jmz92

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by jmz92 12y ago
I'm curious: how would the achievement gap change if all or most post-secondary education was delivered online instead of at physical colleges/universities?
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by jmz92 12y ago
The point isn't that she didn't learn to study. If you had read just a little bit farther, you would have seen the real reason: at the first minor setback she met, she began to question whether she really belonged at a prestigious
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by jmz92 13y ago
Regarding your comment on an "FPGA backend" for GCC, you have to understand that simulating a VHDL design (what is implemented) is a drastically simpler task than synthesizing an FPGA image. Logic optimization, place and route, ti
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by jmz92 13y ago
I was two blocks away at Stubb's when this was going on, and I walked through that area many times already during SXSW. I very rarely realize how fragile my life is, but events like this make it real.
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by jmz92 13y ago
In a couple years or so, my bet would be on Rust.
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by jmz92 13y ago
The big difference from my perspective is that Atom isn't currently FOSS. Other than that, the maturity of the emacs ecosystem is both one of its greatest features and a bit of a curse.
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by jmz92 13y ago
LLVM intermediate representation and Mill code are going to be pretty different. The LLVM machine model is a register based machine (with an arbitrary number of registers--the backends do the work of register allocation). Basically, an easi
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by jmz92 13y ago
> "Interesting, the architecture looks greatly simplified compared to even standard RISC" Depends on how you define simplicity, really. Writing a good back-end for this architecture is likely to be very challenging.
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by jmz92 13y ago
Some of the memory ideas are similar--Itanium had some good ideas about "hoisting" loads [1] which I think are more flexible than the Mill's solution. In general, this is a larger departure from existing architectures than It