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by rdc12 12y ago
And branch-less to boot
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by rdc12 12y ago
But there is a difference between using the stdlib in practice, and having a good knowledge of how (say sorting) works and the different approaches even if you never need to implement one in practice. There remains value in the understandin
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by rdc12 12y ago
But how would you attempt to lessen the death toll, if you told people you would most likely be ignored or locked up in a loony bin
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by rdc12 12y ago
Why would it is an article on psychology and framing of a message, not about MMR vaccine. No one could ever provide evidence that MMR vaccine isn't linked to autism, only show the absence of evidence of a link or refute the arguments o
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by rdc12 12y ago
Not strictly programming, but been reading Information, a history, a theory , aflood. Been strugling to userstand what life would have been like before various aspects of storage/transmision would have been like. Looking forward to whe
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by rdc12 12y ago
I would be pretty keen to see that list of books
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by rdc12 12y ago
"Note: There’s a book written about converting goto code to code without goto in general, but this is a sledgehammer and not necessary here." Anyone have any idea what the title of that book is?
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by rdc12 12y ago
Would be nice if it linked to where the quote came from
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by rdc12 12y ago
That all makes it a one instruction set CPU (and since there is only one possible instruction it need not be stored in the program). But the 1 bit is a reference to memory, it has an address space os 2^1 (Q1 and Q2 on the 4099 output regist
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by rdc12 13y ago
Reminds me of this Plato quote about written record. " If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no lon
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by rdc12 13y ago
Here is someone else who has done something similar in Rust, http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/03/12/the-rust-os-story/ (she has other posts on Rust kernel iirc)
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by rdc12 13y ago
And if you look at the comments on the post itself, you will see this "Hey, i am actually planning to write another post with addition of a keyboard driver among others. :)" This post is just a small steping stone on the way to a
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by rdc12 13y ago
And the lobbyist works for who, and who benefits from the work of the lobbyist?
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by rdc12 13y ago
What a well reasoned argument you have
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by rdc12 13y ago
But your false dichotomy ignores reality, sure he could leave his current job (assuming he can't ditch evil company X at his current job), but will he then find another job at an "ideal" company that is a) not evil and b) use
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by rdc12 13y ago
Are you aware of anything good for JIT compilers? Or is that more trawling throu dozens of papers material?
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by rdc12 13y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but which book on GC is the famous GC book, I recently looked at a book on GC from the Uni library, and it was pretty awful. Is there other books, papers, authors you would recommend related to compilers, optimisations,
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by rdc12 13y ago
Do you have a link to that?
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by rdc12 13y ago
And he acted on his thought about marriage equality, so it was not a piece of thoughtcrime
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by rdc12 13y ago
I was raised by a single mother, and had no problem finding male role models, I fail to see how this would be different to a child raised by two men or two women
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by rdc12 13y ago
The appropriateness of various sorts has changed overtime, arguably quicksort is not particlary good on modern hardware (caches and prefetch wise) due to its poor locality properties, but if you switch to a simpler chip with low ram, then p
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by rdc12 13y ago
A new law?
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by rdc12 13y ago
Can you give some examples by what you mean by pragmatism as a theme please
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by rdc12 13y ago
But you can't really know the real value (or lack of) time learning X, until you have done X. (Thou somethings will always appear to have more value before you start)
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by rdc12 13y ago
Pfft RISC won, x86 has an internal RISC core now days
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by rdc12 13y ago
One I have been meaning to try with Clang is, -fcatch-undefined-behaviour
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by rdc12 13y ago
I have 4 WD greens, one from an external enclosure the others being internal drivers, the first being maybe 3 years old now, all still going fine, also anecdotal
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by rdc12 13y ago
How reliable are the networks in Africa? Outside of the cities?
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by rdc12 13y ago
That is one painful page
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by rdc12 13y ago
Any chance of some sort of tar of the papers?

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