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Yes, I used VSS as a solo developer in the 90s. It was a revelation at the time. I met other VCS systems at grad school (RCS, CVS). I started a job at MSFT in 2004 and I recall som…

Source Depot was based on Perforce. Microsoft bought a license for the Perforce source code and made changes to work at Microsoft scale (Windows, Office). TFS was developed in the …

Samsung and SK-Hynix have had specs and papers for a few years already for HBM and GDDR. e.g. * https://www.servethehome.com/sk-hynix-ai-memory-at-hot-chips... * https://www.servet…

Yes, agree. Probably the main thing is the NPU is just a dedicated unit without the generality / complexity of a CPU and so able to crunch matmuls more efficiently.

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Agree on NPU vs CPU memory bandwidth, but not sure about characterizing the GPU that way. GDDR is usually faster than DDR of the same generation, and on higher end graphics cards h…

Rotor had it's own license: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Common_Language_... I have various snapshots of the Rotor 1 and 2 sources around and they have the SSCLI lic…

Microsoft had a research version of the CLR called Rotor (2002) that predated Mono (2004). Rotor built for Windows, FreeBSD, and macOs, albeit with a not-very-open license. When Mo…

A decent chunk of AI computation is the ability to do matrix multiplication fast. Part of that is reducing the amount of data transferred to and from the matrix multiplication hard…

Perhaps someone ex-Intel can comment, but there was a story within Microsoft that Intel proposed a different x86 derived 64-bit architecture after AMD64, but Microsoft didn't want …

BirdNet is pure joy. Thanks to everyone who works on it. We've used the app relentlessly for a couple of years in the UK and when you show it to people they are amazed. People than…

How many "independent" voices you see depends on your bubble. How many users are there of these platforms? What fraction wrote a rant? Not saying those opinions are wrong, but it's…

Disappointing article. The title suggested it might have some data rather than being just a non-technical rant.

My manager once presented to Cutler. They said it went remarkably well as Cutler "only interrupted the presentation twice to cuss"...

Typically when building a device like this you get a version of Linux / embedded-OS from the SoC vendor and you are stuck with it because SoC vendor doesn't provide docs that would…

Yes. All apps in Android are spawned from the Zygote, but once started an app is free to call as much native code as it likes. https://medium.com/@voodoomio/what-the-zygote-76f852d…

There was a Linux subsystem for NT around early 2000s in Microsoft Research. There is amazing depth inside parts of Microsoft. For example, a team built Xbox360-on-PC sometime arou…

Very cool, that's a decent performance bump. It'd be nice to have some simple benchmarks that directly compare ignition, sparkplug and turbofan (and full-codegen too). And also tim…

MBA and business students are taught the rule of three: "The Rule of Three applies wherever competitive market forces are allowed to determine market structure with only minor regu…