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by cpeterso 3y ago
Any bets on when we we’ll see RISC-VI? And which aspects of RISC-V it will change, correcting mistakes or designs that didn’t scale to unanticipated computing environments or requirements?
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by cpeterso 3y ago
If you're curious about the origins of RISC-V, check out Andrew Waterman's PhD thesis "Design of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture" ("Why Develop a New Instruction Set?"). It's quite readable and h
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Google Maps creating new neighborhood names has been such a problem that it got a New York Times article: "As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume" (2018). One example: Google Maps renamed San Francisco's SoMa ne
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I assume people on the Google Maps team use Google Maps in their daily lives. Do they not feel the UX friction from all the ad-centric design?
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I can also recommend "Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality" ( https://amzn.com/0062673041 ) about the evolution of Google Earth, Maps, and Street View
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I would switch to Apple Maps if there was a web-based version. I often search Google Maps in Firefox on Windows and then star map locations that I then pick up in the Google Maps app on my phone. I know the components of a web-based Apple M
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Check out the papers and talks from Papers We Love , a "repository of academic computer science papers and a community who loves reading them": https://paperswelove.org/
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Does the Brave crawler send the Googlebot or regular Chrome User-Agent string? If it sends something different than the standard Googlebot User-Agent string, you could dynamically serve a robots.txt that blocks Googlebot to every client be
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Six ways that AI could change politics(technologyreview.com)
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Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence (1985) [pdf](sanskrit.jnu.ac.in)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
That article was a great story! Thanks for sharing.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Asteroid mining becomes cost effective if the demand increases.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
This video is a nice introduction to “Utility AI” systems and includes examples from games like The Sims and Total War. (The Sims section starts around time 6:50.) https://youtu.be/p3Jbp2cZg3Q A utility system is basically
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Price discrimination: people staying at expensive hotels can afford to pay for Wi-Fi or they're on a business trip and will just expense the cost.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Are you using an ad blocker? Maybe try disabling your add-ons and reloading. The site loads fine for me in Firefox 117 (Nightly) on macOS.
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Evaluation of Rust code verbosity, understandability and complexity(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3 points by cpeterso 3y ago|1 comments
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I can't find the study I was thinking about, but here are two other studies I found. Neither study directly supports what I had recalled, but one study concludes longer names are more productive and the other concludes shorter names. :
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How to Sell Your Old Comics(wired.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Studies of program verbosity have shown that long vs short names have little impact in other programmers' reading comprehension or code maintainability.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Yes, but incompatibilities can’t be fixed if they’re not reported.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
If a website doesn’t work in Firefox (due to a bug in Firefox or the website or because the website blocks Firefox), please file a bug report on https://webcompat.com/ Mozilla developers will then try to reach out to the we
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Mozilla posted its position on Google’s Web Environment Integrity API here: Mozilla opposes this proposal because it contradicts our principles and vision for the Web. Any browser, server, or publisher that implements common standards is a
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Or "smart tags" in IE6 Beta that Microsoft walked back before shipping, fortunately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_tag_(Microsoft)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
jQuery?
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OneNote Web Clipper is no longer supported on Firefox and works best using Edge(onenote.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
One of my favorite relevant quotes, whether you’re talking about code or user interfaces: The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. — Edsger Dijkstra
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Not really a game, but: > After the success of SimCity, Maxis received numerous requests from various companies to develop simulations for their industries. After rejecting many requests from other companies, the team eventually agreed
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OpenAI’s head of trust and safety Dave Willner steps down(techcrunch.com)
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Here are the Speedometer results for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari on macOS: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perfherder/graphs?highlightAl...
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The Next 700 Programming Languages (1965) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)
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