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hardware2win··on In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)
Im always interested in comparison between top adult sites and netflix
hardware2win··on Job posts for workers without degrees are booming, but not the hiring
What if it aint "dont like", but "not worth"? Like, if there is no value in wasting time on completion
hardware2win··on Apple reportedly faces €500M fine from EU
>It's truly a shame how so many on HN are anti-innovation,

Inno what?

It is 2024, not 2006, what innovations are you talking about?

hardware2win··on 100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born
It isnt faang anymore - now we have mag7
hardware2win··on Twenty years of my work with Arm architecture
The Advantage of early adopters

In the peak of hype they have years or decades of exp.

hardware2win··on AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source
You think x86 would be changed in such a way that it'd break and?

Because what else?

If so, then i think that this is crazy because software is harder to change than hardware

hardware2win··on Nvidia is now worth as much as the whole Chinese stock market
I do wonder how crazy the deep dive they will have in future
hardware2win··on Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat
Irc, cron, ldap, spying on other employees stuff

Yea, admins.

hardware2win··on Learnings from our years of Kubernetes in production
>Python is still the easiest way to write software

Try dotnet then

hardware2win··on OKRs Are Bullshit
I really like OKRs when they are executed well
hardware2win··on Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
Indeed.

Standardized exams are the most fair and transparent.

Materials and tutors are available easily for free or cheaply on the internet nowadays.

hardware2win··on EU chip goal 'unrealistic' says ASML CEO
Software engineeers dont work directly with hardware, it aint their expertise.

You definitely can be good SE without understanding semiconductors

hardware2win··on ORMs are nice but they are the wrong abstraction
Too much ORM hate in this thread

They are really useful for like 90% of the work

The rest can be made with raw sql

Combine strengths of those two powerful tools, dont be religious

hardware2win··on ORMs are nice but they are the wrong abstraction
Oh god, no, never.

Painful to maintain, test, debug, etc.

hardware2win··on EU chip goal 'unrealistic' says ASML CEO
>That's because they've been allowed to call themselves engineers for so long that they're starting to believe they are.

What a take.

Is doctor telling bullshit about computers less doctor-ish?

hardware2win··on EU chip goal 'unrealistic' says ASML CEO
This isnt some 50ppl startup

There are long ass supply chains

hardware2win··on Intel's Humbling
They will be manufacturing them for their customers.

Also arm isa is just isa

You seem to focus on it too much when it isnt THAT relevant.

Isa doesnt imply perf/energy characteristics

hardware2win··on Intel's Humbling
They will be manufacturing those ARM cpus
hardware2win··on Intel's Humbling
Have you read chip war?

It will challenge your concerns

hardware2win··on CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management
So, teams??

Basically industry standard

hardware2win··on C_std: Implementation of C++ standard libraries in C
Existing options like? Using 3rd party libs for basic data structures?
hardware2win··on C_std: Implementation of C++ standard libraries in C
>C++ can omit all this, and can do simple bit shifts instead of multiplications.

Irrelevant. We need good lib in C

hardware2win··on 83% of Warren Buffett's $365B Portfolio Is Invested in Just 7 Stocks
I do wonder why theres so little investing related content on HN

Arent "hackers" interested in this?

hardware2win··on More Than 5 Thousand People Lost a Job in Game Industry This Month
I think it is really unfair

Loot boxes are maybe 1% of the game and theres shitton of challenges, creativity and effort needed for the other 99%

hardware2win··on Google employees blast 'profoundly boring' management lacking 'visionary leader'
Dont get baited folks

Those are companies hiring 100Ks of ppl, of course some of them are frustrated but it is not as relevant as news try to make it.

I bet you could read 10s of posts like that monthly about MSFT 15 years ago

What stock market taught me is that snarky comments under articles or reddit arent good future perf. predictor

hardware2win··on How to Design an ISA
Youre talking about java end to end, we are talking about just syntax.
hardware2win··on How to Design an ISA
>Sure, it's possible to write a Java allocator/GC that will yield similar performance to the C++ code,

Didnt you just agree with me that it is dependent on the impl/end product?

Because what would be the reasons in isa world to make it not desirable

>The syntax of the language has constrained the implementation so that Java will practically always be slower.

The most interesting question is: by how much?

1% 3%? 30?

hardware2win··on How to Design an ISA
>There are good reasons why 32-bit Arm failed to compete with Intel for performance, and why x86 has failed to displace Arm in low-power markets. The things that you want to optimize for at different sizes are different.

What if x86 CPUs werent designed for low power? e.g due to focus on competitivness in perf focused markets

Saying that one isa is faster or more energy efficient is like saying that c++ syntax is faster than java syntax.

While there are lang features that enable stuff, then almost everything is up to the implementation - compiler, libraries, runtime and the programs code.

One letters arent faster than the other. ISA doesnt imply perf. characteristics of the end product.

Read this:

https://chipsandcheese.com/2021/07/13/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-...

Even if you start talking about decoders, then:

>Another oft-repeated truism is that x86 has a significant ‘decode tax’ handicap. ARM uses fixed length instructions, while x86’s instructions vary in length. Because you have to determine the length of one instruction before knowing where the next begins, decoding x86 instructions in parallel is more difficult. This is a disadvantage for x86, yet it doesn’t really matter for high performance CPUs because in Jim Keller’s words:

hardware2win··on The failure of self-checkout technology
Failure?

They work very fine, just not replace as many workers as expected

hardware2win··on World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2024
>pretty much everyone seems to hate the WEF

Who?

Random people on the facebook or reddit?

If so, then why their opinion should be taken into consideration?

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