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961.
by renox 10y ago
Even in the real world starting at 0 makes is more logical: in France the ground floor is 0 which works well with underground floors but in the US it's a bit weird to go from 1 to -1 directly.
962.
by renox 10y ago
I agree: in my French school we had to learn assembly language, C, Prolog and Lisp. Clearly Prolog and Lisp were taught to us for the different paradigm they introduce not because they expected us to use Prolog and Lisp in our jobs..
963.
by renox 10y ago
The Mill is simpler that many CPU because it isn't OoO and it has a single address space but it also has some magic in it (the way it zeros memory, the stacks..) which aren't free to implement.
964.
by renox 10y ago
> That's a rhetorical question, people implement CPUs in FPGAs all the time and this one is supposed to be simpler. Huh? You're not serious.. The Mill is definitively not simpler than many other CPUs (in order CPUs for example)
965.
by renox 10y ago
Uh? I really doubt that this English oddity will spread: I'm French and our nobles have no privilege..
966.
by renox 10y ago
That's funny, I don't like much the RISC-V because of the focus on minimalism(1), but the points I dislike are totally different from yours.. 1: no trap on integer overflow instructions? Come on: a) the MIPS (a processor designed
967.
by renox 10y ago
As with any rule it has good and bad consequences: * good: easy to parse the result, easy to chain. * bad: no progress report, annoying with long duration commands.
968.
by renox 10y ago
>It's the Oculus that does this. And the PS no? I think that all the VR system will (optionally) do this to reduce the processing power needed.
969.
by renox 10y ago
>People who are not using public transport the rest of the time won't start using them now. They don't have much choice: half of the cars are forbidden in or near Paris (except if there are 3 people inside).
970.
by renox 10y ago
> Many very popular Android phones cost as much as iPhones do (which includes models like S7, Note 6/7, etc. ). In theory , they cost as much as iPhones, in practice if you wait a few months and shop around, they're quite chea
971.
by renox 10y ago
From Wikipedia's entry on Antoine-Augustin Parmentier: >Parmentier therefore began a series of publicity stunts for which he remains notable today, hosting dinners at which potato dishes featured prominently and guests included lumi
972.
by renox 10y ago
I'm not exactly sure what is the issue? My step-sister is Irish, I talk to her in English and she talk to me in French: this way we can practise our knowledge of foreign language. At work sometimes I did the reverse: a colleague would
973.
by renox 10y ago
? Nothing prevent adding new words to Esperanto, the most difficult part is reaching a consensus but that's also the case for 'normal' languages: there are many new French word introduced by the academie Française which aren&
974.
by renox 10y ago
> the possibility that there's still room for things to improve. Of course but notice that your desktop computer is using an x86 ISA instead of a RISC ISA because in many case backward compatibility and network effect trump performa
975.
by renox 10y ago
If I remember well: in normal condition the lift come 2/3 from the top of the wing and 1/3 from the bottom of wing. So the depression above the wing is indeed "pulling up" the wing more than the surpression below the win
976.
by renox 10y ago
> The hardware problem has been solved, and nobody cares. It's the new 3D TV. I disagree with this: 1) the only VR helmet which is confortable to wear is the PS headset which is tied to an underpowered console.. 2) The resolution of
977.
by renox 10y ago
Bah, this justification is flawed and/or obsolete: why does it matter for reusing the Linux kernel what classic GNU/Linux distribution do? It didn't prevent Google (Android) reusing the Linux kernel to build the Android OS..
978.
by renox 10y ago
>I'm really fascinated by the idea that physics might be completed in my lifetime. ? Unlikely, given the current situation where there isn't much real progress toward unification of QM and gravity..
979.
by renox 10y ago
1) the X developers thinks that an X server is too hard to maintain, so they're deprecating X, so eventually it will be a problem for you. 2) X cannot provide a secure environment, this is a problem for users. Wayland is at lower lev
980.
by renox 10y ago
Maybe the word processor is there, maybe it isn't, there isn't much documentation, I've asked the FONC mailing list..
981.
by renox 10y ago
I wasn't really busy until I had children..
982.
by renox 10y ago
I doubt that you'll find much.. They didn't release the code of their "crown jevel" (Frank, the 'word processor'), which makes me quite unimpressed about these year of research where the main result is a bunch
983.
by renox 10y ago
The article isn't bad but this part made me shake my head: > Gottlieb writes, “physical bodies are . . . not quite what they seem, but are only appearances somehow thrown up by monads” seems less extravagant in the light of contempo
984.
by renox 10y ago
While I find interesting the idea of a new C (instead of a new C++ like D, Nim, etc), I'm a bit sad that there is both the Zig AND the Jay projects.. It reminds me why Pascal lost (IMHO): too many incompatible Pascal 'clone'.
985.
by renox 10y ago
Andrei Alexandrescu describe the usage of this kind of search to speed up quicksort in his 'Fastware' (fun) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxnotgLql0k Discussed here: https://www.reddit.com&#x2F
986.
by renox 10y ago
The article say Power9 chip will have "hardware assisted garbage collection" and that's all, that's a bit short for such an important topic.. Does anyone have more information about it?
987.
by renox 10y ago
I disagree: there is a lot of competition between PC builders so this ´discount' isn't really optional and Microsoft should have been heavily punished, for offering this discount.
988.
by renox 10y ago
> I don't think we can even consider ARM to be a RISC, ARMv7 OK, is-it still true with ARMv8? It seems to be a much more 'reduced' ISA.
989.
by renox 10y ago
a 128 bit float --> a 128 bit integer Probably a typo: using float to send sequence number would be a very bad idea..
990.
by renox 10y ago
> It's crazy I can't tell Java and NodeJS "use the memory you need". Define the 'memory you need'? You know the computer doesn't have a cristal ball to know what latency vs memory usage trade off you wa

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