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New comment by mgaunard in "Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction"

mgaunard — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:30:22 +0000

Then most people would be wrong.

A VLIW ISA is a classical example of a superscalar processor without out-of-order execution.

New comment by mgaunard in "Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction"

mgaunard — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:53:54 +0000

It's already transparent even without out-of-order execution, and pipelining is an entirely different thing than superscalar execution.

New comment by mgaunard in "Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction"

mgaunard — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:26:10 +0000

Any modern processor has different execution ports specialized in different things and replicated a different number of times, and all of them can execute instructions in parallel.

It schedules to these transparently for you, that's known as superscalar execution. To maximize occupation, out-of-order execution and simultaneous multithreading are used.

New comment by mgaunard in "Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft"

mgaunard — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:58:39 +0000

> This project is still early in its developement. Bugs, crashes and miscompilations are expected. DO NOT USE IT FOR ANYTHING SERIOUS.

how can one claim it is tier-1?

Also random student, nothing official from Microsoft.

New comment by mgaunard in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"

mgaunard — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:47:14 +0000

All those applications area sensitive to asynchronous programming.

New comment by mgaunard in "Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft"

mgaunard — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:46:07 +0000

does it mean there is a rust.net?

New comment by mgaunard in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

mgaunard — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:00:54 +0000

it's not part of the free ChatGPT tier.

New comment by mgaunard in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

mgaunard — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:59:13 +0000

it's supposed to work from whatsapp. It's US-only so I could not verify.

New comment by mgaunard in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

mgaunard — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:57:46 +0000

None of them lets you have a hosted dedicated agent with real browsing capabilities on the free tier.

New comment by mgaunard in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

mgaunard — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:40:55 +0000

I disagree. It matches exactly what I need.

Whenever I try to do something with ChatGPT or Gemini, it just refuses to do things citing limitations in its web browsing capabilities. An everyday LLM that can actually fill forms and do stuff for you on the Internet without having to run on your computer, write programs or interact through special harnesses is what normal people actually need.

It's a different need from the agentic coding type of LLM, where you provide the environment where it can write and execute arbitrary code.

New comment by mgaunard in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"

mgaunard — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:39:37 +0000

I mostly fly flights that are less than 2 hours (I'm in Europe).

Unfortunately as the crow flies that seems to be closer to 800 miles than 125.

I'm in London and the airport itself is already 60 miles away.

New comment by mgaunard in "Pre-Release of Polars 2.0"

mgaunard — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:45:08 +0000

Those are all precise and meaningful words that are very useful in software design.

New comment by mgaunard in "Pre-Release of Polars 2.0"

mgaunard — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:03:17 +0000

Claude's wording (and knowledge) is based on what competent senior engineers would say.

New comment by mgaunard in "Pre-Release of Polars 2.0"

mgaunard — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:01:35 +0000

Both have terrible syntax that make SQL look like the most readable thing ever.

New comment by mgaunard in "The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified"

mgaunard — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:57:45 +0000

In practice, you hire the most qualified within the pool of people that can reasonably work for you: right to work in the right country, compatible hours, is able to connect socially with the rest of your team, etc.

New comment by mgaunard in "Muse Spark 1.3"

mgaunard — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:52:56 +0000

They could have just called the article "struggling to remain relevant"

New comment by mgaunard in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

mgaunard — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:41:13 +0000

With Linux I'm used to just being able to fix problems instead of working around them.

With macOS I have to reverse engineer their bootloader with radare2 and remove a stupid safety check just to be able to load a driver.

New comment by mgaunard in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

mgaunard — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:28:25 +0000

Just checked, by EU law, banks cannot charge more for a SEPA euro transfer than they do for a local transfer within your own country.

New comment by mgaunard in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

mgaunard — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:15:55 +0000

SEPA transfers are zero fees by law.

New comment by mgaunard in "JIT Compiling Code in 5μs"

mgaunard — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:31:58 +0000

I do put substantial amount of work into reviewing code: that's essentially what my job is.

And even if everyone is using the same LLM model, quality varies on lot on who's driving it.