kc5tja

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by kc5tja 10y ago
In what way is RISC (a horizontal encoding designed to be efficient to decode) different from a 118-bit uop (a horizontal encoding of microarchitectural to-dos in subsequent pipeline stages)? If you can explain without adding yet another s
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by kc5tja 10y ago
I'd like to try my hand at building my own iCE40-based motherboard for the Kestrel some day, but something like that would be at least two to three years into the future minimum, especially at my current rate of progress working solo.
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by kc5tja 10y ago
No, it went out of stock after I'd put the site up. I'll remove the link (or find an alternative to something that describes what the Nexys-2 is) when I go to update docs. I have not selected a replacement board yet (since my Nex
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by kc5tja 10y ago
I tried to port Oberon, but was not yet successful in getting the compiler fully debugged. I also need to finish the system image linker so I can generate bootable images. For this reason, I pushed ahead with putting Forth in firmware. Ho
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by kc5tja 10y ago
Kestrel-3 is software emulation only at this point. However, after making some last minute touches to the system firmware (a dialect of eForth for both simplicity and hackability), I will switch over to working on Verilog. I already have
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by kc5tja 10y ago
That's the plan.
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by kc5tja 10y ago
I'm planning on using a soft-core processor because FPGA dev boards are plentiful and relatively inexpensive. My plans are to await silicon from LowRISC project before considering real glass.
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by kc5tja 10y ago
Yes, Kestrel-4 (at least as documented on that page) is an April Fools joke. :)
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by kc5tja 13y ago
Oh, I'm thick! I see what's happening now! The problem is it doesn't produce any gain in clarity for the purposes I'm using it for. I think for the acceptance tests, it's use is fine. I can see if it were part of
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by kc5tja 13y ago
Goodness, I'm confused. I'm going to need a lot of time to digest this. That said, much discussion about ideal way of writing Gophercloud happened on the #go-nuts IRC channel, and nobody objected to what I have now as being unid
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by kc5tja 13y ago
Both Erlang and Go's concurrency models are strongly influenced by Hoare's work in Communicating Sequential Processes. That certainly qualifies. You appear to be interpreting "some attributes" as a deep-dive analysis i
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by kc5tja 13y ago
I'd also like to point out that having a base-line level of functionality often allows for domain-specific extensions to be written, either as adjunct libraries (c.f., libcloud and rackspace-monitoring libraries for Python), or as inte
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by kc5tja 13y ago
I reached out to the gcloud team by opening a Github issue making them aware of Gophercloud's URL. I'd love to see more contributors to Gophercloud. So far, though, haven't heard anything back. We're currently ahead of
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by kc5tja 13y ago
That's a positive for Ruby only when you're not running on a cloud server, or when you are cost-conscious about the amount of electricity you're sucking in a data center somewhere. That being said, that Ruby is 10x slower tha
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by kc5tja 13y ago
If I may ask, how long ago was this? Thanks.
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by kc5tja 13y ago
I have to go through several levels to do that, but I'll try. :) Just a head's up though -- I'm considering migrating the repository to the github.com/rackerlabs organization within a week or so, for consistency with other, more officially
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by kc5tja 13y ago
While Gorax isn't on the "official" list of bindings supported, I'm taking it upon myself, as a Racker and Go enthusiast, to maintain the Gorax project. Please see the project page at github.com/racker/gorax. Thanks!
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by kc5tja 13y ago
Hello; Sam Falvo here, a Rackspace quality engineer. I'm working on the Gorax project to offer Go bindings to Rackspace's APIs. I encourage you to watch the github.com/racker/gorax project to remain informed of updates. Progress is kind o
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by kc5tja 14y ago
Ahh, remember back in the good old days when programs had .PRG extensions or file-types? Nobody cared what language a program was written in back then either, as long as it just worked. Computers and programming don't have to be so complic
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by kc5tja 15y ago
Correct definition of 'cat' -- a tool to concatenate one or more files sequentially into a single output stream. E.g., cat file1 file2 file3 >output-file what is wrong with... -- "grep word file" takes fewer keys to type and uses fewer
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by kc5tja 15y ago
It's Google's service, it's Google's web-spiders, and it's Google's attempt to deliver useful content to their own customers. How is it NOT in Google's interest to police the links they present to visitors of Google's own properties? If
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by kc5tja 15y ago
That's more of a standard tool, not a standard library. Rather, a library is a collection of reusable components. A Standard Library, then, are pre-equipped collections of reusable components. Here, we define "reusable" as invokable from
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by kc5tja 15y ago
To prove a point.
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by kc5tja 18y ago
I don't believe this effect is restricted to the computer-related industries. I distinctly remember there being some rather vicious altercations between artists, particularly during the Renaissance period, over whose style was better. What
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by kc5tja 18y ago
What are the stakes, why are they low, and what can be done to elevate them?
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by kc5tja 18y ago
"I am getting really sick of people ragging on TV." I would suggest getting a bucket then. "Have you been watching TV lately?" Have you observed the people who regularly watch TV? As a general rule, people know far more about what diet pla
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by kc5tja 18y ago
Learning to sit seiza will obsolete this solution.
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by kc5tja 18y ago
"Excercising my freedom does not give me the right to take away someone elses freedom." Nonetheless, in this hypothetical situation, you failed in your quest to lay Megan. Therefore, by your own words, it is your own fault. This myth
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by kc5tja 18y ago
An excellent post. I'm finding this is increasingly a problem too. I often find my greatest productivity in coding comes when there is a power outage. Not only am I forced to not browse the Internet, I'm just plain forced to NOT use a co
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by kc5tja 19y ago
The point is that philosophy is not about getting a claim and considering it substantial to eliminate other probabilities. But this is precisely what PG identified as being wrong with philosophy as it is currently taught. Metaphysics i

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