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901.
by slver 6y ago
Literally all programming fits that sentence. Your language is an abstraction, the opcodes it compiles to are an abstraction, the machine code is an abstraction and the microcode it translates to - also. The engineering software for hardwar
902.
by slver 6y ago
The problem with "when all you need is a function don't use an object" is that's it's a recursive definition. There are people who think they need a singleton all the time, imagine where similar definition would hav
903.
by slver 6y ago
The author assumes serving documents (i.e. compound data) is not RESTful and a "hack". In the original Fielding paper, REST is explicitly defined as an architecture for "large-grained resources" aka "documents"
904.
by slver 6y ago
Yup, push is basically dead.
905.
by slver 6y ago
Apple has no need to complicate its CPU line like that because it doesn't sell CPUs. It sells the whole banana.
906.
by slver 6y ago
> It's fascinating that the response is to close production rather than increase prices. Those aren't mutually exclusive... But you can't keep production running when you have no chips. Throwing money at the complete lack
907.
by slver 6y ago
Honestly that's a bit too abstract to make sense of. As a programmer to another, I'd rather ask... what's one example of a problem we have today that needs faster linear performance than our best chips (not in a nice-to-have
908.
by slver 6y ago
I think it's the same basic process. Lay down in bed, looking at the ceiling, the main light just to the side of your central vision. And the lamp disappears (until your move your eyes) :-)
909.
by slver 6y ago
I just explained above there's no single M1. They vary by core count, and by clockrate. And probably more. The only thing that's "one" about M1 is the brand. It's one brand. It's easy to have a clean brand, whe
910.
by slver 6y ago
That seems to be an example of our general tendency of treating all stimuli relative to their surroundings (both spatially, in time, and in abstract sense). A word's meaning only matters in contrast to other words combining it into som
911.
by slver 6y ago
> Intel sells CPUs, so it creates the ranges of CPUs to make money. They advertise clock speed and put the higher ones on a pedestal, that is how they can charge more money. How is any of this specific to Intel? Apple uses M1 at differen
912.
by slver 6y ago
I'm not saying we're running out of applications for more compute power. We're specifically running out of reasons to want faster linear (per core) general-purpose performance (in fact I'd say this happened some time ago
913.
by slver 6y ago
An interesting realization that it could, though. Overwhelming majority of MacOS/iOS software is written on Obj C and Swift, which have the same underlying semantics. That said ARC doesn't have such a great impact on performance a
914.
by slver 6y ago
> The M1 processor is a direct result of the death of Moore's law. I know most people misunderstand Moore's law, but this is HN, so I expect better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law#/media&#
915.
by slver 6y ago
How are objective c pointers handled?
916.
by slver 6y ago
I wonder if humans can.
917.
by slver 6y ago
You have plenty of places to start. Fork and patch away. You don't start by patching the distribution the entire world uses. It's like "be kind I'm new to the concept of airplanes, let me fly this airplane with hundreds
918.
by slver 6y ago
My point is that "we're newbies on the topic of the Linux Kernel, so be friendly to us when sending Linux Kernel patches" is the worst argument I've heard about anything in years.
919.
by slver 6y ago
Honestly WTF would a "newbie and non-expert" have to do with sending KERNEL PATCHES.
920.
by slver 6y ago
Glad to see M1 appear on an iMac. This redesign though. Ooof. Not my cup of tea.
921.
by slver 6y ago
The cringe is to compare "don't use your private email" to the Holocaust.
922.
by slver 6y ago
I personally really need to know the purpose of life, the origin of the Universe and so on, but I don't get to. The origin of COVID-19 will never be known for certain for logistical, factual, and most of all political/diplomatic r
923.
by slver 6y ago
Not sure if you realize how much cringe you're spreading.
924.
by slver 6y ago
Did you just "literally Hitler"-ed this thread? Yes, you did. Honestly, bringing Hitler up makes a request like "stop using your personal email on this project" seem super innocent by comparison. Congrats you made the cu
925.
by slver 6y ago
I remember installing ReBirth on my PC many years ago, and so amazed that it can emulate two whole friggin' TB303 analog machines, with a 909 drum kit too, just using the CPU. Which was pegged to 99% during playback. And here we are to
926.
by slver 6y ago
Maybe I'm confused by all those doubleplusgood buzzwords that almost deliberately say the opposite of what's happening (like serverless servers).
927.
by slver 6y ago
In the real world no one cares about the tiny battle you're setting yourself up for in order to prove yourself. You'd just lose your job, and have nothing to show up for it.
928.
by slver 6y ago
It's a big company, bound to have a few dicks here and there. And you hear about them. Because why'd you hear about the rest?
929.
by slver 6y ago
In practice it means at most they should've called him on the phone and not leave an email trail. You do what your boss wants, or you're out of a job. Outside California and inside California.
930.
by slver 6y ago
My impressions TLDR: 1. "Built for delight" Author wants everyone to suddenly start making nicer things. 2. "Truly serverless" Author wants to throw code at cloud, without thinking about performance or resource usage. 3.

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