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saati··on Easy RISC-V
Yeah the problem with having flags is demonstrated by multiple very high performance implementations of arm64 and x86, while risc-v has exactly zero.
saati··on 86 GB/s bitpacking with ARM SIMD (single thread)
Does it fit 32K? Does it have some weird aliasing issue because you caused cache extinction with too many power of two sizes? And if you don't know the answer to these just check L1d hitrate with perf.
saati··on DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list
But 1-5 is the executable making decisions based on it's command name, not the OS changing behavior.
saati··on The future of 32-bit support in the kernel
The original UNIX literally swapped processes, as in write all their memory to disk and read another program's state from disk to memory, it could only run as many processes as many times the swap was bigger than core, this is a wholly unacceptable design nowadays.
saati··on Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
That's only true if you totally ignore hot air balloons, the actual first manned flight was in 1783.
saati··on Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs
But the jurisdiction is obvious, and it doesn't change just because someone from Mississippi walked in.
saati··on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?
Zens don't have a trace cache, just an uop cache.
saati··on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU
The 8 core X3D chips beat the 16 core ones on almost all games, so that's not that simple.
saati··on RISC-V single-board computer for less than 40 euros
Because the very bottom is the only segment where it's worth to not just pay Arm for a core, with much better ecosystem support and ISA.
saati··on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act
Except the effort and money needed to be OSA compliant. As the whole enwiki is permissively licensed everyone is welcome to do it though.
saati··on AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing
But the point is, why would you trust it for anything at all, when it can't do an incredibly simple thing reliably at all? (Yes, I understand the tokenizer makes this hard, but still, it's a quick demonstration that it's just bad technology.)
saati··on GPT-5
Does something where you don't care about quality this much need doing at all?
saati··on AI is propping up the US economy
But fiber optics are different, they stay good for a very long while and you just need to add better transceivers at the ends to upgrade them, it's questionable whether the current GPUs are even worth powering up once 2nm ones are out, and we also don't know how long they last, electromigration might start killing them in 5 years.
saati··on A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability
By 2018 it was the system malloc by default, so that does not add up.
saati··on I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data
If they were mucking around with asm and custom jit those memory safety guarantees are gone.
saati··on FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code
The AVX2 version was still 64x faster than the C one, so AVX-512 is just 50% improvement over that. Hand vectorized assembly is very much the key to the gains.
saati··on LLM Inevitabilism
And never back it up with hard data on productivity and defect rate before and after.
saati··on Intel's Lion Cove P-Core and Gaming Workloads
That was very different, here the problem is the game's threads get scheduled on the weak E-cores and it doesn't like that for some reasons, with the PS3 that would have been impossible, SPEs had a different ISA, and didn't even have direct access to memory, the problem was developers had to write very different code for the SPEs to unlock most of the performance of the Cell.
saati··on The Unsustainability of Moore's Law
That's Dennard scaling, Moore's law is not about clocks but components on an integrated circuit.
saati··on Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with 'the biggest, baddest CPU'
But history showed exactly the opposite, if you don't have an already existing software ecosystem you are dead, the transistors for implementing x86 peculiarities are very much worth it if people in the market want x86.
saati··on Japan Post launches 'digital address' system
What stops them from sending the spam to the same code?
saati··on Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
You never heard of COBOL? It's original premise was you can now use something resembling English to write programs.
saati··on Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
They can do that in private repos just as easily, this a pr stunt that backfired very badly.
saati··on Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model
Because the original is a man and his father, it's a test for gender bias.
saati··on America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back
The US can't even make EUV machines, just parts of it.
saati··on I stopped everything and started writing C again
> You wrote code, you knew roughly which instructions it translated to, and there you went!

This must have been a very very long time ago, with optimizing compilers you don't really know even if they will emit any instructions.

saati··on LINUX is obsolete (1992)
> Tanenbaum was theoraticaly correct.

He was only correct in a world where programmer and cpu time is free and infinite.

saati··on Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024)
Killer app for what platform?
saati··on Turn any bicycle electric
India has 34 cars per 1000 people, that counts as pretty rare. For comparison the EU has 567 and the US over 800.
saati··on LLMs and Code Optimization
A lot of demoscene optimizations are sacrificing correctness for speed, and thus not really applicable in most domains.
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