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Grid stress in the first world isn't a big problem since electric vehicles can charge when the grid is under less pressure. The demand curve over a day has a reasonably predictable…

What Netflix wants to be popular also tramples over what I am already watching. I find that the UI gets in the way of enjoying several programs that I am part way through by pushin…

My solution was to attach a little board from https://www.particle.io/ to a doorbell ringer to detect when the doorbell rings, which pokes a port on a PC in my office that is alway…

Oh, I think it is a quite reasonable comment. It isn't interesting work being done in the benchmark and the benchmark itself is short. If you want to get ultimate performance from …

(microelectronics graduate in 2001, turned software engineer, I have worked for ARM and Imagination Technologies on simulations of CPUs, GPUs, networking products and other bits of…

The Infinite Game is also great. The focus is on building companies that last hundreds of years, so you need leadership, culture and investors that are all about long term stabilit…

Indeed. The writer doesn't even challenge some of the more obvious problems with the comments they have collected e.g. self driving cars causing traffic jams as they look for parki…

The rest of the SoC plays a huge part, just like the architecture of a PC does. My personal mantra when thinking of how to get the most out of a CPU is "feed the beast" since idle …

SyncThing mostly works. Dropbox just doesn't support soft links. I have tried so many of these tools and SyncThing comes close to preventing me from reaching for rsync. SyncThing b…

A NOP shouldn't ever take up actual pipeline space in a modern CPU - it can be discarded at decode. A clock is a signal that is used as a valid signal for the data moving across a …