peterfirefly

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by peterfirefly 2mo ago
They are real on slow CPUs and an illusion on medium to fast CPUs where they are just "value names" (register renaming, physical vs virtual registers). You can still run out of value names, though. We rarely run out of them in st
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by peterfirefly 2mo ago
> In comparison VAX needed separate pipeline for instruction decoding. That's how the VAX 9000 and NVAX did it. It's not the only way. It is absolutely possible to decode a number of normal VAX instructions in parallel using
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by peterfirefly 2mo ago
> but Intel now has AVX 10.1 and 10.2 in addition to the base set Intel committed to not slicing and dicing the AVX instruction set going forward. AVX 10.(n+1) will not remove instructions that were in AVX 10.n. Feature testing is als
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by peterfirefly 2mo ago
A lot of the implementations have used cracking and grouping. They were/are definitely not doing anything like a 1-to-1 mapping between externally visible instructions and their implementation.
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by peterfirefly 2mo ago
> There are edge cases in x86 Some early 386 CPUs had XBTS/IBTS instructions (extract/insert bit string). They used 0F A6 and 0F A7 encodings. Some early 486 CPUs had CMPXCHG encodings that reused the XBTS/IBTS encodings.
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by peterfirefly 2mo ago
It'll be fine, Nick will pay for it.
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by peterfirefly 2mo ago
> space data centers cost ~2-3x of their terrestrial counterparts Which is very cheap if it means they can launch it quickly instead of being in permit hell for a year. You can also avoid sabotage (including via lawfare) and dishonest T
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by peterfirefly 2mo ago
> Everything else is harder and more expensive permits? connectivity?
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by peterfirefly 2mo ago
http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html#SECTION_G006
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by peterfirefly 2mo ago
And the first one is about Christoph Hellwig who has a long history of being awful to communicate with. He should have been kicked out of the Linux community two decades ago for that reason alone. For some reason, he has decided that he d
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by peterfirefly 2mo ago
You underestimate the craziness of Occupy Wall Street and other leftist causes. Laura Loomer is another crazy person who went from extremely crazy to just... untrustworthy but not totally crazy on Ukraine. I still think she is crazy undern
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by peterfirefly 2mo ago
Bearings is another good subject to dive into. > I wasn't sure how it was possible for a leather belt to transmit so much power. Friction is also one of the main reasons why rivets work. And why ropes work and why knots don't
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by peterfirefly 2mo ago
> though immune system killing the viruses may be nullifying the treatment That's a problem for some types of RNA/DNA vaccines where they use a virus as a vector. You can usually only use a specific kind of virus once per p
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by peterfirefly 2mo ago
Despite all the details, you still left out a lot. Safety valve, pressure gauge(s), regulation of the water pump, water level gauge for the boiler, lubrication (you only have two of the glass/metal can reservoir types for the main axl
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
We are all Wigner's friend. That rock over there, those specks of dust here, the wings of all the butterflies, the moons of Titan, and SN 1987A. Everything is just Wigner's friend.
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
I just listened to it. I think she handled it remarkably well.
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
When rich people started having their kids educated with children of other rich people instead of at home by tutors .
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
Why? She went from crazy (that you sympathize with) to crazy (that you don't sympathize with). She was always crazy.
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
I'd say it makes it "fewer" true ;) Surely we can agree that if such kids exist then they must be very, very few in number?
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
I don't think so. It was a "support" comment, not a "you're wrong" comment.
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
And then he became a Socialist with power. Seems to me he remained a Socialist.
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
The people who have managed to build countries people wish to live in are Euros or East Asian. Nothing intrinsically to do with their skin colour, of course, but it is a fact that some peoples have done it again and again (and again) and t
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
The sex tourists in Thailand and Cambodia are vile.
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
Most of those children wouldn't be able to communicate with their own parents, if that were the case. Somalis are usually not spread out among the natives. They tend to clump together in ethnic enclaves where it is very easy to learn
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
Why? It is perfectly possible to be a legal immigrant and a parasite. It's even possible to be a completely homegrown native and a parasite. Wouldn't you call essentially all career criminals parasites?
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
> But the dismantling of the democracy is proof that they were outside of the political spectrum. That's very close to arguing that Communists aren't on the (far) left.
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
Spelling won't be a problem with either language, pronunciation will (likely) not be an issue with Finnish (depends on how well you handle phonemic vowel length). Vocabulary will be tough. There are surprisingly many Germanic loanword
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
That might be down to your personality... or the language barrier in the case of China (or you were in China before Xi or very early in his reign).
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
A2 is a depressingly low bar.
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by peterfirefly 3mo ago
> they don't speak the language - should they be forced to attend language school? I disagree. They should learn the language of their own accord or get kicked out. > C1. Yes! And I would expect immigrants in citizen-facing job

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