ghettoimp

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by ghettoimp 3y ago
This is blatant misinformation. "Penalties in this section do not apply to users of tiktok" https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2023/billpdf/SB0419.pdf
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by ghettoimp 3y ago
Woah. I can't believe this is still online!
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by ghettoimp 4y ago
How do we know this is a "shameful misrepresentation" until we see how it pans out?
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by ghettoimp 4y ago
The depositors did nothing here but put their own money in a bank account? What possible nefarious motive are you implying?
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by ghettoimp 4y ago
This is a superpower during refactoring.
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by ghettoimp 4y ago
Binning is definitely a possibility. Separately from binning, there are often just features that don't work right and get disabled with "chicken switches" or "feature enable bits." Any two-ANE design would have a lo
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by ghettoimp 4y ago
Counter-opinion: industry simply has no plausible alternative to Verilog/SystemVerilog and succeeds in producing chips only in spite of the language's glaring flaws. I worked for several years at a world class company verifying CP
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by ghettoimp 5y ago
Is AMZN stock really flat? Looks close to 4x its price from 5 years ago.
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by ghettoimp 5y ago
FWIW -- A later, vaguely related project was Jitawa[1]. Its Lisp dialect was not as fancy as VLISPs, but its verification was much more thorough (machine checked proofs down to the X86 code for the runtime.) Today, ongoing, CakeML[2] extend
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by ghettoimp 5y ago
Uh. The US is suffering another 9/11 every few days. In huge parts of the country, life is nowhere near normal. That's what they beat, and God willing will beat again.
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by ghettoimp 5y ago
Maybe the magic is just the discipline to somehow keep tuning and optimizing everything across the chip. Year after year they release another power-sipping design with another 10-20% performance. It's not a sudden tsunami, but an eve
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by ghettoimp 5y ago
Ugh. Truly an abomination.
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
It does seem like TSMC has strong leverage since it would take Apple a lot of time and work to move to a competitor. On the other hand, the incentives seem pretty well aligned. TSMC presumably makes a lot of money when Apple is successful
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
If it can emulate x86, is there really a motivation for developers to switch to ARM? (I don't have an M1 and don't really know what it's like to compile stuff and deploy it to "the cloud.")
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
For other ARM manufacturers, I wonder how much of this is a software problem. I mean, what would the market be for a super-fast ARM laptop/desktop machine? It would run Windows RT, I guess? How much better than Intel/AMD would th
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
I'm a free software fan, but I don't see that open source matters here. How do you know the machine is running the program whose source code you're looking at, instead of some other program that looks superficially like it? I
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
Yep, these new machines seem really good. I heard (discussions with folks online) that in other parts of the state they are still using the older machines, which the voter just has to trust to record their selections correctly. I think I&#
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
How do they get the ram into the SoC? Is it like a massive die?
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
I think "fast, cheap, good, pick 2" applies. Obviously the current bloated, ad-laden state of the web is pretty horrible and indefensible. But if we can keep making compute faster, it should ultimately save programmer time, whic
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
It really is a beautiful program, in its own way.
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
The dimensions that you are scored on are fixed ahead of time and haven't changed in years. The individual goals are set in this year's review, evaluated in next year's review.
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
Sure -- once per year: - Write up self review. 1-2 pages to highlight what you worked on and accomplished, who you helped, why it matters. Score yourself on various dimensions of how good of a job you are doing (working with others, getti
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
I've been at $megacorp for a few years. We just completed yet another formal, annual review. It would be easy for me to look at the process and say it is needlessly structured, time consuming, and has never had any surprises. That sa
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
There's a pretty in-depth video analyzing the motivations and perceived strategic benefits here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgEKDGNjqsk I'm not sure he's entirely right, but I found it pretty compelling,
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
It would probably start to depend on the person. If you live in New Zealand where covid has been eradicated, then why risk it. If you are a front-line medical worker in Georgia, you probably want the vaccine. Somewhere in the middle thing
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
I stayed away from twitter until about a month ago when boredom set in. I found it utterly fascinating during the BLM protests. It's amazing to be able to follow political leaders and journalists and see the evolving discussion. But
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
I probably just don't use it enough to understand this perspective, but why is it a toxic wasteland? My facebook feed has my friends from college, family far away, etc., and yeah there's an occasional political argument from time
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
I really wish there were consistent title-bars. Windows 95 nailed this. It's really nice to immediately know where to click to move something out of your way.
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
Hrmn. Wouldn't this be leaving out android and windows? It might be practical for some apps, but that's an awful lot of users.
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by ghettoimp 6y ago
Would Intel be able to use patents to prevent them from doing x86 emulation?

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