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If AAPL thinks QCOM doesn't add proportional value to their phone, let them sell their phone without QCOM ip. Because we all know AAPL takes its proportional percentage of flesh fr…

The specific part of your comment, which is true, is, yes, I am essentially warning that you can do your absolute best to raise a child and put their interests (as you see it) ahea…

As a counterpoint to some platitudes expressed here, let me say this: I unequivocally hate my dad. The reasons are complicated, and personal. But there is something I know with abs…

Sure, this is one technique. You could also, akin to jump instructions, have a concept of data locality, versus instruction locality. You can do this is a lot of ways without resor…

You sound like an architecture person (I'm not, btw), so maybe you can give the lowdown on this. Why registers? I haven't studied the Tomasulo algorithm in any detail, but if you'r…

I can understand the historical requirements for alignment, the necessary transistors, what not. But, much like branch-delay slots, there is no modern reason to expose this to the …

I understand. What I mean is that if your word-size is not your addressing-size, you'd better not have a concept of mis-aligned accesses. It's trouble you brought on all by yoursel…

I'm probably the only weirdo that thinks this, but if you support byte-addressing you'd better as well be happy with byte-alignment. Atomics being the only place where it's reasona…

Thanks Jack for taking the time to respond. Keeping the faith alive...

I used to be a big champion of RISC-V, just look at my submission history, but I've become increasingly weary due to SiFive's dubious leadership. 1) It's still impossible for anyon…

> I hope they support Googles VM threads while they're at it. I saw the slides on the VM threads concept. I'm unsure as to the point. A process essentially sees a virtual CPU, mult…

"I'm really impressed by Apple's engineering. It's so easy to repair and recycle these phones. I've gotta think that Apple's really proud that their phones don't really end up in l…

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13850746

Seriously, if my ISP was forced to have no Gmail tomorrow, I'd flip out, and change ISPs (thankfully I have that option).

To clarify, the author uses CDNs to indicate the content silos that are goog, appl, amzn, fb, etc., which is not traditional usage. But in light of this, I see him as essentially c…