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by _yosefk 9y ago
Isn't it harder to deallocate the data if you actually check that it's unused, as a GC must, instead of just assuming it?
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by _yosefk 9y ago
Well, yeah, but if you need some of the allocated data at the end of the operation, you'll end up copying it, which will have a runtime cost, might introduce bugs (because of pointer invalidation and the ease of forgetting to update so
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by _yosefk 9y ago
Author here. I personally treat it as a valid analysis of C++ shortcomings that unfortunately fails to address later standards starting with C++11, a hopefully entertaining document, and, insofar as it can't make someone compelled to u
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by _yosefk 9y ago
Grandparent is writing numerical code. I doubt that Go which has neither operator overloading nor built-in types such as vector/matrix will work here.
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by _yosefk 9y ago
I think the main concern is that they might go extinct. (Regarding the cockroach - don't Americans have the right to shoot human tresspassers? The crab on the other hand is plucked out of water which is its own home. This is not to s
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by _yosefk 9y ago
I'm in it for the money and haven't failed hard enough to prompt much supervision in a while. Intrinsic/extrinsic has nothing to do with it (I struggle with some things I'm intrinsically motivated to do more than program
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by _yosefk 9y ago
Those full color images are way worse than the sketches in TFA which look like a person could have drawn them.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
What are some practical things done with GA's chips? (My own belief is that almost nothing can be done with them but I'm always glad to be surprised, certainly with something like this where the chip itself is a masterpiece of cir
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Leaving it consumers to worry about fraud is not how you create a functioning market economy. The real equilibrium in places where fraud isn't punished is you rely on the market as little as you can and everyone is poorer as a result.
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Where does it say that "thou shalt not kill" does not apply to gentiles, in any Jewish religious text from any time? And by that of course I mean "does not apply to gentiles, period, kill them as you'd kill animals, no b
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by _yosefk 10y ago
It wasn't infinitely bad for James Clapper to have lied under oath about NSA's data collection. It wasn't infinitely bad for the US to have been caught spying on Merkel. Etc. etc. Everybody spies on everybody, everybody accus
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Of course you can prove me wrong or more precisely convince me I'm wrong (proofs are hard with these things.) Just show me enough monarchies or dictatorships fending off immigrants from established democracies instead of shooting would
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I only said he had praise for Castro, a dictator whose soldiers shot people trying to escape his rule in thd back and drowned their boats. I didn't say he was against democracy, only that he said very nice things about a dictatorship t
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Doesn't unrestricted immigration also eliminate the choice of some (those whose government enacts different policies with the new voters)? I don't think "choice" is how you decide these arguments. Either your choice to m
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by _yosefk 10y ago
"Defenders of democracies" live in democracies. Defenders of dictatorships and monarchies, from Jeremy Corbyn (who had kind words for Castro) to neoreactionaries, also live in democracies, presumably because they're not actua
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by _yosefk 10y ago
And in this story he claims that abacus use is mechanical and rids you of having to "know" numbers or approximate methods or understanding anything about the computation and why answers come out as they do. You're just execut
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by _yosefk 10y ago
While it's hard to argue that it runs in the family to some extent in this case, David Friedman is an econ thinker in his own right and certainly goes way further into what most would call extreme libertarian/"uber-rational e
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by _yosefk 10y ago
It's kinda funny, but I kinda don't want to make fun of it, so I'm left speechless. Maybe others too? Hence no comments on the content in a hour? I do think that the Turing test is still the greatest test for strong AI, machi
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Erm... A shitton of tools. You roughly write and validate an HLL description, translate it to gates or more generally/correctly library cells and then place them and route the connecting wires. GDS-II has everything at an exact place,
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by _yosefk 10y ago
> Whoa - MIPS virtualised their message passing hardware? How?! No, I meant to say that they simply obsoleted that part of their architecture when they added virtualization, because they couldn't virtualize it. > Eg there was a b
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Don't ask me, it was mostly luck in my case. In general I think in chips even more than elsewhere you want to work at a small place to get big responsibilities quickly, and from that angle, right now doesn't look like a great time
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Hey, chipmakers deserve more credit than that! I'm a chip architect and we license from IMG and we license IP from others as well, but then there's a shitton of work and plenty of things which can go wrong, costing loads of money
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by _yosefk 10y ago
In itself, this single sentence is true about every country on Earth; what gives it meaning is the context where it's followed by heaps of praise of Western racial policies, the positive example against Russia's and others' n
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I was at the time of writing and still am an accelerator architect and I'd gladly use someone's idea in a mass market product (ASIC) if they didn't mind. However, it is also true that working on any real product means that ma
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Virtualizable hardware-assisted message passing is awesome. (MIPS for instance had a big fat ISA extension for hardware-assisted message passing and cheap hardware multithreading which Linux couldn't use and they then threw out the win
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I'm not sure whether today's coherent caches, atomic operations etc. are a poor fit for what you want to do leaving much room for improvement (I'm sure someone familiar with say the Go stack will be able to say more; I can sa
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I think all of your points are very valid, but they're focusing on one part - virtual memory - which you suggest to remove (and this can be done today by not using that part of the hardware, and in this case the penalty of having tha
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by _yosefk 10y ago
OK Cupid blocked Firefox, a non-profit with less questionable business practices than most tech companies and certainly Uber, over Eich's quiet private donation which ought to be a smaller deal than systematic sexual harassment with co
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by _yosefk 10y ago
I used that as an example of a bad idea; I don't have details on this bad idea but you could have an instruction looking at an init, bound and increment registers and a constant telling where the loop ends and voila, the processor runs
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by _yosefk 10y ago
Well, yeah, but here the entire discussion is about UK's exit from the EU, at which point freedom of movement in the EU doesn't apply, I think. So I was describing a hypothetical future situation where you would have some "st

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