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Embedded within that developer page is a good explainer of the encoder free architecture . https://newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com/p/a-visual-guide-...

I have fond memories of implementing an optimizing compiler for the CS241 compiler course offered back then by Prof Michael Franz who was a student of Niklaus Wirth, probably the m…

>Effectively, eight CPUs run the flight software in parallel. The engineering philosophy hinges on a >“fail-silent” design. The self-checking pairs ensure that if a CPU performs an…

> Having two compilers helped ensure that the language was clearly defined. > When the two compilers differed, we knew that we had to clarify the spec and figure out what the right…

Maybe I am being foolishly optimistic, the section in the video (~ 4:50) where it is mentioned that some giant seed corporation is staying the course betting that this thing will b…

promptly ordered 2 (an HD and 4K) .. its still cheaper than the new "AI" enabled experience ..

I am super curious to know what kind of software magic they did to bring the NDL system as the primary navigation system after their own system failed to function prior to landing …

No they didn’t because until the loan is repaid you can’t use whatever gold you put up for other purposes can you. What became tangible is what you used the loan for , that is what…

Why? Here the asset used as collateral is a commitment to return the money if the loan isn’t repaid. Imagine I bought gold back when gold was 100$ , it’s current price is 1000$ and…

I like to think that to get a sense of how this might be done, one way maybe to extrapolate from this experiment at https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/python-react-pattern .

Does the iPhone 14 still have the battery glued to the back? Couldn't figure it out from reading the article. I recently replaced the battery on my old iPhone 6s using the ifixit r…

> And once we knew (p-1)(q-1), we could then use some more little tricks to recover p and q, the prime factors we wanted. I am curious to know about these tricks to recover p, q. D…

Opening https://news.ycombinator.com doesn't show the pool section in the top. But visiting https://news.ycombinator.com/pool shows the pool as well as the other sections in the to…

Adding some more related articles. this was mostly a result of me trying to find some more useful articles to better understand and it was lost in my browsing history. https://over…

well there's https://web.archive.org/web/20111012115624/http://itasoftwar...

big plus one for Kotlin as a general purpose language

Thanks @njharman , how does one consider between rewrite vs expand when it is known that some requirements will be true not for the current release but 2 or 3 releases down the lin…

>What if, instead, we take a position that rather than enhancing components, we replace them. Then the best way to know when something needs to be replaced, is when it doesn’t do w…