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The ratio of stupid:reputation in this comment is pretty remarkable.

Ask California how that’s working.

Lots of motorcyclists replace their lead-acid batteries with lithium-ion batteries that are much lighter. They’re very unreliable but some people will deal with that to save a few …

It's a good thing you measured it :-) Programs that do a little bit of 512x512 FMA mixed in with other stuff will not benefit from AVX-512 but can suffer from the heat it generates…

"Just the board" NUC kits also include the CPU, case, fan, power supply, wifi, bt, etc everything except RAM and storage.

It is a major problem to figure out what instructions to use but it's a lot more nuanced than you seem to imply. In the first place you seem to assume that "not running at the max …

Basically all that stuff you said about IoT has been said verbatim for decades and yet here we are. Remember the "SmartMote"? Neither does anyone else. By the way that was _also_ a…

Have there been any published benchmarks of relevant datacenter workloads on this CPU? I certainly haven’t seen any. The previous generation EPYC was really slow on branchy code, d…

ARM has never enjoyed a Op/J advantage over x86. They have low-power designs, yes, but they don’t do more work for a given amount of energy. x86 won fair and square. The risc peopl…

This comment seems kinda slanted. AVX-512 debuted on Xeon because datacenter operators asked for it. It does not “downclock a whole chip”, it gates the core where it is active and …

The senior project is the one I mentioned that can be fulfilled by CS210, working at “our industry partners” in lieu of actual university coursework. The “tech & society” catalog i…

I'll never have personal first-hand experience with another kind of degree program, but my engineering program taught thermodynamics, accounting, technical writing, and ethics. I a…

Huh. Thanks! I really missed the memo there. I wonder why 1035 doesn’t mention that it is updated-by 1123.

I don’t think I’m assuming that. They’ll just be a more rounded person.

I'm just giving you the straight dope on a few aspects of the organizational disaster that is google. The fact that you think it's incredible etc just shows what a basket case this…

I know my account is the one in green, but: you must be new here.

As a person without a CS education but with 30 years of industry experience, including several of The Bigs, I urge young people to get an education in anything but CS. The number o…

Perhaps the app can manage to remember your address and phone number, instead of making you type it in every time even when you are logged in to your account? I dunno just guessing…

I find that Nextdoor gets me more responses on for-sale items and none of them are scams. On Craigslist I get fewer and the majority are scams. I only bother with Craigslist these …

Generally: Founders: Bring your whole selves to work. Employees: great! That one guy: what a relief, because I’m literally a Nazi. Everybody: no. Leave that part at home. Guy: my r…

After I switched from SRE-SWE to just SWE, my team (of six SWEs) used IRC and it wasn't because of my influence, either.

Googlers also use it for the daily chat, not just incident response.

Decimal floats are a lot older than COBOL. Many early relay computers (to the extent there were many such machines) used floating-point numbers with bi-quinary digits in the mantis…

When did RFC1035 get thrown under the bus? According to it, with respect to domain name labels, "They must start with a letter" (2.3.1).