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I picked that up during a steam sale along with the Toki's, I'll check it out. Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestion, I will!

I enjoy the general structure of Metroidvanias but most of them rely on combat mechanics for the micro-challenges in each room or boss. I like the exploration, backtracking, progre…

but... you had to go looking for that one, skipping over the part where you saw a bunch of waist-up pictures of a cartoon canine and got too hot and bothered to continue reading? i…

great article. fun to see things like > Transmeta usually steers the conversation toward performance on DES algorithms or MPEG loops, tasks that play into Crusoe's (and Efficeon's)…

I don't think the project is putting their best presentation forward, but the second image on the intro makes it pretty clear there's a .v/.sdc/.def file kicking around. Without an…

This seems like a pretty egregious misreading of the project? Python isn't being lowered into silicon. It's a glue language for Boring Old Verilog that's been "compiled" into silic…

The execution time is going to seem really zippy after the 8 week wait for the chips to be fabbed.

It's impressive but in practice, as a guide, it's very difficult to use. There is one path to follow with no overall map or routing to skip things. So to use it to figure out one t…

You're not a billionaire, why are you spending your precious time on this earth trying to lump them together with "middle class Joes" as if that absolves them of their history? Per…

"What the Dormouse Said" is a classic, highly recommended. Much more niche is "Race for a New Game Machine," highlighting the IBM design team responsible for the chips powering the…

that may have been what they wanted to write. unfortunately they wrote something wrong and misleading instead. i understood what they wrote perfectly well and the implication there…

no, you could not "always" find something useful to put there later. gross exaggeration

in addition to the complexities they add to every layer of the stack that ajross and alain94040 brought up, they're not all that useful in practice. i seem to recall that they'd ra…

you sure about that link? he's talking about a core that didn't have SMT and is ranting, in general, about errata existing and wildly misrepresenting their impact never mind that m…

I fail to see how a dev talking about a wholly unrelated implementation from an entirely different vendor has anything to bear on this conversation unless you're just maliciously s…

right, labor law is aware of "constructive dismissal," been a part of the law since, gosh, 1964? oh right but this is ~ google ~ in the ~ silicon valley tech industry ~ so stodgy o…

how is MESI "an abstraction"? why is it the only model proffered instead of MESIF/MOESI? and "the top 16-bits are basically ignored" is a funny way to spell "general protection exc…

i legit don't know what you're expecting? your lie was central to the technical discussion and at no point did you acknowledge the error. if you can't handle being called out for p…

im sad i missed your edit, apparently filled with unhinged personal attacks, but ive limited my commentary to the technical details and it's amazing that you still claim some highe…

bait? regardless of my tone, a memory fence is not required. no reading of the relevant documentation supports that, if you want to be wrong you're free to do so. but please don't …

a memory fence is not required, as per my reading of the Intel documentation. i think you're just guessing and haven't actually written any SMC x86? would you mind sharing what PRM…

you should probably check the Programmer's Reference Manual (PRM) i mean, they don't try to hide this information? Section 8.1.3 gives two options that are guaranteed to work acros…

wasn't it generally agreed that the Gawker-destroying opinion probably would have been reversed if they could've kept it afloat for an appeal? the bar for "messed up" isn't where y…

It might? Your OP was very specific on the subject and you seem aware that the side is inappropriate: Few hard taps on the bottom detach the CO2 bubbles and cause them to all go to…