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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> because that's what us British do best: quirky and underwhelming Yup. We're a bit crap and we know it. And that's just fine.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Without more backup I can only describe that as being fiction. Righteous fiction, where the good guy gets downtrodden and the bad guy wins to fuel the reader's resentment.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Cracking answer, thanks. Just a not-so-small question though, increasing IPC linearly exponentiates the complexity and therefore the price. Current CPUs like x86 already have enormous scheduling windows for OOO (something like 200 instructi
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> it is impossible to estimate which would be the optimum IPC for a CPU with many cores Weird comment. 'Optimum' can only be defined with reference to a given task. Otherwise it's like talking about the correct top speed f
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
A very quick skim of the article immediately brought these to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence (Edit: I don't know if it's true but I've heard a story that these sequences were actu
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I had a mate who was very funny; his wit was razor sharp and cutting. I was often at the receiving end of it, mainly because he knew I would take it as funny, nonetheless it was an external projection of his unhappiness inside. Happy ending
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Great answer, and from others too, thank you all.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> Why go through the expense of... Good question. I should have asked strictly about fusion bombs. These being a known-working example of energy production by fusion, why not use them when we can't get 'controlled' fusion
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
excellent, thanks
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> I certainly had such challenges and I've always thought most people have Just what the hell do you think emotional and physical abuse is? An overly strict parent? Perhaps you'd like to hear about what me and my siblings went
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Word. Mine was nightmarish (siblings didn't have it any better either). Sounds like the Disneyfication of interviewing.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
OT but are there any links to resources about using fission/fusion bombs directly for energy production?
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
What is old german / high german / low german?
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
The moon is much cheese.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Lack of understanding of X almost inevitably leads to a lack of valuing of X. Then the incentives will become perverse. The best bosses I've worked for are the minority who took the time to understand at least some of the technical sid
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Bigger yet by far https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_the_First_Qin_Emp... He of the terracotta army. Not excavated yet for fear of damage, but I would so love to know...
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I had reasonable experience with structure editors (worked on one long time ago, for beginner programmers) and at least in their naïve form they are a bloody pain to use, and far slower to get information in than a halfway decent touch typi
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> Somehow though, in person I have a solid skill at teaching people technical information at a level they can understand it, I am quick to identify what types of analogies they will understand That's interesting. There's someth
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I'm glad you like the possibility of using the addition symbol or some variation on it. The idea that it would be ISA independent never crossed my mind, and perhaps just as well because as you pointed out, it would bomb. For that (ie.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Slightly open-ended doesn't seem to be a problem for me on SO. Where I've really had a problem is the admins not reading the question properly then closing it as already answered elsewhere. I find that screeching like a banshee ge
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
x++ is a postfix kind-of function a ? b : c is ternary infix Edit: arguably /* comment! */ is a function that takes an unquoted string. It's a no-op function so the compiler removes it at compile time (g
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I appreciate the detail you've given and you clearly know your stuff, but I think your looking at it too deeply, at least compared to me. Basically, use a familiar notation where a familiar notation would be appropriate. Your complex a
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
rd = rs1 * rs2 + rs3 It's no different from parsing if/then/else. Provided one assignment maps to one opcode, it's unambiguous.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Good post! ok, for rd = rs1 addu8 rs2 use rd = rs1 +u8 rs2 etc. The + stands out, more clearly indicating addition. (to me anyway) As for commutativity of +, it's not necessarily true. It depends entirely on what underlyi
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> rd = add rs1, rs2 I dunno, how about rd = rs1 + rs2
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Alphora was supposed to be really nice to use and a definite improvement on SQL. It didn't have market share so it never got more market share, that's why it failed and not for technical inferiority. > The few products that hav
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Interesting; any pointers to the difference would be welcome, TIA
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> For databases that are used for the majority of the business world, efficiency is generally a bigger concern than correctness; they'd rather have cheap and fast databases that lose a few transactions occasionally than something th
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Young HN posters by the sound of it.
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by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
I don't think so, MENACE actually learned to play, this appears to be just a look up table for precomputed positions. Still impressive.

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