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by inkyoto 3y ago
It was not the number of instructions in the VAX ISA, it was their complexity and the multiple indirection level addressing modes. Some of the instructions are truly mind-boggling even by today's complexity standards, e.g. queue operat
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by inkyoto 3y ago
I fail to see what is wrong with the design . The volume snapshotting is the only way to solve the unsolvable problem of «undeleting» a file in a UNIX file system, after all, and the simplified backup management is the end game here. Volum
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> There's no longer any obvious relationship between deleting stuff and getting disk space back This is a feature of APFS that Finder can't do much about it: local backups via the APFS snapshotting. APFS maintains a number of l
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by inkyoto 3y ago
I was directly addressing the «saturate» part of the statement, not memory becoming the bottleneck. Since builds are inherently parallel nowadays, saturating the memory bandwidth is very easy since each CPU core runs a scheduled compiler pr
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Oh, yes, you are. The optimising steps, linking and the link-time optimisation (LTO) are very heavily memory bound, especially on large codebases. The Rust compiler routinely hits the 45-50Gb/sec ballpark of the intra-memory transfer s
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> They make Tofu taste like meat and looks like meat, it is definitely a big thing and you could search for photos on how close these food look like real meat/fish and the popularity . That is not tofu, though, that is mock-meat, m
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> […] Apple’s war on kexts Hardly a war, a rather rational decision it is – they are progressively moving kernel modules, drivers, file systems and network components into the user space. It is a foundational design principle of GNU Hurd
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> I posit 'Inconceivably Large Telescope' to be the maximum. No, we can't stop just yet as they are – conceivably – other models that will eventually surpass the «Inconceivably Large Telescope»: – «Penultimately Inconceiva
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> […] the article is clickbaiting about male genitalia […] Are you implying that Apple is trying to patent smart cock rings as well? That does not seem likely as most users want their cock rings to be dumb rather than smart. Then, again,
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Graph databases, neo4j including, handle many-to-many relationships better than any RDBMS.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> It's good enough […] «Good enough» is not a quantative metric by any conceivable measure. Furthermore, people in surrounding threads have reported inadequate performance of the pg_vector PgSQL extension (which, indubitably, can an
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Let's make INTERCAL great again. Bring it on!
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Based on multiple benchmarks, the Ryzen 6000 series and Alder Lake series should outperform the M2 Ultra pretty drastically (200-300%, which is well above the M3 general uplift of 20%) unless there's a severe disk bottleneck, whic
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> In some cases I’d even suspect the incomprehension might go both ways. Which is also true. It was a thought experiment to highlight the fact that the lack of comprehension could also arise within the boundaries of a single language. In
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> In all times in history, when multiple cultures interact, they have to find a common subset of their languages to communicate in […]. Oh… where do we start… We do not have to go as far as finding an intersection of multiple languages.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
It is not clear whether airlines hold travellers hostage to spelling sorrows and miseries, or the airlines are being held hostage to the spelling sorrows and miseries by travel reservation systems. The airlines get their data feeds from the
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by inkyoto 3y ago
My interpretation is that the complainant's name is exactly one letter, and it is an accented one, e.g. Õ. Or Ě. Or Ů.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
I instantly conjure up an image of a Roman citizen, a retired soldier now, speaking Vulgar Latin picking up the phone and dialling Comitia Centuriata to lodge a complaint about a unpaid engagement in Punic Wars. The clerk answers in and spe
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Emotional? Hardly. I am not affiliated with POWER and have never been. But I like good hardware, good design ideas and debating them. One could pin me on maybe getting touchy in relation to my own pet ISA design that is a unholy matrimony o
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Register windows and register files are the same thing. Most RISC architectures have eschewed the register windows in favour of the register files coupled with the register renaming though. Silicon is «wasted» (debatable) in high-performanc
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Still no specific examples, just handwaving? SPARC, Intel i960, AMD29k, ARM, RISC-V and many others are direct descendants of the Berkeley RISC design. Using the number of years of a measure of technological relevance, it can be argued that
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> because it is a design that belong to yesterday Which parts of the POWER architecture design belong to yesterday? Specific examples would be great.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> AFAIK, the Mach microkernel was version 3.0 onwards, and used in projects such as IBM Workplace OS, MKLinux, and GNU HURD. GNU Hurd was based on CMU Mach 3 for a while in lieu of Mach 4, which was an oft cited reasons for delays with t
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by inkyoto 3y ago
It is still true even today for microcontrollers – many of them come with a miniscule amount of RAM, no MMU and generally unpredictable memory maps.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Meh. The usual practice is to keep the terraform state in an encrypted S3 bucket tucked away in a separate account (CI/CD, management or similar), with IAM policies controlling who can actually access the terraform state file in a cros
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> The x86 addressing modes are a lot simpler than the 680x0. Anything but simpler and completely irrational to someone coming from the orthogonal ISA design persepective. For a start, on x86, the loading of an address is a separate instr
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Event-driven architecture is an architectural principle , and Kafka, RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ, Pulsar, NATS and so forth are implementations that support the event-driven architectural principle. Yet, all of them range in a variety, comple
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by inkyoto 3y ago
TIBCO Rendezvous is tech from 1998/99, millions of messages per second didn't exist at the time. Only NYSE and NASDAQ were capable of producing millions of events back then (still not by minute nor by second). TIBCO Rendezvous was
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> […] latency is inherently tied to 5G (and other) wireless protocol(s)? It is tied to 5G but not to the wireless network. It is tied to the 5G core (wired) network design where the device's IP traffic terminates at each cell site t
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> […] An instruction set is an inherent aspect of a CPU; you can't have a CPU without one. Oh, yes, you can. The following examples of – Transport triggered architecture – Dataflow architecture – Optical and quantum computing repres

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