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by minipci1321 10y ago
For those who reads french language -- Piketty sometimes publishes articles in Le Monde. I would be really curious to know what people here think about these publications. I am not entirely sure how to interpret them.
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by minipci1321 10y ago
> So it looks like gcc is able to condense the load on platforms with unaligned accesses. It seems there are still some leftovers -- try: struct { int i:31; }; with and without __attribute__((__packed__)).
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by minipci1321 10y ago
> but if you are doing packaged structs that should imply you have a reason to tell the compiler you know better I am pretty sure this could have been implemented better -- for malloc-ed and statically-allocated structs the compiler can
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by minipci1321 10y ago
Yes, that is what I meant. It does that even for fields of a structure that are, strictly speaking, not subject to packing -- when, for example, you put a double as the very first field in a struct, and define the entire struct as packed. T
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by minipci1321 10y ago
Sigh... apparently this is now enough of rocket science to be considered for posting on HN... People using packing pragma of GCC should also beware -- an access to a field of a packed structure will be done bytewise, whether a variable happ
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by minipci1321 10y ago
See also the previous discussion (more pictures in the article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9609091 EDIT: the guy who took all these pictures merits a credit and has a website all by himself: http://oli
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by minipci1321 10y ago
I am wondering if he is this guy: http://www.flyelectric.ukgateway.net/cdrom.htm
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by minipci1321 10y ago
(probably off-topic) you might want to check out this guy and his work: Laurent Bernadac https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurent-bernadac-b5223ba4 . YT has some recordings.
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by minipci1321 10y ago
Exactly! "overstressed" seems to me like a much more frequent reason of a misbehaviour at workplace than "a jerk". And, as you say, one needs an suitable inclination to work with people too. Edit: some companies have rot
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by minipci1321 10y ago
Also, the OpenCourseWare course 6.450 by Prof. Gallagher on YouTube can be helpful to digest the main ideas.
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by minipci1321 10y ago
I had the same reaction -- all good until that same paragraph. This kind of broke it all -- do these people understand what they are writing about? I recall my own feeling of getting into another universe after I finally started to systemat
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> Unless people get off their high horses and actually fix broken shit the whole cult of free software is just delusional. I understand your frustration, but the cult of free software initially was about being able to fix the issue by on
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by minipci1321 10y ago
I have some difficulty assimilating what you said. All went well till "if we want to improve our society" -- I expected to see something like "we should put much more effort into being good parents", but you didn't
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by minipci1321 10y ago
I always thought that in the end, one has got to like facing these hard problems every day on the job in order to thrive in this field (I am in tech too). This is something I try to detect in candidates in job interviews I conduct. I notice
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by minipci1321 10y ago
> It is strange that most ... In addition to that, not every publicly funded school provide these publicly funded software packages freely for public use, hoping by keeping them private to exploit their "business value" someh
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by minipci1321 10y ago
Insisting on this vision would be missing a bit part, or even the entire core, of the new Intel strategy -- they plan to sell more Xeons to those additional data centers that would be required to process new IoT data.
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by minipci1321 10y ago
> It's a real shame, because if you learned about fundamentals like compilers, data structures and operating systems eg in the 80s and then slept for 30 years, you would still pass a Google interview today. LOL, on my own Google rec
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by minipci1321 10y ago
Absolute spot on! It must be the first time I hear from the software director this understanding of pseudo-high-performance developers. We had one on the team, at some point of his ascent to the summits of the glory, he even refused to fix
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by minipci1321 10y ago
Can't help but think about: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4637-russia-reviving-...
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by minipci1321 10y ago
> 1) C++ is too complicated, and therefore hard to reason about and slow to compile. Don't we tend to reason predominantly about the written-down code rather than about the language itself? Once the developer has delineated the sema
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by minipci1321 10y ago
> So I don't really buy this rant.. He explained that himself in the comments below his post: C++ is his tool of choice but he "just wanted to stir the pot". Anything in his post is contrary to my personal experience with
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by minipci1321 10y ago
You could quit and get a raise (and probably to lose or to gain other perks). Or you could stay and learn to solve this sort of conflictual things. The latter involves many skills absolutely indispensable if you want to succeed as employee
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by minipci1321 11y ago
From my observations, when put in situations similar to human's, animals don't "ignore" it in the same way as when left to themselves out there in the nature. (Admittedly, my sample size is very small.) We shouldn't
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Interestingly enough, he also reportedly said: “Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?”
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by minipci1321 11y ago
I think the parent was oversimplifying a bit, and it looks like you took his answer a bit too literally. What is important really here is to establish a contact with the person before asking for service. Anything goes - bonjour, hello, a s
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by minipci1321 11y ago
And make eye contact! Then, if you cannot continue in French, smile, people will figure out.
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And also that similar initiatives force manufacturers of other equipment to openly document servicing interfaces.
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by minipci1321 11y ago
I first saw the mention of 'millicode' when HP introduced then-new PA-RISC 1.0 ISA (second half of eighties), and now Wikipedia says IBM invented the concept and the term in 1997.
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A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPAZ_nuclear_reactor