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Well, for one those self driving cars have a few Intel Xeons onboard. Those cars need more processing power than your phone can provide.

You might not like it, but free climbing (no scare quotes required) is a defined term. It means climbing without the aid of ropes, except for safety. (Climbing without ropes is usu…

Keep reading the thread - Ted explains that decision.

DCA (Direct Cache Access) has been around for a while - DDIO is its replacement on higher end Xeons.

For those that missed it, similar discussion on this a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7947782

Another important outcome of a successful "hello, world!" is that you find some kind of MVP - Minimal Viable Printf. Just because it is C doesn't mean you've got a sane libc. Let a…

You should probably check again, but in any case MSVC shouldn't be compared to gcc/icc/clang - it can't even compile code written for a 14 year old language specification (C99), so…

That's ancient VxWorks (sadly still shipping in some places, however). More recent VxWorks - i.e. anything 6.x, since 2004 - has memory protection.

Must be a different USA to this one: http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20101104/NEWS/101109939/107...

"The surprising question we get is: 'How many people telecommute at Google?' ” [Google's CFO] Mr Pichette said at a talk in Sydney on Monday. "And our answer is: 'As few as possibl…

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/sextips/

On the trackpad issue, has anyone checked to see if it is the laptop battery expanding, putting pressure on the trackpad from below? It took me a little while to track that down as…

You aren't the only person to think this: http://airlied.livejournal.com/76383.html "really what they've released is totally useless to anyone who uses or develops this stuff."

It might be worth pointing out that TileGX isn't ARM. It is an interesting system though.

Not to detract from your point, which was similar to my intro to Unix, but I've always preferred 'man -k' to apropos, because it means remembering only one command plus it is sligh…

Come on now - while caffeine hasn't yet shown to be an ergogenic aid to anerobic activity (unlike endurance efforts, where it is very beneficial), a single tin of Red Bull isn't go…