Tramort

Have you looked at sandstorm? Or used it?

It's one of my favorite stacks, and I'm curious to hear your thoughts.

He didn't sell you out as much as he just gave you away. Like trash. Because that's what he thinks of you.

Seriously.

The union that represents correctional workers, the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, said in a press release that some members of their executive board had watched footage of the incident.

“What we witnessed is incomprehensible to say the least and is certainly not reflective of the great work that the vast majority of our membership conducts every day,” the union’s press release said. “This incident not only endangers our entire membership but undermines the integrity of our profession.”

The press release from the correction officers’ union said: “When this footage is released to the public, it will undoubtedly draw comparisons to other high-profile incidents of violence involving law enforcement.”

Can you elaborate?

"CON-ductor" v "con-DUCT-or"

Weird

Your initial claim was that they couldn't be measured that way. You're right that they aren't stored as bits, but it's irrelevant to whether you can measure them using bits as the unit of information size.

Think of it like this: in the 1980s there were breathless articles about CD ROM technology, and how, in the future, "the entire encyclopedia Britannica could be stored on one disc". How was that possible to know? Encyclopedias were not digitally stored! You can't measure them in bits!

It's possible because you could define a hypothetical analog to digital encoder, and then quantify how many bits coming off that encoder would be needed to store the entire corpus.

This is the same thing. You can ADC anything, and the spec on your ADC defines the bitrate you need to store the stream coming off... in bits (per second)

All information can be stored in a digital form, and all information can be measured in base 2 units (of bits).

This video is amazing, but I agree about the repetition.

My guess is that it's an editing oversight, and she doesn't know she had the same prose in two different sections.

Amazing! This is great work!

The lawsuit claims that Pat Gelsinger and David Zinsner failed to communicate the poor performance of the Intel Foundry division, which had struggled to attract significant interest from major fabless designers while bleeding money. The lawsuit accuses Intel of failing to disclose critical risks in its 2024 Proxy Statement, a claim similar to one for which the company the company was sued for earlier this year. The lawsuit further claims that executives and board members allowed misleading statements about Intel Foundry Services' (IFS) growth potential, obscuring substantial operating losses and declining internal revenue. 

Now, because this article got a little long, as per a friend's suggestion, here's a table of contents:

Optimization gives us optimal programs

Branch weights and the CPU's branch predictor

-O3 produces much faster code than -O2

Javascript interpreters JIT at runtime because they don't know which paths are hot ahead of time

If you have a compiler, you don't need an interpreter

The middle-end is target/platform-independent

The compiler optimizes for data locality

-O0 gives you fast compilation

Templates are slow to compile

Separate compilation is always worth it

Why does link-time optimization (LTO) happen at link-time?

Inlining is useful primarily because it eliminates a call instruction

The role of the inline keyword

The best production compiler to study is LLVM

Undefined behavior only enables optimizations

The compiler can "simply" define undefined behavior 99% correctness rate is ok

Goodbye