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I'm curious: how would the achievement gap change if all or most post-secondary education was delivered online instead of at physical colleges/universities?

The point isn't that she didn't learn to study. If you had read just a little bit farther, you would have seen the real reason: at the first minor setback she met, she began to que…

Regarding your comment on an "FPGA backend" for GCC, you have to understand that simulating a VHDL design (what is implemented) is a drastically simpler task than synthesizing an F…

I was two blocks away at Stubb's when this was going on, and I walked through that area many times already during SXSW. I very rarely realize how fragile my life is, but events lik…

In a couple years or so, my bet would be on Rust.

The big difference from my perspective is that Atom isn't currently FOSS. Other than that, the maturity of the emacs ecosystem is both one of its greatest features and a bit of a c…

LLVM intermediate representation and Mill code are going to be pretty different. The LLVM machine model is a register based machine (with an arbitrary number of registers--the back…

> "Interesting, the architecture looks greatly simplified compared to even standard RISC" Depends on how you define simplicity, really. Writing a good back-end for this architectur…

Some of the memory ideas are similar--Itanium had some good ideas about "hoisting" loads [1] which I think are more flexible than the Mill's solution. In general, this is a larger …