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irishjohnnie

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    Comment #34266237

    I believe it is both a scheduling and memory allocation/loading issue. It is interesting that caches are NUMA but main memory is not.

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    Comment #31484648

    Are you referring to the ballpark "specifications" in the article? If so, I don't know of any material that can withstand the stresses of the weights and speeds mentioned in it ...…

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    Comment #30079214

    Current inflation is mostly supply-side driven. Having said that, M2's biggest jump in its history was in early 2020 (see https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL ). Its slope befor…

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    Comment #27188316

    Yup. OceanWings by VPLP https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/vplp-design-signs-its-f...

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    Comment #24071340

    > It’s honestly a shame that we didn’t keep pursuing sail technology ... You mean something like this? https://www.top-yachtdesign.com/oceanwings-by-vplp/

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    Comment #23988412

    ICYMI lots of issues with that study, https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa155... https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa156...

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    Comment #23988244

    It also looks like that study is still in the peer review process. It has the "Accepted Manuscript" flag ( https://academic.oup.com/aje/pages/Instructions_To_Authors ) and has at l…

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    Comment #23987545

    > Covid is an autoimmune disease. The Over active immune response is what is killing people. The virus triggers an acute immune response. This is not the same as an autoimmune dise…

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    Comment #23987304

    There is also a glaring conflict of interest regarding the author of that paper and some manufacturers of the drugs in question, https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/doi/10.1093/aj…

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    Comment #22939051

    I missed this in my previous reply ... > Look at all the results. Even before that exceptions are more often a win than a loss. The blog post you linked to effectively says "it dep…

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    Comment #22938817

    > But on 64-bit windows the default exception handling (SEH) uses a similar mechanism than Linux and should have comparable performance. AFAIK SEH in Windows calls RaiseException()…

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    Comment #22937446

    > benchmarks have shown that exceptions are generally faster The blog post you linked to says "Immediately we see that once the stack depth grows above a certain size (here 200/3 =…

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    Comment #22237289

    https://jetpackaviation.com/jetpack-training-lp/

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    Comment #16160103

    Video from SciTech conference https://livestream.com/accounts/6056055/events/8001237/video... starting at around 41 minutes

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    Comment #14600519

    I was referring to the RTL-based IP that goes into each subsystem of the CPU, hence the analogy to code. You're talking about compiler instruction scheduling, a lot of which are a …

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    Comment #14599079

    Probably not. Do you use AI to write code?

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    Comment #14598615

    Wow! AMD EPYC + Xilinx FPGA!

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    Comment #14588684

    You mean like Xilinx's Zynq? https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/soc/zynq-700...

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    Comment #12058372

    Ring buffers are also used in web servers, database servers, different kinds of device drivers protocol stacks, constrained embedded devices, etc.