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by meuk 9y ago
Reverse engineering the format is necessary to make an open source toolchain, so I disagree. But you are right that an open source toolchain probably won't handle the primitives very well, so we're stuck with the vendor-specific t
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by meuk 9y ago
Nice, I actually looked for it in December but it wasn't there yet. Looks like I just missed the boat.
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by meuk 9y ago
I think he describes a procedure which guarantees that the last digit of the representation is exact. So that we (in decimal) can have 3.14 as a representation for pi, but never 3.13 or 3.15. But this is hardly 'solving floating point
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by meuk 9y ago
That sucks. What did they state about the shipping up front? How has their communication been?
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by meuk 9y ago
The i.MX6 CPU is, by the way, the CPU that is used in the opensource Novena laptop. Apparently it is a reasonably powerful processor, but more importantly, it doesn't require an NDA to access the datasheet. I am not sure how things wil
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by meuk 9y ago
I can't draw a sharp line between cultural and personal criticism. As an example, I find certain genres of modern music distasteful for their lack of harmony and musical value. I can't really tell if this is cultural or personal c
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by meuk 9y ago
I think SIMD programming is a simple way to improve the performance of applications that use the CPU. The real solution for applications that are computation bound and not inherently sequential is to perform the computations on an architect
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by meuk 9y ago
This is not really the place for this discussion (I probably shouldn't have started it in the first place, but apparently I am still a bit bitter), but I will briefly respond. > You must have said something really atrocious. No, I j
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by meuk 9y ago
How am I missing what matters? The glycemic index of most fruits is higher than, for example, the glycemic index of sweetened yoghurt. So it makes little sense to eat fruits instead of sweetened yoghurt (but it would be a lot better then, s
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by meuk 9y ago
You might be a bit careful with criticizing the US on Hacker News, I have been permanently banned for similar remarks. That aside, a large part of it seems to be culture. If you're living in a university-owned dorm, it is often mandato
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by meuk 9y ago
I am amazed at this. I eat 3-4 times a day, and often go to bed hungry and wake up hungry. I eat quite a lot, but am still quite skinny (on the other hand, I run 2-3 times a week and I never heat my apartment, which might be reasons for my
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by meuk 9y ago
I object to pointing to 'added sugars' as the bad guys. Your body processes added sugar and natural sugar in the same way. Fruits contain vitamins, but they are also high in sugar. So the amazing changes people report might just a
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