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by shash 17d ago
It’s not like GC isn’t a massive part of RVA23 - those are the basic instructions that handle 80-90% of all uses (including most of what CPython needs). I’m sure one could do some optimizations on RVA23, but is it really worth it?
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by shash 18d ago
We ran it 4 years ago (including numpy) and it wasn’t a massive uphill climb or anything. It’s gotten a little easier since then if anything.
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by shash 18d ago
For RISC-V that would functionally be RV64GC then. And you go incrementally from there as required.
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by shash 24d ago
It’s more about failure. It’s right there on top.
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by shash 24d ago
And industrial accident investigation (except the ones with low regulation or whatever). And market or supply chain collapse, and civilization collapse (late Bronze Age anyone?)
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by shash 24d ago
I think, part of the point is that it’s not possible to have a recipe to prevent failures. They are cascades of many events coming together to fail in an a priori non obvious way. Or so I read the [site? article?]
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by shash 2mo ago
Again, depends… I have appreciated my seniors’ notes in some textbooks - especially where the book itself isn’t clear.
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by shash 2mo ago
Learning and figuring out the meter and rhythm of a new passage? If you don’t have someone who knows to chant it for you… Besides, it’s a fun exercise, so why not?
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by shash 2mo ago
Wealth is not finite, but it does have to obey physical limits and real world implications. If person A takes a piece of lumber and carves it into a dresser, and person B, seeing that, buys up lower quality lumber that cannot become a dre
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by shash 2mo ago
Of course. But, 1. So are most other encyclopaedias, and most don’t even give you references or citations for an article 2. We are literally decades from that point now. Surely you must agree that times have changed.
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by shash 2mo ago
TBH, "Don't trust anything on Wikipedia" was always just stuck up posturing. Plenty of badly sourced, badly edited and biased articles in regular encyclopedias too, but because Wikipedia is contributed to by the unwashed mass
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by shash 2mo ago
These were big in India until the mid-90s. I recall one book of "tales from the Baltic states" which we had at home. There were others, but I can't remember the titles very well. And for stuff coming from the Soviet era, they
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by shash 2mo ago
But all of those things are an agreement with consideration; a "license" is a permission to use some property. If not a patent, what is the "thing" that the farmer is licensing from the company. It's fine to say &
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by shash 3mo ago
What I don’t understand is, _how_ it doesn’t depend on a patent right. How do you license something that doesn’t depend on a licensable right? If it isn’t a patent right, exactly _what_ is he purchasing a license to? If it’s purely an agree
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by shash 3mo ago
Comparing nodes across foundries is a kind of a coin toss. At least, from the name. You actually need to go into the specifics of the pdk and process to understand what features there are. Can’t rely on the name for anything.
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by shash 3mo ago
Correction: it’s not stacking. They do things like FinFET (turning the gates in the third dimension) and gate-all-around which increases the density of transistors per unit area. But they don’t have layers of transistors. At least in the lo
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by shash 5mo ago
It’s not merely a “gaming vs data center“. There’s so many other places DRAM and NVM are needed - mobile, automotive, other consumer electronics,… the current situation is that _all_ of that is deprived of the memory that it needs. And much
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by shash 5mo ago
Yes. It provides a prior for Bayesian analysis if nothing else.
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by shash 5mo ago
Yes, actually. This is similar to having a 100 year flood five years in a row. It doesn’t mean that the flood occurs only once in 100 years. _On average_ it’s 1/100 probability of occurring in any given year. But then, Apollo 1 was aft
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by shash 5mo ago
Of course they didn’t. The delta-v needed to land the rockets is better expended in pushing the craft further. Reusable rockets isn’t always the best choice.
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by shash 5mo ago
Is 12 enough of a sample size to make a statistical judgement? What if there were 20 more which didn’t have a loss of life? Is it then 1/30? What if there were 20 more? The risk factor is calculated _per mission_ from what I understand
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by shash 5mo ago
How are you/they instructing those agents? If you are writing detailed spec.md and reviewing those results, you are _still_ programming. Just in pseudocode effectively. I’ve seen enough session transcripts and detailed prompts that wou
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by shash 5mo ago
Remember that the defender has home team advantage. That’s precisely what you see happening both in Iran and Ukraine. That advantage exists with Taiwan. There’s a reason that China hasn’t made a move in all these years, and the US is only o
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by shash 5mo ago
That analysis requires discovering what the US’s objectives were. Not sure we can…
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by shash 6mo ago
The key here is “could be”. But most four (or in my case, six) year olds can’t really grasp the abstract concepts of what JWST is or the data it’s sending back. For that matter most 40 year olds can’t. A manned mission on the other hand is
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by shash 6mo ago
They’ve changed it so III isn’t landing. That will be IV apparently.
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by shash 7mo ago
Hi, CEO of Mindgrove here! Good to see that we're being noticed. But we all still need to deploy (in scale) to make anything worthwhile.
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by shash 7mo ago
> The name, yes, but going by name is a bad idea as the V in AVX also stands for Vector. Now I get your point after reading more of the linked page. Yes. It is very implementation specific. One of the things about RVV (and in general any
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by shash 7mo ago
As sibling said, stripped down in the sense it doesn’t have dedicated registers. In terms of supported functions it’s somewhere close to MMX. I don’t personally like it because it still ends up with all the headache of building most of a ve
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by shash 7mo ago
It _is_ RISC-V Vector extensions, so a very specific ISA in mind at the very least. There's another extension (not ratified I think) called Packed SIMD for RISC-V, but this isn't about that.

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