Pet_Ant

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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Life is composed of many factors of which one is carbon, but you need carbon to have life. There, carbon is life. --- No, life is the combination of carbon and other things, so wealth is the combination of money and other things. It's
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
I've seen the term in passing, but what are "Unix personalities"? Is it just different optional command line arguments to the common utilities? TAR vs Gnu TAR?
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> Wealth is generally understood to mean how much assets you have accumulated ...by accountants. "Wealth" as used by most people is related to quality of life. It even shows up in the phrase "house poor" where maybe s
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Richest? How? Maybe by total wealth. I think wealth should be measured by how many hours at the median wage do you need to achieve a socially acceptable standard of living. Unfortunately, our standards have gone up and there are things that
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
According to this it does support SIXEL https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1200903/Digital-Equipment-...
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Related, but is there a way to emulate a VT520 on a Pi using opensource? Just want to have a replica that looks like the ultimate form of that extinct lineage.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
10 is 10,000 nm. "3nm" apparently has a "gate pitch" of 48 nm , that is 0.5% of the size! I don't know that "gate pitch" is the correct metric, but I do know that modern marketing nodes don't corres
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
RISC-V is not a ISA, but a family of ISAs. That is why is has a small core and plenty of extensions. So instead of having a dozen completely different ISAs you now have a dozen almost the same ISAs. It was meant to be forked and customize
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Opensource fundamentally changes that situation. All you need is a maintained version of GCC/LLVM that supports your processor and you’ll have distro that supports your needs. Especially if it’s just about some performance boosting ins
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Were you even paying attention? The 2008 crisis was caused by trying to continue growth by looking for more and more people to lend to even those that didn't have the credit history to be worthy of it.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Stability creates economic growth. I work for a Fortune 500 company. I expect to keep working at it for the next 10 years. That means I treat my income as a revenue stream, and that if I lose my job I can find another relatively soon with a
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> I also don't really blame companies for being in this situation. They had to offer inflated salaries because the only alternative was to hire no one during the covid boom. Then don't hire? The point of full-time is to avoid u
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
GitHub workflows? 3 months ago. Source? Last year. Still, less dead.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
If you respect people you invest in them and aren’t trying to replace them with the cheapest option you can. Or, if you do, you make it clear with contracts. At least you give them the warning that they should start looking for other work a
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Oh out company mission has respect, honesty, and integrity in it all while trying to staff every project not legally mandated otherwise with offshore staff.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
The Ukrainian information sources claim around 550k “eliminated” but that includes wounded. Surely there is double counting for injured Russians to be sent out again. The stated a average of wounded to killed in war is 4:1, so those numbers
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Honestly I love Powershell and run it on Linux or OS X. Being able to access fields instead of having to play with `cut` to get the data I want is priceless. Just feels cleaner and more maintainable.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Bush going unilaterrally to war with Iraq (albeit with his lapdog Blair) really didn't do US foreign relations any favors either. It's not just Trump, it's a long-running theme. Trump just accelerated the trend.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> It’s bad enough to need a bespoke boot and bring up for each CPU and board on Arm, but with RISC-V you still need that as well Really? IANA-KD, but I have read and seen grumbling from ARM developers about RISC-V "overreaching&quot
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> If the selling point of RISC-V is openness, then every RISC-V OEM so far has received an F for bundling in completely closed source graphics, The openness is at the __ISA__ level. So you don't get a duopoly like being forced to ch
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> I have a feeling if you sprung for this you would be buying an expensive project with lots of driver work left to do. I think that is exactly the stage in the life-cycle that the ecosystem is currently in. This is for those people to
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Sorry, but what more action would you like to reasonable see right? Sure, we'd all like the currently in stock on store shelves, but these things take time. There have been various RISC-V CPUs shipped. There is a cyberdeck mentioned ye
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Well I don't think you are doing active development on your flags repo. I think it's just using Git as a database for the what are your current feature flags.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
What I'd love is a dialect of Factor written in Forth so that it could be run on these machines. Factor is a much higher-level Forth that is usable for scripting. Would make it more fun to use.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
A citation for those who (as I) didn't know about this: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26388081.2022.2... Don't know how widely adopted this is.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> Multi threading is still the domain of gnarly bugs, and specialists writing specialist software. 1) In the cloud there are always more requests to serve. Each request can still be serial. 2) Stuff like reactive streams allow for parall
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Each core needs to handle the full complexity of x86. Now, as super-scalar OoO x86 cores have evolved the percentage of die allocated to decoding the cruft has gone down. …but when we start swarming simple cores, that cost starts to rise.
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
The actual title seems to be "Testing AMD’s Bergamo: Zen 4c Spam" which I really like because for the perspectives of 20 years ago this would feel a bit like "spam" or a CPU-core "Zergling rush". As I said befo
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
Innovation means potential for failure and waste. The larger the company the more it's investors want it for steady predictable returns. Even shrinking returns as long as they are steady and foreseeable. A large company becomes about c
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by Pet_Ant 2y ago
> 180nm is potato quality - many many generations behind. So far behind it might actually be more expensive to get chips than at 110/65nm, although I’m only speculating here. I mean that is year 2000 level-tech. PlayStation 2/P

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