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by Someone 9mo ago
> making it easy to compare execution strategies and choose the best one Once your CPU has pipelining and out-of-order execution (which they will, of speed is an issue), that easy gets out, no matter what instruction set your CPU uses.
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by Someone 9mo ago
https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/Power-Play-The-Economics-... : “According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the LCOE for advanced nuclear power was estimated at $110/MWh in 2023 and forecasted to remain
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by Someone 9mo ago
I’m not blind, but if carefully tailored pictures can be useful, certainly for charts and graphs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactile_graphic , https://data.europa.eu/apps/data-visualisation-g
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by Someone 9mo ago
> I wonder how they escaped this. It seems by cooperating with the US government, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahuilla#History : “During the Mexican–American War, Juan Antonio led his warriors to join Californios
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by Someone 9mo ago
As the parent said: “Everyone was locked out in a building am staying at (40 something stories) for several hours.”
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by Someone 9mo ago
I think that is called specialization ( https://www.linkedin.com/posts/compilers-lab_compiler-progra... ). Even if the compiler doesn’t explicitly do it, it can happen when doing subsequent optimization steps after inl
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by Someone 9mo ago
> Pixelmator being the only 3rd party software because Apple never made a competitor to Photoshop Pixelmator isn’t third party. https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2024/11/01/a-new-home-for-pi... : “Novem
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by Someone 9mo ago
I didn’t see this discussing whether falls have become more dangerous. How much of this is because the elderly fall more often and how much because, if they fall, they’re more likely to die? If the latter, it seems the elderly have gotten w
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by Someone 9mo ago
FTA: “Alternatively, users can also choose to purchase the Mac versions of Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Logic Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage individually as a one-time purchase on the Mac App Store.”
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by Someone 9mo ago
FTA: “Apple […] shared that it has now paid $550 billion to developers since its launch in 2008. This indicates significant growth, as Apple last reported that as of 2021, it had paid out $260 billion to developers, up from the $200 billio
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by Someone 9mo ago
> Hilariously they're never found a pair of shoes, only singles. From that first link: “These two little treasures were part of the hoard of over 400 shoes excavated in 2016. One would probably think that we have lots of pairs of s
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by Someone 9mo ago
No, it can tell you that 42 is the answer to (some lean statement), but not what question that lean statement encodes.
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by Someone 9mo ago
Unusable without support for statement injection from configuration.
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by Someone 9mo ago
> a fun way to consider an upper bound on the total number of board states and therefore how hard it is to 'solve' chess compared to a game like checkers That and therefore doesn’t follow. As a counterexample, consider a NIM
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by Someone 9mo ago
There’s nothing specific markdown to this. It could just as well be some other markup language, plaintext, or even any other textual language. You could, for example, put a C program on lines 2 and further and expect/hope/pray Cla
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by Someone 9mo ago
> It was one of the "first few major cases" in the EU against tech Against? I would call it pro tech, against the tech industry.
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by Someone 10mo ago
> Everything I see advertised for (blurring, speech to text, etc...) are all things that I never felt like my non-NPU machine struggled with. I don’t know how good these neural engines are, but transistors are dead-cheap nowadays. That m
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by Someone 10mo ago
> One point is that the things that have increased in cost are more heavily regulated/government controlled But what’s cause and what’s effect? Things that get cheaper over time don’t need price regulation to ensure that people who
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by Someone 10mo ago
> Cows and sheep in the UK (and I guess much of Europe) wander round outside all year round Probably most of them, but definitely not all of them. https://nltimes.nl/2025/08/18/dairy-cows-netherlands-never-
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by Someone 10mo ago
- You may want to look at https://www.gnu.org/software/hello/ for inspiration. One thing it does that this doesn’t is internationalization. - if you’re going to check for errors, you should not discard errno if
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by Someone 10mo ago
Apple claims Swift can be used for systems programming, and is (partly) eating its own dogfood by using it in FoundationDB ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38444876 ) and by providing examples of embedded projects ( htt
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by Someone 10mo ago
FTA: “Some problems benefit from zooming in, others from zooming out. Grothendieck was the messiah of zooming out” Dyson calls the mathematicians solving such problems frogs, respectively birds. https://www.ams.org/notices
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by Someone 10mo ago
“Fun”. In the latest MacOS, Apple Notes supports markdown export ( https://support.apple.com/en-md/guide/notes/not201900c07/mac ), but not through its AppleScript dictionary. So yes, it seems you do need P
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by Someone 10mo ago
Also: try taking them apart a hundred times and sticking them together again. If the parts initially stuck together strongly, chances are one of the parts will break down.
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by Someone 10mo ago
> with accesses aligned to cache lines. You want that, but can be tricky because the from and to regions may have different alignment. Also, the XOR trick introduces data dependencies. That slows down pipelined CPUs.
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by Someone 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_(watch)#Closing_of_Pebb... : “On December 7, 2016, Pebble Technology filed for insolvency[82] with Fitbit acquiring much of the company's assets and some employees.”
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by Someone 10mo ago
> Pebble seems to be the only watch company that I feel understands what a smartwatch should be. So, why do you think Pebble didn’t succeed? I think that’s because you’re a minority, and demand for a Pebble-like product is too low at the
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by Someone 10mo ago
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45437759
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by Someone 10mo ago
A power of 1 doesn’t guarantee a unique solution. A simple example has 3 points: (0,0), (1,0), (1,1) Any y = a × x with a between zero and one gives you a sum of errors of 1. Powers less than 1 have the undesired property that they
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by Someone 10mo ago
If it doesn’t find a process that needs roasting or killing for a while, will it see itself as bloatware and commit suicide?

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