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by egsmi 6y ago
> On a C64, you boot into bare basic Come on. I think you're remembering the past with rose colored glasses. I loved my C64 in the 80s but it was not user friendly, compared to say an iPad running playgrounds. This is what is was
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by egsmi 6y ago
And those x86 are only still usable because M1 hasn’t been out long enough for the new software, that needs the speed to be “useable”, to be written.
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by egsmi 6y ago
> TV didn't have the damage on our society that he expected. I wonder if those who decry FOX or CNN would agree.
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by egsmi 6y ago
http://www.chinagoabroad.com/en/article/microsoft-s-cloud-co... "A survey conducted by Forrester Research earlier this month showed that Microsoft has already become the country’s second-biggest cloud service
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by egsmi 6y ago
This class’s version of RISC-V only implements of subset of all the possible instructions (which of course is totally appropriate) and it’s missing modern concepts (like out of order execution) which are also out of scope for an introductor
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by egsmi 6y ago
For me probably the coolest thing about RISC-V is it has version with a simple enough architecture that students can code it in a quarter, and it's also in the zeitgeist in a way MIPS never was. It seems like we've been doing toy
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by egsmi 6y ago
There are plenty of constraints in the server markets. The primary ones are economic.
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by egsmi 6y ago
Here is a Forbes article (do “normal” people read Forbes?) that says to run apps in Catalina one will need permission from Apple. It even anticipated this problem with the server. Sure, it doesn’t mention sockets but remember this is for n
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by egsmi 6y ago
> The idea that this is a free market system is patently false The cost is not $19k , it is whatever the billing department decides to surprise the patient with. Totally agree. And even if the billing department could tell you the price
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by egsmi 6y ago
What details were missing from the WWDC talk that you would've liked to have seen?
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by egsmi 6y ago
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/703/ The second half of the talk is about the "hardened runtime" And in the wider tech press https://appleinsider.com/articles&#
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by egsmi 6y ago
Is this really a knock on Apple though? It’s not like all this is up to them. Personally I want MATLAB support but Apple doesn’t get to dictate Mathworks schedule.
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by egsmi 6y ago
I see how it worked. That measurement uses the 2013 technique published by Henry Wong. I think it’s probably a reasonable estimate of the instruction window length but to say that’s the same as the buffer size is making a number of archit
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by egsmi 6y ago
> With over 600 reorder buffer registers in the Apple M1 executing deeply out-of-order code Can you provide a link to how this was determined? I did some searches but couldn’t find anything. I’d be very interested too see how it was me
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by egsmi 6y ago
Or got a DTK but didn’t get around to using it. I know I stopped counting how many unused eval boards I have...
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by egsmi 6y ago
> I can't escape the impression that they didn't really shower the wider ecosystem in DTKs and support, although I'd be happy to proven wrong there. That’s interesting. I was shocked at how many green check marks there ar
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by egsmi 6y ago
> Samsung and the ads they force on you after you paid thousands on their TVs TV manufacturers were forced to add AD revenue because they reduced their purchase price to levels that were less than sustainable so there is a trade off bein
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by egsmi 6y ago
> Businesses are not dumb. Over all businesses over long periods of time, maybe. But a business can definitely be dumb. And a smart business can definitely do a dumb thing.
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by egsmi 6y ago
> I dont know why there are many comments in this thread doing it. (Points at AnandTech) But he started it! :)
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by egsmi 6y ago
> This is a very misleading statement. They primarily only used the 5950X in single-core tests, and in those tests it doesn't come remotely close to 105W. That’s true but keep in mind this is the power going into the AMD CPU only.
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by egsmi 6y ago
Thanks for that! It’s very clear now.
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by egsmi 6y ago
Love the articles. I definitely want to spend a bit more time with it. The section on the sense amp was great. But one thing I was left wondering was how was the refresh managed? Was it just the act the reading/writing had the side e
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by egsmi 6y ago
This only works if all involved accept their initial axiom, "So you've made a mistake and it's public…". In my experience getting consensus from all involved that a mistake has indeed been committed is the very hardest p
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by egsmi 6y ago
It took ARM 35 years to be an overnight success and x86 has a very large install base. It's not going anywhere. Remember this thread from not too long ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22837753 x86 has lock
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by egsmi 6y ago
Jim Hefferon, who is also a HN member, has a great free Linear Algebra textbook. People all have their own preferences but I actually prefer his to Strang's. https://hefferon.net/linearalgebra/
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by egsmi 6y ago
I’m confused. The link is for DDR4, it’s all too slow, and Apple doesn’t offer a 32MB M1 option at this time.
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by egsmi 6y ago
It’s always the null cases that get you... I suppose if “up to date” was the only requirement I would agree. But in reality there are many competing requirements which is why there are many degrees of documentation. Obviously internal an
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by egsmi 6y ago
I think it depends a lot on your job. I used to do a lot of Cadence Virtuoso work in Windows (now I've moved to Linux) but that fact that is was running on Windows only mattered once, when I setup the tool. From then on I was full s
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by egsmi 6y ago
A little bit up is was shown the memory in M1 is 5.5GHz DDR5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25050625 Can you please provide the link to 64GB DDR5-5500 for $200? I'd love to buy some too!
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by egsmi 6y ago
That's not obvious at all. The memory hierarchy is very different in an Apple SOC compared to a typical PC architecture. For example, I don't think there is the equivalent of a system level cache in a PC. https://www

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