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by jdsully 7y ago
Amazon is a powerhouse cloud provider which gives them similar market power MSFT had with Windows. A true tech company by any definition. They just so happen to have a boring low margin retail business attached to it for legacy reasons.
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by jdsully 7y ago
The whistle-blower may prefer another candidate for governor. Both entities can be politically motivated.
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by jdsully 7y ago
If a case has been litigated in the past then you should get the same result if the facts are the same. It's the party with the case law on their side's responsibility to demonstrate past rulings that support them. If you spend
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by jdsully 7y ago
At least on X86 that truncation behavior is free. 32-bit EAX is just first 32-bits of RAX.
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by jdsully 7y ago
The legal philosophy is actually the opposite. Common Law is heavily based upon precedent and what the norms of the community are to “fill in the gaps”. The vast majority of what goes into a decision is this historical case law. The actual
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by jdsully 7y ago
Been around for a while (at least the proprietary stuff). Certain things that are mere "style" and don't affect runtime for traditional C++ do have large effects on the generated code though. Intermediate variables for exam
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by jdsully 7y ago
I think the problem is more the software is single threaded. I’m sure YC can afford more than a single core machine.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Apple did their own thing and didn’t follow ATX. Most Macs had soft power switches (often on the keyboard) except for the very old ones with the integrated CRT.
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by jdsully 7y ago
These days we call it "SDR" ram for single data rate. But when it was current it was just called "SDRAM". So yes technically all are synchronous dynamic RAM. But the colloquial terms are SDRAM (or SDR), DDR, DDR2, DDR
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by jdsully 7y ago
It really depends on the depth of the snow.
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by jdsully 7y ago
I drive a normal FWD car during winter weather almost nobody will go out in. I drove it cross-country through the worst snowstorm the midwest experienced in the last 10 years where I couldn't see more than 10ft in front of me. All tha
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by jdsully 7y ago
KeyDB got it's start as a post on here. Expect people to be skeptical but in the end quite a lot will try it. The original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19368955 https://github.com/JohnSul
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by jdsully 7y ago
SDRAM is cool but DDR3 is better! With LiteDRAM there is even an open source controller. LiteDRAM also works with SDRAM too.
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by jdsully 7y ago
I'm not seeing any information on people are supposed to physically move into their house or how deliveries will be managed. Cities have had roads long before cars were a thing, and they were never that pedestrian friendly.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Some boost libraries are very error prone and fall down easily. When it works it works great though. I’m happy the quality bar is so much higher for the stdlib. People looking for more bleeding edge stuff can get boost if needed.
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by jdsully 7y ago
I used to work at Walmart. It wasn't uncommon for someone to go in with a crowbar at an unused register and take something. It just doesn't make the news. That's why they are always emptied on a regular schedule.
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by jdsully 7y ago
The difference is whether the person is expected to manage the situation on their own. If I said that to a buddy of mine who I know works on his own car he would be upset. He imagines himself capable of working on cars and I just communic
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by jdsully 7y ago
The ATX standard was released in 1995 and it took a few years for them to become common. Are you sure it wasn't the late 90s. Time-frames get hazy this far back, its actually not improbable these Office '97 machines are ATX.
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by jdsully 7y ago
That’s still under $100,000 and you can use the same test results for some. Canada and a few other places may also require absorbed radiation tests which are a nuisance.
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by jdsully 7y ago
That sounds crazy. What sort of certifications get anywhere near that? FCC testing is only in the tens of thousands range.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Not only that but the switch toggled line voltage that fed the power supply. Off meant off in those days.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Yes they have. The only conditionally disabled feature is xbegin/xend/xabort. From the article: > The other TSX sub-feature, Hardware Lock Elision (HLE), is unconditionally disabled by the new microcode...
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by jdsully 7y ago
In some cases it can have a huge speedup. But it's rather tricky to get right. So far for almost all of my use cases the transaction sizes have been too large, and it almost always aborted. The RPCS3 PS 3 emulator saw a 40% perf boos
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by jdsully 7y ago
I hate the new trend of preserving tacky neon signs. The Sam The Record Man sign is just ugly. So was the Honest Eds sign (although that one is a bit nicer).
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by jdsully 7y ago
Part of the driver of IPC is how many layers of logic you can fit between each pipeline register. We’re not talking density we’re talking logic gate delay. Each process has different delay, setup, and hold times. On one process I might be a
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by jdsully 7y ago
It was disabled because it didn’t work. So I guess it’s in the eye of the beholder.
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by jdsully 7y ago
You can’t simplify the logic because TSX transactions may abort for any reason and make no promises of forward progress. You must implement a fallback codepath. If you meant having an optimized codepath then that is doable. But given your w
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by jdsully 7y ago
They get that IPC on a better process. Shorter gate delays let you pack more into each cycle. IPC can't be divorced from process when comparing architectures.
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by jdsully 7y ago
When a team is close in abilities with a single outlier it can be difficult to have special cases. Because there isn’t a wide variation between people policies are expected to be “fair”. The alternative is strict hierarchies where its made
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by jdsully 7y ago
Most countries will forgive two lost passports within a 10 year period. After that they may refuse or give you limited duration documents. This is of course at the discretion of the country issuing the documents - but if they are overly g

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