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811.
by snaky 8y ago
If you used to tune JVM only, that might be interesting. Most often the Java code is what being tuned - to the point where there is no point to use Java - with (almost) no gc, off-the-heap memory allocations and all that jazz.
812.
by snaky 8y ago
In big companies it's often easier to get decision to pay six-figure to external consultants than to not even pay four-figure to employees for the same job but sometimes to even accept the job which is already done by employees just fo
813.
by snaky 8y ago
That's not exactly "powerful around the world" who are routinely vote for more censorship in democratic countries. There is no strict difference between "hate speech", "fake news" and "online rumours&
814.
by snaky 8y ago
People who are successful in step 5 like activity, most often became managers really quick.
815.
by snaky 8y ago
That was mostly true until startups started to hire contractors too, to get anything done.
816.
by snaky 8y ago
> Endowment: $24.785 billion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit...
817.
by snaky 8y ago
To get anything done large companies hire contractors.
818.
by snaky 8y ago
> The number of non-academic administrative and professional employees at U.S. colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, vastly outpacing the growth in the number of students or faculty. https://www
819.
by snaky 8y ago
Maybe libmdbx would be interesting too. https://github.com/leo-yuriev/libmdbx
820.
by snaky 8y ago
In China, WeChat is the social medium (and everything else).
821.
by snaky 8y ago
> pure HTML browsing without javascript I highly doubt this is achievable now. Turn on NoScript and vast majority of web sites just refuse to work not even properly, but to just load the content.
822.
by snaky 8y ago
While 100 millions rows is not exactly big number for PostgreSQL, so you might be well without partitioning, but still. > Despite the flexibility, this approach forces the planner to perform an exhaustive search and to check constraints
823.
by snaky 8y ago
It might be hard to imagine reading HN, that outside of SV there are more businesses who use tapes than businesses who use AWS.
824.
by snaky 8y ago
> This isn't to say that semiconductors will stop improving The funny thing is they might stop being semiconductors actually. > Digital logic integrated circuits (ICs) implemented with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (C
825.
by snaky 8y ago
> the market that Altera created for FPGA-ARM SoCs Wasn't it Actel with SmartFusion?
826.
by snaky 8y ago
> What kind of magic does Rust offer for this? Not much, comparing to C, they both are too low-level for that. Just like almost all the programming languages widely in use. Except maybe Haskell. That's just impossible to optimize C
827.
Computational Design for the Next Manufacturing Revolution [pdf](homes.cs.washington.edu)
1 points by snaky 8y ago|0 comments
828.
by snaky 8y ago
Intel released Xeon Gold 6138P processor with a built-in Altera Arria 10 GX 1150 FPGA recently. Considering the all obstacles on the way to merge two big companies, that was almost fast.
829.
by snaky 8y ago
And maybe, if they will push their resources really hard on decreasing costs of lower volume ASICs, that would be a big win over GF in long term. It depends on progress in hardware synthesis tools and software mainly. If the tools like auto
830.
by snaky 8y ago
Intel could bet on technologies that allow leverage their design-fab close relationships. Like integrating more non-CPU things into the CPU. FPGA, neural coprocessors, DSP, and stuff. FPGA is on the way, but while just couple together CPU a
831.
by snaky 8y ago
And they will be called mainframes (again). http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.h...
832.
Borrowing Safe Pointers from Rust in SPARK(arxiv.org)
2 points by snaky 8y ago|0 comments
833.
by snaky 8y ago
Linus never was a big fan of serious security matters. He is interested primarily in simple, small code that is simple to maintain, code that doesn't require any serious changes in other parts of the kernel, that's it.
834.
by snaky 8y ago
Custom instructions is what Tensilica Xtensa "configurable cores" about. That's different from the custom instructions you are talking about in that the technology is all about pre-fab stage, that is possible to add custom in
835.
by snaky 8y ago
> How do you know if this article is actually good By author's name. The problem is, even on sites, where you can subscribe to not the whole site, but particular section, you usually cannot subscribe to particular author. Then Twitt
836.
by snaky 8y ago
JOS's site doesn't require JavaScript to read the content. Your site requires JavaScript to read the content.
837.
by snaky 8y ago
> Security Analysis of WireGuard. MIT 6.857 Final Project. Andrew He. Baula Xu. Jerry Wu. Spring 2018 https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2018/project/He-Xu-Xu-Wi... > A Cryptographic Analysis of the Wi
838.
by snaky 8y ago
And to all that said, all the pages and books on his site ain't require JavaScript, unlike link in topic.
839.
Transformation Tool Contest(transformation-tool-contest.eu)
1 points by snaky 8y ago|0 comments
840.
by snaky 8y ago
Who had abbreviated WebAssembly as WASM? I know I know nobody use Watcom assembler (wasm) now, but still.

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