whaleofatw2022

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by whaleofatw2022 23d ago
One exception that does come to mind, is .Net Framework on x86. AFAIR that didn't use SSE or SSE2. (In x64 mode it did however, since those were part of the baseline for x64)
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by whaleofatw2022 28d ago
Bold assumption until there is legal precedent set.
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by whaleofatw2022 28d ago
... was in jail. He died in 2021. Curiously enough, unless something changed and nobody updated his Wikipedia page, his family didnt even collect his ashes.
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by whaleofatw2022 1mo ago
5% is a pretty high rate IMO. When I worked at retail 20 years ago we got around 2 or 3%, and that was a mom and pop shop, not big retail...
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by whaleofatw2022 1mo ago
Dumb question, wouldn't node size impact the logic latency itself on some level?
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by whaleofatw2022 2mo ago
I do believe that yes, if it was wiped before entering, there would be no charges (unless there was a shadow docket open... that gets murky)
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by whaleofatw2022 2mo ago
Not just the RAMBUS debacle, that 20 stage pipeline and IIRC the barrel shifter wasnt as good as on P3 or AMDs CPUs...
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by whaleofatw2022 2mo ago
Used to flip both ways... I.e. for a time, it became easier for talented people to find a better role. In the last 5-10 years though, between the race to the bottom and AI/Bot spam (even ignoring the overall decrease in job availabilit
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by whaleofatw2022 2mo ago
Not sure about that bit... What is well known however, is that a bunch of Alpha engineers wound up at AMD, and a lot of that DNA went into the OG Athlon
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by whaleofatw2022 2mo ago
Its funny because I have been asked by some folks at work as to why I dont just 'allow all commands' and instead review each one, and then I let my colleague in infosec know who asks that so they are aware of dangerous users.
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by whaleofatw2022 2mo ago
Where it gets tricky is that, at least in past US case law, 'maps are facts' and thus cannot be copyrighted as easily (this is part of why published maps often have intentional, hopefully subtle errors in them) [0] [0] - I believe
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by whaleofatw2022 3mo ago
The RE thing may have been a false narrative, but tax abatements were a factor in at least one local company doing RTO; their business tax breaks were partially based on employees working in the city and then paying city payroll tax.
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by whaleofatw2022 3mo ago
One of the things I ironically loved about my windows phone was that it was a PERFECT Phone [0], Sms [1], and Navigation device [2], good enough for music, but SUCKED the further you went from that. [0] - Call audio was pristine [1] - large
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by whaleofatw2022 3mo ago
Part of me wonders, would 3d xpoint (if still around) be a viable option? Yeah it is slower than real RAM by a good amount for latency, but you can get similar bandwidth and the cost was history about half of the same size DDR.
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by whaleofatw2022 3mo ago
There are some minor exceptions but agreed otherwise. Manufacturers have been excessively using VRAM limitations as a price point distinguisher.
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by whaleofatw2022 3mo ago
Aka 'follow JSF guidelines that still apply to C and not just C++'. I.e. all alloc should happen up front, functions should have predictable execution time, etc etc
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by whaleofatw2022 3mo ago
But can it do a better bad apple?
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by whaleofatw2022 3mo ago
Lest we forget how they snubbed Bungie...
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by whaleofatw2022 3mo ago
Depends a LOT on the res. E.x. notebookcheck indicates that FEAR (released a yearish later) could get 20-30ish FPS at 640x480 but chokes at 1024x768 (at numbers matching the HL2 lost coast demo slideshow at 1024x768). Gotta remember a lot o
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by whaleofatw2022 4mo ago
Something to be said for branding. There's a pizza place by me called "slice of the 80's" that has tacky vaguely 80-s feeling styling. Surprisingly its been around for over 15 years and not the flash in a pan pizza shop
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by whaleofatw2022 4mo ago
Natural gas is cleaner to burn than coal, if I had to guess this is lazy half-done greenwashing, i.e. 'at least it's not coal!' Similar to California's measures for cleaner power generation.
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by whaleofatw2022 4mo ago
BEAM threads are kinda magicsauce tho, instructions have a cost and after a certain cost total (quantums) the scheduler can divert to another virt thread to guarantee forward progress. Also the immutability rules etc make it easier to optim
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by whaleofatw2022 4mo ago
> Of course it's also possible there is some detail I've missed. Can't speak too deeply for Go specifically, but I do know on .NET one of the big reasons generic methods where T is a structure gets monomorphized per type,
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by whaleofatw2022 4mo ago
Strife
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by whaleofatw2022 4mo ago
The weeds are the hard part. But as far as when I owned my own home, cutting the grass was just part of my routine and at least guaranteed some physical activity instead of working all day during covid.
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by whaleofatw2022 4mo ago
SO got awkward when the not-bad anti spam measures got cross wired with a mod mentality similar to wikipedia.
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by whaleofatw2022 5mo ago
Be more afraid of the technocrat who doesn't even have a tell. It means they are better at manipulation.
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by whaleofatw2022 5mo ago
AGS time!
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by whaleofatw2022 6mo ago
> Lain is 10/10. Caught the BeOS fan ;) (I kid, mostly but remember Lain fans rabidly trying and espousing it)
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by whaleofatw2022 6mo ago
In fact lumping xAI in that to cause a loss likely provides some tax benefits vs putting it with Twitter/X itself

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