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by Someone 11mo ago
Old-time x86 sort-of has “states representable in registers but not main memory”, too. Compilers used to use its 80-bit floating point registers for 64-bit float computations, but also might spill them to memory as 64-bit float numbers. ht
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by Someone 11mo ago
https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120 : “Lockdown Mode is an optional, extreme protection that’s designed for the very few individuals who, because of who they are or what they do, might be personally targeted by some
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by Someone 11mo ago
> QNX had a "free as in beer" distro that fit on a floppy, with Xwindows and modem drivers. I don’t think that had the X Windows system. https://web.archive.org/web/19991128112050/http://www.
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by Someone 11mo ago
FTA: “the company has introduced a mainboard that can be installe in the Framework Laptop 13 or in a mini PC case“ ⇒ their market likely isn’t enormous, but it is larger than that of Framework Laptop owners.
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by Someone 11mo ago
> There are simply no offline business models of user generated content Many newspapers still run classified ads ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_advertising ). Many supermarkets still have boards where peop
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Retracted: Safety Evaluation, Risk Assessment of Roundup/Glyphosate for Humans(sciencedirect.com)
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by Someone 11mo ago
If you have an Apple Vision Pro, you can. See https://www.lapz.io/ , https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2024/10/02/this-in... , https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Ol
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by Someone 11mo ago
For a limit of 10,000⁵. Reading https://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1967-21-097/S0025-5718-196... the original search seems to have gone up to 250⁵. That’s a search space that’s 40⁵ ≈ 10⁸ larger. They also forg
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by Someone 11mo ago
Indeed. I use “OTP Auth” with MS accounts without trouble.
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by Someone 11mo ago
> the Game of Life supports self-replication and is Turing-complete, and therefore can support arbitrarily intelligent programs. I think people will disagree about whether “Turing-complete” is powerful enough for supporting intelligence
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by Someone 11mo ago
> I'm curious why incrementing in a loop can be unrolled and inspected to optimize to an addition, but doubling the number when both operands are equal can’t? I expect because the former helps more in optimising real-world code than
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by Someone 11mo ago
LLVM can do more complex sums, too. See https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-llvm-optimizes-geo...
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by Someone 11mo ago
> I’ve long thought that more of us could devout time to serious maths problems if they were written in a language we all understood. That assumes it’s the language that makes it hard to understand serious math problems. That’s partially
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by Someone 11mo ago
If I understand this correctly, in this example const std = @import("std"); const Io = std.Io; fn saveFile(io: Io, data: []const u8, name: []const u8) !void { const file = try Io.Dir.cwd().createFile(io, nam
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by Someone 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_chess : “Advanced chess is a form of chess in which each human player uses a computer chess engine to explore the possible results of candidate moves. With this computer assistanc
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by Someone 11mo ago
> the compiler can see into it and make optimizations Those writing assembler typically/often think/know they can do better than the compiler. That means that isn’t necessarily a good thing. (Similarly, veltas comment above a
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by Someone 11mo ago
Sorta, on Windows < 10. From the same Microsoft page: “Prior to Windows 10, version 2004, this function affects a global Windows setting. For all processes Windows uses the lowest value (that is, highest resolution) requested by any pro
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by Someone 11mo ago
> You cannot even select your own notification sound for Messages on MacOS anymore I don’t see a UI for it, but when I drop a sound in ~/Library/Sounds (tested with .aif an .m4r; .aiff likely will work, too, looking at ~/S
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by Someone 11mo ago
> The big thing from around fifteen years ago is the mixed modes for autosave, where they sort of half heartedly changed the language around save/save as and just sort of… left it. Some apps use their new (for the 2010s) auto save s
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by Someone 11mo ago
A few paragraphs down from that: “I assume that the ability to recognize that the exclusive-or zeroing idiom doesn't really depend on the previous value of a register, so that it can be dispatched immediately without waiting for the o
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by Someone 11mo ago
I don’t think there is much “protection of friction”. A despot may not bother checking citizenship. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_and_deportation_of_A... says: “ICE was confirmed by independent r
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by Someone 11mo ago
> If you decode the instruction, it makes sense to use XOR: > - mov ax, 0 - needs 4 bytes (66 b8 00 00) - xor ax,ax - needs 3 bytes (66 31 c0) Except, apparently, on the pentium Pro, according to this comment: https://rando
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by Someone 11mo ago
The 6502 is from 1975, the 6809 from 1978. The 6800 (from 1974) could have been competitive with the 6502, but ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6809#6800_and_6502 ): “The 6800 was initially sold at $360 in singl
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by Someone 11mo ago
But abstract mathematics doesn’t care about solutions to problems; it cares about understanding problem spaces. I do not think current AI helps with that. Problems like the one discussed also aren’t interesting to applied mathematicians, ei
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by Someone 11mo ago
> Solution looking for a problem Two clear problems with the init system ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Init ) are - it doesn’t handle parallel startup of services (sysadmins can tweak their init scripts to speed up
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by Someone 11mo ago
Much worse than humans? Even ignoring the scale of their work, feral pigs are found mostly in the Americas and Australia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_pig )
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by Someone 11mo ago
Dissolve the whole heap in water? Or should I read the article to learn this isn’t a physics question ;-) ?
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by Someone 11mo ago
That checks whether a C++ compiler is used and, if so, for the version of the compiler, not whether “only modern c++ and libc++ existed inside it” . C++ compilers carry lots of baggage for backwards compatibility.
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by Someone 11mo ago
Complex, but as far as mechanical calculators go AFAIK not over complicated. Or is there a simpler mechanical calculator design that packs the same functionality in such a handy package?
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by Someone 11mo ago
There’s a trivial lower bound of zero, for n = 1 . For n > 1 , there isn’t a lower bound. None of the numbers are integers again ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(mathematics)#... ), and because the d

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