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by rdc12 10y ago
Primarly this one, "One paper in my collection does that for IIRC Haskell to Forth by implementing a G-machine interpreter or compiler for a Forth CPU. It certainly can be done. Question is whether it's ideal vs a non-Forth CPU.&q
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by rdc12 10y ago
Any chance you could link to that paper please?
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by rdc12 10y ago
Do you really need to cover everything in the first compiler you write from scratch or work on? Nothing stops you from starting with a language that makes some aspects simpler then average (such as Forth or Scheme), before working on a comp
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by rdc12 10y ago
When a common idiom becomes the wrong way to do something, someone messed up pretty badly (and preexisting idiom at that). Arguably the designers of amd64 should have caught this before releasing the ABI or the language design could have be
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by rdc12 10y ago
My personal favorite was trying to search for things related to the IO language, being a generic computing term as well and a fairly obscure language too.
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by rdc12 10y ago
For the thermostat it could well depend on the context to how much the latency matters. If your recording average ambient temperature it probably doesn't matter much. If instead it is part of a physics experiment it could matter a lot.
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by rdc12 10y ago
Any one know what the program (or is that a property of ANTLR?) being used to get an on the fly pretty printed version of the AST is from the fifth article [1]. [1] http://jakubdziworski.github.io/enkel/2016/03&#x2F
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by rdc12 10y ago
I am another person who had a grandmother die just before exams (that is the short story, the long story is far messier). I managed to push it aside and got good grades for the exams themselves, but I felt so guilty in the weeks and months
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by rdc12 11y ago
Thw wikipedia article mentions that the US Navy partially declassified thoe orginal recordings after the Cold War, and made the array availble to researchers. If there was a military tech involved (with the source), I highly doubt they woul
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by rdc12 11y ago
12. Well breaking the invariants of a function is never a good idea, but putting defined behaviour in that case would put substational restrictions on how the function could be implemented (and still almost certainly do something weird anyw
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by rdc12 11y ago
Except that different programmers subtly different flavour of C is different from others. For a handful of features it may work but in general I doubt it.
132.
by rdc12 11y ago
They did mention the Penthouse magazine subscription. "The bet was very nonpolitically correct: He gave me a subscription to Penthouse magazine when I won."
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by rdc12 11y ago
Prehaps a better approach would be to convince Myhrvold to gift the machine to the CHM in his will?
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by rdc12 11y ago
Secure delete has become quite difficult to achieve, if it is on a SSD then you may only be safe with an ATA command, but not all drives will even do that right[1]. It is even hard to be sure that you have over-written every block anyway, d
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by rdc12 11y ago
Installing one in a VM is probably a good way to find out what packages are available for that speciality (that is my plan after seing this anyway). The Fedora groups mentioned by iamtew is probably just as effective thou, if you use Fedora
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by rdc12 11y ago
The other question about compressed JSON/XML, is how may clock cycles are getting spent on this that wouldn't be otherwise. Which on mobile devices is going to translate to power consumption.
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by rdc12 11y ago
That is a fairly bad counter example, considering that Rust is primarily backed by Mozilla with the view to use in Firefox which pretty much requires Windows support to be worthwhile.
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by rdc12 11y ago
Has hello world ever been exciting, it is only really a building point. You can't do anything intersting until you know the basics, of building and flashing the board. The question is what does Rust have to offer as your embedded progr
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by rdc12 11y ago
"Several of my colleagues complained that Dave made things overcomplicated.' Maybe this is a big part of the problem, if your fellow coders don't realise the strengths of the way you have been working either.
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by rdc12 11y ago
In NZ we have a similar system, but similar laws apply to non-party broadcasts, where unregistered groups or individuals an spend a small amount of money (~10k) and registered groups can spend something like 250k (the three largest parties
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by rdc12 11y ago
The article briefly mentions some of the other IP that Disney has (Pluto, Goofy etc) from the same era as Mickey, while they are not as important to Disney as Mickey, I doubt the trademark way would cover them too.
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by rdc12 11y ago
I don't know Haskell (yet) but do have a small ammount of assembly experience and I managed to follow along fairly well. However on purpose I didn't worry about fully understanding the monadic side of things.
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by rdc12 11y ago
Can't remember the last time I had an issue with suspend under Linux (years ago), but on my current desktop I never managed to get suspend to work under Windoes 7. Go figure.
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by rdc12 11y ago
Currently I am just using an org-mode file, but this is more like a reading log along with a bit of meta-data (author, keywords etc). So far it has suited my needs quite well, but I don't really annotate them, but I do add a one or two
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by rdc12 11y ago
Why would you favour a AOS (Array of Structures) or the SOA (Structure of Arrays), for the different architectures?
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by rdc12 11y ago
"Call-By-Push-Value On the topic of evaluation methods there is interesting research opportunity into exploring an alternative evaluation methods for the lambda calculus under the so-called “Call-By-Push-Value” method. Surprisingly thi
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by rdc12 11y ago
Is getting a visa to work at a U.S at startup something unique to the YC program? I am/was under the impression that the company had to be accredited to be able to employ foreign nationals. Is there any advise you can give for a curren
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by rdc12 11y ago
Is getting a visa to work at a U.S at startup something unique to the YC program? I am/was under the impression that the company had to be accredited to be able to employ foreign nationals. Is there any advise you can give for a curren
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by rdc12 11y ago
While I don't think the ICC situation was fair, I am not convinced that it played a big role in the story of AMD. Was ICC ever really used outside of niche markets, like HPC. I would bet that most of the mediap layers at the time would
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by rdc12 11y ago
It is worth noteting that the shred program mentioned is more or less useless on modern filesystems for a variety of reasons, the man-page has a list that it will fail to work correctly on (btrfs, ext3, NFS). It may well be that the only us

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