faithful_droog
Joined 15 years ago
Karma
475
Submissions
11
Member since
Oct 23
Recent submissions
Comment · 1 month ago
It was cropped to just displaying as https://en.wikipedia.org/wi.. on my mobile screen - so not really readable here.
Comment · 1 month ago
Having the length of encoded in each codepoint means that you know if a stream ends at codepoint boundary or if it has a truncated final codepoint. You could probably do away with the length and maintain this property if you had distinct forms for start, continuer-mid and continuer-final bytes.
Comment · 13 years ago
Japanese addresses are also unusual in that they generally don't involve streets (or street numbering) at all but are instead based around city districts and blocks.
Comment · 13 years ago
I (and it seems a lot of others) will be sad to see reader go.
I presume this death announcement doesn't meet the criteria for a HN black banner though.
Comment · 14 years ago
If you look more closely, you will also see that his memcopy dereferences a void * (and performs some pointer arithmetic as well). Apologies for my inner pedant getting the better of me.
Comment · 14 years ago
Michael Arrington's response:
http://uncrunched.com/2012/02/13/we-are-better-than-this/
Comment · 14 years ago
The Extreme Tech guys do actually credit and link to the GOTW article in the caption of the first graphic. So they got that right.
The graphic itself grates on me. Firstly, it is wildly out of date for a current article (no data for 2010 onwards and the last data point on perf/clock series being from ~2007). Secondly, using ILP as a measure of perf/clock seems quite off (the latency of various instructions do change quite a bit between generations)