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451.
by temac 6y ago
Can you really do an enormous SRAM on a bigger node without it occupying a huge surface? Would 14nm be cheap enough for that to be interesting? If so, why not also use it for other big structures?
452.
by temac 6y ago
Maybe while resuming from interrupt you go slow for a while, although I suspect you eventually recover even if that happen. The interrupt will be slow as hell anyway, regardless of if you are doing rep movsb or not. Actually rep movsb with
453.
by temac 6y ago
and munmap can be quite costly too
454.
by temac 6y ago
rep movsb has been quite optimized recently and I suspect it will continue to be. Today you can be faster with more complex solutions in some cases, and depending on your precise microarch alternate solution for small copies, etc., but I su
455.
by temac 6y ago
Overlong encoding is not just non-canonical UTF-8. It is actually forbidden; it is not UTF-8. A decoder without checks can as well not return the codepoints you expect at all (that would be curious but if you try to heavily optimize one, ma
456.
by temac 6y ago
More like the moment you add a second Mutex in your app, ad-hoc handling and no policy to prevent deadlocks. The solutions are well known and I'm simply sad to see them far too little used. But in the case you insist in doing that (n
457.
by temac 6y ago
Not exactly the same for things done dynamically vs. statically.
458.
by temac 6y ago
If you need deadlock detection, probably your high level design is problematic. But I agree this is extremely often the case, so that's extremely often an interesting and valuable tool.
459.
by temac 6y ago
So just because some internal symbols have been leaked (or even have been published by MS in symbols tables) you can copy them legally ? But somehow you can't copy the source code ? But however you can copy a hand (or tool assisted) di
460.
by temac 6y ago
That's very true but I also think of one important aspect: the parts of the research space we choose to look in. And like a novel is not discovered in the absurdly large research space of sequences of random characters, nor even disc
461.
by temac 6y ago
I would argue that math is both invented and discovered at the same time. Our expression math is obviously invented but that's not very important (but not totally unimportant either, because it drivers further discoveries). The set of
462.
by temac 6y ago
You can, and should, write requirements and in more general all kind of specifications / high level pictures / architecture diagrams, for when you won't be around anymore, or even just for your future self. Maybe even more fo
463.
by temac 6y ago
> Hum... Empathy, problem solving, communication, creativity, patience, humility and self confidence... What else is lacking for requirement gathering? Actually gathering and maintaining the fucking requirements in a useful way.
464.
by temac 6y ago
Very cool! Can it use multiple processors under Linux or is it limited to 1 CPU because of some tricks for the DOS compatibility?
465.
by temac 6y ago
> It's one thing to negotiate for preferred treatment, but unilaterally breaking the agreement as an opening move? This aggression will not stand, man. If I understand correctly, I think you are getting the timeline wrong. Unless yo
466.
by temac 6y ago
The chips are huge and numerous & you would have to boostrap a market to compete, that's hard. Technically it can be "duplicated", but in the same sense that Apple can make a state of the art processor better than Intel:
467.
by temac 6y ago
Well, you can just write an installer that uses an elevated cmd anyway. I think conemu does that? (not sure, maybe it is another software) Is unsigned software subject to further restrictions by default compared to signed but "unknown&
468.
by temac 6y ago
"Why do distros expect all the living organisms on your machine to share The World's Single Lungs Service, and The World's Single Stomach Service, and The World's Single Liver Service?" This has been debated for yea
469.
by temac 6y ago
The majority of ms dos was written in assembly language. Even 6.22
470.
by temac 6y ago
The F14 actually had a neat processor, with an architecture which remained classified for a long time (arguably far too long at the end, but it was plainly justified at the beginning) It was very old so, yes, I'm sure it had plenty of
471.
by temac 6y ago
I once worked on a project that made me think that year 2038 will be interesting for the military.
472.
by temac 6y ago
This can be used to justify any kind of crap being shipped in newly introduced features, merely baring regressions. Therefore I don't value the approach as presented here. But a sane variant could be interesting: anyway I suspect it wi
473.
by temac 6y ago
It did run on ARC, but now it's just a 486.
474.
by temac 6y ago
If I'm not mistaken nuclear in France is actually pilotable quite fast, it is not instantaneous but it is really fast. You cover the risk of shortest term high variance with other means, but they basically already exist (hydro, gaz) an
475.
by temac 6y ago
It is well known: it is a "political" deal between two party: the PS, that ruled between 2012 and 2017, and IIRC EELV, a "green" political party, one of the kind that do not like nuclear. The "green" party even
476.
by temac 6y ago
I'm not sure about if I read you correctly. Do you mean that it is impossible to complain about "cancel culture", because it is inherently good and you are an horrible person if you complain? If yes, can you define cancel cul
477.
by temac 6y ago
I'm wary of social hypotheses that place an irrefutable / indefensible burden on "me" (well, actually, on anybody), especially if the only reason is by association because of correlations with arbitrary traits. I can ver
478.
by temac 6y ago
This argument is boring (because even if you were right, that's not what the public understands) but let's pretend it is not: so are you actually right? It's debatable. To fly a plane safely, you have to prioritize in the fol
479.
by temac 6y ago
> If you see the letters GNU in a systems design, and that system intersects with cryptography, I can almost guarantee that it will be badly designed to an alarming degree. The author does indeed talk about seeing the letters Gnu, not be
480.
by temac 6y ago
Well you have the multiprocessor memory model for example. Technically, you could use a stricter one (from x86) on arm, but that would maybe prevent some non-atomic efficiency gains, and if it's for a platform with competitor chips t

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