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by gens 9y ago
Electric cars have constant torque. And it's a smaller car then all those listed. That's probably why it feels faster.
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by gens 9y ago
That's why i said that the hype behind rust is unreasonable. Just look at your post. Is it an objective look at programming ? Or just a lot of words that make rust look like the greatest thing ever ? If you think it is objective, what
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by gens 9y ago
Rust has hype because it is mozilla, servo, and mozilla blog posts about it. But that is not the point i was making. There are a lot of languages that "have safety". Ada is a prime example as it "has" more "safety&q
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by gens 9y ago
I feel that without the unreasonable hype behind rust nobody would even mention safety.
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by gens 9y ago
You can help them understand by writing and submitting documentation. Let's be honest, the linux kernel documentation mostly sucks and (more commonly) doesn't exist. PS Don't underestimate children. Some will learn C.
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by gens 9y ago
Yea.. it's not a "deep learning processing unit", but a "tensorflow processing unit". And it certainly is not just a normal modern graphics card (GPGPU) that can do other-then-32bit-float computations without dyin
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by gens 9y ago
Wow i feel stupid. Didn't even think to try the standard things. Thx. Time to msconfig this laptop to "usable" state. edit: Parent comment flagged ? Are we on "Anti-hacker Non-news" ? Anyway; Start-> type "s
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by gens 9y ago
I wish I could disable updates. Dumb ass win10 thinks it's ok to download 2 GIGABYTES of data. How is it reasonable to have gigabytes of updates ? For security ? I have gigabytes of binaries here ? And then 15 days later, 1.5GB of up
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by gens 9y ago
it's really a simple language i can help you start (amd64), if you want. TIS-100 is a decent start as well
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by gens 9y ago
>A) it can run another hyperthread with those cycles, and, I don't see hyperthreading useful. Neither do the benchmarks, that usually put hypterthreading off ahead of hypterthreading on. Reasoning is simple. When a cache miss happen
131.
by gens 9y ago
The core waiting for data to be loaded from RAM is busy. Busy waiting for data. Instructions per cycle can also be misleading. Modern cpu's can do multiple shifts per cycle, but something like division takes a long time. It all doesn
132.
by gens 9y ago
In X11, there is a big difference between a "window manager" and a "desktop environment".
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by gens 9y ago
> Also they have to be able to support simulating the head transfer function via speaker .. Do you mean head related transfer function ? As in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-related_transfer_function ? HRTF w
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by gens 9y ago
> I don't think OpenAL simulates some of the more complex phenomena having to do with how sound interacts with your body and ears? It does. This blog post [0] seems to be a nice reference. What you want is called "head-related
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by gens 9y ago
And here i thought that being "mature" is about taking responsibility for your actions, thinking about others instead of only yourself, looking at the bigger picture and maybe even making sacrifices for it, even being the "bi
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by gens 9y ago
I have an fx 8320. 8 cores and much cheaper then ryzen or intel. 4 cores is enough for (almost) any kind of multi-core dillydallying, so any "old" 4 core cpu is fine. (sidenote: firefox has "dillydallying" in its diction
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by gens 9y ago
Seems to be a slightly over-designed (amd64) assembler in the form of a library, plus some (in-library) tools that are slightly cool but nobody will use.
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by gens 9y ago
There are generic tools for these stuff on linux like perf, powertop, slabtop, lm-sensors, and probably more that idk about. This PCM looks like it provides information that the tools above can't, like pcm and memory bandwidths (unless
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by gens 9y ago
Yes, i read it. Most of the things listed there can be gotten from userspace (through cpu instructions/registers, procfs, sysfs). Do you know which one of those things can not be gotten in userspace ? Turbo boost state ? Topology ?
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by gens 9y ago
Tony Hoare’s paper is one of the most amazing papers i read (not that i understood all of it). You can get it at http://www.usingcsp.com/
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by gens 9y ago
Maybe for the real-time cache usage display ? Or performance (in the sense of less noise while measuring) ? I'm tempted to try it out and see for myself, though. For posterity; Cpu counters for a lot of things can be gotten from usersp
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by gens 9y ago
I'd like to see them try to do that beneath my city. PS I am ashamed of the current top comment (despite not having anything to do with it).
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by gens 9y ago
Why does it need a kernel module ?
144.
by gens 10y ago
In this whole thread, among all these talks about memory safety, zero mentions of valgrind.
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by gens 10y ago
Gnome3 devs never asked for feedback. Gnome3 devs never cared. But they sure do like to write blog posts about hip stuff.
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by gens 10y ago
"Solid" in electronics means the former (state), not the latter.
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by gens 10y ago
> They bought Gentile a bacon cheeseburger and a Diet Coke .. I don't even.. Is this normal in the USofA or are they just denying him sugar, while feeding him, to pacify him ? edit: but the cheeseburger already has plenty of sugar a
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by gens 10y ago
-M intel
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by gens 10y ago
Funny thing is that one of the bigger problems with optimizing compilers is register allocation. Not only is it difficult to write a good algorithm for it, but compilers don't always know what variable is most important to keep in a
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by gens 10y ago
> It's pretty well agreed at this point that a good C compiler will generate faster code than someone writing assembly. We must be discussing with different people then. Have you ever looked at what a compiler spits out ? My rule is

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