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Most programmers write code for an abstract computer. The thing is- code runs on a real computer that works in a specific way. *Your mileage may vary
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Quote: there’s a 25-100x advantage to using the memory that’s in the CPU’s cache compared to memory that’s in RAM.
Unfortunately, most programmers never think about this.
And thank Jehosephat they don't!
How many machines would burst into flames if every single app, driver, and advert on it were thrashing that memory?
The least that would happen is that bunches of registers would fail, thereby slowing absolutely everything down.
Flag that article as dangerous.
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Agreed; and it is not like the architecture differs so much between the clones that there'd hardly be any difference.
In the world of Games where you always need a new machine to play the latest release, where performance is a whole lot more important than, say, MS Outlook, they tend to program more and more against "general accepted programming interfaces". It's called DirectX.
It is also usually not the CPU that is the bottleneck in most of the games 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I'm surprised no one has posted this yet: Write in C[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That's half the story. With relatively little control over WHERE things are allocated, you can easily end up with data scattered all over the memory space resulting in a high incidence of page faults and page faults are even worse than cache misses.
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New algorithms can recreate the images in your mind with uncanny accuracy. But can it guess the card I'm holding?
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Yeah, but as soon as you take away the number you first thought of -- and not in mandarin -- they'm buggered!
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Just don't try to picture the robot naked.
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Standards group recommends removing periodic password change requirements. This means I won't have to buy as many PostIt!(tm) notes to remember the password I have to change every 42 days
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"Swordfish[^]"
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Microsoft’s support for Windows 10 (version 1507) ends today. This is the original version of Windows 10, released publicly in July 2015. Wait, is this some stealth way to get us to upgrade to Win10?
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It's a good start.
They'll soon be stopping support for future versions, as well, which will save a lot of time.
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There is no long term support?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I think the LTS version is 1607 (the Anniversary Update)
TTFN - Kent
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ITYM: This will have a huge effect on my lifestyle.
(And that, boys and girls, is how one uses a backdoor)
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They're slow as molasses, as always.
My support for winio ended many months ago.
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You lie! How can it end when it never even began?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Hmm, dunno.
My support for "the next windows" began when they released 8 (I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in that).
But I can see how it might seem as you say, given that my support for winio ended somewhere around ten minutes after I tried it.
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The Public Review Ballot for JSR 376, the Java Platform Module System is behind us. The EC has not approved it and now the race to build a better version has begun. Oracle voted for it? How odd.
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A better version of Java?
A pig in catwalk-model clothing is still only good for smoking.
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Are there any news outlets left that publish news without a political or ideological bias or agenda? Any that don't suppress news or change it's content to make it more palatable?
Every news article could be considered fake news to some degree; my feeling is that this "fake news" crusade is more about giving the establishment powers to remove news that they don't want you to see.
I remember how much the media and government tried their best to cover up the New Year attacks in Cologne.. it took weeks for the news to actually surface across Europe.
Germany to fine social networks up to €50m for not taking down illegal 'fake news' posts | The Independent
I imagine it's very tempting to class "inconvenient news" as "fake news" to maintain power.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Every news article is biased because encyclopedia articles are boring to the average reader, but bias doesn't make it fake, in spite of what some claim. Fake would be publishing articles about things that didn't happen.
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