TimSchumann

Joined 15 years ago

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Who are you, and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith, and I'm a locksmith.

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Comment · 5 months ago
I believe in the latest (possibly two latest?) releases of Zig you have the option to build a self hosted compiler.
Comment · 9 months ago
This reads like it was written using a prompt.
Comment · 1 year ago
It helps when you never question if, as in his own essay describing other ‘bad writers’ weaving falsehoods, you’re the one lying to yourself.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’d argue that ‘a bunch of additional code’ to solve for memory safety is exactly what you’re doing in the ‘defining memory safety away’ example with Rust or Swift.

It’s just code you didn’t write and thus likely don’t understand as well.

This can potentially lead to performance and/or control flow issues that get incredibly difficult to debug.

Comment · 1 year ago
It could be a time based clause. Nebula exclusive for two weeks prior to any other upload, etc
Comment · 1 year ago
IIRC Nebula has an exclusivity clause in their contract not allowing content creators to upload to other platforms, though I could be thinking of CuriosityStream.
Comment · 1 year ago
Didn’t know the people behind the mp3 format were into tooling for metalworking. Guess it makes sense, it involves a practical application for use of sound, and they are a research institution.

I wonder if the metal can hear the difference if it’s not the full 192 kHz.

Comment · 1 year ago
They shine through my windows at night and are truly horrific.

They’re down the entire alleyway behind my place, and a walk to the grocery store at 7pm during the winter makes your body and mind think it’s sunrise.

Comment · 1 year ago
Listen more than you speak.
Comment · 1 year ago
Please retain council.
Comment · 1 year ago
Adding together all the different standards/feature sets a chip supports and then aggregating the bandwidth into a single number is actually a very reasonable way to arrive at an approximation for total chip computational throughput.

Ultimately, unless the chip architecture is oversubscribed or overloaded (unsure what the right term is), the features are all meant to be used simultaneously and thus the bits being read/written have to come from somewhere.

That somewhere is a % of the total throughput of the chip.

Stated another way — people forget that there’s almost always a single piece of silicon backing the total bandwidth throughput of modern computing devices regardless of what ‘standard’ is being used.

Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah this is odd.

I've taken multiple 10 year old T-Shirts with holes through 10% of them in to the Patagonia store and they've let me walk out with new product off the rack.

Comment · 2 years ago
Wouldn’t this also imply a lack of Turing completeness, and thus not be good for general purpose computing?

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