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by veltas 2y ago
There are situations where it's faster to prefetch manually than to rearrange and rely on the hardware prefetcher. Yes, even on modern CPU's.
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by veltas 2y ago
> The only way to prevent cache misses is to make the memory accesses more ordered. Or prefetch. Not enough people know about prefetch.
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by veltas 2y ago
Where is this? I don't see this advocation, and the code examples don't have it.
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by veltas 2y ago
I think it is respectful and appropriate, this is someone who died fighting in war who we don't really know anything about. Could even be closely related to people today. We don't know if they were a member of the 'party&#x
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by veltas 2y ago
This is much like C. The easiest way to use assembly in C or Forth is to know your 'ABI' and write separate assembly code functions where needed. In Forth at least you can write a CODE word.
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by veltas 2y ago
Anecdotally I find the opposite to be the case. I think Forth is hard to write but easy to read.
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by veltas 2y ago
> Turns out CPUs are pretty good with zeros and ones. I've been saying this a lot recently, that CPU's are powerful 1-bit vector machines!
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by veltas 2y ago
Yeah sorry that was a joke, if not clear
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by veltas 2y ago
Just now scientists are finding out driving is fun, when we're just about ready to ban it! Mind you, I don't think the rats would enjoy it as much if they had to share the road with the kind of rats I share it with, and if the pen
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by veltas 2y ago
"Postel's law" is an ironic name, I don't think the people who coined that term meant that it was an infallible rule of the universe, just what seemed a good rule of thumb for implementing protocols. I still like Postel&
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by veltas 2y ago
Yup and in the UK a lot of our card payment boxes for car parks will stop working when 3G is shut down, and will be replaced with an app. People without phones need not apply!
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by veltas 2y ago
The difference is I trust this website, and wouldn't trust an LLM.
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by veltas 2y ago
Looking at the project issues, it seems it supports only 1989-era C, and some Apple stuff, before you even get to attributes.
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by veltas 2y ago
I'm a big Forth fan and I'd say lisp interpreters consistently come out smaller and better than their equivalent tiny Forths. I don't think it's a reason not to be interested in Forth, unless that was the draw.
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by veltas 2y ago
Scanner needs to scan files being deleted to catch certain kinds of malware, and Windows blocks until it's actually scanned and deleted. Lots of file operations are like this on Windows. It makes filesystem operations seemingly easie
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by veltas 2y ago
Playing chess with a 20TB cerebellum
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by veltas 2y ago
Sorry, I meant a "close to the hardware" language re parent.
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by veltas 2y ago
Does anyone know of languages that achieve this? I'm interested, I'm currently implementing a project in x86 assembly for this reason, and am happy to try a higher level language.
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by veltas 2y ago
> a neutral or disregard position is interpreted as opposition It's not really neutral though, it's specifically from the outset designed to depict something evil in the culture of the religion. The current more abstract logo
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by veltas 2y ago
I didn't say (or didn't mean to imply?) you were anti-Christian. But now it sounds like you're calling me an extremist, which actually is controlling/manipulative behaviour, is it not? And for no good reason.
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by veltas 2y ago
There's a big difference between tolerance and friendship.
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by veltas 2y ago
> it requires genuine acceptance that others believe and speak differently, and that that's OK That itself is a question of ethics, that I don't think you need to agree with to be able to be tolerant. You can tolerate people w
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by veltas 2y ago
Careful reading you'll see I'm not asking for diversity for extremists.
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by veltas 2y ago
I'm just reading what they wrote, and making as few assumptions as possible about their intent. Do you have a specific disagreement about my interpretation?
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by veltas 2y ago
Confronting you in good faith isn't forcing you. And you don't need to agree with someone's ethics systems to tolerate them.
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by veltas 2y ago
> It's maybe a clever tactic to keep religious extremists away. Or a clever tactic to reduce diversity, because many diverse countries of the world are full of people who would be uncomfortable or wouldn't want to associate wit
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by veltas 2y ago
> It is not the job of everyone else in the world to suspend their beliefs to sustain yours. If you have a business called "666 Flowers and Cakes" then a lot of Christians won't go there, and some might confront you about
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by veltas 2y ago
I agree that the guest shouldn't have said it was 'abuse' to put the logo up. There is no actual harm that can come from that picture.
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by veltas 2y ago
The FreeBSD Code of Conduct mentions being welcoming to people regardless of religion, but by using imagery that explicitly comes from religious depictions of evil in their logo they're blatantly being unwelcoming to a lot of religious
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by veltas 2y ago
I don't think anyone is personally scared, just not someone they want to follow or associate with.

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