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by zik 8y ago
Another language of this type was CHIP-8 [1] which was run on RCA 1802 based machines and the DREAM 6800 [2], an early Australian home computer which was built from a kit. CHIP-8 wasn't much of a language - it was really more of a simp
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by zik 8y ago
Lua's very small by today's standards but it's huge compared to the languages being discussed here. Computers like the Altair 680 discussed here only had 1KB of ROM which is orders of magnitude away from being able to support
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by zik 8y ago
Well sure, you can set up your own servers but no-one else will know about them and you won't be part of the "the DNS system" as such.
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by zik 8y ago
I know it's trendy to hate on C but most security bugs are not memory access related errors. Most are logic errors which any language is susceptible to.
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by zik 8y ago
DNS is probably a bad example here. While DNS does have federated servers in the end the entire system is controlled by whoever controls the root name servers. It's pretty much the definition of centralized control.
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by zik 8y ago
This kind of ageism isn't really visible to you unless you're the subject of it. Yes, it's real.
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by zik 8y ago
Not everyone's who's interested in decentralized trustless payment technology is a "shill". You're dismissing innovation and tarring it with greed.
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by zik 8y ago
Delay slots are generally regarded to have been a mistake since they link the ISA to the physical implementation of the processor too closely. That means you end up paying in speed and complexity for architectural choices of past processors
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by zik 8y ago
From where I live (not in the US) the US doesn't look particularly good as far as civil liberties go. Not that my country (Australia) is great either. We're just messed up in different ways.
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by zik 8y ago
> The savings are because you can use the energy generated by green sources to charge the battery if you can't use it immediately Not true. The system is used for grid stabilisation rather than large scale power storage. It doesn&#x
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by zik 8y ago
Samsung internet connected TVs monitor what's on your screen and send super low res snapshots up to their servers - just enough that they can automatically work out what you're watching. Your IP can then be cross-correlated with o
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by zik 8y ago
The new module system removes $GOPATH and the forced directory structure.
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by zik 8y ago
Earthquakes are commonplace in Japan. You don't want an older house which may be structurally compromised.
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by zik 8y ago
There are none yet. RISC-V is likely to appear in embedded and mobile devices before a full desktop machine is competitive with Intel processors.
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by zik 8y ago
Nit-pick - you mean to divide 32.768kHz by 2^15, not 2^16 to get 1 pps.
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by zik 8y ago
I thought hydrogen was the smallest gas, not helium.
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by zik 8y ago
I worked there for a while around 2000, after Interval was drastically downsized. Among other things they'd been working on a prototype "web tablet", ten years before the iPad. They did some good work there.
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by zik 8y ago
As I read it he's saying "the safety of millimeter waves needs more research" which isn't unreasonable. wifi doesn't use millimeter waves - the safety of wifi's frequency range is very well researched and has b
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by zik 8y ago
When all five body cameras "happened" to fail at the same time I don't think anyone can really doubt the malfeasance.
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by zik 8y ago
It seems only reasonable that in such cases not only are the police guilty by default of whatever they're accused of, they're also guilty of destroying evidence and should be charged accordingly.
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by zik 8y ago
Yes it looks like their security was really amateur hour stuff too, with a lot of the authentication done on the client side. This makes their claims that it was "hack-proof" look particularly embarrassing.
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by zik 8y ago
There's some disagreement over it, but it does seem likely that Lilienfeld built a working radio with his FETs. We know he drew a schematic of one and it's specific enough that it seems likely it was the result of practical experi
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by zik 8y ago
Shockley was apparently awful to work for and reportedly tried to steal the credit for Bardeen and Brattain's transistor work. All in all he doesn't seem to have been a very nice person. "He (Shockley) called both Bardeen and
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by zik 8y ago
I'm loving meson. I have around a hundred thousand lines of code building with it and it's the cleanest build system I've used yet. Much less obscure than make or cmake.
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by zik 8y ago
They seem to imply that he had buyers who would have sourced the book for him. I'm guessing that the buyers had contacts at the various publishers so they knew in advance when interesting new books were coming out.
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by zik 8y ago
I'm surprised to see no recognition of yosys, arachne-pnr and the icestorm tools which together are a free and open source HDL tool chain which already exists and is pretty widely used.
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by zik 8y ago
No, as he points out in the article even a kernel call can change the virtual address space so even two threads of the same program may leak data. There's basically no known fix except to disable hyperthreading entirely.
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by zik 8y ago
It is weird. And really this report comes down to them getting a couple of signed letters from third parties. Why do it this way rather than a normal audit?
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by zik 8y ago
That approach has (sort of) been tried before for superscalar architectures. VLIW architectures were the Next Big Thing in the early 1990s. The general idea is that the machine code explicitly told the CPU what to do with each of its execut
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by zik 8y ago
But it's claimed that it's not really a peg system at all - that Tether were fraudulently created while claiming they were pegged.

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