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by wyldfire 2y ago
It's a bit chicken-and-egg. People won't port their software if there's no popular targets available. Even if there are targets, if the popular targets don't perform well, people will assume the ISA is not worth portin
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by wyldfire 2y ago
It does. These days, it's probably eBPF and a popular target is the linux kernel [1]. You can write C hooks for tracing and profiling, etc. - with inline asm! [1] https://docs.kernel.org/bpf/
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by wyldfire 2y ago
> Because it’s so treacherous, the first rule is to avoid it if at all possible. Modern compilers are loaded with intrinsics and built-ins that replace nearly all the old inline assembly use cases. If you take away anything from this art
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> Now potential customers might be a little more wary of ARMs licensing practices compared to the free RISC-V ISA. This is unbelievably understated. If I were Qualcomm, I would put parts of the Nuvia team's expertise to work design
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by wyldfire 2y ago
Maybe a more general term for this than "alignment faking" is "deceit." Does it matter if there's no conscious intent behind the deceit? Not IMO. The risk remains, regardless of the sophistication behind the motiv
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by wyldfire 2y ago
Next we will find out that dolphins are right up there w the mice? "So long, and thanks for all the fish!"
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by wyldfire 2y ago
> So you're unable to think about this problem without putting your bias at the forefront? He is a conspiracy theorist, this is his thing. And he sells supplements on his show. Those are facts, right? I suppose my bias only shows
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by wyldfire 2y ago
Probably not all profits but yeah, substantial garnishing.
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by wyldfire 2y ago
> This is dangerously close to making the penalty the loss of his first amendment rights. They'll never be able to stop him from creating "The Alex Jones Off the Deep End Show" where he thrills listeners with zany tales of
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The point you cite was relative to other foods, not other chocolates.
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> It is a large language model, trained on arbitrary input data. Is it? For all I know they gave it specific instances of bugs like "int *foo() { int i; return &i; }" and told it "this is a defect where we've ret
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by wyldfire 2y ago
> above is a 300-line chunk ... deadlocks every few hundred runs Wow, if this kind of thing is successful it feels like there's much less need for static checkers. I mean -- not no need for them, just less need for continued develo
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by wyldfire 2y ago
> it can't be printed New coins are minted with every block. But perhaps you mean to suggest that it's "stable" or "predictable." The emission rate of bitcoin is predictable - but this is predicated on th
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by wyldfire 2y ago
Its utility is similar to that of cash. But unlike cash it's (1) less fungible (2) much easier to transport (3) harder to secure from theft and/or destruction * (4) value is more volatile than USD/EUR/CAD/AUD (5) i
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by wyldfire 2y ago
> ensuring system integrity The threat model here is defective hardware and not an attacker? Presumably an attacker with RCE could just make "more" activity via the verification path in order to accomplish their goals. Althou
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by wyldfire 2y ago
OpenCL was born as a cuda-alike that could be apply to GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA, and general purpose CPUs. NVIDIA briefly embraced it (in order to woo Apple?) and then just about abandoned it to focus more on cuda. NVIDIA abandoning OpenC
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by wyldfire 2y ago
regexes don't generally belong as compiler builtins. Those are more suitable for language standard libraries or OS standards like POSIX. If there were an ISA out there that had some kind of regular expression feature, those could conc
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by wyldfire 2y ago
Ah, yes - let's make it great again. Like it was in 1875!
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by wyldfire 2y ago
A good companion/ successor is cvise. I've used c-reduce/cvise to reduce assembly programs to the minimal set that evokes an assembler defect quite a few times. It's a real handy program. [1] https://github.co
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by wyldfire 2y ago
This is a lesson that everyone at this university just learned. Maybe it's even a lesson for other workplaces with similar reporting programs too.
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by wyldfire 2y ago
> “My career has been destroyed by multiple administrators at NCSU who united together and completely ignored the EthicsPoint System and its promises to employees,” Brain wrote. Well, lesson learned. Take your ethical concerns to the pu
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by wyldfire 2y ago
> Most bread and yogurt in the average grocery store is pretty bad stuff, full of HFCS, hydrogenated oils, and hydrolyzed proteins. I eat a lot of (plain) yogurt. But my kids often eat sweetened yogurt, which I've suspected is not-
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by wyldfire 2y ago
> So, if hello world is not trivial Note that the nontrivial C program I showed above was not "hello world". Emitting output is yet more complicated still. > you can easily generate e.g web assembly from your own lang input
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by wyldfire 2y ago
All but the most trivial programs require a linker to resolve references among object files. And while "int main() {}" might seem like a trivial C program, it's not (by that definition, at least). Your favorite toolchain wil
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by wyldfire 2y ago
> he system can't recover from an error in an individual flight plan, bringing the whole system down with it From the system's POV maybe this is the right way to resolve the problem. Could masking the failure by obscuring this
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by wyldfire 2y ago
I doubt that limit is an artificial one. Hospitals don't need 600 dermatologists on staff. I think this is yet another factor of capitalism: selfish interests of individual corporations being in tension with the people's interes
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by wyldfire 2y ago
Or: better yet, just use an archive format for archival and a compression layer for compression. Don't use zip at all.
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Let's test it out: https://www.jwz.org/ EDIT: I laughed.
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> melting down all of the 500% marked up gold bars[0] and make a one-time-run charity auction collectible for the Sandy Hook families Or a monument / memorial to the deceased, in the hopes that the truth would outlive Jones's l
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"Space exploration pays significant dividends in the long run, therefore it's inefficient to spend money on anything other than that."

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