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by shash 3y ago
The immediate one is that precompiled binaries will just work, as long as they don’t do I/O (the memory map for IO devices being implementation specific). Do you really need JIT if every targeted device has the same ISA?
122.
by shash 3y ago
A series of more or less automatic appeals ends up at the desk of the President. It's a deliberate act of commission by the President of the time to actually order an execution. And overwhelmingly, they tend to commute.
123.
by shash 3y ago
The scale of those colonies is kind of absurd when compared to any even moderately larger territory, leave alone the entirety of India!
124.
by shash 3y ago
So... are you trying to argue _for_ colonialism instead?
125.
by shash 3y ago
Well, first it was _not_ banned when India became independent, and if anything, the British system was quite trigger happy with it. If you look at just the history of British executions pre 1967, you'll find a massive number of wrongfu
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by shash 3y ago
Nuclear is definitely part of the mix we need, but we can easily do multiple things. For one thing, it's neither limitless nor free - the limit is the amount of radioactive ore we mine, and the cost is the cost of setting up a plant, r
127.
by shash 3y ago
Looks like RealThunder is a bit behind FreeCAD's official repo - last commit in May. Lithium Titanate sounds interesting - TIL...
128.
by shash 3y ago
First problem: power and connectivity - you can't have wires dangling from inside your skull or eyes. Second, that _completely_ ignores touch, which is the largest of the senses. There's a reason car companies are going back to kn
129.
by shash 3y ago
Well, we incorporated in India and continue here. Our seed fund was led by an American entity, with Indian funds participating. So, I think investments is a red herring. There's enough capital here irrespective of where you go. Conside
130.
by shash 3y ago
The second of your links says "According to the folks over at Jalopnik though, the bar for “safer than a human” is probably a lot higher than one might guess. In fact, after crunching numbers from the NHTSA, it seems as though drivers
131.
by shash 3y ago
Also, is it essentially the same "driver" in all those Teslas? If one driver was responsible for 33 deaths over a couple of years, they'd have lost their license long ago!
132.
by shash 3y ago
The liability problem is important here - when someone reverses over a toddler, someone gets sued. Or they lose their license. Or $CONSEQUENCE. What's the consequence in an autonomous vehicle? Does only _that_ vehicle lose its license?
133.
by shash 3y ago
C++ templates are not reflection; either compile time or runtime. There is a form of reflection, but that's RTTI, which is a totally different ballgame.
134.
by shash 3y ago
Isn't this the one everyone is using currently? What's new here?
135.
by shash 4y ago
Enormously so. Like, you simply can't run motors directly from a 7nm chip. Not to mention, space and radiation hardening - lots of space stuff gets done at 180/130/90...
136.
by shash 4y ago
There are other problems there like mixed signal work, higher voltages, etc. that make it hard to use the smaller nodes. Especially the FinFET ones for classic microcontroller uses. And the bond wire problem you point out is also real; thes
137.
by shash 4y ago
I think fragmentation is grossly exaggerated. Or at least, its effects are. It’s not like there’s a single universal ARM binary you can build and run on every SoC. At the very least the memory map will be different, the specifics of how per
138.
by shash 4y ago
Probably already is, apparently... So there's enough people, enough money (sixth largest economy) and enough reason to do it, too.
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by shash 4y ago
Or, an other way to put it is, it’s an attempt to build diversity without fragmentation. The spec follows the open closed principle in a sense - it’s open for extension but closed for modification, and if you choose to target say RV64G, you
140.
by shash 4y ago
A statistic from the development of the Shakti platform[1] is that you can fit multiple RISC-V chips within the _decoder_ stage of a modern x86 alone. [1] https://shakti.org.in
141.
by shash 4y ago
You mean RISC-V I suppose? It doesn’t _exist_ because of this, but it’s definitely getting a lot of attention because of this.
142.
by shash 4y ago
Surprised that nobody's mentioned Mike Duncan's Storm before the Storm[1] in this... The problems of the Republic go back a century before Caesar, at the very least. Another series I really liked (it's a fictionalisation, but
143.
by shash 4y ago
The conversion is hard, but here's some information from https://www.nirs.org/radiation/tritium/ "The NRC allows a licensee to release an amount of tritium that could result in a radiation dose to a memb
144.
by shash 4y ago
There’s a reason these chips are left open. Thermal performance for example might tank if they tried to epoxy those.
145.
by shash 4y ago
Nice to see another kernel for sure. Haven’t read much, but it sounds intriguing…
146.
by shash 4y ago
I know that at least LabVIEW (which is otherwise Turing complete) will throw a compiler error when you try to call a function anywhere within its own code. Actually, being a graphical language with hardly a difference between “function”, “
147.
by shash 4y ago
Right… so we won’t have any regulation on wall socket design or voltages then, I guess. It’ll be great!
148.
by shash 4y ago
Chiming in with everyone else - RPi is way too complex. But another suggestion if you want a modern alternative to understand - RISC-V has an open boot ecosystem. You can just try it in QEmu and maybe buy a board if you get more advanced?
149.
by shash 4y ago
I think you mean a high interest rate environment? Higher interest rates mean more risk? Also, when they started, I don't think Uber told their investors they'd burn through $35 billion and lose money on every ride...
150.
by shash 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20221114011419/https://andrewlea... “ Since the United States came off the gold standard formally in 1971 – that is to say, after that there was not gold bullion worth one dol

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