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·قبل 13 يومًا·discuss
> We think it is highly likely that these LX2 chiplets are etched using SMIC 7 nanometer processes at the N+3 refinement, and we base that on the fact that the chip only runs at 1.55 GHz. That is nowhere near the 3 GHz that SMIC can push with that process, but it is probably lower to get the memory and core speeds more balanced. [1]

Based on the ARMv9.2.

[1] https://www.nextplatform.com/hpc/2026/06/25/a-deep-dive-on-c...
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·قبل 16 يومًا·discuss
I was a programmer, and moved over to biology recently. I was very "wtf is R" when I started, but slowly its strengths are coming through. I found the combination of the REPL plus the IDE, and the language syntax, somehow give me the ability to play around a lot more than I expected. Unlike others, I find tidyverse (especially ggplot2 and dplyr, which reminds me a lot of pandas) to be quite intuitive.
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·قبل 17 يومًا·discuss
I love this, it's like a grown-up PrintShop.
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·الشهر الماضي·discuss
That's fascinating, I remember my Dad telling me you would pay for something in guineas as a sort of tip, but I never knew it was for horses (this is in Australia).
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
I loved Swaine's Flames from DDJ. Shame I missed his revival.
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
Great map!

No Opeth?
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
For those wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Ser...
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
You'd think they'd just ban repeat offenders.
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
Yeah, you'd think they'd include that.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec6413

"Upon treatment with acid, that bond breaks to release more than a megajoule per kilogram of the compound, enough to rapidly boil water from a solution."

That's from the editor's summary (I haven't had time to read the paper).
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
From the Wikipedia article:

> However, it is possible to implement saturating addition and subtraction in software without branches, using only modular arithmetic and bitwise logical operations that are available on all modern CPUs and their predecessors, including all x86 CPUs (back to the original Intel 8086) and some popular 8-bit CPUs (some of which implement the Z80 instruction set) are still in production.

Does anyone know what the implementation of this is, without conditional moves?
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
Do you mean for a teaching job, or just any job? Certainly in fields like biology, you can only be taken seriously by others in the field by having an advanced degree (which is really only the beginning).

In computing, in the commercial field, you can of course get by with no degree.
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
> And for sports, the level at which you have to be competitive is getting younger and younger. So much more sports science/nutrition going in at the middle school/high school level.

For endurance-based sports, online coaching has really accelerated this as well.

For skills, you still really need in-person coaching.
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·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
> Plenty of music was developed in the form of source files.

That's fascinating. I came in during the Amiga era, and everything was SoundTracker etc. files. I had no idea that music was hand-coded like this.
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·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
I loved the Circuit Cellar columns. It was all very over my head, but I loved the descriptions and the writing, and the process.
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·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
BYTE mag and Creative Computing were the first computing magazines I read, and really kick-started my excitement with computers, even though everything was out of my reach (either too expensive as a kid, or running on computers that were too expensive for me to contemplate). I remember there was a library catalogue system written for the Apple II that I tried to "cargo cult" rewrite for my MicroBee (an Australian Z80-based computer). I had no idea what all the "CHR $4" calls were for, but loved the process of typing in the listings.
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·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
I don't know much about him, only that he was in the same party. I have heard that he is pro-EU and anti-Russia though, is that true?
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·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
I clicked on this fearing it was a "256 bytes of JS" (plus X GB of browser), and was pleasantly surprised it was actually 256 bytes.
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·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
I checked out some subreddits on the mission, and left pretty quickly for that reason. It's nice to find some positivity and wonder at it. I love what Artemis II is doing, found the launch very exciting and a little nerve wracking, and can't wait until they get even closer to the Moon.
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·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
Game making is like film making in this regard: it's often a "passion job."
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·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
A^2I^2 or (AI)^2