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by superjan 1y ago
You are right: it can be done with the same ALU, for sure. But the data dependency on the carry flag makes it a really different instruction from the point of view of the CPU: three data dependencies in stead of two. For the CPU it is benef
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by superjan 1y ago
Oh sorry, I did not know that was the guy who hates being linked to from HN. Copy the link manually to read it if you still care to learn what he wrote.
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by superjan 1y ago
In my recollection it was Netscape, this appers to confirm it: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/09/html-email-was-that-your-fa...
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by superjan 1y ago
I’m in europe so I am all in on the metric system. But “about a foot” per nanosecond is so easy to remember, understand and reason about that it is worth the exception. If you prefer something European, think of a sheet of A4 printer paper:
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by superjan 1y ago
For those wondering: The rule thumb here is that light travels at one foot per nanosecond. 300 ns =0,3 μsec. Electricity is a bit slower but the same order of magnitude.
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by superjan 2y ago
That was a great watch, thanks!
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by superjan 2y ago
This is not consensus. There are lots of anomalies in what we observe in the cosmos. Here someone links two of those to a speculation about extra dimensions. It would get interesting if they have predictions that can be checked. A promising
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by superjan 2y ago
Coax ethernet was often deployed as a bus: 20something computers that must be directly connected to a single cable going from room to room. If one of the plugs was unplugged or not tightened correctly, everyone on that line suffered. This h
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by superjan 2y ago
This story? https://www.jst.go.jp/EN/achievements/research/pdf/mitsuhiro...
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by superjan 2y ago
A few years ago my workplace got rid of our on-premise install of fogbugz. I tried to clone the site with HTTrack but did not work due to client-side JavaScript and authentication issues. I was familiar with C#/webview2 and used that:
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by superjan 2y ago
I agree. After compiling it is even quite likely that the compiler does not care you gave a name to a return value (assuming you let it infer the variable type). What you will see in practice is that the intermediate is explicitly “material
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by superjan 2y ago
I do both. It depends on whether I can think of a concise variable name that faithfully describes the intermediate result. If you need more than 20-ish characters to describe it, then it is better to leave it chained.
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by superjan 2y ago
This is, by a large margin, the best article about code complexity I have read in a looong time. Thanks.
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by superjan 2y ago
So that means it can run with 4GB. Is there a way to block it from using more?
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by superjan 2y ago
A battery can weigh up to half a ton. Because of the weight, you want to keep it at a low position in the car. That is not easy to swap. By contrast consider that you charge your car. For a daily commute, the most practical is to charge it
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by superjan 2y ago
I don’t expect him to get convicted for just the google searches. They possibly matter in this case because they direcly relate to his personal circumstances. In his legal proceedings, they are used as an argument to keep him in custody due
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by superjan 2y ago
The consumers that I know of don’t have a clue what they need. They don’t understand that the upstream network is rarely the bottleneck. They’re prepared to pay a 30-40% premium to triple their network speed. Smart ISP’s bundle their upgrad
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by superjan 2y ago
They do. But if you brake too agressively, they switch to friction brakes. It pays off to avoid this: more mileage, marginally lower charging expense, lower cost on brake maintenance and fewer complaints from passengers.
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by superjan 2y ago
The P4 was nothing to celebrate. Clock for clock it was slower than it’s predecessor. The subsequent generation was based on the Pentium M, which was more energy efficient.
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by superjan 2y ago
When you work with normal AC power, it is considered unsafe practice to use parallel wires to share load in a circuit. Reason: one might get decoupled somehow, you don’t notice, and when fully loaded the heat causes a fire risk. This proble
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by superjan 2y ago
Well, why was the initial release insecure in the first place?
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by superjan 2y ago
Ok. I am clearly out of my comfort zone here. So NPS is not a proxy for organic marketing success, but for customer satisfaction. Is the article’s point then that the question is sometimes too hypothetical? I still think that it is useful t
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by superjan 2y ago
In stead of asking “would you reccomend”, shouldn’t you rely on “how did you learn about us?”, or “why did you buy our product”, the first one being the most reliable, as it is a neutral question about a fact.
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by superjan 2y ago
One explanation is that Microsoft is a collection of teams with different objectives. I suppose the security people would like something better than TPM to compete with Apple’s hardware security. OEM contacts will plead on behalf of their v
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by superjan 2y ago
I don’t disagree, but I was responding to a claim that the JVM has _all_ the advantages of fully native languages. Fully native allows you to choose to have no runtime, or a garbage collector, and in some environments (realtime, OS kernel,
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by superjan 2y ago
The JVM does not have ‘all the advantages of a fully native language’: fully native code does not need a runtime, or a garbage collector.
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by superjan 2y ago
Assuming you control the client code, you can periodically disconnect and reconnect. This could also simplify deployment.
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by superjan 2y ago
I propose T-POT (Tensor Product attentiOn Transformer)
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by superjan 2y ago
> For LLMs, “open source” is a bit of a misnomer. This is an understatement: the “source” for an LLM or similar deep learned network is not the weights, but the training data and the scripts required to train it from scratch.
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by superjan 2y ago
According to wikipedia, China is blocking most of the sites you mentioned. I was surprised to see that Russia does not. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_i...

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