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Did the N64 have an MMU? I guess so, COP0. I wouldn't have guessed that.

Yes to this a thousand times. I firmly believe the framers of the constitution would be horrified by this law. This should have been killed a long time ago.

I've used i3 for years. It's an absolute love affair. I used Xmonad and awesomewm before. I don't understand enough Haskell to configure Xmonad and awesomewm is a giant dependency …

Bad reporting, just go read the paper directly. They busted the coin example. I was super confused by it because it suffers from classic AM-GM inequality mistake. I doubted that Pe…

This. Value investing is characterized by "long-term performance". Looking at a single month to make this argument is kinda silly.

Stopped reading at: "In the past week or so, fortunes have reversed. Technology stocks have sold off. Value stocks have rallied, as prospects for a coronavirus vaccine raise hopes …

This gets at the heart of one of my big gripes about how we talk about engineering and technology. Often a fancy new thing is introduced with a very long list of pros: "fast, scala…

Rookie mistake: It's not just about the FLOPS, the interconnect matters too. There is a reason why everyone builds super computers in a large local cluster. It's so they can have a…

I would define simplicity as "the approach that minimizes cognitive load while meeting all other objectives" I would hope that people with the same objectives would agree on simpli…

(sigh) They're comparing averages, so the whole theory is suspect. Averages are a terrible way to do a comparison. Averages aren't terribly useful unless you know that your data is…

This a load of nonsense FUD. It's all sensationalism in response to the current political climate. He'd be singing a completely different song at the height of Obama's presidency. …

You believe or you know? Nothing I've read suggests that. Please don't advance ideas like that without giving proper justification; this is exactly how myths start.

Reading the mailing list end-to-end actually shows how much research Tim did before designing it. To suggest that the "academics" had no clue is extremely disingenuous. Worse, it m…

I don't get articles like this.. they seem to miss the bigger point. Typically there are two modes in my computing: (1) Scripting / Command-line get stuff done and throw-away, and …

Page 4 summarizes all that really needs to be said here: http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2013/34-70694.pdf Knight didn't have a proper risk system. A correct risk system is a d…

"The tradeoff for the bad hours/pay is that you'll get more autonomy in your work and the ability to really influence the product. To me, this is why you should work for a startup.…

"we have a particular use-case where we have a large contiguous array with, say, 100,000 lines and 1000 columns" This is where they lost me. This is NOT a lot of data. Should we be…

This is so broken. The author describes front-running and then goes on to conflate that with arbitrage. Those aren't the same thing! The only thing the author gets right is that ne…

Argh, I really dislike this article. It spreads a LOT of misinformation: 1) His friend did NOT write a bytecode interpretor, he wrote a bytecode compiler: there is a HUGE differenc…

Well, I'm always a little baffled when I see such great techniques for rejecting potentially awesome candidates. Why overthink a toy example? The only purpose served by fizzbuzz is…