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by cesaref 6y ago
Yeah, I was involved in a large Ada project running on 4 socket Alpha servers back in the early 90s. It was a great platform (OSF/1 anyone?) and was very fast and powerful for it's day. As for bugs, I seem to remember that it had
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by cesaref 6y ago
Well those costs are mainly related to adding support for another memory standard, but i'm suggesting ECC become the standard with non-ECC being dropped. The BIOS/testing cost would be unaffected, they would just be testing only E
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by cesaref 6y ago
I was just thinking, it's odd that there are still processors being made that don't support ECC memory, and that this isn't a thing that is expected given the (relatively) large amounts of RAM that are included in modern mach
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by cesaref 6y ago
Well since C99 there is an exact width C type for 8 bit ints, so i'm assuming you are targeting an obscure platform using a tool chain that is 20 years out of date
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by cesaref 6y ago
No, the point is I think that they could reduce the risk further , they are currently maintaining their network, the question is what benefit would be gained by increasing the cost of their maintenance, or whether they would be absorbing t
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by cesaref 6y ago
The thing is, houses which are half hidden by hillsides have been built for hundreds of years with basic materials in the alps, so i'd have thought there is a rich seam of information about what works, and how to tackle various problem
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by cesaref 6y ago
Yeah, mainly electronic keyboards rather than pianos. I think to a certain extent it's to do with people's lifestyles, living in rented accommodation and owning a real piano doesn't really fit well together. As for tuners, we
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by cesaref 6y ago
Base 60 was used by the babylonians. They were big into astrological observations, and so I think their influence affected time and angle calculations. The numbers 12, 60 and 360 that occur in our time and angle calculations are interesting
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by cesaref 6y ago
Actually, the worst are mathematicians. Go find some quant code.
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by cesaref 6y ago
I know i'm old fashioned, but I think the only relevant people to ask are the taiwanese
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by cesaref 6y ago
So just explain to me why something like linux can be free, but a web browser can't.
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by cesaref 6y ago
Back in the 90s it was assumed that specs would be written in a specification language, and we'd be able to prove our software by automated testing using the pre/post conditions. We'd mainly spend our time writing UML and thi
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by cesaref 6y ago
I don't think so. Craft beers have been pursuing hoppiness and hence bitterness for years and have totally swamped the other flavours for me. A decent bitter should be warm and comforting, not in your face like some of the craft beers
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by cesaref 6y ago
Well I think that's the crux of the issue, i've been using the term reproducible build to mean something different for the last 25 years. I'm after functional equivalence not binary equivalence. Now it might be impossible to
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by cesaref 6y ago
Right, and I like the ability to re-build a release from 6 months ago and get something that reproduces the behaviour of the previous build - i'm not concerned if the binary is identical, more that it is functionally identical. A typic
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by cesaref 6y ago
I've a feeling there's multiple definitions of build reproducibility going on here. I'm guessing you mean that it's not important to be have something byte for byte identical, but more to ensure that exactly the same bui
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by cesaref 6y ago
... except that every financial trading system i've ever seen is full of floats (and i've seen a lot).
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by cesaref 6y ago
I'm not happy with the premise that 'best' means 'most expensive' as i'm pretty sure anyone involved with software will undoubtably know - Oracle anyone? :)
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by cesaref 6y ago
Given agile is 20 years old and most of those tools are somewhat younger, it is obviously possible to use other techniques to manage development and deployment without having to tick the 'at scale' type boxes that are so loved by
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by cesaref 6y ago
2 lines of code? Where's the test cases?
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by cesaref 6y ago
Yeah, that's a really handy resource. Shows what i'd expect, with a heavy grainy look to caffenol, but I can see it being useful if that's your thing
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by cesaref 6y ago
Without a comparison to a commercial developer, it's very hard to tell what the effect on the negatives are. The roll of 120 he held up looked very dense to me, and looked like it was suffering from a fair degree of fogging between the
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by cesaref 6y ago
We use various spoons here in the UK in cooking but not cups (tea spoon, dessert spoon, table spoon). I think it's 2 tea spoons to a dessert spoon, 3 to a table spoon. These tend to get used for liquids (so you tend to see 1/2 tea
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by cesaref 6y ago
I'm guessing you don't do much cooking. The vast majority of cooking is done by sight, feel, smell and taste. The key to repeatability is to adjust based on experience. 'Hmm, this doesn't taste right, i think it needs a
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by cesaref 6y ago
I'm interested to know what applications really scale to these core counts. When I was working with large datasets (for finance) other bottlenecks tended to dominate, not computation, so memory pressure, and throughput from the SAN wer
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by cesaref 6y ago
I'm kind of interested to see what bfloat16 sounds like (for audio DSP). I'd expect it to be good enough for a large number of algorithms so long as they are properly stable, and if we have decent performance and reduced power use
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by cesaref 6y ago
I'm bothered by the attempt to suggest we either have a particle accelerator or a global warming research centre (or whatever it was called). I can't see why they are related, and imagine there is room for both. I don't thi
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by cesaref 6y ago
This isn't being skeptical, this is straight denial. The useful aspect of a skeptical approach would be to not be convinced until a very high level of confidence in a result is shown. The skeptic would be saying 'hmm, the evidence
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by cesaref 6y ago
It's an interesting approach to a problem that most of us don't have, and so is not applicable to the majority of people writing software. The key is to understand the risk/reward trade-off in their software stack. For the va
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by cesaref 6y ago
Ah yes, takes me back. Page zero is kind of like a large bank of registers with the fast access instructions. The one that I remember puzzling with back in the day was 'SEI' - I mean, why have an interrupt disable bit? Wouldn&#x27

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