peterfirefly

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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
I think I caught this guy's reddit posts on the subject . Someone was playing around with statistical analyses of a big Linear A corpus + some other corpora. There was an extremely clear signal that Linear A seemed to be much more si
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
I don't much care what happens to most inmates but those with really long sentences should probably not be released early (or at all!) because they pose too much of a risk to the rest of us.
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
No, but I hate TLA overuse. Don't you? "Are you a bot" is an obvious slur when it's easy to see for yourself that I'm not.
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
I think this is a better URL: https://github.com/planetlambert There are links from there to the repos and some more papers + to similar websites.
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
flohofwoe (above) and aw1621107 (next to this post) both figured out that the magic ingredient isn't whether we code an if or add the boolean value of a comparison to the array size. The magic ingredient is whether the store is condit
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
I played a bit with your link. It depends on the compiler. x86_64 clang trunk indeed compiles the original first and your fixed second form to the exact same code. I tried a couple of msvc and gcc versions and they did not but they all m
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
The latter only adds small numbers to the small_numbers[] array. The former preliminarily adds all numbers to the array but only keeps the small ones. As long as you don't look at the small_numbers[smlen] element after the loop, they b
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
The Linux kernel had problems years ago when gcc started to do exactly that in certain cases (because it screwed things up with task switches, interrupts, and SMP). It fairly quickly afterwards either stopped doing it entirely or got a swi
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
What if the degree doesn't really help with that?
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
Far longer. It was never needed. Skills were needed. How they were gained had no effect on what people could or couldn't do.
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
Did you mean over -estimated?
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Development Windows NT was developed on various different CPUs before the Alpha was a thing. When it was released in 1993, it was released for three CPUs: IA-32, MIPS, and
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
reading skills are important.
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
closer to 12 than to 15.
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
The fourth crusade was an utter disaster for Europe/The Middle East/Christendom. Some of the others were indeed great and something like that and the Reconquista do indeed sound overdue. Can we do that without repeating the fourt
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
I think IQ tests are even better.
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
They used it at my high school in Denmark. It was easy to share hard disks across many machines and the ability to multitask was also very nice. The office people could switch between word processing and calendar software easily, for exam
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
More like no inlining, so-so register allocation, and a simple code generator. I believe also no loop unrolling. Other compilers could handle the table-less CRC implementation.
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
I tried to look at the QBE code years ago while I was writing my own SSA code. I got approximately nowhere because I can't read code like that. Turns out that reading the SSA papers and writing the code was a lot easier than reading
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by peterfirefly 4mo ago
clearly the latter.
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by peterfirefly 5mo ago
It sounds a bit like "giro" which was a physical mail-based way of transferring money. Not a bad name at all.
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by peterfirefly 5mo ago
On Windows? Use a dev drive.
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by peterfirefly 5mo ago
You can sometimes just add asserts for the index variable(s) and have the LLVM optimizer go "hmm, I should try to prove that those are true" and then get the range checks optimized away.
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by peterfirefly 5mo ago
Should have called it Raymond.
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by peterfirefly 5mo ago
ubsan. Doesn't catch all of it.
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by peterfirefly 5mo ago
Could be fixed by having a nicer casting syntax (like Rust) or by not having so damn many scalar types that are used in practice. "Explicit casts only" worked fine in Modula-2, which doesn't have as many scalar types.
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by peterfirefly 5mo ago
> free to eliminate code paths after UB before .
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by peterfirefly 5mo ago
It's a lot less dumb if you can drastically reduce the launch costs AND drastically increase the launch mass and size. If the Starship thing works out, he will have achieved that. It's also a lot less dumb if you can make your chi
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by peterfirefly 5mo ago
If you want to fill values into memory, use PUSH xx instructions. Just move the SP to right position and starting pushing. It's faster than LDIR.
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by peterfirefly 5mo ago
More like: Rwanda has a competent dictator (and has had the same one for 26 years, more if you consider the years where he was the strongman behind the President). A competent dictator is better than an incompetent dictator -- or even, in

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