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by moregrist 11mo ago
Have we seen a commercially available high performance 64-bit RISCV chip at production scale yet? There’s a lot of work and experience built up for ARM through Proton and other tech (that can be reverse engineered to see how it works) like
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by moregrist 11mo ago
Socialism is when the state (ie: the government) _owns_ industries. A social contract is an implicit agreement that everyone more or less accepts without anything being necessarily legally binding. For example, the courtesy of two weeks not
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by moregrist 11mo ago
I also learned long division in school. I was allowed to use a calculator from middle school onward, when we were being tested on algebra and beyond and not arithmetic. Some schools have ridiculous policies. Some don’t. Ymmv. I don’t think
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by moregrist 11mo ago
I believe they’re using the PC ports, running in something like DosBox or FreeDOS
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by moregrist 11mo ago
> it's simply a less general (we could legitimately say lesser) garbage collection that doesn't deal with cycles on its own. There are different implementation and performance trade-offs associated with both. I’ll focus on the
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by moregrist 11mo ago
> The freak stampede of all these tech giants to shove AI down everybody's throat just shows that they perceive the technology as having huge potential to advance the above agenda, for themselves, or for their competitors at their d
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by moregrist 11mo ago
This puts far too much emphasis on weapons and far too little on the diplomatic soft power that made the threat of these weapons effective. I don’t think we would have had decades of stability without the Marshall plan investing in western
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by moregrist 1y ago
In my dabbling with compilers I’ve found Andrew Appel’s books [0] to be invaluable for understanding backend (after parsing) compiler algorithms. It’s a bit dated but covers SSA and other still-relevant optimizations and is pretty readable.
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by moregrist 1y ago
> My home computer had 16KB RAM in 1983. My $20K research workstation had 192MB of RAM in 1995. Now my $2K laptop has 32GB. You’ve picked the wrong end of the curve there. Moore’s law was alive and kicking in the 90s. Every 1-3 years bro
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by moregrist 1y ago
When I lived in Pennsylvania, the state-run liquor stores had a monopoly on selling wine and liquor. This survived Republican and Democratic administrations for decades. Mamdani’s proposed grocery stores aren’t a monopoly. Whether they’re a
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by moregrist 1y ago
And usually: C: Therefore you’re doing it wrong. And once an “agile guru” enters the conversation: D: You need my book / seminar / services.
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by moregrist 1y ago
> We expect huge swaths of non-programmers to learn R to work with data. I’ve worked in academics and industry around biologists, chemists, physicists, statisticians, bioinformaticians, and all varieties of engineers. I’ve never seen “hu
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by moregrist 1y ago
_Clean Code_ is an extremely well-known book on programming by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin from the 2000s. Posts about it have come up on HN as recently as this year. Maybe it’s a sign of the times, but I’m surprised you’ve never come across
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by moregrist 1y ago
Perhaps if we get the proper thought influencers on board we can look forward to C-suite VI mandates where performance reviews become descriptions of how we’ve boosted our productivity 10x with effective use of VI keyboard agents, the magic
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by moregrist 1y ago
> This seems very reasonable? If you want to attack your employer you are free to do so, why should they pay you for that? The two issues I see here are: NDAs without a public-good exception and forced confidential arbitration. I think t
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by moregrist 1y ago
The change in the number working on Windows native apps is probably not that important. People learn new skills out of interest or opportunity. A lot of people working on Windows native apps started working on web or mobile apps.
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by moregrist 1y ago
I think you can both think there's a need for some regulation and also want to avoid regulation that effectively locks out competition. When only one company is pushing for regulation, it's a good bet that they see this as a comp
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by moregrist 1y ago
If I remember correctly, Xaw was part of X and predated Motif although it’s hard to really call Xaw a full UI; it was pretty bare bones and limited. It’s worth keeping in mind that there were other Unix UIs that didn’t make it. For example,
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by moregrist 1y ago
If only we had a reliable way to detect that a poster was being sarcasm or facetious on the Internet.
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by moregrist 1y ago
> Being willing to switch employer for convenience does not make someone a good worker and it's not like bad hires can't change employer. Your comment is really quite out of touch of how layoffs actually affect people. I’ve bee
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by moregrist 1y ago
Growing up on a small farm, I can assure you that people do work 12 hour days for multiple days on end in their fields. You can’t always stop even when you’re tired; farm animals break out, rain will destroy cut hay, etc. It’s a hard job, a
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by moregrist 1y ago
> Lossy compression does make things up. We call them compression artefacts. I don’t think this is a great analogy. Lossy compression of images or signals tends to throw out information based on how humans perceive it, focusing on the mo
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by moregrist 1y ago
> In Smalltalk and Objective-C, you just check at runtime whether an object instance responds to a message. This is the original OOP way. This introduces performance issues larger than the typical ones associated with vtable lookups. Not
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by moregrist 1y ago
> Write with FOUNTAIN PENS. Ideally on thicker paper, with something soft below (like more paper for example). I love fountain pens. Well-made ones are elegant and feel good to write with. I love the look and feel of certain kinds of per
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by moregrist 1y ago
There’s ample information out there. There are quite a few text books, blogs, and YouTube videos covering computer architecture, including branch prediction. For example: - Dan Luu has a nice write-up: https://danluu.com/bra
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by moregrist 1y ago
Replace “AI” with “fusion” and you immediately see the problem: there’s no concept of timescale or cost. And with fusion, we already have a working prototype (the Sun). And if we could just scale our tech up enough, maybe we’d have usable f
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by moregrist 1y ago
> Meanwhile, a pint in a major US city costs like $10 with tax + tip and lasts for what, an hour? That’s a feature, not a bug. When I want a drink or two, I like to know that I’ll be pretty much sober in 1-2 hours and can drive or do wha
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by moregrist 1y ago
> Makes me wonder if people spoke this way about “using computers” or “using the internet” in the olden days. There were gobs of terrible road metaphors that spun out of calling the Internet the “Information Superhighway.” Gobs and gobs
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by moregrist 1y ago
> It doesn't take a tech blogger to draw a trend line through the advancements of the past 2.5 years and see where we're headed. People did this with airplanes in the 60s, and based on that trajectory we should be exploring the
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by moregrist 1y ago
I’m not as familiar with the NEON side, but AVX512 support is pretty variable on new processors. Alder Lake omits it entirely. So we’re still in a world where AVX2 is the lowest common denominator for a system library that wants wide suppor

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