TomVDB

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by TomVDB 8y ago
"Maybe what's more important, is that the F-15X is being designed specifically to slot directly into the USAF's deeply established F-15 infrastructure, even down to seamless pilot conversion. Our sources say it will only take
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by TomVDB 8y ago
One thing is the stress and pressure on kids to perform well on testing in school, which transfers to the parents. It's already pretty bad in the US, but it's nothing compared to China (or Asia in general.)
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by TomVDB 8y ago
When you deal with complex telecom chips on 28nm and smaller on a daily basis, it's hard to imagine that a resource savings of just 512 FFs (the difference between RV32E and RV32I) is worth the trouble!
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by TomVDB 8y ago
It's definitely not a flash in the pan. It's already taking off. Many chip makers today are moving towards RV for their embedded controllers. Western Digital moved to RISC-V for their embedded controllers, Microchip has a SiFive C
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Many of the optional extensions are either trivial to implement (think multiplier/divider) with minimal logic or are almost considered standard by now (e.g. compressed, because code size is critical for embedded CPUs) For now, the vast
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by TomVDB 8y ago
If your concern is lock-in, then DXR is currently your best option: DXR works for both AMD (with Microsoft's fallback path) and Nvidia, while the only existing Vulkan extension is Nvidia proprietary. What kind of collaboration do you e
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I'm a huge Verilog fan, but VHDL has a bunch of higher level features that Verilog doesn't have. E.g. records, limited range integers, enum types etc. SystemVerilog added these kind of features much later. That said: there are a b
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I don't think it makes sense to look at the total supply of water and use that as a starting point of the savings. The total supply of water is only useful in the context of a discussion of multi-billion dollar infrastructure improveme
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> In otherwords: the unable are often snobs. Oh the irony.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Only if you consider the total amount of time during which the plane has been in business an irrelevant detail. Which it is not, of course.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> But the family life is not for everyone. And yet it's the reality for the vast majority of the people out there. Something to keep in mind when throwing around 'eww, driving's.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> Coming to the bay to live far from SF? What's the point? I don't regret a second of living 5 years in NYC. And I still have one friend there who, 15 years later, still lives that same life of partying until 2am, fancy restaur
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> The lifestyle is very hard, even if you make a lot of money, because the public transportation is insufficient to cover everything you want to do in your life. Public transportation is the limiting factor in determining what you want t
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> If they're willing to move from their home to California for work, it's safe to assume they're willing to move from their home to almost anywhere else for work. Not at all: for me personally, California was a bit of the
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Take these testimonies with a bit of salt. The standard item in my repertoire on this is AA flight 587. “ According to the National Transportation Safety Board, which announced this month that it had gathered 349 eyewitness accounts through
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Just having a passport for a particular country is not the single deciding factor to determine entry. There are already other requirements in many countries that have nothing to do with citizenship. (Think Yellow fever vaccincation in some
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by TomVDB 8y ago
VISA requirements only for those states that voted a particular way during, say, presidential elections would be comical. Though not too different from imposing trade sanction on those products that hit some states much harder than others.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Replace “passport” by “driving license” and things are almost equivalent: a piece of paper that pins you down a particular plot of land.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Good thing then that it's not an undocumented API. :-) https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gnat_ugn/Output-and-Error-Mes...
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by TomVDB 8y ago
When that text output has remained consistent for decades(?) can you really consider it an undocumented format?
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> On the contrary: the compiler and programmers have performance expectations. Just as modern compilers/programmers expect macro-op fusion between x86 cmp/jmp pairs, modern ARM compilers/programmers expect fusion between A
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> AESE + AESMC is seen as a singular 8-byte instruction from the decoder. The two instructions are decoded as one operation to maximize the throughput of AES. Yeah, web browsers + web server workloads demand an incredibly fast AES, to th
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by TomVDB 8y ago
One CISC is not the same as the other CISC. > You might want to look up the ARM instructions "FJCVTZS" and "AESE", and "SHA256H". The AESE isntruction is a perfect example of that. The AESE instruction is a
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Yes. But even so, that doesn't make it immoral to help your children of for children to accept that help. Being in favor of a better world tomorrow doesn't mean that you can't play by the rules of the world today. Every elect
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Here's the other point of view: we have only 1 child. It makes much more sense to give her some of our assets while she's young and needs it most than wait until we're both dead and she'll be 60. She'll most likely
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by TomVDB 8y ago
He inspired others.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
What exactly are they losing?
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by TomVDB 8y ago
It'd be very interesting to see the financials of a dwarf star like Slashdot. What does it take to keep it running? How many people are still employed by them? It has been over a decade since I last went there.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Even if they are recycled, it’s still an enormous waste of energy. I mean: they package 2 strands of thyme in a tiny little plastic bag. They have these tiny plastic boxes with a spoonful of sauce. No recycling program is capable of reusing
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> The ecological impact also started to wear on me. I felt gross with the amount of plastic I was throwing out. That was by far my biggest concern. I'm not very environmentally conscious, but this was just too much.

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