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by zhemao 11y ago
I don't really understand how it could be that problematic. It would only be an issue if there was a memory access in between the time the ptbr changes and the asid changes. But the instructions for manipulating CSRs don't access
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by zhemao 11y ago
The lowRISC team at Cambridge are working on exactly that. However, there's a lot that needs to be finalized in the privileged ISA before it can be implemented in a board. Manufacturing a bunch of boards that require a non-standard too
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by zhemao 11y ago
Wow, this is really great. Here at Berkeley Architecture Research and our spin-off company SiFive, we are working on finalizing version 1.9 of the privileged ISA, which includes a lot of useful features for operating system implementers. Th
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by zhemao 11y ago
Because for each new category, you would have to tag all the scenes in the movie that fall into that category in order to filter it out. I think the categories chosen are those that the MPAA use to set the content rating.
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by zhemao 11y ago
> phones in the disputed territory and partially recognised state of Kosovo may be reached by dialing the country calling code for Serbia (+381), Slovenia (+386), or Monaco (+377) Monaco? WTF? And Slovenia doesn't make much sense ei
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by zhemao 11y ago
Since it's a correlational study, I'm pretty sure all you can say is that "smart people who spend more time with their friends tend to be less happy". This could be due to any number of reasons. Either spending more time
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by zhemao 11y ago
These are not mutually exclusive possibilities. You can accept highly skilled immigrants AND improve your education system. If anything, doing the former might make it easier to do the latter, since those highly skilled immigrants will prov
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by zhemao 11y ago
Or we could recognize that young boys are naturally energetic and that this is not a bad thing. If we could teach them in a way that channels that energy instead of forcing them to sit in a chair for 6 hours a day, they might actually learn
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by zhemao 11y ago
In the age of Watson, does Jeopardy have a future?
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by zhemao 11y ago
Yeah, but is it easy to find jobs in those places? Most economic activity happens in the big cities, so most people will want to live close to those cities in order to be in a reasonable commuting distance from work. Of course, you could do
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by zhemao 11y ago
Yeah, the model-truck driver connection is a real head-scratcher. It doesn't seem like they would often be in the same social circles.
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by zhemao 11y ago
If I'm reading the viz correctly, it's actually truck drivers.
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by zhemao 11y ago
Honestly, I thought the villainous plot in Quantum of Solace was a little too realistic. Seizing control of a developing country's water supply? Isn't that a bit too old-hat and run-of-the-mill for the world's greatest crimin
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by zhemao 11y ago
Yeah, but that's no fun at all. Plus, the organ has a bunch of functions that piano keyboards don't, like two separate keyboards and pedals.
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by zhemao 11y ago
Might be referring to the fact that many Japanese women choose not to marry and have kids because it is essentially career suicide. There's a very strong cultural bias against working mothers in Japan.
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by zhemao 11y ago
I think you've mixed up some names. John Yoo is the Bush administration lawyer who co-wrote the Torture Memo. John Woo is a Hong Kong film director. The most sickening part is that Yoo is currently a professor in UC Berkeley School of
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by zhemao 11y ago
Now all we need is a Verilog to GIF compiler.
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by zhemao 11y ago
I can understand the need for compartmentalization, but why send the false information at all? Why not just send the real cable to the select few who need it, and not send anything on the regular channel?
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by zhemao 11y ago
I'm pretty sure there are better ways to learn "creativity, problem solving, strategy and tactics, self management, financial management, and leadership" than one which can get you killed or thrown in jail for the rest of you
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by zhemao 11y ago
Same-ish is not the same. That's like saying Anglo-Saxon and English mean the same thing. The distinction is important because the Persians never used that word to specifically refer to Frenchmen but rather to all western Europeans.
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by zhemao 11y ago
It means "Frank" not "French". It was originally used to describe western Europeans in general.
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by zhemao 11y ago
WTF? And just when I thought it couldn't get any crazier.
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by zhemao 11y ago
In the US, copyright lasts 70 years after the death of the creator, even if the copyright holder doesn't actively do anything with the IP. Those art assets probably just languish on some backup server. If they're not just complete
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by zhemao 11y ago
Jazz and brass band musicians refer to all wind instruments as horns. It's a colloquial term, not a technical one. If we were to go with the technical definition, trumpets and trombones wouldn't be considered horns either, because
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by zhemao 11y ago
Well, you could always give the horn player a mic. I don't really recall many big band electric guitar soloists. The only one I can think of is Charlie Christian. So I doubt volume is a major factor in the guitar's popularity over
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by zhemao 11y ago
I didn't think I'd see an article like this on HN of all places. But yeah, jazz, r&b, and rock are musical cousins and often borrow from each other. There was a discussion on /r/jazz on "Do average people (non-j
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by zhemao 11y ago
Then like doing a code review in which the reviewer is underpaid and overworked and may not have access to the full code.
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by zhemao 11y ago
There wasn't any marijuana. What they thought was marijuana were actually tea leaves.
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by zhemao 11y ago
I think the main thing is that we aren't good at distributing the gains of this increased productivity, nor are we good at training people with the skills necessary to maintain the productivity. The result is that the few people who do
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by zhemao 11y ago
There's a distinction between the RISC-V ISA and our open source processor implementations. The ISA is an open standard that anyone can make an implementation of. There are many RISC-V implementations out there. Most of them are not ba

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