> immersion effect
Totally agree. At the moment, add to home screen creates a shortcut that opens up Safari (along with its other distracting tabs ;) would be great if Sit could be set up as a web app too!
I’m seriously considering piracy because streaming services don’t offer subtitles in my mothertoungue. I come from a non-english speaking country and I live in a foreign country. Some movie offerings provide my mother tongue, but others don’t, and this is super annoying :’( I really wish content providers would just add on all subtitle languages :(
Computer architects use the term 'memory wall' to refer to this latency problem. CPU microarchitectures are constantly improved to improve IPC, Die technology helps increase CPU frequency, but memory access latency is not keeping up with the CPU improvements.
Thank you for this (albeit a different project). My immediate question when I read the last part of the page was 'What about PyPy!?' PyPy might be different for the original post's execution, but I still assume some significant speedups?
The JDK issue ticket linked towards the bottom of the post has some interesting discussions. Apparently Developers at RedHat ran into a similar problem and decided to build an 'agent' to help developers identify code patterns triggering the issue.
Slightly different approach to the Netflix post, but still an interesting line of effort to find problematic Java code!