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by inkyoto 4y ago
That is also a possibility, indeed.
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Automation of menial tasks is the primary use case now, I suppose. ChatGPT has given us a first real glimpse of what AI can do after a prolonged AI winter, but it will take it a few iterations to get to a more AI-ey level. I think it is als
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Even the best event / data streaming architecture (or, more generally, a backend architecture) in the universe can be negated by a lousy frontend app / frontend layer architecture. I have never ordered anything from a Macca's
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by inkyoto 4y ago
The IT department does not make purchases such as Concur as it is way out of their core competency. It is the finance department under the auspices of the CFO / the managing director that do. Those people are non-technical and don&#x27
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Inlining heuristics used for -O3 are architecture-specific […] Yes, the inlining strategy is non-deterministic and does not yield same results across different ISA. Moreover, it does not even guarantee the same result for a single ISA
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Not really. There are already signs that the Russian military industry is in hot water now because there are no Russian semiconductor fabs that can supply the type of chips needed for anything beyond dumb ballistic missiles […] I don&#
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> […] and 30-40% cheaper with performance loss incurred for the workloads I am interested in. Should read: «… with no performance loss incurred for the workloads I am interested in». A typo crept in.
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Either you'd need to switch your whole cloud infrastructure to run on ARM … Nope, the whole cloud infrastructure does not need to switch. Since containers are fully self-contained, self-sufficient and isolated from each other, the
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by inkyoto 4y ago
You had made a response to the following statement – the one I was responding to: > On recent M1/M2 Macs you take the additional pain (and thus performance hit) of translation to x86 (because that's almost certainly what your c
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> On recent M1/M2 Macs you take the additional pain (and thus performance hit) of translation to x86 (because that's almost certainly what your containers are in. What on Earth are you talking about? arm64 Docker images predate
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Publishing a commit ID in a printed newspaper does not prevent the data loss nor the tampering with the data. Destructive operations in a ledger database are simply not available at the API/interface contract level. A delete operation
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by inkyoto 4y ago
I am not arguing the case of git having or not having Merkle trees (git has a «weak» implementation of the Merkle trees, for in a ledger database every block's cryptographic signature derives from the contents of the preceding block –
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Such a database already exists, and it is called AWS QLDB. Deleting a document revision in QLDB does not actually delete it, but rather moves the last known revision into a shadow history table that accompanies every table in QLDB. The full
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by inkyoto 4y ago
You are not incorrect. Ledger databases, as a technology, do not eliminate a possibility of spinning up a shadow ledger and rebuilding the change history in the new ledger that is purged of inconvenient records. Managed ledger database serv
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> The developed world is distinguished from the developing world often by the strength of its institutions, by the general accessibility of legal recourse, by the prevalence of trust within the society at large. The developed world is no
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Read up on git internals, it's a very elegant and simple design and you seem to assume a few things about it that are flat out wrong. I am well acquainted with git internals and object types, which include blobs, trees, commits, a
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Ledgers are quite easy to build. Git is a ledger. It doesn't use a block chain but it does link commits via their hashes; which makes it an audit proof ledger. Unless you can break the hashes, you can't modify its history. Ea
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Hyperledger is one such project: https://www.hyperledger.org/ (mostly the marketing fluff) and https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> […] compliance […]. This is the crux of the matter. In a prevailing number of cases, when people ask about a blockchain, they actually want a ledger database with the following properties: – an immutable, tamper proof, append-only tran
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> At the same time, it specifies optional extensions like V (vector), Zfh (16-bit floats), scalar crypto, H (hypervisor), and some optional supervisor stuff. It is the optional extensions that concern me the most, not the foundational on
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Or OS authors are going to have to rethink how they handle illegal instruction exceptions, by patching the calling program to call into an emulated version when running on hardware that lacks support; […] It can be done at the OS kerne
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> The initial point release could not run on the RS/6000. There are people who have successfully installed and used it in the following years; it does however require modifications and source that were created after the fact. I am c
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Solaris could not run on RS/6000 as it had a completely different internal architecture, starting from the POWER (not PowerPC) CPU's, a proprietary IBM system bus and other proprietary, IBM made peripherals. Solaris was ported to
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by inkyoto 4y ago
AIX and Windows NT 3.51 for PowerPC. Linux had not been ported to the PowerPC platform yet.
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Naturally, when the US: • copied the Soviet anti-tank dog programme[0]; • glued bags filled with napalm to bats bodies and caged the live bats inside a bomb casing[1]; • used foxes caught in China and Australia whose fur was painted with a
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> […] "the compiler has insufficient information to achieve ideal optimization because some things can only be known at runtime." This is where the profile guided optimisation comes in – for statically compiled languages, with
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Curiously, the dissertation does not take into account for a comparison POWER and PA-RISC v2.0 architectures that had already been well established by the time, and are «better» RISC architectures in multiple aspects compared to orthodox RI
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by inkyoto 4y ago
And I have been to a number of islands across Polynesia and Micronesia where the cellular service simply does not exist; however, there is always Wi-Fi in hotels. SMS is of no use in such places.
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Are you old enough to remember the early 2000s when every […] One does not have to be that old enough. Look no further than personal care and small home appliances (electric shavers – yes, Braun, I am looking at you; electric toothbrus
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> EV batteries generally don't die outright. True. But since every point has at least three counterpoints (true, false and anywhere in between), I will provide a counterpoint. > They just lose capacity. So instead of a 300 mile r

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