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by atq2119 2y ago
In case anybody doesn't get the reference, printer driver trouble is what initially motivated Stallman to come up with the idea of free software and ultimately the GPL and the FSF.
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by atq2119 2y ago
It seems you misunderstood the design of the multiplier described in the article. The Pentium multiplier isn't 3 bits per cycles, it's one full multiplication per cycle (though pipelined over multiple cycles). The part that's
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by atq2119 2y ago
> invented the first multi-core cpu The man clearly has many deserved achievements to his name, but that is true without this, and I'm confident the world would be better without this kind of statement. "A multi-core CPU"
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by atq2119 2y ago
You're overestimating the average competence of engineers. Besides, this is one of those situations where ideology easily trumps reason.
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by atq2119 2y ago
In the European countries that I've bothered to look, crime statistics are actually down. It's just the perception of crime that is up. Think about who might benefit from creating this kind of misleading perception.
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by atq2119 2y ago
It's not the execution of FMAs that's the challenge, it's the ramp up / down. And I assure you GPUs do have challenges with that as well. That's just less well known because (1) in GPUs, all workloads are vector w
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by atq2119 2y ago
The fragility point is a good one, but it's also misleading if you only look at one side of the equation. The other side is assets sloshing about the system -- like a large tanker without internal divisions, if there are a lot of asset
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by atq2119 2y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, since this is a very reasonable question to ask, especially since the related deficit spending doesn't just disappear. It goes somewhere, and you can't reduce one without reducing the ot
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by atq2119 2y ago
There's no one size fits all answer to that. A team that develops a user interface benefits more from "generic" cultural diversity (gender, ethnicity, social class, etc.) than a team that builds a processor microarchitecture.
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by atq2119 2y ago
No. "The Wolf's Lair" does indeed sound like it could just refer to some place where a wolf lives. "Wolfsschanze" in German does not have the same connotation. ("Schanze" actually translates more literal
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by atq2119 2y ago
My impression is that this has always been part of the core of his character, but he had to learn to put it into writing. Contrast this to people who are good at producing the appearance of an upstanding character when it suits them, but be
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by atq2119 2y ago
Farmers around here have a few dozen cows and they still all have names. They're not pets.
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by atq2119 2y ago
Which is ironic, considering that patents are supposed to be non-obvious.
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by atq2119 2y ago
Uh, no. Assuming 32-bit pointers, you'd add or subtract them using normal unsigned arithmetic which is modulo 2^32. Essentially the same trick definitely works because all these operations (adding/subtracting/xoring a number)
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by atq2119 2y ago
Take a look at https://maskray.me/blog/2021-02-14-all-about-thread-local-st... I think what you want is to force the "initial exec" model using an attribute to get the more efficient code. IIRC this (or somet
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by atq2119 2y ago
> Half the people in the country either a) want to watch everything burn, because the system has served them poorly for too long I believe this as well, but it still baffles me. Don't people have a sense that things can always get w
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by atq2119 2y ago
Most likely the whole point is to destabilise and eliminate government structures with the goal of filling the resulting power vacuum with privately owned services. That's what Thiel and his ilk are all about. The first part of this pl
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by atq2119 2y ago
There may be some truth to that. There's this idea that sharing in illegal or socially shunned activities is an effective way to establish strong personal ties, and strong personal ties can in turn help advance careers. Which is why th
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by atq2119 2y ago
Perhaps that's not reasonable to expect, but Meta apparently kind of did it anyway, if not in a way that helps reproduce their LLM: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-o...
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by atq2119 2y ago
I'd like to second the recommendation of ncdu. If anything can be taken home from this article, it's that perhaps desktop environments need to do a better job helping users to understand disk utilisation. The article's own re
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by atq2119 2y ago
> will fail a code review over a variable that he feels isn't cased properly Many projects have fairly strict rules about identifier naming conventions, so this doesn't feel so far fetched to me. The example about if/else
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by atq2119 2y ago
Precisely. The only potential problem here is that "we owe ourselves" simplifies things given that some individuals are owed much more than others, i.e. there's inequality. Other than that? The whole debt charade is just poli
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by atq2119 2y ago
Maybe this applies to Go code? Snark aside, I am somebody who is very concerned about edge cases, but those ratios seem completely wrong to me for the kind of code I write. And perhaps one should say "corner cases" instead of &q
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by atq2119 2y ago
If the new director is an outside hire, then they won't value OP yet by definition. However, they will be looking to figure out who they can rely on for technical expertise, so there's an opportunity there.
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by atq2119 2y ago
In the input to the final optimization , there is only one store between the place where q is allocated and the place where q is used. That one store is clearly identified as going into p, not into q. Therefore, it's quite reasonable
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by atq2119 2y ago
It's a bit of both. Village societies don't have a lot of privacy. But they also don't make it possible for powerful individuals to datamine personal information of millions. Most of us have more privacy than 200 years ago in
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by atq2119 2y ago
Perhaps a case of subversion by following the letter but not the spirit of an order?
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by atq2119 2y ago
It's not a fallacy, and I think we agree on most points. Russians today can't get rid of Putin through votes. Russians in the past did vote him into power though. Because of that, they carry a part of the responsibility for what&#
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by atq2119 2y ago
That's a bit of revisionist history. Russians definitely chose Putin. Not all of them did, of course, but too many to ignore. Just like many Italians chose Berlusconi and many Germans chose Hitler. I feel sorry for the Russians who did
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by atq2119 2y ago
The difference is that Bitcoin only has resale value. The other examples you mentioned generally have some significant additionally value beyond just resale value -- e.g. stocks pay dividends or are expected to at some point, a house is s

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