CalChris

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by CalChris 6y ago
The LA bookstore I remember most was Opamp Technical Books on Sycamore in Hollywood. But they're gone now.
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by CalChris 6y ago
Yes, it is too broad. You should look at a school like Berkeley and look at their concentrations. Maybe RF isn’t important if you’re doing systems (unless you’re interested in RF). https://m.box.com/shared_item/https%3A
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by CalChris 6y ago
Yeah, Uber/Lyft is 10x better than cabs ever were.
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by CalChris 6y ago
However, for -O3 on ARMv8, LLVM generates pretty good if slightly inscrutable code [1]: rec: // @rec bic w0, w0, w0, asr #31 ret That's taking the sign bit, replicati
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by CalChris 6y ago
Yes, but letters to the editor were picked by the editors for their ideas and for their writing. It was a high bar, often higher than the newspaper itself. So I used to enjoy reading them because of this.
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by CalChris 6y ago
AC LEDs are a thing. https://www.ledsmagazine.com/leds-ssl-design/thermal/article...
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by CalChris 6y ago
That was freaking awesome. Basically it's a long and technical shaggy dog story. He started with an insane premise ( emoji domain name ?!), added enough detail ( The night of 150 emojis ) to strain even a willing suspension of disbeli
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by CalChris 6y ago
Donald Knuth wrote the criminally under-appreciated Mathematical Writing [1] [2] which was the collected lectures from a class at Stanford. One of the guest lectures was Jeffrey Ullman On Getting Rich . In it, he discusses the economics
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by CalChris 6y ago
This reminds me of Casablanca : Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
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by CalChris 6y ago
I use kdiff3 but I only want a visual diff. I'm not using it as a merge tool. VS Code has great git support and great diff support. If it only had better (or rather, more accurate) vim support I'd be there but every time I try,
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by CalChris 6y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty much the same. Still, there are elements of the article's approach that I follow. Principle 2a: Every commit must include its own tests Principle 2b: Every commit must pass all tests But otherwise, I don&
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by CalChris 6y ago
https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers
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Moreover, buggy parsing code is massive security hole.
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The talk is available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNTeVt8V6PU
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by CalChris 6y ago
I think schools understand this perfectly well but it's the parents who don't want to hear it. Hence the (somewhat forced) resignation.
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by CalChris 6y ago
It has happened before already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSjrYWPxsG8 You would think he'd be whitelisted.
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by CalChris 6y ago
Played hella Diplomacy when we were kids. I don't know if we were any good since this was pre-internet and the standard of play has probably improved considerably over the decades. But we did run into a problem consistently and read th
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by CalChris 6y ago
Well, there are tubeless tires (no pinch flats) and wider tires (lower tire pressures). 28C at 60 psi vs 21C at 90 psi.
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by CalChris 6y ago
No one is attacking regulation. Virtually everyone I've seen is in agreement that better regulation is necessary in this situation. Rick Perry specifically attacked regulation. https://news.yahoo.com/rick-perry-sugges
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by CalChris 6y ago
There is a new book out, Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs , Denis Bakhvalov [1]. Let's be honest; he works for Intel and that should have been Intel CPUs. He's a good writer. Of course, there's Agner Fog&#x27
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by CalChris 6y ago
Amplifying your point, μops are grouped into Ways and Ways are 6 μops on Intel and 8 μops on AMD. Ways have constraints; violating a constraint will necessitate a spill. stage bypass macro + micro fusion μops μop Way functional
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by CalChris 6y ago
On a black and white Kindle, I rather like Linear Algebra Abridged . That might be different on paper and in color (always overrated).
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by CalChris 6y ago
Janet Yellen is 74. I would expect that she would retire or do what she has done, teach or research. She was at the Brookings Institution after being Chairman of the Fed. I suppose she could have been a senior VP at Goldman Sachs if she had
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by CalChris 6y ago
The toys are better now. The life was better then.
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Itanium was actually developed by HP starting in 1989 and then Intel joined in 1994.
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Von Neumann Is Struggling(semiengineering.com)
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by CalChris 6y ago
I think you meant John Regehr and his souper friends at the University of Utah. https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04422
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by CalChris 6y ago
In a WeWork kind of way. They've raised $1B in funding. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/peloton-interactive/... But they are profitable, something WeWork will never say. https://www.marketw
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by CalChris 6y ago
The C2 is the Toyota Camry of rowers. This seems to me to need an application of Rule 39 of Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design. 39. (alternate formulation) The three keys to keeping a new human space program affordable and on schedul
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by CalChris 6y ago
La Costeña is still in business. They were on Rengstorff and they're on Middlefield now. Either they're not very good or my expectations have increased considerably. xcostena was an early X app done at SGI back in the day; fill ou

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