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by zik 4y ago
I've worked with RTEMS a bit and it's quite an impressive system. It's a shame it isn't better known.
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by zik 4y ago
It's one of the fundamental techniques that allows high end processors to run fast. If you're happy with a desktop processor that runs at the speed of decades-old processors maybe you don't need it.
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by zik 4y ago
I can see his point but it seems to rely on redefining what the term "API" means. You could as well say "The Windows API isn't just .NET - it's Win32 and a whole lot of other things". Which is kind of true, but
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by zik 4y ago
It wasn't even a centralised coin. There was no coin at all - it was just a scam.
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by zik 4y ago
Well that just seems crazy if your state's turning into a desert. What are the arguments against it?
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by zik 4y ago
I like the black background. It reminds me of the old days, running MS BASIC on an original 8086 PC.
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by zik 4y ago
I just took it as straight up racist / xenophobic. I feel sad for any Parisians who read this article. But on the other hand maybe it's just a narcissistic attempt at dropping that he's so important that he has a therapist in
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by zik 4y ago
Can you make it so it doesn't let you type out a detailed question and then clear it and tell you it's rate limited?
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by zik 4y ago
Nuclear waste disposal is normally outsourced to specialist companies. It turns out that many of those companies have been illegally dumping it in the ocean near Africa. In the last decade or so it's been washing ashore and causing hug
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by zik 5y ago
I've implemented RISC-V in verilog for fun and it has a parallel decoder. The ISA's cleverly designed to make it pretty easy. Honestly it was no big deal.
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by zik 5y ago
The problem is that those criticisms are almost always wrong. For instance the ARM proponents criticise RISC-V for having long instruction encodings and then they quote a few carefully cherry picked examples. But if you look at actual compi
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by zik 5y ago
I think this falls into the category of articles where the author makes an eye-catching assertion in the title to pull you in and then totally fails to justify it other than by ranting about some personal gripe he has.
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by zik 5y ago
Yeah that was my first thought too. That motor isn't going to be happy running flat out for very long.
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by zik 5y ago
goroutines aren't really green threads, they're more lightweight than conventional green thread implementations due to having a segmented stack. Millions of goroutines can run comfortably on a standard machine. This isn't pos
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by zik 5y ago
One of the more enjoyable aspects of riding a bike is the direct connection you have between your legs and your motion. Many e-bikes just add power to whatever you're doing but the more premium e-bikes often use the Bosch system which
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by zik 5y ago
I had a Toshiba T1200 way back. It was the successor to the T1100 with a slightly faster 80C86 processor, more memory and a 20MB hard disk. It was awesome in its day.
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Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use? An Experiment(arxiv.org)
4 points by zik 5y ago|0 comments
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by zik 5y ago
GMP is basically a worst-case example since it uses a lot of overflow. The RISC-V architecture has been extensively studies and for most cases it's a little more dense than (say) ARM when compared like-for-like.
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by zik 5y ago
Yes, AmigaOS was built around a multi-tasking kernel. It was a pretty advanced OS for its day.
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by zik 5y ago
I have a pixel phone myself and know four other people with them and they've all been perfectly reliable. Not a single issue.
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by zik 5y ago
I'd love to see someone do a serious desktop RISC-V processor.
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by zik 5y ago
It's being done differently in Victoria. We can link our vaccination certificate to the Services Vic app and it's displayed as a QR code when we check in.
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by zik 5y ago
Mask wearing was common in some Asian countries at certain times of the year even before this so it doesn't necessarily need to end at all. It all comes down to what level of hygeine you want to pursue.
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by zik 5y ago
...except that it's also used by companies from every other country as well. It's more of a slush-bucket "everything goes here" TLD than anything.
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by zik 5y ago
The article says that it couldn't have been in autopilot because autopilot requires lane markings for it to be activated and that area has no lane markings. It's nothing to do with software versions.
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by zik 6y ago
It can't. I don't think he know what he's talking about. Also saying it's like "a mediocre 90s design" is pure bias. It's a nice modern design.
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by zik 6y ago
Cash transactions over 10,000 lakh are illegal in India [1]. Spain, France and Greece have all recently introduced limits [2]. Germany [3] has tried to introduce similar limits but have failed (so far). Australia's introducing a limit
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by zik 6y ago
If electricity became less available the mining rate of Bitcoin would automatically adjust to the scarcity of available computation - it's not like there's a specified amount of electricity that has to be used per transaction.
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by zik 6y ago
With cash you can hand it to another person in payment. With conventional digital payments you request a trusted intermediary (your bank) to transfer that value to them. What if you don't trust banks but still want to be able to pay pe
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by zik 6y ago
The value of cash dollars changes all the time. You just don't notice it because you pay for everything in the same dollar denomination. But when everything gets more expensive year by year that's your dollar devaluing. CPI is one

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