bpye

44 ms·

751.
by bpye 4y ago
The 8051 hasn't ever gone away - Wikipedia lists a number of MCU families that are still an 8051 core, and it's certainly incomplete - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8051#MCUs_based_on_8051
752.
by bpye 4y ago
Wow, I didn't realise there was a project to add a 6502 target to LLVM. Now to get Rust working...
753.
by bpye 4y ago
Are LB and friends really that much of a pain? The alignment requirements mean they can all be implemented as the full XLEN version with a mask/shift.
754.
by bpye 4y ago
Whilst true for multiply, divide is considerably more complex. You have to step up to the M3 to get a divide instruction on the ARM side. This is why the new Zmmul is valuable over the existing M extension.
755.
by bpye 4y ago
RVC is designed such that all compressed instructions expand to a single full length instruction. So it’s really only the decode stage and the PC alignment that change.
756.
by bpye 4y ago
UEFI doesn’t have to be so unwieldy either. You can have UEFI with device tree instead of ACPI, and if that’s sufficient then u-boot will give you a working UEFI environment.
757.
by bpye 4y ago
I’ve played around with some toy kernel stuff on RISC-V - SBI is refreshingly simple.
758.
by bpye 4y ago
I can’t think of many RISC-V cores that are microcode sequenced. There are some toy implementations using ucode - but I can’t think of any that have seen serious use. Maybe you’d count SERV?
759.
by bpye 4y ago
I started setting that up and totally forgot, maybe I should actually try and peer with someone.
760.
by bpye 4y ago
Clearly YC should start an Saas web host...
761.
by bpye 4y ago
Yeah I’ve set myself up in a similar position. I’ve worked out how much I want to save, maxed employer matching etc and so what’s left at the end of the month is my ‘free’ spending.
762.
by bpye 4y ago
Is there some reason to think that the only way to get higher energy collisions is by scaling the accelerators? Is there any possibility that we may be able to get to higher energies with earth-scale experiments?
763.
by bpye 4y ago
I'm curious, what are the experiments we could run if we had for example 80% of the world's GDP?
764.
by bpye 4y ago
The worst bugs are often the ones that have trashed some of the stack or ended up with some rubbish register state too, and so being able to try and get some useful information out of a seemingless garbage dump is critical. I imagine a proj
765.
by bpye 4y ago
It is possible to have a system where politicians cannot receive donations from corporations. This is the case in BC for example.
766.
by bpye 4y ago
I’m not convinced the distinction is really important. Would you say running Windows with Hyper-V enabled is non-native for example?
767.
by bpye 4y ago
Yeah it was August of 2021.
768.
by bpye 4y ago
I didn't know x2connect existed, neat.
769.
by bpye 4y ago
I'll use whatever works best for the problem. I normally start by trying to step through in a debugger, but often that is too slow so I'll introduce some extra prints and/or tracing - and try again. Conditional breakpoints mi
770.
by bpye 4y ago
Waitrose also has their own essentials range which isn't particularly expensive.
771.
by bpye 4y ago
I moved from the UK to Canada and still miss UK supermarkets to a degree. That said, I went back for ~1 month last summer and often ended up needing to go to multiple supermarkets to find basic things such as chicken breasts... If Brexit is
772.
by bpye 4y ago
I sadly have a similar experience in Canada. Whilst I have found products here that are good in most categories, and produce is generally fine, I find I have to be more selective with meat, seafood and especially baked goods and cheese.
773.
by bpye 4y ago
For reference - the UK made a similar ruling last year [0]. They did not exit the market, and have begun to fulfil their obligations [1, 2]. [0] - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/uk-supreme-court..
774.
by bpye 4y ago
Is a high performance HyperRAM controller really simpler than a normal DRAM controller? It's serial rather than parallel so you need higher frequency signals for the same bandwidth.
775.
by bpye 4y ago
I was thinking about C and C++ and whilst they allow you to be very careful about allocations, they also give you every opportunity to get it wrong.
776.
by bpye 4y ago
What language actually makes it simple?
777.
by bpye 4y ago
He was at Valve a few years ago
778.
by bpye 4y ago
Well it looks like you can buy them https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403689859315
779.
by bpye 4y ago
I've not had this issue with the UK Labour or Green parties, or the Canadian NDP - I still get their mail sometimes, but nothing else.
780.
by bpye 4y ago
Did that change? My AliExpress account is using myname@mydomain.co.uk

More ›