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by phs2501 8y ago
Dithered 8-bit is approximately the same / slightly better noise floor as a cassette anyway, so if that's the market they're trying to compare to it's "reasonable". (Still silly as hell IMHO, but whatever make
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by phs2501 9y ago
One of the most annoying input-related things that happened to my desktop (Arch) in the last year is when evdev got replaced with libinput by default as the X11 input module. Easy enough to revert, but quite frustrating trying to figure ou
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by phs2501 9y ago
Can you briefly explain how a PF anchor is not equivalent to a iptables chain? From a very short perusal of the PF documentation it appears to be the same concept to me (i.e. a set of filtering rules you can branch to from another part of
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by phs2501 9y ago
Make multiple connections to the database. A transaction is at the "scope" of a connection anyway, and I don't think there are any useful semantics for multiple SQL statements being executed in parallel in a single transacti
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by phs2501 9y ago
IMHO, the biggest reason to use a language like Node when you want to do async programming is that for any random library you choose there's a 98% chance that it properly supports async as well and won't block on you. For better
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by phs2501 9y ago
Personally I would like some way to navigate through the whole thread in some sort of reasonable order. My preference would be depth-first with the leaves sorted by the most recent post /in that subtree/. This matches how tools
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by phs2501 9y ago
Semi off-topic: What is up with the lkml.org threading interface and why is it so ridiculously inconsistent? I've always found it really frustrating that lkml.org seems to be the canonical web link that comes up for kernel mailing lis
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by phs2501 9y ago
Oh, I'm aware it makes no difference internally; I picked that documentation because I am somewhat intimately familiar with it as I worked on a product with that CPU and did a lot of driver work. My only point was to the poster I was
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by phs2501 9y ago
At least in Freescale's PowerPC documentation, it's convention to number the bits left-to-right in big-endian. So the most-significant bit is bit 0, which matches up with the most-significant big-endian byte being 0. See, for a
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by phs2501 9y ago
Well if it means that AMD couldn't ship any x86 processors and Intel couldn't ship x86-64 (i.e. AMD64) processors, that effectively means neither of them could ship any modern x86 processors at all, so that's effectively mutu
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by phs2501 9y ago
Uh, yes it does. It has no /out of order/ execution but it certainly has speculative execution. They mention quite often in talks how they predict EBB exits and not each branch. They even go so far as to follow that EBB exit ch
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by phs2501 9y ago
Given how fast this plotter (not the type in the OP) throws paper around I'd say it works, at least in ideal circumstances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYGPSAD5L_k
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by phs2501 9y ago
The monitor and map image (though not the screen contents obviously) are from the opening cutscene of Ultima VII. https://youtu.be/JfqOZlNxbfI?t=106
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by phs2501 9y ago
Dropbox and encfs. There's a Windows client for it too if you need access there ( http://www.getsafe.org/ ).
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by phs2501 9y ago
COM is its own ABI and does not use the C++ ABI: "Unlike C++, COM provides a stable application binary interface (ABI) that does not change between compiler releases.[3] This makes COM interfaces attractive for object-oriented C++ libr
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by phs2501 9y ago
Allowed speed is not as simple as just where you are; it also depends on the trackside signals and how the track in front of you is lined and/or occupied. For example, if you are 1 mile from an interlocking you might be able to proceed
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by phs2501 9y ago
Be's use of C++ (at the kernel/library API/ABI level) would have doomed it in the long term IMHO. There have been several incompatible C++ ABI bumps since then, all of which would have broken compatibility. See the current
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by phs2501 9y ago
How do you plan on supporting user/process level coroutines and multiple stacks / stack switching within the same turf? Obviously the CPU needs to be involved because you've got all the ancillary belt and spiller state that
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by phs2501 9y ago
They've repeatedly said they want to run current software well, presumably including software that forks and does not follow up with exec (regardless of how ill-advised that may be; obviously opinions vary on this). Trapping to emulat
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by phs2501 9y ago
Thanks, that's very interesting. Seems like it'd also be "interesting" to write a compiler for though, especially since you have to manage stack hygiene for four stacks simultaneously. And I'm not sure, but doesn&
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by phs2501 9y ago
Yeah, who knows. I mostly think the Mill is a pile of interesting ideas that just might, if they're very lucky, eventually become a product. I'm certainly not holding my breath though. Regarding their intentions, they've sa
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by phs2501 9y ago
Well, their exposed ISA and ABI are probably considered to be genAsm, which is the aforementioned mostly-LLVM-based IR. The concrete machine code will mostly likely only ever be generated by the specializer in the real world. Consider the
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by phs2501 9y ago
The impression I get is that their odd assembler is pretty much there for development expedience while they are hand-writing assembly. I can't imagine that their specializer (the thing that runs at install or run time which converts t
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by phs2501 9y ago
The Mill belt is actually (conceptually) a fixed-size FIFO queue; LIFO stacks have been done reasonably often before (see stack machines) but since there's only one stack head they don't support parallel operations particularly we
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by phs2501 9y ago
The iPod mounted as a perfectly-functional Firewire disk, yet you still had to use iTunes to put music on it for it to be playable on the device. (It was filed away in obfuscated filenames...)
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by phs2501 9y ago
Yeah, that would have been more interesting. This is technically a meow generator generator.
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by phs2501 9y ago
The RTGs on Voyager weighed 37.7kg for 157W (initial) of electricity. The later RTGs on Galileo and Cassini weighed 57kg for about 300W. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHW-RTG [2] https://en.wikipedia.or
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by phs2501 9y ago
It's the first single orbital booster to have been launched from two sites actually, much less landed. The shuttle almost made it to a second launch site and would have been first here until they killed the Vandenberg pad after Challe
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by phs2501 9y ago
There's also a "sudo" for windows distributed as a chocolatey package that I've used for at least a year. Appears to do pretty much the same thing as this one. https://chocolatey.org/packages/Sudo
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by phs2501 9y ago
Wouldn't the spinning one see the other "orbiting" rather than spinning? If gravity is not strong enough to cause that orbit and there's no thrust evident that could explain the delta-V causing the orbit, couldn't

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