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by faragon 9y ago
If that runs great on phones, and has virtualization support for e.g. running ARM Linux guests, I would change both my Android phone and my Ubuntu laptop for one phone (e.g. Snapdragon 835 or better + 8-12GB RAM + 256GB flash + USB 3.0 OTG)
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by faragon 9y ago
Thanks God! :-)
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by faragon 9y ago
In my opinion, Google is a tolerated monopoly because of being efficient, and not being too greedy. I.e. providing many efficient "free" services that work great is a good thing for the society, and in return Google gets a massive
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by faragon 9y ago
Full CPU utilization regarding IPC is not just about the ALUs, it includes all units (ALU units, load/store, and other, e.g. if you have differentiated integer and floating point ALUs, etc.). E.g. with a 4 maximum IPC CPU (2 load/
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by faragon 9y ago
It is not cheap enough, yet. Rationale: although it could be easy to account user processes, it would not be that easy for the OS kernel and kernel components (e.g. figure how to account cache pollution because of hardware IRQ dispatching a
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by faragon 9y ago
A sustained IPC of 2 is already quite high (e.g. for a OoOE CPU having 2 load/store units, and 2 [vector-]ALUs, i.e. having a maximum IPC of 4). You can reach near-full CPU utilization when processing sequential data (read/process
427.
by faragon 9y ago
I'm a programmer. And I use the CPU performance counters for optimizing code, so go figure :-)
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by faragon 9y ago
I respect Brendan, and although it is an interesting article, I have to disagree with him: The OS tells you about OS CPU utilization, not CPU micro-architecture functional unit utilization. So if the OS uses a CPU for running code until a p
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by faragon 9y ago
TL;DR: "sky is the limit", "this is not a bubble but a new paradigm", "the price is going up because of China", "buy before it gets too late", etc.
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by faragon 9y ago
Amazon could disrupt providing Health Care services in the US. Current price overhead versus over developed countries is huge, so an efficient provider could shock the whole HC market.
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by faragon 9y ago
AFAIK, most advanced RISC-V design includes superscalar and OoOE (e.g. comparable to a MIPS R10000 (1995) or an Intel Pentium Pro (1995)), while the RISC-V for the IoT is comparable to a typical single instructions per clock RISC CPU, e.g.
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by faragon 9y ago
Of course: do it.
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by faragon 9y ago
Yes
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by faragon 9y ago
The problem is forgetting that dynamic memory usage is not "free" (as in "gratis" or "cheap"). In fact, using std::string for long-lived server processes doing intensive string processing (e.g. parsing, text pr
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by faragon 9y ago
Learn to code requires time. From my experience, after basic education (e.g. before starting High School), with 6 hours per week, during 6 months (144 hours), with a teacher and a easy language (e.g. BASIC or Python) you can accomplish stud
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by faragon 9y ago
Nice post. I don't know why there is no a bigger push in experiments/investigations with tree-like massive combinatorial expansion with lazy-evaluation, so the solution space can be somewhat "reasonable" (e.g. assuming y
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by faragon 9y ago
TL;DR: Yet another "financial/asset bubble soft landing is possible" prediction.
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by faragon 9y ago
This reminds me JBIG2 compression errors... [1] [1] https://abbyy.technology/en:kb:tip:jbig2_compression_and_ocr
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by faragon 9y ago
BSD/Apache-like licenses are getting most of the traction, because of GPL "viral" issues, e.g. you can not ship GPLv3 Ghostscript with your product, even being "free", as it is not redistributable (the option is to
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by faragon 9y ago
One thing is an easter egg for enabling debug stuff in order to help diagnosis, and another, a super user backdoor, which in my opinion, should be legislated: i.e. in case it exists, it should be disabled by default, or having a big warning
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by faragon 9y ago
Unethical behavior: let people decide with their wallets.
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by faragon 9y ago
Beautiful.
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by faragon 9y ago
Apple could buy that debt and rename the island to "Apple Island", etc.
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by faragon 9y ago
So Musk wants to be the Internet, too. I, for one, welcome that.
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by faragon 9y ago
Please, stop bigotry and nationalist hatred. That's for both the US, and the ones willing to do the same as revenge against the US people. Let's stop the nationalist madness together.
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by faragon 9y ago
I would love a laptop with 8-core Ryzen with a decent integrated GPU in the SoC :-)
447.
by faragon 9y ago
Most laptops, tablets, and smartphones do, too. At least, the PS4 camera is optional :-)
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by faragon 9y ago
AMD: provide backdoor-free systems, and you'll succeed (after Intel's security fiasco).
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by faragon 9y ago
In my opinion all hypervisor-like hidden chips should be always documented, and disabled by default, by law, except for closed appliances (e.g. a video game console). That's crazy and very dangerous stuff.
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by faragon 9y ago
Sure, that's precisely what I'm warning about: if you need to adapt to the international market you can not wait 2 or 3 years for someone to adapt to a local "circumstance". Not taking advance that in all EU countries En

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