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by Someone 1y ago
The article doesn’t mention performance. Because Forth programs basically chain subroutine calls together, it’s a safe bet it is bad on modern hardware with its multitude of caches. That’s something you could prevent with an advanced compil
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by Someone 1y ago
FTA: “Apple’s complete review of apps – known as “notarisation” process - a mandatory step for distributing any software on its platforms, represents the very gatekeeping behaviour the DMA was written to prevent.” Notarization doesn’t inv
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by Someone 1y ago
> I've had first time notarizations on brand new developer accounts get approved even when notarizing a broken binary that doesn't actually launch https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/not
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by Someone 1y ago
>> Good luck finding where the `process` function is called from. You can't even search for `process(` like you can in most languages. > You can search for "def process" That tells you where it is defined, not where
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by Someone 1y ago
> only new code would benefit from it. Not only new code. Old code in an high-level language would benefit, too, if the language compiler was updated and the code recompiled.
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by Someone 1y ago
https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/68060/index.html : “Supervisor mode of the Motorola 68060 CPU differs from the 68040 due to changes in exception processing. User mode of the Motorola 68060 is object-compatible with
787.
by Someone 1y ago
I don’t know whether you know, but there has been a Linux port for quite a while ( https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-linux-port/ is from December 2015). https://www.swift.org/install/linux/
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by Someone 1y ago
You can’t (easily) make a standard go away but being a standard doesn’t stop anyone from making it illegal to use. > It also cements the fact that the technology being standardized is simply too fundamental and likely ubiquitous Why do y
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by Someone 1y ago
FTA: “Since 1987, JTC 1 has overseen the standardization of many foundational IT standards, including JPEG, MPEG, and the C and C++ programming languages” Compared to ISO, RISC-V International has almost no experience maintaining standard
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by Someone 1y ago
> There appears to be an undercurrent of this sort underway where the soaring popularity of RISC-V in markets such as China is politically ripe for some incumbent ISAs to turn US government opinion against RISC-V, from a general uptake P
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by Someone 1y ago
> Then they moved to iCloud or manual sync and your forced to manage individual files again. Delete in iCloud, it’s gone everywhere. Want to keep your bad shots, but not have them on every device? Figure out how to move photos between mu
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by Someone 1y ago
SaaS = “Software as a Service”, not “Software as a Subscription”. I think it’s when the developer keeps providing a service. Think of - being given a vacuum cleaner - buying a vacuum cleaner - renting a leasing a vacuum cleaner -
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by Someone 1y ago
> I was taken back when I saw what was basically zero recall loss in the real world task of finding related topics By moving the values to a single bit, you’re lumping stuff together that was different before, so I don’t think recall los
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by Someone 1y ago
They don’t need this motor, but if it can be scaled down… at over 10kW/kg sustained, one could wish/hope to get 200W at 50g (disclaimer: I have no idea how this scales with size). Combine that with 1kg of a 600Wh/kg battery (
795.
by Someone 1y ago
FTA: “When is exactly the time when we die? We may have tapped the door open now to start a discussion about that exact time onset” They must not have been paying attention during their studies. That discussion has certainly been going on
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by Someone 1y ago
And you can only hop on/hop off a cable car at predetermined locations. To keep average speed high, those tend to be spaced relatively far apart. I’m not sure about the “takes a lot more space”, and I definitely doubt about the “costs
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by Someone 1y ago
I don’t think this is a good article. FTA: “This revolutionary new engine actually uses microwave and plasma technology as its foundation, which means it doesn't rely on traditional fuel or batteries as a source of power” I doubt the
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by Someone 1y ago
FTA: “A key barrier to electrification is often the limitations of the local electricity grid – it's hard to get access to a big connection for powering your trains. "That problem has only become much, much worse," says Mr M
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by Someone 1y ago
I think you remember that slightly wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#Apple_I_... : “The two Steves made a last trip to the Homebrew Computer Club and demonstrated the Apple I (AKA: The Apple Co
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by Someone 1y ago
That’s not a good example. Wrapping an integral value into a struct works exactly the same in C and ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40629989/pros-and-cons-o... ) In C++ you can even add overloaded operators to
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by Someone 1y ago
Also for canoes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_canoe ). A fun challenge for engineering departments at technical universities.
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by Someone 1y ago
> I am amazed by their compilation times. OCaml and Pascal got this right aeons ago Pascal doesn’t do type inference at all. I think OCaml meets both of the non-goals mentioned in the article: “There are also two non-goals worth mention
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by Someone 1y ago
Possibly. My French isn’t that good.
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by Someone 1y ago
> "unless" is also weird to me I think that’s because it (¿almost?) always splits “is not” in two parts. Compare “If x is not y” with “if not (x is y)”. > for some reason, "when" in ansible is also very weird When
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by Someone 1y ago
Cooling takes up rack space, too. There also are workloads that aren’t CPU constrained, but GPU or I/O constrained. On such systems, it’s better to spend your heat budget on other things than CPUs.
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by Someone 1y ago
The page this article got its info from ( https://www.ithome.com/0/889/173.htm ) says (according to Safari’s translation): “IT Home News on October 13, @Olrak29_ found that the AMD processor code-named "Sound
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by Someone 1y ago
Is syscall a public API on iOS? In the end, you have to call that to get anything on the screen? Looking at unistd.h , it seems marked as __OS_AVAILABILITY_MSG(ios,deprecated=10.0,"syscall(2) is unsupported; " "ple
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by Someone 1y ago
FTA: “The implementation of Green Tea has a special case for pages that have only a single object to scan. This helps reduce regressions, but doesn’t completely eliminate them.” Also FTA: “One surprise result of this work was that scanni
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by Someone 1y ago
Lower costs could open new markets, as it would allow you to charge less and still make a profit.
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by Someone 1y ago
You must have made a mistake in doing that. If you add “world” to the selection, Our World in Data adds them up for you, and you only have to divide 27253/181000. That gives you 0.1506, very close to 15%. https://ourworldind

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