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by mafribe 3y ago
Microcode is often attributed to [1] from 1952. [1] M. V. Wilkes, J. B. Stringer, Micro-programming and the design of the control circuits in an electronic digital computer.
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by mafribe 3y ago
One could argue that one of the reasons why SIMD instructions, and indeed GPUs, are popular, is because they amortise the (transistor and power) cost of decoding over more compute units, in the case of GPUs over many more. There are also o
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by mafribe 3y ago
This is true, but higher-order functions and polymorphism are extremely well-understood. (Including that there are various compromises with type-inference when you combine them with other constructs),
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by mafribe 3y ago
> lady whose name I can't recall Julia Kristeva? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Kristeva
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by mafribe 3y ago
Yes, if you see memory as a page-size-grained array, you can see that they are similar concepts.
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by mafribe 3y ago
Defense works in layers: bounds checking is a programming language technique (although you can typically switch it off in (some) compilers). ASLR is an OS technique, which works even if bonds checks are switched off. IIRC at some point one
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by mafribe 3y ago
Bounds checks are a high-level language construct. A processor executes machine code which has no concept of bounds check. A processor needs to execute every sequence of machine instructions, including those from languages without bounds ch
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by mafribe 3y ago
Interesting, thanks. I didn't realise that it was already in 2020. Huawei announced its first SoC with integrated 5G modem, the Kirin 990 [1], in September 2019. The Kirin 990 5G was featured in Huawei's flagship smartphone, the M
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by mafribe 3y ago
> just one peer-reviewed article in a reputed journal. You are upping the ante! Shouldn't a good leader lead by example? Where is your verifiable evidence of Huawei backdoors? I am working and publish in computer security, I am ab
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by mafribe 3y ago
I think the 888 was announced in December 2020, I don't recall at what time it was available in significant numbers.
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by mafribe 3y ago
Huawei has also become one of the main Linux kernel contributors, e.g. https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/ We read a lot on HN about Apple's M1 and how it was the first customer of TSMC's 5nm
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by mafribe 3y ago
Huawei's lead in 5G is well-documented, e.g. [1]. I left the 5G consultancy space in about 2021, but at the time Huawei was the only company that managed to put a CPU and a 5G modem on a single chip. As far as I am aware Qualcomm, Appl
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by mafribe 3y ago
Evidence-free claim. Huawei even let the UK secret service inspect Huawei networking gear, e.g. [1, 2, 3]. They only found badly written software, which is hardly unusual. A much more likely explanation for the US sanction on Huawei is simp
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by mafribe 3y ago
Ariane 7 is due for launch in the 2030s ...
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by mafribe 3y ago
> ncorporated a lot of countries in the last 30 years, some of them Every of those countries was in a better shape than China, when it started the transition to a market economy. > Free healthcare, good quality public education, ch
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by mafribe 3y ago
Note that Stéphane Israël is a classic French civil servant: a historian by education, and not knowledgable about technology.
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by mafribe 3y ago
China had none of those advantages, and overtook the EU already in many high-tech industries. Indeed, Europe had none of those advantages when it rose to Number 1.
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by mafribe 3y ago
Is it wise to overfit on the exception rather than the rule? Is the state sponsorship the same in both cases, or are there noteworthy differences?
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by mafribe 4y ago
There is a simple and obvious solution, rise the age of retirement. When pension schemes were invented (or instiutionalised) at the end of the 19th century, the delta between retirement age (65) and expected age of death was small. This is
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by mafribe 4y ago
There is a simple and obvious solution, rise the age of retirement.
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by mafribe 4y ago
> most disingenuous response i've ever seen Promoters of sex-deception and concomitant fertility destruction, typically seem to communicate in a way that is (1) a refusal to address substantial points, (2) adversarial hyperbole, a
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by mafribe 4y ago
> maximizing the number of voices at the table The easiest way of doing so is to maximise the number of humans on the planet. Those who engage, and promote reproduction organ destruction whether surgical or chemical, do the exact oppos
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by mafribe 6y ago
I agree, Taiwan of all countries arguably handled Covid best. It seems irresponsible to discuss Covid policies without reference to, and good understanding of, Taiwan. I found that people in the West, often simply don't believe me whe
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by mafribe 6y ago
Why do you believe that dumping a URL, rather than substantial engagement with the article is in tune with the HN guidelines which ask that "comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive&
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by mafribe 6y ago
I do NOT believe that you can deliver "orders of magnitude better performance" general purpose multicore processors for low millions of dollars! The salary for the verification engineers would already probably exceed low million
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by mafribe 6y ago
I agree with you. Here is an interesting question: how long will it take China to catch up? I predict 10 years! The Chinese government sees a leading position in semi manufacture as being of extreme strategic importance. There are several
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by mafribe 6y ago
ASML would also sell those tools without prodding by the EU. ASML would dearly love to sell them to SMIC and other Chinese foundry too, if the US would let them. Lithography machines are a functioning market that is interfered with for ge
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by mafribe 6y ago
As far as I understand, ASML is not the creation of government funding, but instead a spinout of Philip and ASMI, two successful Dutch electronics companies. ASML was successful in a competitive market, dominated by Japanese companies pre
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by mafribe 6y ago
Londoner here too and I agree with your observations about compliance. Tons of rule breaking. The dance studio next to my dwelling has been running popular dance classes as recently as last night. I think it's mostly an age thing: the
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by mafribe 6y ago
aggressive test and trace compulsory self-isolation Yes. An interesting question is why that has not been possible in European countries. A high-ranking politician of my acquaintance stated privately, and very clearly, that it wa

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