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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
This is fascinating, but I was curious about the last two QR codes. The left one is scannable on my iPhone (iOS 17.4.1) leading to http://example.com/AAE..._w8fL whereas the one on the right gets only http://exa
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Also not OP, but 90% of everything I do happens in an SSH session. It doesn't really matter what I run on as long as the terminal isn't completely broken. I run `ssh TheHost exec tmux a` from all sorts of devices. A NeXTstation
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
That was exactly my experience as well. I'm not really sure why that was, but I think that the breadboard scaled much farther and could be extended with more of them (mine were interlocking). I built some moderately complex circuits
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
I don't know the current status, but iOS's design meant apps at least used to be _far_ more efficient than the equivalent Android, and thus Apple could ship lower end hardware to deliver the same or better performance to the end u
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
To add more evidence to your point: SJ loved wall gardens and consistently fought against extensibility. The Apple II only got extension slots because the other Steve insisted. All of the compact Macs have very limited to no extensibility.
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Links/pointers? I know only of Achronix' original Speedster series, which was alas abandoned for a conventional architecture ("Power" was the reason I was told).
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
The piece is brilliant and gives great insight. It had previously been reported (and exposed here) that the "Osborne effect" wasn't what killed the company, but (IIRC) quality issues with parts (floppy drive?) that delayed th
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
This is really old news and sadly there wasn't anything new in this article, the issue remains. IBM [used to?] use eDRAM for their last-level caches which is a classic latency/capacity trade-off that seems reasonable. There are s
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
I apparently can't edit the submission. It's interesting to see this the world fastest counter (at 600+ GHz) is implemented in this technology.
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
I'm sorry I thought I did, but maybe I lost it. I'll see if I can fix it.
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
That's far from clear to me. However, his current passion isn't silicon; I shared it with HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39449596
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Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) Digital Electronics (2023)(youtube.com)
2 points by FullyFunctional 3y ago|5 comments
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Ivan Sutherland on the next revolution (and it isn't quantum computing). Note, the Q&A session following the presentation elaborates on these ideas.
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
There have been other successes since, perhaps most famously Fulcrum (acquired my Intel in 2019) with their fully asynchronous networking switches. ADD: another impressive result was Ivan Sutherland's (yes, that Ivan Sutherland) craz
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
and Montalvo, Intrincity, and probably more I don't know about. As always "the overnight success were years in the making".
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
That's WAY-oversimplifying it. There are so many compromises and design choices and not just "One Cool Trick". Generally speaking the M-series traded frequency for IPC by going for wider and much deeper reorder window. Thi
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Exactly. There are so many dimensions across which to evaluate it. What I care about the most is 1) ST thread (running my personal workload which is inherently single threaded), and 2) Rust compilation (MT compile/ST link). For 1)
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
I don't love Rust because of "fast code", I love it because it leaves me less stressed and less frustrated, IOW, happier. There's so much emphasis on the memory safety of Rust that it overshadows everything else that is
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
I find my (NorCal) PG&E bill extremely (and deliberately?) inscrutable, but for the most recent statement, the Off-peak net price was $0.427/kWh and $0.466/kWh on-peak.
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
WASM uses a block structured IR (that is, no arbitrary gotos) and I would characterize it as in between of the [serialized] Juice AST and the flat Java bytecodes. From the compiler's point of view the Juice AST is the same as source co
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Maybe I wasn’t clear; I meant after Itanium failed, Microsoft refused to support yet another 64-bit extention of x86 as they already had AMD64/x64 (and IA-64 obviously)
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Fair point, Itanium's impact on SPARC might be less than I stated, but Alpha is very clearly documented.
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Mostly true, but there are exceptions: Apple does really well on its rare acquisitions, but they aren't very public as they get successfully absorbed. PA Semi, Intrinsity, more I can't remember. ATi and Xilinx have by all account
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
That was not the point of the Altera acquisition. The point was the fill Intel's fabs, but the fab fiasco left Altera/Intel-FPGA without a product to sell (Stratix 10 -- 10nm -- got years of delay because of that). Meanwhile Xil
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
This. If you follow GamersNexus, there are stories every month about just how much the Arc drivers have improved. If this rate continues and the next-gen hardware (Battlemage) actually ships, then Intel might be a serious contender for th
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
That's not at all what happened. Intel's 64-bit story was EPIC/IA-64/Itanium and it was an attempt to gain monopoly and keep x86 for the low-end. AMD64 and Itanic derailed that idea so completely that Intel was forced
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
Intel has an amazing track record with acquisitions -- almost none of them work out. Even the tiny fraction of actually good companies they acquired, the Intel culture is one of really toxic politics and it's very hard for acquired pe
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
OMG, please please do not turn it into an aquarium. That thing is so rare that it would be a crime! If you aren't up for restoring it, maybe consider selling it (for much $$$) to somebody who would.
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
The front looks great IMO. Kudos. I have a few compacts myself and one project I need to try is tossing a Pi 5 in there and having it display on the original CRT. Would make for a cute little SSH terminal. The most impractical Mac that I
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by FullyFunctional 3y ago
All of this is accurate and just want to add how hard it is to appreciate how revolutionary BASIC was at the time of creation (at Dartmouth, when everything was batch oriented FORTRAN). It was probably the first _widely_ available example

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