wolfgke

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by wolfgke 6y ago
> But if you're e.g. repairing existing equipment, then the customary and SI units are incompatible. Say, a 1/4 inch bolt head is too large for a 6 mm wrench, but too small for a 8 mm (which is typically the next step up from 6
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> But now I have to be worried that I'll insult people by using the term Black Market, and will also insult people by giving off the impression that the the Middle East is a 3rd world primitive place where they buy and sell slaves.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> You wouldn't have run Windows 95 on your circa 1987 Tandy Windows 95 (formally) did run on a PC that has an Intel 80386DX CPU of any speed and 4 MB of system RAM: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?titl
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Mobile devices are typically underpowered compared to desktop systems. Early PCs/home computers were also underpowered compared to workstations. The difference is: buyers expected them to be supported for a much longer time and
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Similar effect when reading the news on a topic that one is an expert in - they usually get it incredibly wrong. This is the argument behind the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia&
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by wolfgke 6y ago
What has endianness to do with porting from x86 to ARM? Typical ARM implementations/ABIs use little endian mode.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Berlin is very different from the rest of Germany.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> I really wish HN had spoiler tags Use ROT13
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> I think you are vastly underestimating how many people use Mac (or use Windows without using WSL) to develop for the cloud. The dominance of Macs for software development is a very US-centric thing. In Germany, there is no such Mac dom
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Well, you did learn to understand German sentences way before school and grammar, I think that was the point. Learning the first language as a baby takes many years - and even after these years, you are still only on a "baby talk
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> But honestly, humans don't learn languages by understand their grammars with the logic part of their brain. As a native German speaker, I disagree. For me, the German grammar (in particular the declination system) is what I would
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Asking for low-power chips is something different than asking for expensive chips.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Even thoughit looks like I would like the story setting of Gemini Rue, I am not sure whether I would like this game or not. The reviews mention action sequences; these are rather not my cup of tea.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
A cyberpunk-themed adventure in pixel-art style was released very recently in May 2020. I mention this since I can imagine that some people in the HN audience might love it: VirtuaVerse * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/inde
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> My guess is that Apple wants an expensive chip and nobody wants to deliver it. This sentence makes no sense: Intel (and AMD) sell very expensive chips if you ask them to take your money. Look, for example, at the prices listed at ht
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Sure, but that's them having a competent (well, less incompetent) ISA Have you looked at the encoding of Thumb-2 (T32) and particularly A64 (their newly designed instruction set for 64 bit)? Their instruction encoding is in my opi
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> There are 256 bits in the set of ODM_RESERVED fuses, and there are 8 ODM_RESERVED. This allows for 32 fuses, or 32 future FW versions (provided they burn a fuse on every major release). Can someone explain how the author gets from the
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Everything else was not seen as practically exploitable. For a concrete blog post, see https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-... Note that according to https://en.wikiped
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> No one thought of speculative execution and hypertheading as performance hacks until the last few years. "Everybody" who has some knowledge in security (espcially with respect to side channels) knew from beginning that these
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> I want an economy where we can celebrate automation and distribute the profits evenly. Distribution of profits evenly: This is called "company stocks".
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by wolfgke 6y ago
A better formulation would be: "We simply do not care about your race, gender, culture, sex, nationality, ethnicity ... So don't talk about it on our mailing list. We instead care about making great software."
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> How do you distinguish between an evil virtue signaler and a virtuous person? The latter do good things silently instead of showing off about it.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Archive.is: http://archive.is/CAvh4
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CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels(washingtonpost.com)
45 points by wolfgke 6y ago|63 comments
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Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software(blog.cerebralab.com)
2 points by wolfgke 6y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 6y ago
What experiments were done to settle the question which property of the "non-idealized" models is the dominant one?
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Every stock market investor knows that you should always diversify your risk. So never make yourself deoendent on the whims of some single or few BIG_COMPANIES. Specifically: > no Stream/Epic store listing There exist lots of stores
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Next time on HN: Postmortem and lesson learned: Don't make yourself dependent on BIG_COMPANY when building a product
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by wolfgke 6y ago
An example of mathematically informed binary search is "regula falsi": > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regula_falsi&oldi...
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Far too many technology decisions and implementations in post-secondaries are made by academic/bureaucrats who have no expertise or background in technology. Many people who are very knowledgable in technology (the SV bubble is r

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