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How much effect the CPU's register remapping has? Probably a lot and the article doesn't discuss it at all. However, the Intel Xeon E-2236 was released in 2019; so it's hardly anci…

I was taking 5mg of Creatine and was in the ER for an unrelated reason. My metabolic panel measured creatinine at 1.34 mg/dL. A panel from last year without the supplement was a ve…

Why is this known bits optimization being done by the JIT rather than the Java compiler?

It started with Greenspan but ramped up under Bernanke. https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ_focus...

I liked The Possessed by Elif Batuman. I had read The Idiot in high school, a death march for a term paper. But I liked Batuman's reading of it better than mine (but not enough to …

Thanks. Stanford's archive seems to be one big 296.2G blob. But it's there at least. https://archive.org/details/stanford_itunesu/

The Stanford iTunesU classes have been truncated to a few seconds. So Susanna Braund's Aeneid course (which was brilliant) is gone. Same thing with their Hannibal course. I don't k…

I have a friend who flew F15s. I’ve sent him this.

It’s odd that the operator of the scam knew full stack level details of its implementation. To me, it seems like they were targeting the author, perhaps as something like privilege…

Berkeley has the Northern Regional Library Facility in Richmond, CA for this very purpose. I’ve checked out books where they crackled as I opened them and it was clear I was the fi…

People don’t get credit for fixing problems that do happen. Maybe possibly in a sales scenario where your fix unblocked the sale. Otherwise nada.

His death at the Siege of Leningrad sounds a lot like Archimedes death at the hands of a centurion during the fall of Syracuse to the Romans. That death was told by the always reli…

Interesting. Can you do this with Forgejo?

Your custom IR is above LLVM’s IR, correct? Is it like SwiftIR then? Maybe you could add a paragraph or two going through that design decision.

The natural question is why doesn't Jank use MLIR?

In fact, MA costs the government more per person than does TM. MA may have been lobbied for as a cost saving measure. It is, in fact, a profit center for insurance companies. https…

Medicare has a similar issue. When you sign up at 65, you have to make a first big decision, Traditional Medicare (yay!) or private Medicare Advantage (boo!). Traditional Medicare …

The description of the detention center reminds me of Room 101 in 1984 .

Buzzword compliant.

I have a Tern Eclipse P18 24" folding bike which I like a lot. Tern and Dahon are related. Wasn't cheap and is hard to find. I literally drove to Vegas and met an IT sysadmin in a …

For migraines, I take two CVS Migraine about every week to ten days. It's a cocktail of acetaminophen, aspirin and caffeine which tallies to 500 mg of acetaminophen, well under the…

Next up: allow slide rules on exams.