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In the UK a CIC (Community Interest Company) is an option, which can legally oblige the company to act in the interest of "the community they serve". I think in the USA a benefit c…

There's a few of these floating around that are generally missing something - recent syscalls, types, etc. Thank you for such a complete one!

I can confirm I don't have that installed. I'm using this: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime Edit: actually Blender performance is decent, but the kernels ta…

I'm using RocM OpenCL right now, which I believe is the approved option, or will be. Personally I've not had any issues with it - I can certainly use Blender with it, although the …

Not via CPU heating, but a theoretical AVX Spectre attack popped up on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17711823

Conversely, I also do embedded development, and our environment is entirely Linux-based, even the RTL tools.

From the article you link: - Sea star disease: probably linked to increased sea temperatures, see https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2018.0007... - Warm blob: nobod…

Most DSPs I've worked with have an assortment of really specific extra instructions added for the particular application. I suspect these DSPs are similar - adding a new codec prob…

I'm not really qualified to answer this, but I suspect the instruction decoder(s?) would be decoupled from register state as much as possible (unless x86 is even weirder than I tho…

I think this is the paper, which is very briefly mentioned: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/2/e1501466.full

This article appears to originally be from the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/06/scrabb... The site also features several other Guardian articles by t…

This sounds like a good way to learn, but I would worry about picking up bad habits. Do you have any recommendations of (C) projects etc. that are particularly well written?

I had an interesting time writing a JIT for Piet some time ago. Piet is a pretty weird language in a few non-obvious ways. From what I remember: * Execution moves between blocks of…

I've been wanting to do something like this for a while. I'd quite like something that collects commentary about the state of countries around the word, but I'm lacking decent sour…