hawflakes

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by hawflakes 8mo ago
I tried it out and it has some issues with my native speech. I grew up with more Taiwan mandarin but I know the Beijing standard and the recognizer was flagging some of my utterances incorrectly.
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by hawflakes 1y ago
Funny enough when Intel and DEC settled their lawsuit Intel got StrongARM[1] from DEC which was pretty fast for its time. It was a pretty cool, literally, chip that didn't need a heatsink. I had a Shark set-top appliance prototype. The
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by hawflakes 1y ago
The hardware folks at HP were big into the outdoors. The story went that it was named Halfdome but customers outside the US who weren't familiar with Yosemite would ask where the other half was. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by hawflakes 1y ago
Did the PA-RISC shops run their old PA-RISC code with the Aries emulator? One of the selling points for HP users was running old code via dynamic translation and x86 would just work on the hardware directly. Another fun fact I remember from
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by hawflakes 1y ago
I lost track of it but HP, as co-architects, had its own compiler team working on it. I think SGI also had efforts to target ia64 as well. But the EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing) didn't really catch on. VLIW would need
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by hawflakes 1y ago
Itanium was compatible with x86. In fact, it booted into x86 mode. Merced, the first implementation had a part of the chip called the IVE, Intel Value Engine, that implemented x86 very slowly. You would boot in x86 mode and run some code to
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by hawflakes 1y ago
Having briefly worked at HP on the IA64 effort IIRC the PA-RISC chips fabbed at Intel were the side-effect of the Itanium agreement. HP was owed a certain volume of chips and since Merced was very delayed they had to make those chips for HP
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by hawflakes 1y ago
Not to detract form your point, but Itanium's design was to address the code compatibility between generations. You could have code optimized for a wider chip run on a narrower chip because of the stop bits. The compiler still needs to
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by hawflakes 1y ago
I find it somewhat ironic that many years ago HP’s PA-RISC chips were fabbed at Intel because contractually they had to supply chips due Itanium not yet taping out. But maybe it was more of an early foreshadowing. I had a housemate that wor
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by hawflakes 1y ago
It’s in the Jargon file. Your comment made me remember this bit: Hackers at HP/Apollo (the former Apollo Computers which was swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard to complain that Mr. Packard should have pushed to have his name firs
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by hawflakes 1y ago
Minor nit. Compound pinyin words shouldn’t use StudlyCaps so it should be “Lujiazui”
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by hawflakes 2y ago
Both DEC and HP were pushing for NT. (I interned at dec and worked briefly at HP while both were still pushing Alpha and PA) HP foodnote: HP had this vision of NT at the desktop and HP/UX server iron. Folks preferred Solaris over HP&#x
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by hawflakes 2y ago
Iirc MIPS was on the installation CD and possibly what the team used. There was also a pa-risc port that never shipped… https://www.osnews.com/story/139479/windows-nt-and-netware-o...
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by hawflakes 2y ago
DEC made fx!32 to allow x86 emulation on alpha only. They didn’t tackle ppc or mips. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32
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by hawflakes 3y ago
Cell used the PowerPC isa as did the Xbox 360. Both were designed in the same IBM facility but separated by a floor. IIRC the Xbox team indirectly learned from the Cell team's mistakes at the process/microarch level. Cell was defi
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by hawflakes 3y ago
I don't remember if the parent article mentioned it but there were also a bunch of things like the predicate bits for predicated execution and I remember trying to gain an advantage using speculative loads was also very tricky. In the
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by hawflakes 3y ago
> Itanium is designed for a machine with three execution units and each instruction pack has up to three instructions, one for each of them. The design was that each bundle had some extra bits including a stop which was a sort of barrie
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by hawflakes 3y ago
I was at HP pre-Merced tape-out and HP did have a number of simulators available. I worked on a compiler-related team so we were downstream. As for running linux in 32-bit compatibility mode, wasn't that the worst of all worlds on Merc
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by hawflakes 3y ago
飯糰 also come in a Shanghainese variety (粢飯）. They're long and stuffed with a deep fried dough stick 油條, the pork floss, and sugar. As well as a savory variety with mustard greens 榨菜. Seems like the Taiwanese version is fusion of both C
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by hawflakes 3y ago
Had fun browsing there twenty years ago after a fellow older tinkerer told me about it. I once managed to get a motherboard for cheap to replace my friend’s “server” that was hosting his homepage over his very fast at the time 768kbps DSL c
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by hawflakes 3y ago
I just upgraded one of my dietpi systems and it has switched to systemd. So far for my light duty it's stayed up.
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by hawflakes 3y ago
Wow. I remember a different Xblast. This was a multiplayer Bomberman clone: https://xblast.sourceforge.net
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by hawflakes 3y ago
Yes, it did if you're not a mandarin speaker. The simplification process was biased towards Mandarin and there are some words that were merged that have different pronunciations in Cantonese but not in Mandarin.
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by hawflakes 4y ago
Curious to read the book when it's out. I did work on some IA-64 software some time ago before Merced taped out so I'm interested!
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by hawflakes 4y ago
People have mentioned the Dynamo project from HP. But I think you're actually thinking of the Aries project (I worked in a directly adjacent project) that allowed you to run PA-RISC binaries on IA-64. https://nixdoc.net&#x2F
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by hawflakes 4y ago
It's pretty expensive to do a rebuild in SF. But if sells for $599k you'll have a sure bet they'll do a down to the bones remodel.
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by hawflakes 4y ago
19th avenue is a pretty busy street. Also given that there are tenants it's likely under rent control given the age of the house (apartments built after 1979 are exempted? https://sftu.org/rent-control/ ) I grew u
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by hawflakes 4y ago
Fun stuff! I'm wondering where the updated source for SIMBL is kept. I know the author and he was surprised that people have continued to build on it!
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by hawflakes 4y ago
Doesn't seem like she was an "IT admin." According to the article she was, "director of finance for its emergency medicine department"
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by hawflakes 5y ago
> enum case with parameters Ah, this is a language feature of enums in Swift. Swift enums allow you to keep associated values with a specific case and you need to unpack them with a `let` when dealing with that value. E.g. enum Anima

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