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by andrewf 10mo ago
Level 1 data cache
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by andrewf 10mo ago
>"it affects Blizzard Creek and Windy Bluff models' "Products formerly Blizzard Creek" WTF does that even mean?
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by andrewf 10mo ago
Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2509967 (the original source is gone and not in the Wayback Machine)
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by andrewf 10mo ago
This is nuts, in the best way. The operand fields of a WTL 3167 address have been specifically designed so that a WTL 3167 address can be given as either the source or the destination to a REP MOVSD instruction. [ Single-precision vector
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by andrewf 10mo ago
Quickly Googling about, a commonly repeated figure is that Akamai served 15% - 30% of Internet traffic in the late 2010's. They probably have less of the market today due to others growing, but they're not a minnow. 2024 revenue f
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by andrewf 10mo ago
Also all the sound stuff was outsourced! id hired Bobby Prince to make the music and licensed a playback library which seemed to have enough problems already with the supported sound cards. https://doomwiki.org/wiki/DMX
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by andrewf 11mo ago
https://github.com/othieno/GPBB - the last chapter is a Quake retrospective. There's also the columns he wrote for Dr Dobbs' Journal during development. They're like an expanded, illustrated version of G
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by andrewf 11mo ago
At the time I recall https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/301631.301683 being an oft-discussed data point - speeding up DEC Alpha code by recompiling it into different DEC Alpha code using runtime statistics. T
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by andrewf 11mo ago
I'm just happy that, after years of not doing so, MS started correctly reporting the cost basis of vested RSUs on the 1099. (It should be the same as the amount reported as W-2 income). I definitely feel the RSU grantors are the custom
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by andrewf 11mo ago
Firefox runs the game well on the Mac, while the Neutralino build (presumably using the WebKit shipped with Safari) experiences some performance issues. Can you replicate the performance issues with Safari? If so you might be able to glean
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by andrewf 11mo ago
Morgan Stanley at Work seems to track wash sales. Last year I had two vests in May, one week apart. I'd instructed the brokerage to sell some of those shares on vest. On the first date, I experienced a capital loss (less than $20), due
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by andrewf 11mo ago
My guess is that's indicative of the price Bending Spoons paid - they get a positive return on investment if they collect existing subscription revenue, and do a bit of work which keeps the existing userbase happy. Under the previous o
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by andrewf 1y ago
He mentions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_(operating_system) in the NeXTSTEP section, which was a stepping stone to OS X. Windows stuck as the id tooling platform. I'm guessing by the time OS X was releva
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by andrewf 1y ago
Australia hand-counts. In a federal election, a voter will typically cast a preferential vote for the lower house, and a more complicated proportional vote for 3 senate seats. Rarely, they'll vote on 1 or 2 propositions ("referend
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by andrewf 1y ago
This is the same fellow who reverse engineered and cloned the Sound Blaster. https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/02/05/the-snark-barker-a-soun...
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by andrewf 2y ago
This presumes that Apple brought in Jobs as a decision maker, and NeXTSTEP was attached baggage. At the time, the reverse was true - Apple purchased NeXTSTEP as their future OS, and Jobs came along for the ride. Given the disaster that was
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by andrewf 2y ago
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/sync/pool.go#L2... The GC calls out to sync.Pool's cleanup.
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by andrewf 2y ago
That might practically be where VNC finds usage today, but when it was introduced in the 90s, remote desktops were the intended use case. "In the virtual network computing (VNC) system, server machines supply not only applications and
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by andrewf 2y ago
Links in the original are dead but I think this is the Microsoft doc on “what could Windows do better” - https://web.itu.edu.tr/~dalyanda/mssecrets/hotmail.html
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by andrewf 2y ago
I think NT syscalls can change. https://j00ru.vexillium.org/syscalls/nt/64/ You're meant to go through ntdll.dll, but even that interface is documented as private/unstable.
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by andrewf 2y ago
I'll add that, the original post says the vest date was in 2024 but the settlement date is in 2025. I'm a little surprised (but I'm not an expert!) that your taxable event is in 2025, rather than occurring on the vest date at
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by andrewf 2y ago
(Again, not an accountant, I repeat that because I might be wrong and I'd hate anyone to suffer because of that..) There are a couple of different risks here. One is that you pre-pay the company for more than the FMV ends up being; it
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by andrewf 2y ago
On point 3 specifically: I work for a FAANG, and the employees need to nominate the percentage the company should sell-to-cover, they don't figure it out for you. If you're no longer employed by the company I don't know _how_
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by andrewf 2y ago
GPL v2 and earlier let you charge distribution costs (v3's language is more complicated). In the late 80s you could order an Emacs tape from the FSF for $150, which is about $430 today!
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by andrewf 2y ago
The "private planes" were liquidated from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Hydrogen - "The company's main product was intended to be a conversion kit to be retrofitted to existing aircraft to
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by andrewf 2y ago
I worked on calorie counting software in the 00's. We had desktop software that just used floats, meanwhile the Palm Pilot software was all integer math (counting things in 10ths and 100ths when that precision was needed.) We'd ge
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by andrewf 2y ago
I think compared to 15 years ago there's (1) more capital (2) more founders [enabled by better tooling and well-known implementation patterns] (3) less low hanging fruit on the product side. Any given opportunity is more likely to have
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by andrewf 2y ago
AT&T sued them. https://www.ciodive.com/news/broadcom-att-vmware-settlement-...
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by andrewf 2y ago
Putting this in my web console: let susJsonString=JSON.stringify(JSON.stringify(JSON.stringify({foo:1}))) console.log("initial:", susJsonString); try { while(typeof susJsonString==='string') { susJso
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by andrewf 2y ago
I think some OLED displays don't have backlights? On manipulating the backlight to display a dark scene more power-efficiently: my TV that does this, if there's a small region of constant color (e.g. a TV station's logo) its

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