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Similar to Altivec from the PowerPC days?

True!! but even that... even that was too loud.

I found the original series so much better than the film. The film was good. I like Gary Oldman but I remember being so disappointed that he shouted at the end. Couldn't imagine Alec Guiness doing that. Very un Smiley.

The book is fantastic. I was completely gutted at the end.

Gawd, I used to loooove SGI. It is really nice to see some variation in computer architecture come in to the mainstream. (aside from the awesome GPU tech wars)

I saw this mentioned recently that they are just missing drivers. Which this being ealy days for Apple Silicon makes sense.

This is in my queue! This is a great podcast, Adam Gordon-Bell is such a thoughtful interviewer, probably my favourite episode was "Don and Adam discuss Folds", it blew my mind and made me smile. Very highly recommended.

Have to say as slick as stuff like this looks I do find myself gravtatiing towards ETL in code. (It feels easier to read/understand)

How would you change control something like this?

I don't mind him, it feels like he is figuring things out still but I like that at times it can turn in to what feels like a quiet conversation between friends. Which can be illuminating and heart warming. Quite unexpected for a podcast like this.

I learned that too! Weird, it is like you have tohave this whole stack in place to perform an action. Not to dissimilar to the the day job.

I was once given a device called the 'Edinburgh Masker', it was a set of headphones and a throat mike (I looked like a ww2 bomber pilot..) and it played a tone when you got stuck on a word. It was very weird, but quite interesting, as the tone would be so distracting that you forgot about the block or the repeated sound!

It is worth it to keep going, he is figuring things out still, both himself and this thing he is figuring out, and the technique and insight may not be the cure now but at some point he will piece things together and what he has learned may help.

Good luck to you and your boy.

Thinking about it, they both feed each other, if you start with on you will get the other.

Have a stutter too, I was in speech therapy from when I was 7, and one of the techniques that worked best was to focus on breathing and relaxation. When I blocked on words, the levels of tension in my body was/is extremely high. Specifically in my diaphragm, when there is tension, my chest is more rigid and the tension in mouth and tongue is so much stronger. So they had me focusing on relaxing my diaphragm which would allow the other tension to be less. So to focus on my breathing and being relaxed. (and yes I could sing fluidly, but my speech was very very blocky.)

The interesting thing was that this required thought and awareness, which is a bit difficult when you are younger. As I got older my confidence came, so became more relaxed in company and therefore less tense and so likely to stutter. I still do on occasion, but I am less concerned about it these days.

Hydrogen... which can then be put back through a fuel cell to produce electrickery. The germans are looking at this. I believe.

Pah!! I was master of Daley Thompsons Decathlon!!

Shame, they have such an opportunity on so many fronts.

I am actually very intrigued by the hardware, a powerful linux box which may make a cracking console in it's own right. Wouldn't mind one of those at home.

here in the UK there was the whisper of using the gas system to deliver hydrogen (or a variation). I heard last year that one of the big gas mains in Yorkshire was being converted to supply hydrogen.

I guess if you replace the boiler on the other end with a fuel cell based system that was still 'wet' so the radiators and water heating in the house stayed the same the there may be less change needed?

I really really like that part. Three columns on a widescreen monitor is really really comfortable! Nice site!

An interesting one, on a tangent, this morning on my work windows10 machine I had a Chrome notification telling me about the latest plurasight deal. First time this has happened for me, it is an interesting use of the notification system!

Thats class! thanks for the info.

Dirk Meyer ended up at AMD, it was why the likes of Hypertransport borrowed/adapted the Alpha EV6 protocol and kicked serious arse.

Always loved Alpha's, their influence cast a long shadow.

Oh... thats where you are going wrong, when reheating pizza it is best to use a pan, although the base may get crispy. The oven works quite well too. Sure they take longer but tastes so much better!

As someone who has a speech impediment, I really speak too fast too, but then thinking back to my speech therapy, there the emphasis was on breathing, with the focus on diaphragmatic breathing, which has the effect of softening the face and jaw, the relaxation of the shoulders and the chest. When I do this, my cadence drops, my words flow better and I can impart what I want so much easier.

Now I have written that down I really should do that more often ;-)

Interesting article too.

> hipster name like "Data Badger"

hahaha! Thats a great name for a company :-)

This has been a blooming marvellous, if depressing read.

I long for the future of open RISC-V/OpenPOWER/Arm/MIPS coherent platforms.

Thanks for your efforts and best of luck.

I agree.

I am from that yellow bit and people were stunned the day after. The whole thing is crazy. Society feels fundamentally broken.

> Leave voting neighbours who were very much the supposedly angry working class type that have been ridiculed and condescended to repeatedly by the liberal media.

I can understand this but, burrowing in to it, we have a class of people who are struggling for opportunity, work and dignity in an environment which is openly hostile to people in poverty. The bit that hurts my head is that people want to leave the EU as they think the government will then step in and give them the opportunities, work and dignity which they have crave. When it was the governments (of the last 40 years) which have put them in this position..

Here in the North East we have investment from the EU, do you honestly think that the tories are going to jump in and replace that investment? If you say that they have said that they will invest x amount then that it merely a drop in the ocean for regions like this.

IMHO.

There is hydrogen too. There was talk of Germany using the excess electrickery from their coal stations to create hydrogen, which can then be used to power fuel cells to create more electrickery.. Maybe hydrogen should become a higher priority?

A really good read, quite interesting ideas and it certainly changed my outlook on running and movement.