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Neanderthals etched a message on this 36,000-year-old stone tool(arstechnica.com)
1 points by redshirt 8y ago|0 comments
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The Unlikely Story of How This Ford Gave Birth to BMW M(jalopnik.com)
2 points by redshirt 8y ago|0 comments
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by redshirt 9y ago
Found this after reading the tastes paper on front page. It’s the most fabulously long and complete GitHub issues post I’ve ever seen, almost a blog post in and of itself. I can definitely appreciate the details in the allocation process th
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How devs should respond: Memory allocation for very large element sizes(github.com)
14 points by redshirt 9y ago|1 comments
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by redshirt 9y ago
Meh, for a retrospective paper, I think the authors probably provided more hints as to the future than they really needed to. I feel like they captured the exact reasons why ISA is so difficult to do right. As for “doing it wrong”, I didn’t
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by redshirt 9y ago
One point the authors make is that registers are memory. I’m not sure they’re saying screw registers, just that they’re counter to portability and in general only a yet faster cache for programs to use. The other point they seem to make is
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IoT Will Force HPC Spending–But Not for the Reasons You Think(nextplatform.com)
4 points by redshirt 9y ago|0 comments
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by redshirt 9y ago
The problem with the US Social Security trust fund is that it's misnamed. It should be called the giant equity stash that the US Government can convert to bonds and borrow against. The fund should be flush with cash, however, that&#x27
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Security Bulletin: Nvidia Driver Security Updates for Spectre(nvidia.custhelp.com)
1 points by redshirt 9y ago|0 comments
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Kids these days just aren’t that into each other(gizmodo.com)
2 points by redshirt 9y ago|0 comments
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It took more than 3 years and a FOIA request to get A-10 Documentary from USAF(amp.timeinc.net)
3 points by redshirt 9y ago|0 comments
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by redshirt 9y ago
Motley Fool predicted something was up back in 19 December 2017 -> https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/19/intels-ceo-just-so...
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Nope, no Intel chip recall after Spectre and Meltdown, CEO says(cnet.com)
7 points by redshirt 9y ago|2 comments
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by redshirt 9y ago
Nothing like this should have ever made it into hardware. It's lazy implementation (or performance at the expense of security).
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Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal [pdf](arxiv.org)
4 points by redshirt 9y ago|0 comments
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NASA Shortlists Titan Quadcopter, Comet Sample-Return Concepts for 2020s Mission(space.com)
2 points by redshirt 9y ago|0 comments
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by redshirt 9y ago
Exactly, break them apart while they still can.
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by redshirt 9y ago
The nice clean dependency graph is pretty cool. Not having tabs and spaces as an integral part of syntax, priceless.
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by redshirt 9y ago
Problem with RISC-V is exactly what makes it strong. The lack of verified software ecosystem will keep it from being main stream for at least a decade(something that until recently has held back the Arm server market, well, that and not hav
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by redshirt 9y ago
I'm waiting for Intel to divest of either the arch/micro-arch business or the fab business. They can invest in one or the other, but what is crippling them is having to invest in both simultaneously. I can definitely see them doin
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by redshirt 9y ago
This is entirely to lacking an optimized version for the new aarch64 instruction set. Similar problem noted in Go benchmarks awhile back, see 100x speed up here: https://blog.minio.io/accelerating-sha256-by-100x-in-golang-..
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by redshirt 9y ago
Yes. I recently mentioned to my partner how many days I have left in the form of sunsets. Not that many when we think about it. You know what, I approach everything with that attitude and make the most of what little time we have. That incl
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by redshirt 9y ago
Very cool. I'm adding this to my list of easy concurrency tools. The main thing I like is the statelessness. That's where most people screw up parallel programs. Seems like there are many languages/libraries trying to make co
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Battle for Datacenter Compute: Qualcomm Centriq versus Intel Xeon(nextplatform.com)
3 points by redshirt 9y ago|0 comments
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by redshirt 9y ago
From a technical standpoint it’s far easier to be net neutral than throttle traffic which takes processing power, energy, and programmer time to do so. This is entirely about the ISPs making yet more money.
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by redshirt 9y ago
When will America wake up and realize that it is living with a government bought and paid for. It is an oligarchy, plain and simple. Screw the consumer, wanna repair something in America, I hope you have a degree in electrical engineering a
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by redshirt 9y ago
Yup. Same for code that looks unused :). Very good advice. Sometimes fences can come down, sometimes they make better neighbors.
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by redshirt 9y ago
I’d skip protobufs too. They’re horrible for performance. Many data center apps blow more cycles there than on compute. For actual applications where performance is necessary, binary “strict” formats are he only way to go. Protobufs are nic
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by redshirt 9y ago
How about not buying stuff with poor packaging. Sure, sometimes we don’t have a choice, but many times we do. Often it’s as simple as preparing food at home versus getting take out. I’d prefer laws to mandate recycleable packaging. Problem
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by redshirt 9y ago
You know, if the us federal government can’t get its stuff together, why not? It’s not a bad thing.

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