dmpk2k

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by dmpk2k 8d ago
Likewise. I'm only interested in books that were either published before 2024, or are by authors I respect (e.g. Patterson & Hennessy), or by respectable academic publishers (e.g. Cambridge University Press). I used not to be so pi
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by dmpk2k 2mo ago
It's a JIT nowadays. Admittedly an extremely simple one, to minimize compile times and maintenance overhead. You can get substantial performance improvements by using guards though. See what Wings3D does with is_float() everywhere in h
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by dmpk2k 2mo ago
Maybe it's just a regional thing, but it's showing 78 euros for the paperback for me. Plus I bought the paperback recently at that price too.
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by dmpk2k 2mo ago
You can get it direct from Elsevier for ~78 euros: https://shop.elsevier.com/books/risc-v-system-on-chip-design...
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by dmpk2k 3mo ago
You're right, and yet it's also true that existing institutions have ossified. There is immense inertia.
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by dmpk2k 3mo ago
You're right that a lot of material really does require a physical book. Anything even remotely technical. That said, I would argue that a voice actor is far more significant than page formatting when it comes to novels. A good voice
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by dmpk2k 3mo ago
The same Oman Trump was recently threatening to blow up? Heh.
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by dmpk2k 4mo ago
It's weird for physicists to complain about nuclear weapons. They did it. Own it.
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by dmpk2k 4mo ago
For all its faults, you won’t get a rug-pull like this with OSS CAD Suite and something like the ECP5, especially as a hobbyist.
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by dmpk2k 4mo ago
Embedded developers often suffer under archaic toolchains. There's plenty of reasons for that, but one of them is UB: a newer version of the compiler can completely change an embedded program's behaviour.
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by dmpk2k 4mo ago
I find your emotional language truly quite fascinating. I've heard people talk like that about drugs.
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by dmpk2k 6mo ago
While true (beyond 30-50km/h), that assumes that cars are driving at a steady state. Obviously, cities with much more stop-and-go require more revving of engines. Acoustic tyres are also gradually becoming the norm, primarily with EVs.
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by dmpk2k 6mo ago
Huh, you're right. Apparently it's still considered experimental (even though Google uses it in production) so it's not in the User Manual. There's this: https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/m
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by dmpk2k 7mo ago
Vaguely related, but have you tried Alive? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rheller....
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by dmpk2k 8mo ago
> There's essentially no reason to prefer the aligned load/store commands over the unaligned ones - if the actual pointer is unaligned it will function correctly at half the throughput Getting a fault instead of half the perfor
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by dmpk2k 8mo ago
The only decent Prolog book out there, IMNSHO, is "Clause and Effect" by Clocksin. Maybe some of the later chapters might help? All the other books that I looked at were pretty awful, including the usual recommendations.
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by dmpk2k 9mo ago
wistia.com
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by dmpk2k 9mo ago
You're probably aware of it, but if not: Uiua is much easier to understand in this regard.
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by dmpk2k 9mo ago
They added arenas to SBCL recently. SBCL has a moving GC, and the Common Lisp spec was finalized in the 1990s. Okay, this is just Lisp being Lisp, but it's still an example...
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by dmpk2k 10mo ago
I suppose there are worse things than my scribblings sounding like a late-night kitchen gizmo ad. :)
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by dmpk2k 10mo ago
Similar with Babylon 5, although the CG has not aged as well.
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by dmpk2k 10mo ago
That is how attrition war works. Until it doesn’t.
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by dmpk2k 10mo ago
> Some people don't, evidently. Other people do. I like how this can be interpreted two ways, depending on whether you place loved ones above governance, or vice versa.
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by dmpk2k 10mo ago
Pikuma.com has a good one.
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by dmpk2k 10mo ago
Both can be true: over-regulation and bad regulation. And the West (especially the EU) is arguably suffering from both to various degrees. At some point a regulation is no longer worth the weight in the overhead it imposes. Even if all regu
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by dmpk2k 10mo ago
Doing is a far better way to learn than just reading.
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by dmpk2k 10mo ago
Could you elaborate on the model checking? You have two codebases then (model and C), or something more integrated?
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by dmpk2k 10mo ago
It is slower, but a big cause of the slowness is a lot of copying (immutable data structures and separate heaps for every process). Nowadays the BEAM has a JIT. If you use type guards correctly the performance can be surprisingly good. Not
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by dmpk2k 10mo ago
Crappy GC for most of them, but... fair point.
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by dmpk2k 10mo ago
Maybe it's post-hoc? I wanted to use OCaml since 2002, since it was a GC'd language with good performance, achieving a lot with relatively few lines of code. Being a language nerd, I was (am?) positively inclined to the language.

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