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by porcoda 4y ago
Google for Intel hardware prefetcher and you'll turn up some info. Re: benchmarks. Not likely exactly what you're looking for, but the GigaUpdates Per Second benchmark ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga-upda
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by porcoda 4y ago
Yes! To add to this, I also don’t want useful information buried in videos. I’ve run across things where the information I want is likely in a WWDC video that is linked from somewhere in the documentation full of method signature. I don’
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by porcoda 4y ago
Not the person you’re responding to, but I spent a ton of time using SunView and peers too. I don’t see much lost in terms of usability: I’m pretty happy with modern interfaces compared to the old ones. My biggest complaint about new syst
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> If we can make contributing to open source projects as exciting as playing Factorio or watching TikTok, that's a huge benefit to society. If you suck at Factorio or waste time on TikTok, it doesn't really affect anyone else o
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by porcoda 4y ago
Not sure who would expect that. Usually open source is "OSS" (Open source software) "FOSS" (Free ...) or "FLOSS" (Free Libre ....). OS pretty much always has meant Operating System.
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I never stopped. Tried iPads and a remarkable2 but never was able to beat how I read technical papers printed out and marked with pen/pencil.
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There’s nothing really special to read into this given their regularity over the last few decades. You can see past ones listed on the Vandenberg AFB web site every year or two. It was more interesting that they delayed one due to the ten
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by porcoda 4y ago
For consumers of the information and those paying for it, it’s all upside to me. My only prediction for downside will be increased author fees for open access publications. Some venues have ridiculously high fees for open access authors,
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I remember watching the Shoemaker-Levy comet vs. the planet Jupiter : that was one of the earliest interesting “live” things I remember seeing on the internet, via Mosaic on my little Slackware Linux workstation at the local university. Th
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by porcoda 4y ago
My team regularly uses debuggers developing our C/C++ codebase. Often they are just one part of the workflow, combined with logging and visualization tools (to look at complex data structures as graphs). Debuggers often help track do
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by porcoda 4y ago
There is an oversupply of junior developers, especially in spaces where bootcamps and other quick, nondegree training was creating them. I can certainly sympathize with people who saw development as a route to make a living, but there are
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by porcoda 4y ago
The Fast Fourier transform is one of my favorites. Aside from its usual place in signal analysis, it’s useful for performing convolutions (see convolution theorem), computing derivatives, and other things. Plus, it’s super satisfying to w
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by porcoda 4y ago
Because that makes no sense and there isn’t anything to penalize. If they spent lots of time studying that’s their choice. If they signed up for an easy class, that’s their choice. If they score well as a result of hard effort, awesome.
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by porcoda 4y ago
Many things reach equilibrium states that can persist for quite a while. Equilibrium states are not constant.
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I gave up on electronic productivity tools for the same reason: too much time fiddling with tools and data entry, not the actual work I was trying to be productive at. A brick of post it notes, a pile of blank paper, a binder clip, and a fe
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by porcoda 4y ago
That, and the apps teams hated the architecture given very poor tooling support - especially since the writing was on the wall that the future was GPGPU accelerators and the Cell was a dead end. The roadrunner processors were awesome on pa
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Power efficiency mostly. The power requirements of an exascale machine with 2010-timeframe hardware would be crazy.
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I do the same - buy CDs, rip, archive CD away in a box as my backup. I don't delete though. I approach my huge collection as stuff I know I have, and who knows - sometimes I'll listen to something I haven't felt like hearin
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by porcoda 4y ago
I got one of the NW-A45 Walkmans a few years ago - it's pretty nice and similar to the A55. Good audio quality, but most of all, it lets me focus on music without temptation to do things I would do on a phone. My biggest gripes are th
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by porcoda 4y ago
It has a link labelled "Introductory example" at the top left of the linked page. ...in the section called "Start Here". I'm not sure how much easier they could make it to see some example code with detailed expla
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Happily employed and had no trouble with coding interviews myself. So my opinion isn’t from some personal angst about passing this bar: I found it easy. That said: I’m tired of the attitude that there is no effective alternative to this st
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by porcoda 4y ago
Citation needed for those tiny populations dancing on the edge of perpetual starvation. Look, I’m the first one to get in line to skewer people appealing to the “myth of the noble savage” to argue that all was wonderful before the big bad i
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by porcoda 4y ago
It always strikes me that the angst around browsers comes largely from people who have given up on targeting OS’s for development and use the browser as their OS. You all do realize that if you stop relying exclusively on the JS ecosystem,
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by porcoda 4y ago
I feel you. I hate this field these days. The churn is largely unnecessary, but comes from people cargo culting what they see coming from a handful of super successful companies that aren’t at all representative of what most development i
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by porcoda 4y ago
Exactly. 25+ years in tech here too. When a company says "we're going to give you homework", that is a giant flashing sign that basically reads "we assume your resume is a lie, your references are lying for you (or we
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by porcoda 4y ago
There's nothing wrong with it. I occasionally get bored and have a few minutes to kill, and pick random LeetCode problems to solve. I view them the same way some people view crosswords or sudokus - an entertaining problem solving puz
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Or the other VAL: “Value-oriented Algorithmic Language” ( https://web.archive.org/web/20070920003407/http://hopl.murdo... ), which had some interesting influence on parallel and functional languages.
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by porcoda 4y ago
Yup. We have gotten into the habit of leaving a lot of potential performance on the floor in the interest of productivity/accessibility. What always amazes me is when I have to work with a person who only speaks Python or only speaks
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by porcoda 4y ago
Correct: I was complaining about the rules that prevent streaming and force you to watch the game on live TV. Has nothing to do with ticket sales.
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Finally! I don't care if it's apple or someone else, but the "no blackouts" thing is big. Nothing drives me more crazy than being unable to stream a game because I happen to live in the same geographic region as the te

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