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by allenrb 3y ago
This would sound like questionable advice except that the best code I wrote in college resulted from an accident… I’d sat down all night and written some C for a graphics class. Everything was great, yay, victory. Proceeded to tar it up per
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by allenrb 3y ago
> - Consumer devices that don't heat up as you use them And now I’m imagining a superconducting toaster. Such frustration!
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by allenrb 3y ago
> more money to spend on research Would you accept “chooses to spend more on research”? The US certainly could spend more but, imho sadly, we do not.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Maybe annual income but certainly not net worth (in the United States). Top 1% seems to be a bit over $10M (household) based on a quick search.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Granted that it is too early to know, but I like the AMD approach. If I’ve understood correctly, the c-cores have absolutely identical functionality on all fronts. They can’t clock as high due to the layout being redone to optimize power &a
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by allenrb 3y ago
Right. I’ve been thinking for awhile that Mr. Dias must have some sort of underlying mental issue to (apparently) repeatedly falsify research in an area that’s sure to attract loads of attention. Imho he will surely lose his faculty appoint
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by allenrb 3y ago
Next, we would like to welcome the witness from planet Zorg in the Snoom system. We hope the air here is to the witness’s liking.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Ok, looks like I forgot this is HN for a moment there. Must have been excited. Yes, I am familiar with how science works, including the publishing side. What I was trying to say was more along the lines of, if this is legit, I’m surprised w
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by allenrb 3y ago
If this were true, I would’ve expected to see it on the front page of the New York Times, not hiding in a scientific journal. Color me skeptical, with a hint of optimism.
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by allenrb 3y ago
I will bet a nice, cold beer that some of those satellites end up riding to orbit on top of Falcon 9 rockets. Too much has to go absolutely right for them otherwise. No doubt this will irritate Jeff to no end. I hear he’s not a big SpaceX f
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by allenrb 3y ago
Seriously. It is annoying when some ancient pipe in my radiator plumbing decides to leak. This sounds orders of magnitude worse. The things we humans put up with to try and understand the universe!
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by allenrb 3y ago
What gets me about this video, in addition to the obvious technological progress, is the social change. First we’ve got the very visible Raquel Welch pinup. That obviously wouldn’t fly today and I’m a little surprised it did then. But sec
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by allenrb 3y ago
Thanks! I thought 3 cards per second didn’t sound particularly fast, but I missed the punch card era. Not by a lot, mind you.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Your concerns are not entirely unreasonable, and I say this as a car enthusiast temporarily in remission (parent of young children). Some of the things you mention do indeed make the vehicle less safe to those around it. However: Where I be
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by allenrb 3y ago
Giving the benefit of the doubt here, I assumed the push toward trade school is because that makes the most sense for the child in question. College is not for everyone, including a lot of people pushed into attending.
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by allenrb 3y ago
This feels like a correct summary of the situation. I wish it were not so, but that genie is so far out of the bottle, she’d need GPS to find her way back in.
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by allenrb 3y ago
I confess to hoping this was a compiler for rabbit schemes, but no such luck. Those things are everywhere around me (near Chicago, IL) and it would have been insightful to do some reverse-engineering. Alas, their schemes shall remain myster
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by allenrb 3y ago
I’m a lot less leftist than you apparently assume. I’m a landlord, among other things. My problem with our system is that the things which “pay” are not things which have much benefit to society. I’ve got zero fault with you for choosing to
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by allenrb 3y ago
Agreed. Concerns about more nebulous effects on society didn't change the fact that it was great fun. I miss it.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Essentially yes. When I worked in algo trading, it never bothered me that we were extracting profits from the markets, nor that we served little social good. It felt like a step up from where I’d been before (being told that we were making
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by allenrb 3y ago
This article confirms what some friends and I thought right at the time of announcement. You’re paying $3000 for some PCIe slots. And as others have pointed out, there’s very little demand for those slots. It seemed like a given (to me, at
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by allenrb 3y ago
Thanks, I’d been wondering about this for years. I couldn’t imagine how microcode would be directly involved with so many pipeline stages and execution units. But if it’s reserved for the “highly unusual”, it all fits together. And the expl
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by allenrb 3y ago
Some of the same people were involved, no? They must have had a good time writing that. “Things we have learned the hard way”.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Bingo, that is very well put. Discipline is where I’ll tend to fall short. :-)
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by allenrb 3y ago
I think you’re absolutely right. Some of the things I’ve been most proud of have been products of stubbornly refusing to give up. On the other hand, some vast oceans of wasted time have been another result. It’s tricky to know when to be
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by allenrb 3y ago
I would very much like to believe, but… no doubt we’ve all heard the crackpot theories that we (speaking as a US citizen) faked the moon landings. That’s nonsense for all sorts of reasons, but one of my favorites is this: It would literally
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by allenrb 3y ago
They’ve improved by three decimal orders of magnitude since then. How much more can we ask of them?
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by allenrb 3y ago
The explanation I had always heard for the very non-linear frame buffer layout was that it let Woz save a pair of gates. Which made sense, in the context of the time. I’d never heard about the relationship between that layout and refreshing
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by allenrb 3y ago
It looks like they’re keeping x87 support, which feels like a missed opportunity. Does any modern compiler generate these instructions? Stripping out x87 and the associated 80 bit registers, weird modes, etc would seem right in line with th
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by allenrb 3y ago
I own property in some of the “rougher” areas of Chicago. Yes, the pandemic was hard and yes, it had some effects. But “burned down”? Come on, not in the ballpark, not even in the same sport.

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