Hacker News: nerpderp83

New comment by nerpderp83 in "XXH3 – a new speed-optimized hash algorithm"

nerpderp83 — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:05:30 +0000

I would be interested in the avx2 transition penalty under real world workloads.

New comment by nerpderp83 in "Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip"

nerpderp83 — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 02:31:29 +0000

How and why are you so vehemently defending instacart when it comes to WA state law?

New comment by nerpderp83 in "Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip"

nerpderp83 — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 02:26:10 +0000

Class action lawsuit.

New comment by nerpderp83 in "Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip"

nerpderp83 — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 02:24:02 +0000

I'd love to see someone at Instacsrt jailed for wage theft.

They should have to pay back "the winnings" by 3x and fire the people involved.

New comment by nerpderp83 in "Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’"

nerpderp83 — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:45:30 +0000

Israel has "the bomb", they definitely could start a global war.

New comment by nerpderp83 in "Amazon's AbeBooks backs down after booksellers stage global protest"

nerpderp83 — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:52:02 +0000

Many professional books these days have issues with registration, bleed, trimming, etc. The quality is quite poor, to the point where I have fatigue determining if a book is "legit" or not.

New comment by nerpderp83 in "What happened when Buffer stopped using Slack on Fridays"

nerpderp83 — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 22:52:36 +0000

You are on social media right now.

New comment by nerpderp83 in "US to Allow Cars Without Steering Wheels"

nerpderp83 — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 22:52:17 +0000

These cars must have a little pop-out joystick to maneuver it around in a garage or during repair?

There should be a standardized control that pops out of the dash using a fixed icon, so that anyone can enable an override.

Nuts.

New comment by nerpderp83 in "The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found"

nerpderp83 — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:16:18 +0000

How awesome would it have been to be a high performing student, writing programs that a lower performing student would have to execute manually on your simulated computer system. So much good stuff here. Do you want to layout the nand gate or BE the nand gate? Or be the one that decides which problems the nand gate solves?

New comment by nerpderp83 in "Cloudera and Hortonworks merge"

nerpderp83 — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 21:27:26 +0000

It doesn't bode well for either of them. This is a pure contraction of the markets they are trying to serve.

New comment by nerpderp83 in "Why Do Computers Use So Much Energy?"

nerpderp83 — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:12:44 +0000

Because of leakage current.

New comment by nerpderp83 in "Cloudera and Hortonworks merge"

nerpderp83 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 21:09:48 +0000

Yikes!

New comment by nerpderp83 in "ARM releases free Cortex-M processor cores for FPGAs"

nerpderp83 — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 23:34:31 +0000

There are lots of other FPGAs that are still available for RISC-V to target that are precluded from this announcement.

ARM used to sue anyone trying to make an ARM clone and now this. Great news for RISC-V. At least one if not two low end FPGA manufacturers will be shipping a fabric with hard blocks supporting RISC-V.

New comment by nerpderp83 in "Pallene: A statically typed companion language for Lua [pdf]"

nerpderp83 — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 16:16:08 +0000

They emit C and call out to the system C compiler. They bypass the normal Lua extension mechanism for performance.

New comment by nerpderp83 in "GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development"

nerpderp83 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:54:40 +0000

I think it is a great short and long term move. The new smaller processes aren't getting us to faster clock rates, they are making things cheaper. GF can get to the same point by optimizing their current processes.

New comment by nerpderp83 in "GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development"

nerpderp83 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:23:44 +0000

ST Micro had a sorta-never-launched FPGA and Arm SoC called "Greenfield" that they announced back in 2005.

https://www.st.com/resource/en/data_brief/CD00051559.pdf

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1195750

New comment by nerpderp83 in "The case for abolishing private schools"

nerpderp83 — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 00:08:24 +0000

We can start by making funding per child the same across the US and not tied to local property taxes.

Long term classist ideologies are incompatible with Democracy.

New comment by nerpderp83 in "Bringing macros to Python by abusing type annotations"

nerpderp83 — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:05:22 +0000

If your macro isn't changing execution semantics, it probably doesn't need to be a macro.

This is why (if needs to be a special form if your language is eager, but you want to have short circuit conditionals. If you language is lazy, lots of things DON'T need to be macros.

New comment by nerpderp83 in "Show HN: A side project in medical devices"

nerpderp83 — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:24:37 +0000

Could you make another one, where the patient looks like a clown and call it, "a game" ?

New comment by nerpderp83 in "Growers Are Beaming Over the Success of Lasers to Stave Off Birds"

nerpderp83 — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 06:44:28 +0000

Mistakes that can't be unmade. They happen only once.