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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
My point exactly. They have different ISA, and as such cannot be compared on the transistor count alone. They each correspond to a different era, with different needs, as BCD clearly tells. If today's HW engineers had a chance to imple
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
> 29000 transistors? But it's the same as an ARM2 which apparently was full 32bit and had an integer multiplier. It's a very good point. I think it's worth to ask a few questions in return. How many years separated the two
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
> Does the microcode contain any "junk code" that doesn't do anything? > It seems to! While most of the unused parts of the ROM (64 instructions) are filled with zeroes, there are a few parts which aren't. The f
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
Great work!
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
Answering myself: I decided to search for SMP, which stands for Symetric Multi Processing, to verify its definition. This acronym is used for hardware sporting several identical CPUs, which is what we've seen so far in the x86 world. T
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
> Plainly named but patently cool, eFuel is a synthetic gasoline that burns exactly like the traditional stuff yet has minimal environmental impact. > But how is eFuel made? [...] the hydrogen is combined with carbon dioxide captured
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
You should probably show a confirmation box when leaving the page - if that's possible - unless that feature is disabled in demo mode?
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
Perhaps there are undisclosed security implications?
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
Wouldn't it be possible for a process to ask to be pinned to a specific CPU core, or the OS to handle programs with extra tags indicating their ISA requirements, so that it could restrict the scheduling to those cores matching the requ
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
What is it about?
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
> for example, just to add two numbers you have to shift mantissas and 6502 has no fast way to do it How much work is there to do beside shifting mantissa? (A shift is also necessary for many fixed point calculations).
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
But, wasn't the original argument discussing the merits of Bash as a shell? So you're saying that Bash is great as a shell because it's a shell?
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
so it's not Bash by itself which is great, it's POSIX shells? > they are part of POSIX (a Standard which is implemented by multiple OS) and therefore often available That's not an intrinsic property of Bash. > - you can
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
> Most of the good features that people associate with Ubuntu are actually in Debian, with none of the proprietary weirdness that creeps into Ubuntu year over year. A lot of what you find in Debian also comes from what Ubuntu does. In fa
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
The main advantage of Silverblue isn't just toolbox (which isn't originally an Ubuntu tool, btw). The main advantage of Silverblue is its readonly root fs . Toolbox comes as the provided way for devs to be able to work on top of
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
> I got tired of running `pacman -Syu`, rebooting, and having my machine not turn on due to some new kernel change or some video driver change, or something else. It never happened to me with Manjaro.
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
Well, if you generalize the statement enough, indeed it's the same class of issue. In the situation you described: * you have a fairly easy way to detect the problem * the interns still have plausible deniability as to whether they int
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
Sorry, clearly my comment wasn't very helpful. I was trying to point out that quoting parameters or not could bring a different meaning for a shell (as one could see it with Bash), with the implied consequence that one would have to ca
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
> Does anyone actually do that in a production code? Would you accept teaching code as production code? Specifically, if you were to teach programming to young non English speakers, wouldn't you accept them to use words of their nat
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
> if (uid = NULL) { // Check if root That's not the same class of error, since here a programmer can see the issue by simple inspection. > or #include anything with a #DEFINE This one perhaps is closer to the mark, al
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
This would probably be the case for any language when the script is generated.
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
> However, given its superior strength we haven't overcome it yet... "Superior strength" is probably just a matter taste, however I would really like to read your explanation on why you think so.
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
> It would be really annoying if we always had to add quotes for string args when we're typing at the terminal With bash (and I suspect with every other popular shells out there), it actually means something different. In your secon
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
> If your worry is parsing speed I am not personally worried by perf in either case, but I see your point. > It would take Internet Object years to develop parsers as performant as that Well, implementing a JSON parser is arguably dif
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
Would this be the same cost if it were a point release (or service pack, what's the proper terminology in MS world?) rather than a major version release?
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
How much does it cost when you already have Windows 10?
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
> Plus, as I wrote elsewhere, gzipping your JSON will result in essentially "avoiding having to repeat every field name" by dictionary coding it. Gzipping indeed helps in getting mostly back the space taken by the field names,
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
> There is no robot hand in the world that can do that simple task. Is the technology dealing with interfacing with the brain good enough, even if on the arm side it's not?
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
In essence, it works like a catalyst?
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by fstrthnscnd 5y ago
Just "Passive-aggressive, drive-by internet comments" would suffice.

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