tjalfi

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   Vectorization Virtual Workshop(cvw.cac.cornell.edu)

   35 points by tjalfi 5y ago|4 comments
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   Cryptanalysis of Meow Hash(peter.website)

   7 points by tjalfi 5y ago|1 comments
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   Faster Random Sampling Methods (1984) [pdf](ittc.ku.edu)

   19 points by tjalfi 5y ago|3 comments
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   by tjalfi 5y ago

   There have been a couple science fiction novels with this premise: Protector[0] by Larry Niven David Weber's Dahak trilogy, available as the Empire from the Ashes[1] omnibus [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protec
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   by tjalfi 5y ago

   John Varley's Eight Worlds[0] series has an alien species called the Invaders. They invaded Earth to protect cetaceans from the effects of human civilization. The Invaders divide sentient life into three tiers - species like themselves
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   by tjalfi 5y ago

   > Why would anyone come from light years away to inhabit a planet. Many motives from the age of exploration could apply - imperialism, religious beliefs, religious or political differences, cultural exchange, scientific discovery, compet
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   by tjalfi 5y ago

   The aliens in Scott Westerfeld's Fine Prey invade Earth for a novel reason. It's ROT-13 ( https://rot13.com/ ) encoded to avoid any spoilers. Gur nyvraf ner ynathntr areqf. Gurl bpphcvrq Rnegu fb gung uhznaf jbhyq
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   by tjalfi 5y ago

   > Maybe war between two spacefaring civilizations is too "easy". eg something like: throwing asteroids at ~the speed of light is necessarily a cheap thing to do once you're at that level, and everyone just dies. The Killi
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   by tjalfi 5y ago

   This is Fred Chow's PhD thesis; it was used as the basis for the MIPSPro compilers that was later open sourced as Open64[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open64
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    A Portable Machine-Independent Global Optimizer (1983) [pdf](researchgate.net)

    17 points by tjalfi 5y ago|6 comments
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    (submitter) Here's the abstract of this paper. Minimal acyclic deterministic finite automata (ADFAs) can be used as a compact representation of finite string sets with fast access time. Creating them with traditional algorithms of DFA
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    How to Squeeze a Lexicon (2002) [pdf](sun.aei.polsl.pl)

    9 points by tjalfi 5y ago|1 comments
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    I think [0] is the sketch you're thinking of [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBtKNzoKZ4
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    (submitter) This is a follow up to Inline in Rust[0] which was submitted a couple times earlier this week. [0] https://matklad.github.io//2021/07/09/inline-in-rust.html
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    It’s Not Always iCache(matklad.github.io)

    66 points by tjalfi 5y ago|19 comments
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    SGI compilers had diagnostic information called love notes that explains what optimizations had been applied to loops. Here is an example taken from [0]. #<loop> Loop body line 1, nesting depth: 1, estimated iterations: 17
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    Reddit, Hacker News, Goodreads, and Amazon.
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    Design Beyond Human Abilities (2007) [pdf](dreamsongs.com)

    23 points by tjalfi 5y ago|1 comments
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    > Clearly brokers are doing something or else people wouldn't pay for them. There's a great Joel Spolsky comment[0] that explains why landlords use brokers. They perform work that would otherwise be done by the landlord. https
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. One of my high school history classes presented this view; we used A People's History of the United States as a textbook.
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    Sorting networks and their applications (1968) [pdf](cs.kent.edu)

    27 points by tjalfi 5y ago|7 comments
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    I'm also a fan of Cliff and other Rice alumni; here are a few of his videos that I like. [0] The Sea of Nodes and the HotSpot JIT [1] A JVM Does That? [2] A Crash Course in Modern Hardware [3] Bits of Advice for the VM Writer [0] http
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    The Prison Cell of Ludger Sylbaris(atlasobscura.com)

    35 points by tjalfi 5y ago|0 comments
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    That sounds like an interesting read, what's the title of the book?
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    PureText[0] is a Windows application I use regularly. It adds a keyboard shortcut for pasting as plain text. [0] https://stevemiller.net/puretext/
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    > Your tech department being blackballed from submitting Linux patches is a pretty embarrassing consequence. What else would happen? It's not like anyone will fine them. The ban could affect donations from alumni or corporations.
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    by tjalfi 6y ago

    I'm not familiar with Illiad but King County Library System[0] in Washington state has excellent interlibrary loans. I have received books from libraries all over the US, Canada, prisons, museums, and even the Library of Congress. Anot
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    by tjalfi 6y ago

    This reminds me of the Stephen King story Quitters, Inc. about a company that takes a similar approach to quitting smoking.
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    Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing (1999) [pdf](stuartcheshire.org)

    38 points by tjalfi 6y ago|11 comments
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    by tjalfi 6y ago

    > It's a bad idea because ASCII already includes dedicated characters for field separator, record separator and so on. ASCII is over 60 years old and separators haven't caught on yet; what's different now? > These could