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by rdc12 11y ago
The Barney Stinson homage, would put it at 2005 at the earliest (when the show started)
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Assertions Are Pessimistic, Assumptions Are Optimistic (2014)(blog.regehr.org)
12 points by rdc12 11y ago|4 comments
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by rdc12 11y ago
C really is defined in terms of the C abstract machine, in the specs, essentially a naive interpeter.
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by rdc12 11y ago
Hardware designers are aware of this thou, if you take say register-register movs, this can be achieved without actually copying the data, via register renaming. X86_64 ABI switched to being able to pass arguments in registers as well. And
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by rdc12 11y ago
The front wing idea would be a good move, wonder what the point of the F1 overtaking group was, when they didn't pursue ideas like this and instead went for DRS.
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by rdc12 11y ago
Except that it requires a patch to sudo to work. It is more a question of, can I socially engineer a way to get a snippet of code into a project, that looks innocent (and is), but exploits version specific compiler bugs.
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by rdc12 11y ago
The more intersting part is the cause and effect. A perfectly sane and techincal reason for the restriction of wifi, and the effect being people turning up for that reason. From the headline I was expecting some woo people, had managed to b
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by rdc12 11y ago
Do you have a citation for the 168GP registers, just wondering if Intel have "offically" stated the number they use in a given microarch.
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by rdc12 11y ago
Their Computer Organization and Design, had a new edition in 2013, that may cover GPU stuff better, havn't read it myself thou. Still havn't seen a book that covers SIMD very well?
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by rdc12 11y ago
What is the difference between Computer Organization and Computer Architecture?
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by rdc12 11y ago
Just before the loop there is this instruction, "load.l r7, $mul16_fin". Prehaps this is so the assembler/linker/loader doesn't need to resolve what address the label ends up having
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by rdc12 11y ago
So that overflow example, is undefined behaviour. Probably not a great thing to introduce into OCaml types.
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by rdc12 11y ago
From the linked [0] article, SourceForge was a perfectly viable bussiness before this, if it will continue to be is another matter "First of all, problems with SourceForge are older than some people might expect. At some point in mid-2
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by rdc12 11y ago
The code is from an entry in the Underhanded C Contest, it is pretty much a given that the entries will be written in C.
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by rdc12 11y ago
What did APL and co get wrong, except for becoming popular (otherwise it is just an argument from popularity). The ultra terse syntax, will have lead to an extreme learning curve. But if you replaced it with more typical function names, I d
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by rdc12 11y ago
Fiction: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (loved the movie as a kid, but never got round to reading the book), will follow up with the Lost World. Non-Fiction: Chaos by James Gleick. Semester break reading, Real World Ocaml and Modern Comp
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by rdc12 11y ago
This is the same as the example Asimov gave thou, plate tectonics being that the surface of the earth moves at imperceptible rate. That only over great time does this have any impact on the positioning of land masses. Instead of it being mo
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by rdc12 11y ago
So in practice it works more like a C Macro then a C function? Edit, except it doesn't treat arguments the same, so no.
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by rdc12 11y ago
But it goes the other way too, will software dev every become software engineering (if that is even possible) with the current languages and tools?
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by rdc12 11y ago
I am never going to be able to look at that and not read it as "Did not finish"...
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by rdc12 11y ago
No, that simply means that they are semantically equivilant, which is very different to a literal translation. To quote an online dictionary [0], "2. Word for word; verbatim: a literal translation.". Optimisation in compilers is c
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by rdc12 11y ago
Only if you use a completley naive compiler, any level of optimisation moves from being a literal translation
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by rdc12 11y ago
Well ideal is subjective, GitLab appears to also be a centralized model, but with an option to self-host. For a distributed solution, with similar features and purpose. You would probably be looking at a federated model.
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by rdc12 11y ago
GitHub is a code hosting provider, that happens to use git (which is distributed), but the service they provide is run centrally and hence when their infrastructure fails, the service in not available (searching, tickets etc)
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by rdc12 11y ago
And the evidence that is never "right", but never explained why.
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by rdc12 11y ago
It is pretty much the exact same story in NZ (surveillance, secret trade deals, privatization, blindly following others into war). I currently want to leave NZ in the next couple of years, less for political reasons and more for wanting to
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by rdc12 11y ago
This paper [1] (thou it is a tad old now) shows that the register machine approach does still outperform the stack machine by a fair margin. Largely from the reduction of needed instructions. Wonder which is a better source represntation fo
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by rdc12 11y ago
That seems to be a fairly common problem for Green parties around the world, popular in the global vote but not popular enough to be elected in the more local votes (for generel elections anyway local goverment is another matter).
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by rdc12 11y ago
Depends on the model of PR you go for, in NZ we have MMP and on the party vote side of things you can't say I vote for this party but not Joe Bloggs. If you look at the Australian model, you actually can do this. You can either vote ab
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by rdc12 11y ago
I drink strong coffee, more for the smell then the taste...

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