Writing things like this reminds me of edgy teenager on the internet of early 2000s.
I associate it with naive teenagehood, but I don't associate it with 'edginess'.
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#172> If a microprocessor architecture consensus finally exists I don't think that's a good goal to have. Without competing architectures we'll enter a microprocessor dark age. Although the glory days of Alpha and IA64 are over, plenty of that experience was used to bolster today's instruction sets. Diversity is a good thing.
I'm not sure I buy that, you can have a lot of competition on the same ISA. After all on the desktop/server x86 has been king for a while, and on embedded architectures ARM has all but taken over the competition. Yet there's significant competition on both fronts.
Meanwhile attempts at creating new ISAs over the past couple of decades has been met with relatively little success, or only in very specific niches. Itanium being an obvious example. People talk about RISC V a lot but in practice it's not really making a dent into the ARM market share yet.
These days competition appears to come mostly from companies reimplementing and extending existing ISAs with better performance.
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#173People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.
That is actually one of my hinderances in learning Russian, because I keep reading the identical Cyrillic letters as English.
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#174People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.
I personally think its kind of creative, and looks cool. Though the author might like to be aware of the discontent it causes certain individuals. This is mean but it comes accross as though you are just wanting to show off you knowledge of a different alphabet...a complainbrag. Seems unlikely you'd take the effort to bother but thats my perception.
> This is mean but it comes accross as though you are just wanting to show off you knowledge of a different alphabet
There are people whose native languages are in those alphabets.
Quick: How would you pronounce СССР?
Hint: It would be completely wrong, because it's not English.
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#175Actmallg rdrtable ekecmatable ?
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#176inadvertently revealed NSA backdoor from 1997
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Please note that zsh has a minor backwards compatibility glitch with Thompson Shell so try sh hello.com rather than ./hello.com.
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#177People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.
Ι ⅼіκе іτ аɴԁ аⅼѡауѕ геϲоⅿⅿеɴԁ τо реорⅼе τо τаκе ⅿоге аԁⅴаɴτаɡе оғ ⋃ɴіϲоԁе.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
"actmally rdrtable execmtable" that's more or less how it reads to someone who knows the Greek alphabet :-D (I might be partially wrong because I've studied Greek many years ago and my memory is not good)
It's somehow worse than "toys ya us".
another offence is using sigma (∑) as a stylized "E" or uppercase lambda (Λ) as "A" (see NASA logo).
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Foreign alphabet transliteration drama thread under the best hacking-grade article in years. Thanks, hn.
Yep - if you want people to focus on what you actually wrote, don't do this. I couldn't get past the title.
Maybe be slightly more specific: If you want people who get their panties in a twist about anything unsubstantial and want only those who care about substance to read your article, please use this trick ;-)
EDIT: you could call it a #snowflake-discriminator
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if the patent on the instruction set expired, that's only half the battle (if that). When you licence ARM you're getting both the instruction set design AND the implementation.
AFAIK Apple mostly only licenses the ISA and then runs a completely custom implementation, so in this case that's not relevant. I think the sibling comment is more accurate: while the core of the ISA might effectively be public domain soon, there are plenty of extensions in common use that aren't. If you implement a custom x86 design without those a lot of software won't be able to run or it will run with significant…
The assumption I'd made was that they'd left the actual core mostly alone. They've gone a lot further than everyone else in what they've put around it though, e.g. large caches and other accelerators.
I'd be interested in being pointed to any references as to what they've actually done, not that much information is likely to be public domain.