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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 ones described in the paper. Architectures like x86 do hardware register renaming (or similar techniques, there are several) to be able to exploit as much instruction level parallelism as possible. That is why I find you claim hard to believe. VLIW architectures traditionally provide huge register sets and make less use of transparent register renaming etc, that part is either explicit in the ISA or completely left to the compiler. These are very different animals than our good old x86...

Have they? Netflix, Spotify, Kindle, ...

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 Plan9 from that world is a breeze, the simplicity is like a therapy for me. So enjoyable.

If "modern" means complex, I don't think it fits Plan9.

> 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 dinghy, they said thank you and left.

Probably someone fled over the Baltic sea to Denmark in a dinghy. So the secret police went from door to door until they found someone who could no longer show it to them...

This was in the late 80s.

That they will invest 10$ in OpenAI for each W of NVIDIA chips that is deployed? EDIT: In steps of 1GW it seems.

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, but otherwise it is fine too. A car is a luxury in those quarters too.

Completely agree that the presence of bikes and scooters on the sidewalk is annoying and dangerous. The city changed the rules a few months ago and now there is a 500€ fine if you use them on the sidewalk. That fixed the problem. They have to use the street or one of the many bike lanes.

No idea how it is in Paris, but there are places where living happily in a city without owning a car is perfectly possible, even if you have small kids.

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 walking distance. I work from home, but I could walk to the office it I wanted to. I don't have to leave the city at all.

Eventually I gave in and bought a car, not because it was necessary but rather to leave the city on weekends and get closer to nature.

> 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 they sell.

Good call, thanks for clarifying!

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 kernel per container.

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 offering their own (payed) service...

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…