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by zerohp 4y ago
The author has an incredible Commodore collection. If you ever find yourself in the Austin area when there’s a Central Texas Commodore Users Group meeting then it’s worth a visit. You can find it on Meetup
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by zerohp 4y ago
I worked at a bunch of smaller companies before and I'm now 5 years into working at a FAANG. My team and org have the most competent management I've ever seen and I have no interest in rolling the dice on another job unless someth
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by zerohp 4y ago
Are you sure that was DG? I have a daughterboard from an Apollo workstation that has a 50mhz 68030, 68881 and a bunch of logic that mates to a 68040 socket. I don’t think you could build a processor to run the 040 instruction set out of dis
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by zerohp 4y ago
Did Hotz ask a basic question? No. He made an job offer while acknowledging that he doesn't know if he is allowed to do that and he stated that the interview for it is to do free labor for him.
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by zerohp 4y ago
What about Musk's actions make you think he is interested in promoting truth in media?
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by zerohp 4y ago
I don't think it exists for advanced nodes like the ones Amazon is using. What does "Hello World" look like for a skyscraper?
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by zerohp 4y ago
The reason C is everywhere is because it doesn't define a platform. The OS/hardware makers define it. Lack of a platform is a strength.
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by zerohp 4y ago
Most of the hate comes from people that have never written a line of C in their professional life.
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by zerohp 4y ago
I work in chip design on single digit "nm" processes. Interally we might say 5nm to refer generally and N5 or N5P to refer to a specific process. When you need more specific numbers you look it up. Exact design parameters are care
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by zerohp 4y ago
Carmack should read the Hyperloop paper and see if he still feels that way.
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by zerohp 4y ago
Even better would be “Qualcomm lies”
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by zerohp 4y ago
HN comments are so full of misinformation when it comes to hardware design that it’s not even worth fighting anymore. This place is lost.
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by zerohp 4y ago
All stories from the x.com/Paypal days say that he was entirely clueless during that time. The board removed him.
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by zerohp 4y ago
Posting a video that shows your work would get you fired at any big tech company. Even if your work isn't that interesting. You can't risk it. That's why all of these big tech TikTok videos only show cafes.
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by zerohp 4y ago
Correct. It's a common mistake to think of the stack pointer as just a convention for register 31 in A64. The 31 encoding has two uses. For some instructions it is the zero register XZR and others it is SP.
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by zerohp 4y ago
How are they compensating you for this service (your non-disclosure)? If they want to bind you to a contract then they should pay for it.
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by zerohp 4y ago
Aside from that. It intentionally does not include any SoM/Carrier card combo even though it seems like everyone is going to that.
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by zerohp 4y ago
Clip art collections were sold on floppy disk for every platform with a graphic printer. The Print Shop came out the same year as the Macintosh and was ported to most platforms.
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by zerohp 4y ago
We don't know why everyone suddenly decided to eat a lot more calories starting around 1980. It's not even clear that people are eating more calories than in 1880. Food was abundant in the US for most people long before that.
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by zerohp 4y ago
> So as someone else commented, a mainframe isn't really a computer, it's a whole cluster of closely-coupled computers, many with dedicated functionality. Quite possibly all implemented with different architectures, instruction
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by zerohp 4y ago
> When memory is unmapped, caches of memory mappings of other threads are discarded, via inter-core interrupts. ARM architecture does not need to interrupt for TLB shootdown.
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by zerohp 4y ago
Modern CPUs do not pause during the frequency transition. They switch to a stable clock (even if slower) while waiting for the main PLL to relock at the new frequency.
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by zerohp 4y ago
I have a stainless steel ring from the Order of the Engineer. There is also the Pledge of the Computing Professional, which uses a pin. Both programs were available at UIUC. http://pledge-of-the-computing-professional.org https
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by zerohp 4y ago
Exactly. It would get pinned on some poor engineer just like the Volkswagen diesel stuff. That’s why an individual contributor should not take part in it. It’s better to get a different job.
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by zerohp 4y ago
> Under the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (50 U.S.C. §§ 4801-4852) (ECRA), criminal penalties can include up to 20 years of imprisonment and up to $1 million in fines per violation, or both. I work in CPU design and I wouldn't r
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by zerohp 4y ago
You can go down the rabbit hole at federalregister.gov. Here's a couple places where they talk about it: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-15/subtitle-B/chapter-VII... https://www.federalreg
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by zerohp 4y ago
The US government has been setting the ceiling on performance that can be exported since the beginning of the computer industry. This is not really new but NVidia was caught by a surprise change in the limits.
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by zerohp 4y ago
Sale attribution wasn’t critical before the internet.
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by zerohp 4y ago
The downside would be worse if he had 8 children as a poor person. His parenting is due to his character not his wealth.
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by zerohp 4y ago
I’ve had amazing large lectures and poor small classes. It always came down to the individual professor. I actually think that putting a bad teacher in a small class makes it worse than a large one.

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