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by tjalfi 3y ago
I really should have tested before commenting. You can't define a macro within a macro, so it doesn't work.
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by tjalfi 3y ago
Nice work! Have you considering combining ARRAY_ALG_TYPE and ARRAY_ALG_PREFIX into a single function-like macro? ARRAY_ALG_TYPE_PREFIX(int, intv_), for example, can set up all the other macros. I would also recommend adding a ARRAY_ALG_ pre
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by tjalfi 3y ago
Most 8 and 16-bit microcomputers at the time had a Lisp.
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by tjalfi 3y ago
I checked the repo. Blender detects files with a different endian and byte swaps if necessary.
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by tjalfi 3y ago
It isn't a real problem. Blender supports only little-endian targets and the code byte swaps data files as needed. I guess someone could port it to AIX, z/OS, or Linux/zSeries, but that's unlikely at best.
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by tjalfi 3y ago
Uber has a support contract[0] with the Zig Software Foundation. [0] https://jakstys.lt/2022/how-uber-uses-zig/
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by tjalfi 3y ago
> The late 80s/early 90s was such an interesting time for supercomputer architectures. I don't remember ever hearing about Cydra. But there were lots of niche ones -- Kendall Square Research had the ALLCACHE architecture, there
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by tjalfi 3y ago
> Even so, is there really something that can be done with macros that can't be done, just as elegantly, with simple state machines, or object composition style in other languages? Many simple macro use cases are covered by lightwei
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by tjalfi 3y ago
Some targets also don't use natural alignment. AIX, for example, uses 4-byte alignment for doubles that aren't the first field in the struct. GCC has the -malign-natural and -malign-power options for dealing with this.
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by tjalfi 3y ago
I have compiled Fortran programs from the 70s on modern platforms without changing a line. The compiler, OS, and CPU architecture had all disappeared but the programs still worked correctly.
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by tjalfi 3y ago
(submitter) The actual title is The Cydra 5 departmental supercomputer: design philosophies, decisions, and trade-offs . I had to shrink it to fit. If you're familiar with Itanium, then the design will look familiar. HP hired some of
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Cydra 5 supercomputer: design philosophies, decisions, tradeoffs (1989) [pdf](ece.rutgers.edu)
23 points by tjalfi 3y ago|6 comments
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by tjalfi 3y ago
Here's the ruling. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-138_43j7.pdf
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by tjalfi 3y ago
The Kestrel web server[0] is an example of a codebase that makes extensive use of C#'s unsafe functionality. UnmanagedBufferAllocator[1], for example, looks pretty similar to how you'd write it in C++. [0] https://githu
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by tjalfi 3y ago
The proposal[0] gives a rationale. Using builtin functions lets them be variadic without allocating a slice. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/59488
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by tjalfi 3y ago
You can email hn@ycombinator.com and they'll fix it.
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by tjalfi 3y ago
> r/pics voted to continue with the strike by only allowing posts of pictures of John Oliver. I can see other subs starting such things as well and even if you change out the mods you will have your hands full of people making prote
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by tjalfi 3y ago
I requested mine last week and haven't heard back from them.
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by tjalfi 4y ago
Some architectures such as Itanium, MIPS, and x86 have branch hint instructions that allow the compiler to indicate whether branches are taken. I'm not sure about Itanium, but they weren't really beneficial on MIPS or x86; the MIP
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by tjalfi 5y ago
The text of the complaint is available at [0]. [0] https://03283664099418252878.googlegroups.com/attach/6f5422d...
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Casting Silver Bullets (2013)(patriciabriggs.com)
57 points by tjalfi 5y ago|16 comments
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by tjalfi 5y ago
If you're looking for obfuscated code to refactor, nroff[0][1] is pretty notorious. [0] http://dtrace.org/blogs/eschrock/2004/07/01/real-life-obfusc... [1] https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by tjalfi 5y ago
TVTropes has lists of science fiction with insectoid aliens[0] and books with giant spiders[1]. [0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InsectoidAliens [1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki&
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by tjalfi 5y ago
We read The Defense of Duffer's Drift [0] when I was in ROTC. [0] https://www.benning.army.mil/infantry/199th/ocs/content/pdf/...
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by tjalfi 5y ago
ASN.1's Encoding Control Notation[0] allows bit-level encoding control and can be used to write ASN.1 specifications for existing protocols. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encoding_Control_Notation
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by tjalfi 5y ago
> Why is string parsing so much harder than it should be? Mike Ash answered[0] this question back in 2015. [0] https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2015-11-06-why-is-s...
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by tjalfi 5y ago
Literary augury[0] is my term for that kind of literature discussion. [0] https://www.britannica.com/topic/augury
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by tjalfi 5y ago
Jovial 73 has the PAR qualifier which converts an AoS to a SoA.
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by tjalfi 5y ago
> This statement made me think quite hard. Why do I not really believe in quid pro quo's (especially like this)? I didn't come up with any particularly good answers, but it would seem to be related to my own childhood and proba
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The Back of the Envelope (1984) [pdf](seltzer.com)
2 points by tjalfi 5y ago|0 comments

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