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by PeCaN 8y ago
>Why do laptop manufacturers insist on being stuck in 2005? why does running apps these days require 16GB because developers insist on using as much RAM as possible
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by PeCaN 8y ago
The warding was interesting. It had 3 wards basically stacked on top of each other near the Roshan pit at one point. On the one hand, it apparently learned to ward areas that were of high strategic importance. On the other hand… it had 3 wa
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by PeCaN 8y ago
Even if this is true, pain is one of the unpredictable teams that can take a game off anyone. They went 3-1 against Liquid at the Birmingham Major. Actually, "weaker" (top 20) teams regularly do take games off better teams so I do
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by PeCaN 8y ago
> Do you think this will be the GPU generation when consumer motherboards capable of pushing things to the GPU by NVLink will appear as well? first you'll need CPUs that support NVLink, and that's currently limited to the not s
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by PeCaN 8y ago
4400 isn't even good enough for amateur tournaments.
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by PeCaN 8y ago
>I have yet to see a JIT that does anything about that (i.e. analyzing code to reduce allocations). Most JITs do this. LuaJIT does allocation sinking of tables, strings, and even C-FFI structs. HotSpot does escape analysis of everything.
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by PeCaN 8y ago
Itanium and AArch64 both had emulators years before they were released and OSes were ported before any chips were available.
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by PeCaN 8y ago
thanks for the insight
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by PeCaN 8y ago
>on most platforms malloc is guaranteed not to return NULL This is only true on Linux, and isn't even guaranteed there. I'm pretty sure the default overcommit handling mode is still to refuse allocations that are much larger th
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by PeCaN 8y ago
If anything, they had a better idea what they were doing than people do now. Windows 95 is a case study in good design. They got there by testing it and iterating on it a ton. https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/
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by PeCaN 8y ago
>An at the risk of committing blasphemy, I have to mention that the EDA folks seem to have a terrible addiction to TCL, which therefore makes it something you may want to consider. Tcl is very, very Lispy, so perhaps a Lisp is not the wo
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by PeCaN 8y ago
In some ways AS/400 is still more modern than most systems. Flat, persistent address space and capability security? I'm still hoping that the ideas in AS/400 will become mainstream.
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by PeCaN 8y ago
The biggest difference is that China can actually deliver. They built their own top supercomputer on a new architecture.
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by PeCaN 8y ago
It's really a testament to the success of the IBM PC that people now attach the "PC" label to any non-Apple home computer.
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by PeCaN 8y ago
They were definitely onto something. They made something competitive performance-wise that wasn't vulnerable to all of these speculative execution vulnerabilities. Itanium's slowness is generally very exaggerated (at least in part
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by PeCaN 8y ago
It's not any slower than C. In some cases the compiler can actually generate better code because of stricter rules on pointer aliasing. You can also do more with only stack allocation in Ada, which is a huge win. It does generate some
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by PeCaN 8y ago
> I’m not actually sure penmanship has suffered much from ubiquitous computing. It certainly has in Japan and China, but I'm not sure that extrapolates to simpler writing systems. I suspect it partially does due to schools spending
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by PeCaN 8y ago
Context here is "server and workstation market". The Ryzen 1800X is not a comparable CPU.
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by PeCaN 8y ago
POWER is actually competitive on price/performance now.
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by PeCaN 8y ago
IIRC for many generations it was ThreadX, which is a proprietary RTOS.
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by PeCaN 8y ago
Google Confirms POWER9 Processor Data Center Deployment At OpenPOWER Summit 2018 https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/03/19/head... IBM Begins Power9 Rollout with Backing from DOE, Goog
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by PeCaN 8y ago
Luckily, most old Atoms are really simple in-order processors that aren't vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre.
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by PeCaN 8y ago
>besides, you should start new projects in Rust anyway Thanks, I almost forgot what website I was on for a second.
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by PeCaN 8y ago
A lot of NetBSD platforms predate USB3, so presumably not an effect. Keep in mind it runs on very old stuff like the Dreamcast and OMRON LUNA and very small stuff like tiny ARM boards and MIPS routers.
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by PeCaN 8y ago
I think you'd really enjoy Joe Duffy's Midori blogs then http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/
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by PeCaN 8y ago
>This release of NetBSD disables eagerfpu. Actually this release enables eagerfpu on all Intel CPUs, because of CVE-2018-3665 (lazyfpu side channel attack).
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by PeCaN 8y ago
Most of the machines NetBSD runs on don't have USB 3 ports.
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by PeCaN 8y ago
Surely they have something better for developers with 30 years of experience to do than work on Windows Console. It's, uh, not the only thing Microsoft works on.
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by PeCaN 8y ago
I still wish OpenFirmware caught on a bit more. Unfortunately it: - was supported by Sun and IBM - had "Open" in the name which is a great way to ensure that Intel never uses it.
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by PeCaN 8y ago
It's inherently not vulnerable to the Spectre/Meltdown family of attacks. They rely on speculative, out-of-order execution on modern CPUs, but Itanium is an in-order core with very limited (and software-controlled) speculation. It

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