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Apple should have made a modern Smalltalk on top of the Objective-C object model as a replacement for Objective-C instead of Swift. I want to love Swift, but the funny thing is tha…

Think you are a bit quick to judge what people in Europe think. Juries have also been widely used in Europe. They are not unknown. It depends entirely on where you are. Britain fam…

In Norway we long had two systems to determine guilt. One was a jury system. A careful examination of the performance of both systems over many years concluded that the jury system…

I have long been skeptical of AI/AR because I also don’t feel like being strapped in like that. But I can see this as being useful for dedicated tasks: surgeons, building or repair…

People are increasingly running out of reasons to not use Julia. It really is the future for data science and machine learning. No let me correct that. It really could replace anyt…

That is not really true. People think that because they have spent time with Java which is excessively GC dependent. More modern GC languages such as Go and Julia have opted to use…

A clear complexity cost difficulty in extending these libraries. This separation force libraries to become huge complex monoliths. In Julia the equivalent is done with absolutely h…

Julia 1.0 was released in 2018. That is just 5 years ago. I would say that is very young. Especially since a language today needs more than in the past. Julia has package manager, …

Not sure why you restrict this observation to UK and commonwealth countries. This is reality for many of us in Europe. Legal documents in Norway also refer to the king as the one d…

You can just look at a map over the US and see quickly how the grid pattern exists at almost any zoom level. You also notice it in how people think about directions. As a European …

Extensive comparison of engines, design of shape, choice of materials, performance and strategies for reuse.

So Rust force you to do waterfall design? Sorry just had to tease about that as a dynamic language fan. I am much more in the LISP school of thought, believing in growing software …

Not at all. Nobody doubted this could be done. So there is no countdown as that would imply we didn’t know if fusion can be done. We do know. The problem is primarily engineering a…

It will never be cheap and limitless though. Is solar power isn’t free even if you don’t have to pay for the sunshine. It is the capital costs which gets you and those will very mu…

Why not a company running the garage seeing it as a way of making money? Cheap solar should make it an attractive position to sell power during peak hours.

What issue? Lots of us live in apartments in Norway and I see plenty of upgrades happening to get charging going at apartment complexes. Does not seem like an insurmountable proble…

No, that is not the case. RISC-V was designed to work both in embedded systems, workstations, supercomputers and specialized hardware. That is why the instruction-set is made modul…

The Esperanto system with lots of RISC-V cores is built with localized memory for small clusters of cores. It is programmed akin to a graphics card and plenty of workloads are done…

The core count of Tilera CPUs is totally normal today, so not exactly a failed idea. AMD Ryzen thread piper has 64 cores and if you count number of hardware threads you got 128. Th…

Interesting to see John conclude like me after reading Patterson that RISC vs CISC was always about a philosophical difference in how you approach chip design. This is what I argue…