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> Isn't that what everyone is doing, or are we Frenchmen the exception? > For reference if the author reads this, we write the latin x exactly like the cyrillic х, i.e. reverse c, …

I had this argument with people working on VR headsets, where a physical parameter was designed to cover the 5th to 95th percentile. I had to point out that flat-out excluding 10% …

In most amateur imaging you can trade time for quality. By stacking enough images, satellite trails get averaged out of the final image. Very high end amateurs get pissy about it b…

You’d be amazed what even a small smart telescope can see even in Bortle 9 urban skies. I have one of the mentioned SeeStar smart telescopes, and have been quite successful in taki…

iTelescope does exactly what you’re outlining. There used to be a few others but I think they have mostly died out. I assume the economics don’t really work out.

Also also, AMD’s play has always been to produce HW that offers good performance/$, with the downside of having much weaker SW offerings to go with it. Consoles are always pressure…

> It might be that regalloc needs to be taught to rematerialize It knows how to rematerialize, and has for a long time, but the backend is generally more local/has less visibility …

I say and hear it all the time in the US...

Really? I read the same sentence (as an American) and immediately thought that they must be referring to British English. Certainly nobody says brilliant as an affirmation here. An…

As far as I know Apple will still sell you individual tracks (DRM free, I think?), though it’s a bit hidden.

A very recent example: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

This is a pretty standard topic, and not really a compiler optimization. It's usually called a unity build. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_build

https://www.itelescope.net/

My grandfather also worked on it, as a technician in Los Alamos. He had previously been working for a scientific supplies company in Chicago that was (unbeknownst to him) providing…

Kid me absolutely ran The Bug on an old PowerMac G3: https://macthemes.garden/themes/8191e1471dc9-the-bug/

> I tend to agree but, playing devil's advocate, is this true for other roles? Does a movie director need to know how to build sets? How to sew costumes? How to use Blender/Maya/Ho…

My father was a Classics professor, and one of the most popular classes he taught was "Latin Terminology for Medicine and Law".

All of the major C/C++ compilers are deterministic functions of their inputs. This is a pretty major property, and any regression is rapidly detected and fixed. Optimization "timeo…

> Do they just target the lowest common denominator of operations? Or do they somehow adapt to the operations supported by the user's CPU? Mostly the former. Some highly optimized …

The textual IR is not backwards compatible, but the bitcode format has been best-effort auto-upgradeable for as long as I've been involved (2006). The policy is documented here: ht…

If you know that you need to offload matmuls, then building matmul hardware is more area efficient than adding an entire extra CPU. Various intermediate points exist along that spe…

> Also, people often mistake the reason for an NPU is "speed". That's not correct. The whole point of the NPU is rather to focus on low power consumption. It's also often about off…