [1] Tacitus says he killed his mother (who was pretty nasty in her own right). [2] Nero was pretty nasty. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnaeus_Domitius_Co
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by CalChris 5y ago
I don’t think it’s possible to be an asshole to an inanimate object.
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The OP was writing about a 29 year old design decision, and he wasn’t writing about a person. Design decisions don’t have feelings. I found his no holds barred clarity about something as obscure as dynamic linking namespaces made for an eas
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by CalChris 5y ago
TECO should be on that list. But I don't know that there are any modern implementations. It dates to 1962 and was DEC specific. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TECO_(text_editor)
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by CalChris 5y ago
Gimme dem modern wide supercalar OOO cached chickens, please. Cray was right back then but he is no longer right now. If he were, the market would say so.
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Yes, but those chickens now are as powerful as Cray's oxen were then.
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The Art of Problem Solving series has this. The Basics, Vol. 1, and Beyond, Vol. 2 , are a lot like that. They aren't course material. AOPS has that with Prealgebra thru Calculus. These are distillations for contest math with explanat
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by CalChris 5y ago
I mean this semi-seriously but doesn't the hypothetical example "CPU on fire" vs "CPU in flames" violate We Do Not Break User Space ? As someone who got a useful (IMHO) one-line patch with less change dinged for WD
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There was an earlier 2012 LLD [1] but it was an atom-based monolithic ELF/COFF/Mach-O. Rui Ueyama's LLD kept the name (it's a good name) but maybe that's about it. It has separate ELF, COFF + Mach-O implementations

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