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Maybe Optane was just a few years too early. There's finally a demand for a middle ground between RAM and SSD.

I worked on a transpiler from Nand2tetris assembly to WebAssembly, and had some really annoying memory corruption bug that I just couldn't solve. That is, until I checked the progr…

That's no surprise, telling the AI what to do is basically the IKEA effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect

Kind of depends on the definition of no one. If the company puts an artificial proof of work demanding a rack of the latest data center GPUs, that should be illegal. If the binary …

The key is communication. If the company says the binary has a certain min. requirement, then the vast majority of people will accept that. Of course there'll be idiots, but I doub…

> But the server binary doesn't start unless you have 190GiB of RAM and 38 available CPUs. As far as I understand that situation is accepted by the initiative. The requirement is n…

The real question is how many other things it's missing. Reading the process in TFA, it's very much dependent on the comprehensiveness of the testing framework. And apparently, the…

Fluent means different things to different people (and in different languages!). As I understand it, B2 means one has a solid, functional proficiency in the language. They conversa…

I'm back to searching for numbers that are palindromes both in decimal and in binary. [0] I had an insight the other day, that as I fix the n least (and most, it's a palindrome!) s…

I did some manual golfing with nand2tetris assembly and developed similar hacks to the max() implementation, where one appropriates an arbitrary, conveniently placed, memory addres…

I can also thoroughly recommend https://store.steampowered.com/app/684270/Silicon_Zeroes/ which uses smart design to remove having to deal with binary in the circuit design. This r…

No idea if it's not already optimised, but x2 could also be x*x and not just abs_x * abs_x, shifting the dependencies earlier.

If you're using mobile, there's an "English" button in the menu. Note to website owner - it could be nice to have a permalink to the English version.

> for this game you can throw the usual tools away... > The reason is that Starflight was written in Forth I recently reverse-engineered another game from the 80's, and had a simil…

In academia, seeing your research being published by someone else sucks, but the consolation prize is that you know you had the right instincts choosing what to research.

https://ashdnazg.github.io Mostly silly posts about silly projects.

My wife did one of the years in Matlab. Some of the problems translate very nicely into vectors and matrices.

Seems to be hugged to death: https://archive.is/UauYs

The bare basics are working with a hex editor and understanding data types - ints, floats, null-terminated strings, length-prefixed strings etc. I'd recommend taking a well documen…

First of all, really cool initiative! It's interesting that a bunch of the funded products have been funded by a single person. Do you know if it's the producers themselves? Worrie…

Porting my binary & decimal palindromes[0] finding code[1] to CUDA, with which I had no experience before starting this project. It's already working, and slightly faster than the …