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by tbirdz 11y ago
You could use Agner Fog's vector class, but keep in mind that just using a vector class isn't always the best idea: http://www.agner.org/optimize/#vectorclass
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by tbirdz 11y ago
> I'm having a very hard time imagining there exists even a single program out there that depends on being able to read the memory contents of a program that ran before itself. gdb, when using it to attach to an already running proc
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by tbirdz 11y ago
If you don't mind me asking, where are you finding such cheap SPARC hardware? Even 5-year old hardware still goes for thousands of dollars on the second-hand market.
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by tbirdz 11y ago
There is no year zero, 1 BC is followed by 1 AD (1 BCE is followed by 1 CE.)
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by tbirdz 11y ago
A bit of a nitpick here about MMX. Although the MMX registers were aliases of the floating point stack registers, the MMX instruction set consisted of strictly integer operations, not floating point.
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by tbirdz 11y ago
>marital infidelity is unethical even if it isn't illegal Marital infidelity is illegal in 21 states in the US, and many other countries as well. For many individuals this is not just an ethical concern, but a legal one as well.
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by tbirdz 11y ago
Any thoughts on privacy concerns with collecting this data? Do you think it should have the same requirements as regular patient medical data (eg HIPAA), or should it be treated differently?
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by tbirdz 11y ago
Personally, I had never heard of Kiehls, Spanx, Lululemon, Zara, Jiffy muffin mix, or NO-AD sunscreen. However, I don't know if advertising would help me remember these brands better, as I don't buy their class of products often.
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by tbirdz 11y ago
Isn't this one of the goals of cryptography - to make intelligent messages indistinguishable from noise from all but the intended recipient?
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by tbirdz 11y ago
It's insane for Lena to do the scene, but not insane for her body double to do it? Keep in mind that even though she was CGI imposed with the body double's body, the body double is still a real woman who has to walk and deal with
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by tbirdz 11y ago
This may be a bit like hair-splitting, but the language doesn't die, only the implementation does. As long as the language was specified in enough detail, a new compiler could be written for it, and be able to compile the old source co
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by tbirdz 11y ago
I'd also recommend "Linkers and Loaders". It's a bit dated, but it's a classic and most of the core underlying ideas are still relevant today: http://www.iecc.com/linker/
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by tbirdz 11y ago
The stack is cheaper, but it is a limited size. If you need more objects than would fit on the stack, pooling might be a better choice.
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by tbirdz 11y ago
Object pools are certainly a very useful technique, but can they really be considered a "forgotten trick"? This kind of pooling is pretty basic CS knowledge, and thus is a very popular technique in many applications, libraries, et
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by tbirdz 11y ago
I disagree. With the new funds coming in, improvements are being done on the metro constantly, they seem to be rebuilding tracks every weekend. On top of that, the new 7000 series train cars are a BIG step up from the old ones. I had a chan
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by tbirdz 11y ago
I myself share your views on the Basilisk and the AI chat, and I don't think they are as "extreme outliers" as you think.
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by tbirdz 11y ago
Bit of a nitpick, but technically the sizes of int, long, etc are implementation defined, not undefined. Undefined behavior has different implications in C.
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by tbirdz 11y ago
Some of us here do not use reddit much, so using slang specific to that site can be confusing. In this case, I don't think that saying "eli5" instead "explain" is worth risking this potential for confusion, as only
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by tbirdz 11y ago
I understood the reference full well, I just didn't think that this is the appropriate place to post it.
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by tbirdz 11y ago
You can also reduce re-marking spaces by starting your iteration in the marking process at i i (as all numbers less than i i would have been marked by a previous iteration) instead of 2*i. So instead of, e.g., marking off multiples of 3 sta
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by tbirdz 11y ago
magicpoint
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by tbirdz 11y ago
>Public Broadcasting is like an Eternal Kickstarter. So, like Patreon?
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by tbirdz 11y ago
IUP is a GUI Widget Toolkit.
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by tbirdz 11y ago
Hi Steve! I was just wondering if Joyable's costs would be something that would be coverable by health insurance?
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by tbirdz 11y ago
Don't get your hopes up about AVX-512. Apparently, full support is not coming until Cannonlake: http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/intel-sky...
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by tbirdz 11y ago
I disagree. Each of jgrahamc's articles he posted was useful and interesting in its own right, and would well qualify as a quality hacker news post. And if he wants to plug his book on his own blog, I'm OK with that. However, I do
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by tbirdz 11y ago
Just wondering: How does this compare with the GNU Make users manual? Does it cover roughly the same ground or is it more or less deeper?
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by tbirdz 11y ago
I don't know if I would call it harder, it's just a bit different is all. Here you go: ; Hello World, linux x86_64, nasm syntax section .rodata ; Begin read only data section hello: db "Hello, World&q
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by tbirdz 11y ago
To use syscalls x86_64 assembly (at least on linux), you'll want to use the syscall instruction, and set up the registers according to the linux 64 bit syscall calling convention (which is different than the 32-bit convention).
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by tbirdz 12y ago
Kafka also isn't very popular at all, compared to the general population's choice of reading material. Old software programs can be useful. For example, consider the diehard following of older programs like Deluxe Paint, Impulse T

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