jdsully

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by jdsully 7y ago
Apparently Firefox is not "modern" according to orbis. Very unfortunate how the web has become such a monoculture.
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by jdsully 7y ago
At this vintage of machine we're talking about things like pulling individual RAM chips which have gone bad, and hardware that is just too slow to even keep up with 9600 baud datastreams - despite the fact you wrote it all in assembly
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by jdsully 7y ago
Its one of the reasons I wrote a port of my database for my IMSAI 8080 [1]. You only think you know a machine until you try to use it. From experience I can say emulators are just not faithful to the actual experience of the physical hardwa
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by jdsully 7y ago
I find latency to be the much bigger problem. For the types of workloads where bandwidth is limiting you tend to find they run much better on GPUs.
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by jdsully 7y ago
And yet the effect could just as easily be predicting that he is still not confident enough.
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by jdsully 7y ago
My initial hypothesis on bug fixes are normally wrong. However proving/disproving them tends to help immensely in finding the real problem.
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by jdsully 7y ago
The Russians were working on the same problem and were so confident they refused Kennedy’s suggestion they do a joint effort. You can’t blame them either - they beat the US on every milestone except a manned moon landing. Any attempts to ch
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by jdsully 7y ago
Everything I’ve learned about Nixon tells me he would have kept it to avoid losing to the USSR. This is exactly why he escalated Vietnam despite campaigning on withdrawal - they weren’t going to lose on his watch.
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by jdsully 7y ago
If you had passed a supported font to the font-family tag it would have rendered it (it will not download a webfont). Since people really don't like seeing square boxes instead of characters windows tries very hard to find a font that
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by jdsully 7y ago
There’s a lot to get right here. I wouldn’t call using a UUID or its equivalent a random name. It has random components - sure, but the format is intentionally structured to reduce collisions.
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by jdsully 7y ago
What would make you think that? The law is quite plain in how its written.
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by jdsully 7y ago
That paper used High Level Synthesis which would be the equivalent of coding something in ruby and comparing it with another algorithm written in optimized assembly.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Falsely claiming citizenship is a felony and will make you inadmissible to the USA. You may even lose your green card. See 18 U.S. Code § 911
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by jdsully 7y ago
Is there any calamity that affects the young and the rich the most?
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by jdsully 7y ago
> I don't know how on earth any executive couldn't be fucking liable for knowing the vast majority being manufactured and sold were being used illicitly. The answer is plausible deniability. Nobody in the chain has specific kno
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by jdsully 7y ago
Its less risky to give you things you already like than to try and guess if something new will be appreciated. Its the same reason hollywood keeps doing remakes. If you only go by statistics and don’t think through the “what if everyone did
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by jdsully 7y ago
Everyone has plausible deniability that theirs follows a secure supply chain to the pharmacy. Its those other guys that can’t control their inventory. Nobody has an incentive to audit their supply chains or doctor RXs to verify that of cour
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by jdsully 7y ago
They are getting there with their auto-play functionality. The missing piece is themed “channels”. P.s. Thanks for your kind words. I’m always open to feedback/suggestions for KeyDB. Feel free to open a GitHub issue at any time.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Worked wonders for broadcast and cable TV.
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by jdsully 7y ago
They’ve been in a 10+ year turnaround. “Doing well” is debatable.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Adding a a gate with jellybean logic was a noticeable expense in the 80s and would still be today.
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by jdsully 7y ago
The alternative to a pacemaker is death from an irregular heartbeat. The alternative to closed loop insulin is a lower quality of life. The FDA is setup to optimize survival not quality of life. The standards will be much higher for these p
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by jdsully 7y ago
That would have wasted precious cycles for games that didn’t need it. The ‘n’ in NMI stands for non-maskable.
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by jdsully 7y ago
There were quite a few “professional” software packages written in BASIC at the time. Of course most software needed assembly in the early days.
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by jdsully 7y ago
Volatile only says that the clobbered memory is not listed. Nothing would stop the compiler from statically analyzing the assembly to make smarter decisions if it chose to do so. This would be trivial with an empty asm block. However becau
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by jdsully 7y ago
The problem would be someone working on the GCC optimizer deciding, “Wouldn’t it be great if we could do all our fancy optimizations on functions with inline assembly?”
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by jdsully 7y ago
To any American immigrating to the UK £400 for healthcare is a steal.
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by jdsully 7y ago
That was on Haswell and it was fixed in Broadwell and later. Any new processor will have it (except AMD’s chips).
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by jdsully 7y ago
Looks like dandruff. Some people are prone to it and can't really help it.
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by jdsully 7y ago
That’s just how I read it. I didn’t mean to imply incorrect intent on your part - I just wanted to be precise for those that may not know the history.

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