jlarcombe

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by jlarcombe 8y ago
But aren't you worried you'll lose access to your music? I have to own it! I can't have it at the whim of multiple third parties to take down as they see fit. It's too important.
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
I thought exactly the same!
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
Why? Isn't the clever bit the JIT, rather than the implementation language?
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
Great band. I'd urge anyone reading the article to listen to their records, as you don't really get a sense of how they sound from the (really interesting) description of their techniques. It's much less "weird sounding&
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
Tough it out?? London's a great place to live, especially if you're interested in music, art, theatre, "nightlife" etc. Due to the way the transport networks developed it's also quite easy to get anywhere in England
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
Seen it happen right next to me at bus stop on City Road. Keep tight hold of your bag and keep your phone in your pocket...
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
Until relatively recently, most of the tourist postcards of London you could buy in the tat shops in town had old photos where the buildings were all blackened. I'm not sure when they were cleaned, some time in the late 70s or early 80
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
Great book shop in the basement of that building (Skoob). Coram's Fields round the corner is brilliant if you have children.
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
Buy their records on Bandcamp instead. It's that simple.
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
Pelikan Souveran and Diamine inks, highly recommended. I don't write as much as I used to, but it's always a pleasure. I also have a Lamy Safari and a Shaeffer Prelude with some different nib sizes and filled with contrasting inks
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
You've never found a context in which unique_ptr is useful? I find this surprising. It basically removes a class of memory management bugs with heap allocated objects at a stroke.
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
For small bands, buying an album on Bandcamp is more lucrative than buying a concert ticket. Gigs sometimes break even but more often lose money at the lower end; venue hire, rehearsal rooms and transport add up and there are usually more p
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
Interesting this should come up now. I just bought Izotope RX7 which has a built in 'Music Rebalancer' and, according to their PR, this uses machine learning techniques. I've been playing around with it this week in spare ti
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
Yeah why on earth did they do this? It's such a pain. I can't think of a reason why it would be a good idea, except perhaps "non-programmers don't expect to count from zero" but surely it's easier to overcome t
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
Yes 'A Time Of Gifts' a remarkable book, not least because as you say it is a snapshot of a world about to be destroyed, and because he is so open about the degree to which it didn't really impinge greatly upon his travels. L
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
Yes, I'm not sure why the original post is being downvoted. It's exactly right!
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
AArch64 has a zero register too, I believe.
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
Well, yeah, run-time cost, I meant. Originally this was nil (unless you had a register-specified shift) on the 'classic' 3-stage pipeline in the original ARM (1/2/3/6/7). As the pipeline got deeper this was mor
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
I always thought this was quite elegant; in the original ARM ISA most ALU operations and register moves (and even some load/store indexing) could pass through the barrel shifter at no extra cost, so a 'ROR' was just a move fr
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
In the original ARM design the multiple register transfers were much more efficient than the equivalent single register transfers because of the simple architecture which had an inherent load delay (it couldn't fetch an instruction and
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
Yes, an irritatingly-written book, very hard to enjoy despite seemingly being perfectly designed for my interests. I feel the same way about Iain Sinclair's books, which I kept on buying until I eventually admitted defeat that they&#x2
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by jlarcombe 8y ago
The original ARM C compiler ('Norcroft') did this a lot as I recall. Relevant to the original post here of course, as the original spec was a processor that could interpret BBC BASIC as fast as hand optimised 6502 assembler.
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by jlarcombe 9y ago
Like when Stan Laurel gets hit on the head in "A Chump At Oxford"
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by jlarcombe 9y ago
"Brute forcing it by stitching together different proofs"? Seems a bit of a harsh assessment! My (limited) understanding is that Wiles' proof introduced some hugely powerful new techniques related to modular forms and opened
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by jlarcombe 9y ago
Yes, although the new instruction set in ARMv8 removes several of the things that made programming in 'classic' ARM assembly such fun on the Acorn, such as the free barrel shifter on most arithmetic ops, conditional execution on a