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by adrian_b 1mo ago
That is indeed impressive, but at least the excerpt given from the layout seems very easy to route, due to high regularity and an ample routing channel. Even so, there remained some "dozens" of unrouted traces, which are likely to
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by adrian_b 1mo ago
Also the author of the famous "Programming Windows" books.
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by adrian_b 1mo ago
I do not think that this is Firefox specific, more likely is is something Linux specific. For me, hCaptcha has stopped working immediately before last weekend, regardless of the site that uses it. It goes in an infinite loop, despite solvin
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by adrian_b 1mo ago
Exactly. For example, various kinds of STM Nucleo boards with MCUs having far more useful peripherals for an embedded computer than Raspberry Pi can be found for less than $20, and you can connect them to any PC with USB, to load programs o
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by adrian_b 1mo ago
I suppose that you refer to the circumflex accent, because that can differ wildly between Greek typefaces. Some render it similarly to a French circumflex accent, others render it like a tilde.
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by adrian_b 1mo ago
I just looked on Huggingface.co, and the training data is there. For example, 3.3 Tbyte for code reasoning, 4.5 Tbyte for mathematical reasoning, 8.4 Tbyte of pre-train behaviors, and so on. I did not compute the sum of the dataset sizes, b
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by adrian_b 1mo ago
You can use io_uring very well with sequential files, where the kernel will do read-ahead for you, possibly helped by you with fadvise. O_DIRECT is to be used with files that will be accessed in a random order (random meaning that the order
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by adrian_b 1mo ago
The Linux-specific MADV_POPULATE_READ is much more reliable than MADV_WILLNEED if you want to implement read-ahead for a memory-mapped file. In my opinion, the POSIX advices specified for madvise are useless or even dangerous. On Linux, for
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by adrian_b 1mo ago
Which is quite "giant" for an arthropod like a scorpion, because the biggest known arthropod, Jaekelopterus, which is mentioned in TFA, was only about 2.5 times longer, and except for that, the next biggest known arthropods were o
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by adrian_b 1mo ago
Mark Zuckerberg said that they will release soon Muse Spark as open weights, in which case we will see the size. However, the statement did not include any details, so it is not clear if the open weights variant will be the same that they a
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by adrian_b 1mo ago
Another poster has pointed to a statement by Mark Zuckerberg that they will release soon Muse Spark as open weights. While I agree with you for the Muse Spark as hosted by Meta, if it will be available in open weights form for self hosting,
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by adrian_b 1mo ago
Many people use it, but it is not something codified formally by an international organization, like in the IAU definitions of "planet" and "dwarf planet".
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by adrian_b 1mo ago
> “One of the biggest flaws with the IAU definition is that you can have the same object in two different orbits,” says Kornfeld. “In one, it’s considered a planet, and in the other, it’s not considered a planet.” No, there is no flaw in
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by adrian_b 1mo ago
> However, there has also been concern at US President Donald Trump's expressed interest in taking over Greenland - especially the fact that he has confused it with Iceland . It is hard to decide whether this is funnier or sadder.
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
In Europe, during each heatwave of the recent years, some people have died. Obviously, until now the victims have been among the most vulnerable, i.e. old people with cardiovascular diseases. Nonetheless, there is a non-negligible risk that
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
I mean that every instruction has operands that have well defined data types, exactly like any function of a high-level programming language. Most assemblers do not allow the programmer to declare the data types of the variables, so they do
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
I agree.
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
There must be some quirk of whatever combination of software packages are installed there, but the proprietary drivers are not the culprit, at least not alone (i.e. there could be some interaction with other software packages with which I h
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
Assembly language itself is very strongly typed, because the types of the operands for any instruction are enforced in hardware by the CPU. However, most assemblers do not help in any way the programmer with this, because they do implicit c
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
True, but that still gave you access to only a subset of the 80386 instructions. For the others, you had to write them entirely in unreadable hexadecimal, adding a data-size prefix was not enough. By far the most useful were the 32-bit addr
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
No, modern CPUs are not at all C machines, they are about as far of C machines as one could imagine, because they now implement in hardware hundreds of instructions that were unheard of in a DEC PDP-11. The C language has only 2 kinds of in
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
Following the vendor syntax may be useful if you only ever program in assembly for only a single target ISA. Otherwise, all the vendor syntaxes are different and all of them have many ugly quirks, for various historical reasons. If you ever
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
No ASICs would have been needed for an expansion card with MC88100. The interface bus of MC88100 was actually the same that was inherited by the first PowerPC CPUs a few years later, when Apple, IBM and Motorola cooperated to make the Power
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
That is true, but only due to a historical accident, which has been preserved by the inertia of the mathematical education system. The use of the trigonometric functions with arguments in radians, which are unfortunately standard in most pr
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
Wrong. 1^x is multi-valued, and like with all other multi-valued complex functions it is possible to select a branch of the function that is a proper function. Defined correctly, the value of 1^x for any rational x is the corresponding smal
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
No, that is very wrong. Motorola already had MC88100+MC88200, a RISC CPU with pipelined FPU, which was many times faster than MC68030+MC68882. For floating-point computations it might have been at least 20 times faster than MC68030+MC68882.
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
The faster chip from Motorola could have been only MC88100+MC88200, which had been developed concurrently with MC68030. So Motorola really had a faster alternative at that time. Moreover, Wikipedia says that Jobs actually wanted in the begi
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
The radians provide absolute no help for your problem. There are alternative trigonometric functions with the argument measured in cycles that can be used instead of those with argument measured in radians. All formulae written with sin, co
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
As I have already said, and I am an electronics engineer, the design of any electrical or electronic system, including anything that uses AC power, can be done faster and with less numerical errors, if instead of using complex exponentials
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by adrian_b 2mo ago
That formula as such has no importance at all, it is just a correspondence between different notations. What you really mean is that there are certain mathematical problems where the complex exponential function is useful and for the comple

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