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by solarexplorer 15d ago
Here is another one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_(text_editor) I have used both editors quite a bit and did like both of them.
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by solarexplorer 7mo ago
What you describe sounds counter-intuitive. And the paper you cite seems to suggest an ISA extension to increase the number architected (!) registers. That is something very different. It makes most sense in VLIW architectures, like the one
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by solarexplorer 8mo ago
Have they? Netflix, Spotify, Kindle, ...
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by solarexplorer 8mo ago
I don't know. I use a lot of Swift and C++ and while both are OK languages there is an absurd amount of complexity in these languages that doesn't seem to serve any real purpose. Just a lot of foot traps, really. Coming back to Pl
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by solarexplorer 8mo ago
> Propane gas tanks became registered products I still remember the two gentlemen in their black, faux leather jackets who rang our doorbell and demanded to see our dinghy. (dinghies where registered products too) We showed them our ding
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by solarexplorer 10mo ago
Yes, I think the conclusion was that it did improve performance on binaries that were not compiled with optimizations, but didn't generate enough gains on optimized binaries to set of the cost of re-compilation. https://dl.a
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by solarexplorer 1y ago
That they will invest 10$ in OpenAI for each W of NVIDIA chips that is deployed? EDIT: In steps of 1GW it seems.
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by solarexplorer 1y ago
Yes, gentrification is a thing around here too, but I also lived in the outskirts of the city and you don't need a car there either. They also have all the essentials. The fancy restaurants and theaters are 30min metro/bus away, b
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by solarexplorer 1y ago
It really depends on the city/quarter where you live. I live in the center of Barcelona and had no problems with two small kids at all. Supermarkets, real farmer's markets, hospitals, pharmacies, schools, etc are all within 10min
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by solarexplorer 1y ago
> They are the gatekeeper to one thing: their own app store. They also control the OS and don't allow side-loading or other app stores (without putting absurd obstacles in the way) So in the end they completely control the devices t
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by solarexplorer 1y ago
Good call, thanks for clarifying!
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by solarexplorer 1y ago
I would assume that "lightweight" in this case means that they share a single Linux kernel. Or that there is an emulation layer that maps the Linux Kernel API to macOS. In any case, I don't think that they are running a Linux
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by solarexplorer 1y ago
This is not a good article and the content doesn't support the claim in the title. It talks about memory latency and how it negatively affects instruction level parallelism, but doesn't offer any solution or advice, except for off
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by solarexplorer 1y ago
Yes, in theory you can pause at any point, but in practice it is not that easy to stop. I remember not hearing the boarding call and losing a flight while reading La fiesta del chivo…
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by solarexplorer 1y ago
More details here: https://archive.ph/vabvA (Spanish)
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by solarexplorer 1y ago
There is also the first object in space. But this was arguably no commercial launch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MW_18014
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by solarexplorer 2y ago
I don't have any numbers, but I think this is still pretty common. On iOS for example Alamofire which is a popular network stack, still offers this as a feature. I think the use case is a bit different for apps and web sites, especiall
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by solarexplorer 2y ago
IIRC it also introduced index based addressing. Before that, people just wrote self modifying code to index arrays...
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by solarexplorer 2y ago
Maybe some kind of snapshot feature, where you can just load an snapshot of the already initialized state?
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by solarexplorer 2y ago
If I understand correctly, the AI is only choosing the optimization passes and their relative order. Each individual optimization step would still be designed and verified manually, and maybe even proven to be correct mathematically.
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by solarexplorer 3y ago
Very nice! Thanks for sharing! Getting to the point where you can run other people’s code is a great achievement! I have one question: Did you really implement this in Python? Why not C++ or Rust?
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Can $500M Save This Glacier?(nytimes.com)
3 points by solarexplorer 3y ago|0 comments
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by solarexplorer 3y ago
MIPS for example has this. It has `addu` for normal integer addition that does not trap and `add` if you want to trap on overflows.
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by solarexplorer 4y ago
IIRC you don‘t have to do 16 trips in four months. If do fewer trips, you have to pay 10€ once (or 20€ for the mid range trips). That is still a considerable discount.
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by solarexplorer 4y ago
We do have these architectures already in the embedded space and as DSPs. I suppose, they would be interesting for supercomputers as well. But for general purpose CPUs they would be a difficult sell. Since the memory size and latency would
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by solarexplorer 4y ago
In the same section the part about the SiFive optimization is also misleading. The goal of the optimization is obviously to avoid interrupting the instruction fetch. But he makes it sound like the goal was to reduce instruction count by fus
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by solarexplorer 5y ago
I like to remap Caps Lock to Control to get a similar layout as the old Sun keyboards. It also makes pressing the Control key a lot easier.
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by solarexplorer 5y ago
I wonder if RISC-V has a standard way to handle these custom instructions. Is there an easy way to trap these custom instructions and emulate them in software, or is there something like CPUID, or do you just don't distribute the binar
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by solarexplorer 5y ago
Or you could just use React Native and push new features directly to the app...
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by solarexplorer 5y ago
I have seen this a lot, am I the only one who thinks that this is ugly? Crafting a protocol after the fact to match some class' interface (and then put an empty extension) seems just wrong. I very much prefer to pass simple types aroun

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