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Cold_Miserable

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    Comment #49054957

    Get-ItemProperty : Cannot find path 'HKCU:\SOFTWAREMicrosoftIdentityCRLExtendedProperties' because it does not exist. At line:1 char:7 I guess I'm good then.

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    Comment #48255622

    This is just a worse copy of the original ifma method. Sneller is even better for max throughput.

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    Comment #47818610

    I've yet to encounter a need for == equality for floating point operations.

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    Comment #47728445

    It went from ~30ns to 2K ns but mostly timed out when I changed the alignment to +7.5 QWORDs on Golden Cove.

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    Comment #47660932

    Small indian. Starting at zero and extending is logical. Big indian is dumb and confusing.

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    Comment #47552002

    That's me. 1 byte ASCII is all that's needed for text.

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    Comment #47485351

    shlx doesn't alter the flag register.

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    Comment #47423657

    I found a jpeg2000 reference PDF somewhere. It may as well have been written in Mandarin. I got as far as extracting the width and height. Its much more advanced than jpeg. Forget …

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    Comment #47394435

    Heh. 1.Create fast modulus quad M for dword D for the first 2000? 200000? (x M) D 2.Eliminate 0b,101b 3.Divide using vrcp14ss/vdivss with correction. Use fast square root too using…

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    Comment #47237172

    Distant Worlds I and now II has had full automation for ages.

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    Comment #47156089

    "Currency printing" and inflation are exactly the same thing.

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    Comment #47064510

    AVX2 isn't really 256-bit. Its 2x128-bit.

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    Comment #46996421

    Human hearing is excellent. Good directional perception and sensitivity. Eyesight is the weakest sense. Poor color sensitivity, low light sensitivity, blindspot. The terrible natur…

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    Comment #46949157

    Idiocracy is the future.

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    Comment #46883565

    Its 1024. Hard drive manufacturers should be forced to use the correct metric.

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    Comment #46869079

    A really painfully laboured way of just saying conduction.

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    Comment #46701809

    Britain should have stayed neutral like Sweden and Switzerland instead of getting economically devastated.

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    Comment #46687126

    x87 should have been killed off. It would have forced lazy game developers to use SSE around the 2005 era.

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    Comment #46582109

    Its not hype. There's no such thing as AI. Matrix multiplication isn't intelligence.

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    Comment #46306461

    Already done ages ago. Nothing more of interest. The bottleneck are the 3 conditionals: - positive or negative - positive or negative exponent, x > 10.0 - correction for 1.xxxxx * …

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    Comment #46137118

    Baldur's Gate linux native build performed poorly on Gamers Nexus tests. Where's a proper comparison between the fastest linux OS "CachyOS" and Windows 11 LTSC with all the crap re…

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    Comment #46136351

    Testmem5 is in a league of its own yet its unclear how. Maybe the AWE table is prone to corruption. Theres nothing special about the internal workings. It doesn't use fences or clf…

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    Comment #45935253

    HDI, electrical generation per capita, energy use per capita.

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    Comment #45924384

    Is there a simple way to get the "Legacy Console" back without having to format and reinstall windows? Installing packages / the windows modules installer is broken.

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    Comment #45736808

    Xorshift, LCM and hardware rdrand work just fine. PCG and Weyl are overkill.