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by jng 4y ago
I was around in that era and having to pay for assemblers, compilers, etc... didn't sound strange at all. What was also a reality was the difficulty of actually getting them if you were far away from the US (Spain in my case). The wo
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by jng 4y ago
Eager for the day someone integrates this into VS Code.
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Tell HN: Campus in Spain for game dev teams (free and all costs covered)
6 points by jng 4y ago|1 comments
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Blue Ball Machines: Translating between the software and hardware universes(github.com)
1 points by jng 4y ago|0 comments
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by jng 4y ago
Each CPU core doesn't have it's own independent channel to memory, there are usually 2-3 channels to DDR memory shared by all cores via multiple intermediate caches (usually shared hierarchically).
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Vim Is Easy(youtube.com)
5 points by jng 5y ago|1 comments
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by jng 5y ago
Not really. "I adore you" is literally "te adoro". "Querer" in Spanish just means "to love", it's a synonym to "amar", also "to love". "Querer" is more common langua
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by jng 5y ago
The bytecodes aren't but the interpreter is, look up threaded code.
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by jng 5y ago
Not only the reader and the compiler, that kind of threaded code really helps performance thanks to leveraging the CPU's branch target buffer to obtain great branch prediction of interpreted code, and that is one of the killer aspects
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by jng 5y ago
Yes, and even more fun in that direction, the shape of the letter O descends directly from the hieroglyph of the eye.
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by jng 5y ago
There was travel and commerce between far out regions in that period (1,500-3,500 BCE). The connection between the three old-world starts of writing (Sumerian, Egyptian and Chinese) is, AFAIK, not 100% clarified yet. It's widely accept
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by jng 5y ago
Finally on the USB-C Mac M1 chargers! (at least on the Air)
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by jng 5y ago
Not to mention the cable deterioration. I recently got an M1 MacBook Air and the USB-C charger is finally designed such that the cable is replaceable. No admission of wrongdoing, blaming the user, but at least an acceptable final fix.
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by jng 5y ago
Care to provide some details on this?
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by jng 5y ago
Thank you, note taken, that is very valuable information! OpenSSD is at least a good starting point to research and prototype, even if manufacturer help is needed later.
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by jng 5y ago
Hey that's very interesting! How much of the FTL logic is done with regular MCU code vs custom hardware? Is there any open source SSD firmware out there that one could look at to start experimenting in this field, or at least something
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by jng 5y ago
It was brittle beyond belief. The process would run out of memory and crash really easily. You are supposed to dimension resources well, but of course you'd like to handle things more gracefully when a huge inflow of data or requests c
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by jng 5y ago
Lucene is Java, right? There should be space for a native implementation, like ScyllaDB is doing to Cassandra (and DynamoDB, though the gap is not of the same shape in the last case). Or am I missing something? I used ElasticSearch and run
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by jng 5y ago
The two cores only share FP and vector execution units. A ton of code doesn't use those at all, and so they are effectively two separate cores most of the time. It provides full compatibility on both cores, full performance very often,
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by jng 5y ago
From the article, it seems the problem was that the CEO wasn't authoritarian enough, rather than the other way around. Looking to build consensus, rather than strongly setting direction. But I guess that's also just one piece of t
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by jng 5y ago
Very interesting description. Are you familiar at all with the details of FPGAs for these very same tasks, especially the EV family of Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC? They include hardened video codec units, but I don't know how they co
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by jng 5y ago
Is there any solid information about Google using TPU for the search engine, or is this an assumption you're making?
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by jng 5y ago
Very interesting, I am familiar with many of the concepts and steps in the evolution of equal temperament, but I was not familiar with this part of the story at all (although I have seen pictures or drawings of keyboards with multiple split
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by jng 5y ago
Next to this interesting article and comments, I think mention should be made of von Helmholtz's XIX century book "On the sensations of tone". He is considered to be the father of acoustics, and derived the consonance/di
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by jng 6y ago
US culture is way more inclined towards business than European culture. American tech-enthusiasts were thinking about how to make money. Some European enthusiasts were, too, but not at all as singled-mindedly as US ones, no wonder the US ow
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by jng 6y ago
In order to appreciate it, it is necessary to understand the difficulty of implementing something like that on an 8-bit computer from the 80s with 256 bytes of code, which is really impressive by itself. It doesn't hurt its ability to
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by jng 6y ago
vim - when I started using it around 2004, switching from UltraEdit and Visual Studio. Haven't stopped using it to this day.
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by jng 6y ago
My take is that ad revenue for TV manufacturers is next to nothing today, and it has zero impact on the cost of a TV set. But they're trying in case they can have access to a potentially huge revenue stream in the future. And my take i
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by jng 6y ago
How does it make it harder to read? Patterns and repetitions jump out of the page. Indeed, maintaining it takes time and effort, I wish the editor were smart enough, but I only see advantages with regards to reading the code.
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by jng 6y ago
Exactly. I format things like that in my source code. Anything else is too painful to bear. When code by other people who don't care about those things, it's hard to understand :)

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