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by yvdriess 7y ago
I think you are missing the implications of working with image-based language runtimes. The CI or even the client can attaches the live image of the error, the programmer opens up the image when he opens the ticket and has the full venerabl
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by yvdriess 7y ago
Depends. Image-based runtime languages such as Smalltalk and various Lisps will, crudely put, pause at the site of the error and give you options to fix it and continue. That already covers 99% of the OP's issues with gdb. edit: Implie
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Indeed, the evolution will probably in the other direction, with the on chip network adopting algorithms from wider networks to deal with scaling problems. DRAM interfaces use to be pretty simple, now they are being trained almost like a DS
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by yvdriess 7y ago
What do you mean by 'controlled by hardware'? The registers the compiler chooses for you are an abstraction themselves, one of the first things a CPU does is register renaming. Same for main memory, you are presented mostly an ab
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Assuming that once determined at the start of the frame (e.g. camera position changes after user input handling), the transform matrices are not written to. They can then be freely shared across multiple cores without causing problems with
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by yvdriess 7y ago
As addressed, the benchmarks in question were for HPC, where turning off SMT and running without mitigations is standard.
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There should first be a good base of teaching assistant funding with enough free time to do research work. A lottery for extra PhD grants would indeed work well on top of this. Often the key is simply top-k grades now for those grants. Fun
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by yvdriess 7y ago
A Cambrian explosion with a ton of funky software / hardware approaches. 3D accelerators around the Riva TNT and NV Geforce killed off most of the other approaches.
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by yvdriess 7y ago
In terms of limited connectivity: mesh connectivity is theoretically sufficient. Putting all qubits in superposition in a preparation phase then allows you to do any arbitrary quantum computation by a sequence of measurements and one-qubit
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And they totally know this, going so far as to offer an 'export to gif' option at the end of the puzzle.
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That was by design in Opus Magnum. The game is still brutally hard by sticking to the (self-imposed) constraints, but it wants to open up to a much broader audience. Celeste follows the same designed approach to difficulty. Related RPS arti
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by yvdriess 7y ago
Doing something in this case is making us feel good about consuming plastics, where the better thing would be doing nothing and have the packaging industry avoid it where possible.
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That but without using any of the standard libraries. Even RAII can get in the way.
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Ah yes the switch case statement hack :) Does anyone have experience using libunwind for this kind of thing? You need to save and swap state for actual parallel execution.
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Well yes, exactly. That's the original use of the word, 'meritocracy' being portmanteau of 'aristocracy'. It was originally used pejoratively ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Etymology
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by yvdriess 7y ago
Succinct datastructures (mentioned in the article) are used for storing graphs, using a similar principle. Popcount and its count leading/trailing zeroes siblings are used heavily in those rank/select datastructures. His link to i
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by yvdriess 7y ago
C is chosen because how little language there is. Attempts to improve it end up adding to it, kind of defeating why it is useful in the first place. I find D's better-C dialect to be a definite improvement across the board, but there i
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by yvdriess 7y ago
JS's switch is a different beast. The OP's statement doesn't work in C/C++ because its case labels need to be unique. You also would need a large number of case statements before a modern optimizing compiler will decide
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by yvdriess 7y ago
> " Julia might have good performance for simple array/matrix operations and loops, but we already know how to make them fast in Python " Yes, by not executing them in Python, the universal trick to make anything fast in P
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Spent fuel rods aren't the big waste problem. The tons and tons of lightly irradiated materials are (equipment, construction waste, suits etc)
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Indeed. Going by past leaps in science and technology, we will probably see something really cool and useful come out of thisn something that isn't AGI. I'm fine with getting a superbike even if the funding was for an impossible
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by yvdriess 7y ago
In Europe you will still find plenty of wood construction roadblocks. Personal experience : in Belgium a wall that is placed on your terrain edge is considered a common wall and cannot be made using wood.
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On paper. Parallel programming in Haskell is hard. GHC's style of by-demand lazy evaluation and the ubiquitous use of monads impose a lot of sequential execution. There has been good research around parallel FP programming languages, b
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With the additional caveat that even if the production of renewables is not emitting CO2, the production of the equipment, installation and maintenance is.
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Proxies trace back their origin in mirrors/mirages in metaprogramming for OO languages. (shoutout to AmbientTalk) It's a very Smalltalk way of doing reflection and intersection. Do you mean that it lacks syntactic abstractions to
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by yvdriess 8y ago
BPA is an Endocrine/hormone disruptor, these are not harmful due to toxicity. They do not follow a simple dose-responce as in, say, carcinogens. Some studies even show a higher effect at lower doses of BPA for instance.
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Glass bottles can avoid the 'trash' stream with 'bottle bill' legislation. Most of europe does this, some even for PET and aluminium cans. Collection is essentially the same route as delivery to the cusomers, but in reve
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What I think is fundamental is that employees are not payed for their work, but for their time. The implicit thought pattern is that they feel they own your time.
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Epic game store is paying a lot for exclusives to compete with steam. We should see a jump in games piracy.
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His point is that syntax is nearly the most irrelevant part of language implementation. - "I want to build a house" - "OK, what kind of house" - "Preferably red"

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