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by adev_ 1y ago
Agreed. But all things considered: The runtime cost of type checking is highly dependent on the type system / meta-programming complexity of your language. For simple languages (Golang?) with a pretty well designed module system: it sh
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by adev_ 1y ago
> No, the problem for a language server is incremental performance, not batch performance "When something is fast enough, people start to use it differently" - Linus Torvalds. Make your parser able to parse the current file at
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by adev_ 1y ago
I have applied a subset of these techniques in a tokenizer in C++ to parse a language syntactically similar to Swift: no inline assembly, no intrinsics, no SWAR but reduce branching, cache optimization and SIMD parsing + explicit vectoriza
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by adev_ 2y ago
And to be fair, not even only on the right side. The left is in the same bath: https://www.france24.com/en/20170718-france-far-left-leader-... Since this case is making jurisprudence, the likeliness of them being convi
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by adev_ 2y ago
The fact of who was first honestly does not matter: they were all amazing pioneers. Alberto Santos Dumont created the 'Demoiselle' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos-Dumont_Demoiselle ) Which was an amazin
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by adev_ 2y ago
> ? I assumed for quite long, am I completely wrong here ? France has more of 10y of Uranium stockpile for it's own consumption.
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by adev_ 2y ago
Numbers are available here [1][2]. BEVs sells represents 124,341 units in 01/25 when they were 92,741 units in 01/24. EV market shares on sells jump from 10% of sells to 15% in EU. Meanwhile Tesla sells drop around to 7.5k units f
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by adev_ 2y ago
> any source or link to the specific regulation? in know localized data storage, cross-border assessments is a must Toyota is well known to have an entire division in Toyota China dedicated to re-develop their stack just for the local ma
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by adev_ 2y ago
> They've basically told China, "Please, take the loyal market we've built up these past 40 years. We don't need or want it. We want to die." It is more complicated than that. The Chinese government in the last d
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by adev_ 2y ago
> Renault's ICE engines are also known to be extremely reliable amongst central and southern europe's taxi drivers (who put insane mileage on them). Unlike other French marques - Peugeot and Citroen - who are in the "stay
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by adev_ 2y ago
The Carlos Ghosn story is really one of the biggest cliffhanger in automotive history. When Ghosn got arrested, the Alliance Renault-Nissan was shredded to pieces. Many in Europe (including myself) were betting on a Nissan survival and a q
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by adev_ 2y ago
It is already ongoing for the medical sector where Hadron therapy [^1] requires a small particle accelerator [^2]. The problem with particle accelerator is that, due to the synchrotron radiation [^3], there is a limit of what you can do in
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by adev_ 2y ago
> Now real estate has inflated so much that boomers are the wealthiest cohort [...] That currently should also serve as a lesson for Western governments. Real Estate price in Japan have been decreasing for decades almost everywhere excep
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by adev_ 2y ago
Pensions in Japan are divided in two systems: public and private. Which one you have depend of your job type. Public pensions are extremely low (~5600$/year). They are more a "survival minimal amount" for the elderly than a
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by adev_ 2y ago
> What he said was to use a C program to parse C code and emit additional C code. There is no mention of DSL Because it is always the same story: - You start by writing a little meta-compiler to solve one specific codegen problem in a sp
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by adev_ 2y ago
> I just write a regular C program that processes some source files and output source files and run that first in by build script. Cool, you now invented your own DSL and half-baked meta programming macro language for something that shal
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by adev_ 2y ago
> [...] US look like Germany - expensive and inefficient PVs that are increasingly becoming a liability (though bless them and their utility customers for powering through and continuing to install new, more efficient equipment). Well tr
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by adev_ 2y ago
> I don't understand why the Germans closed down nuclear power plants without also building a viable alternative. There are lots of people in Sweden and Norway that don't have a lot of money, and have to skip showers and live i
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by adev_ 2y ago
> I don't see why the German people shouldn't be allowed to say that they don't want nuclear power in their backyard. Did they ? https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/two-thirds-germans-agai... > 40
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by adev_ 2y ago
> Currently it seems like each piece of tech basically has it's software designed by the individual engineer [...]. > ... There is going to be a lot of potential in building the technical layer between a plant and the "inter
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by adev_ 2y ago
Yes, exactly: That summarize it all. It is not only in software that Japan has currently difficulties. It is in any domain that requires to "move fast and break thing". Japan is excellent at incremental improvement (Kaizen) but ab
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by adev_ 2y ago
> That can lead you to some pretty counter-intuitive optimizations because it's often faster to do more compute work if it means you touch less memory in the process. It is not specific to the GPUs: this kind of optimizations are pr
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by adev_ 2y ago
> The big commercial users - traditionally cars and other embedded uses - will not want to be legally obligated to give users the ability to install custom firmware (which GPLv3 basically requires), so they'll still pay for it. Ever
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by adev_ 2y ago
Which is wrong on almost any modern architecture. For small size functions inlining is almost always preferable because (1) the prefetcher actually love that and (2) a cache-miss due to a mis predicted jump is way more costly than anything
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by adev_ 2y ago
> Not surprisingly, under all those layers of abstraction-hell, there's just a regular accumulation loop. Your dismissive answer sounds so much like the one of a typical old-C style programmer that underestimate by 2 order of magnit
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by adev_ 2y ago
> direction taken in 2019 seemed quite the opposite The head of IT changed in 2021 if it answers your question.
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by adev_ 2y ago
CERN was a good example of how much can be done with how little when you have the right people. For a long time, the entire Linux distribution (Scientific Linux) used for ~15K collaborators, the infra and the grid computing was managed by a
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by adev_ 2y ago
Nop. Most internal data is spread between Ceph and home-made distributed storage system named EOS ( https://indico.cern.ch/event/138478/contributions/149912/att... ) running over commodity hardware. The o
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by adev_ 2y ago
Currently the startup time is often the last of the problem when using python for CLI tools. The python ecosystem is terrible for CLIs. It is very hard to ship reliably and consistently standalone tools to users in Python without bundling t
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by adev_ 2y ago
There is a big interest of what Fugaku and Dr. Matsuoka are doing here and it seems that this article is missing it entirely. HPC development is not your standard dev workflow where your software can be easily developed and tested locally

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