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I live in a Russian city of 100k people and there are at least 3 medical MRI machines nearby that I visited, of a total 8 offers that maybe share the machines (though likely not), …

This isn't really relevant to wasm, though. You can't expect it to support platform-specific hacks just for SIMD, so you'll have to make do with the lowest common denominator anywa…

Won't this require years of busywork? The various intrinsics, function attributes, C compiler args compatibility, ABI profiles for various platforms/systems (including the Windows …

Why not? Fixed-size SIMD architectures use mostly the same operations, so if you target SSE2 initially, the code should run just fine on NEON. A runtime that ships a JIT compiler a…

Did a similar test in plain C: https://godbolt.org/z/ffYcWhxz3 It's not quite the same: I've used an increment instead of zeroing, otherwise the entire benchmark gets optimized awa…

It looks promising! But fixed-width lanes don't seem too cross-platform? I don't just mean the v256 and v512 types that may become ubiquitous in a few years, but also things like o…

Ads aren't the problem, the surveillance is. That you can't have the former without the latter is a myth FB and Google peddle to justify their existence. They don't even need your …

Please clarify what do you mean by incorporating a C compiler. Does this mean you're abandoning the "custom C frontend inside the D compiler" effort in favor of something like clan…

Of course AWS is the mainframe in this analogy! It's a huge throughput- and reliability-optimized overhyped crazy expensive server that you hire someone else to run for you. It's d…

I apologize for my mistake, then. My understanding was based on reading the Prometheus docs on making exporters alone - something I needed urgently for a job.

I wasn't speaking of a 4k TV, but still, this doesn't check out. A single 2160p framebuffer is 8MPix, or 32MiB. Not counting the original FB size, the extra 1.5GiB are enough for 4…

I'm talking about the way I'm expected to provide metrics for my apps. Rather than exporting free-form JSON and then scripting Prometheus to understand it, I'm expected to use a cu…

They're just poster children for the particular brand of disdain $100k+/year "tech workers" bear for their users: they make enough for the shiniest of toys, so they're too far abov…

What you're kind of missing is that the S5 was a flagship phone. Generally, one has to save for more than a month to afford a purchase like that. The idea of working an extra month…

It's 2022 and we're about to rediscover something we know for 40 years already: mainframes are freaking expensive.

On a side note, Prometheus seems to be built for bloat. AFAIK, it isn't even designed to consume metrics other than from apps linked to its client library. It's like a microservice…

It's all fun and games until you're stuck for a hour downloading 600MB of updated packages over a metered LTE. The same is with RAM usage: 512MB was enough for a phone back in 2014…

Inventing arbitrary formulae to calculate your wage is merely a dishonest negotiation tactic. Govt companies do it all the time, don't read too much into it. Also, it's perfectly f…

A decade ago, an article [1] was published in the Russian "Hacker" magazine where the author alleged that a Russian OEM manufacturer's motherboard sourced from China had a BMC chip…

MIR isn't really a language of its own: it's a human-readable serialization of Rust compiler's lower-level AST, an artifact of the language's complexity. It's native to the compile…

Recently I've read a 1985 interview with a Soviet IC factory worker where phosphine, arsenic, antimony and hydrofluoric acid were named. Workers explicitly shut down their managers…

Ah, I remember that one. Not a fond memory, either. The C-like language is a red herring: what you actually want is the codegen backend, and having any intermediaries between your …