I think Intel will do a good job of it. They have no choice if they get this expansion wrong they are done.
My expectations for Europe though, are sadly much lower.
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My expectations for Europe though, are sadly much lower.
I wrote when the first news broke and got a pretty prompt reply it was being looked at. Then Facebook announced it's pause and the issue went silent.
Now it's rearing up again we need to likewise make sure it's on the radar of our MPs.
Often material is either too abstract or far too detailed, ECS managed to find the perfect balance where someone with a CS background can drill down to transistors and come back upwards again and really understand where they are going on that journey.
I'm looking forward to diving into the second edition and hoping the second half is better than the first edition.
You have a choice but it's a bit like voluntary solitary confinement. Especially during a lockdown.
Pretty much all of our school and local community communication happens via WhatsApp. I'd change to Signal or Telegram in a heartbeat, but the inertia is so great it's not possible.
It pains me to say, but we're getting to the point where companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google need to be treated like utilities or something so that such moves as these can be scrutinised and controlled more effectively as Facebook could pretty much (within current law) introduce whatever policy they like and users would be faced with the option of accepting or being cut off from their local community.
Given the pandemic and the UK lockdown, this is not tolerable.
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014236/Quake-A-Post-Mortem-an...
I feel like he hasn't been risen up to the stature of John Carmack but if you look at the things he's shipped in his career (no less than Quake AND Windows NT) and at the sheer volume of content he produced during those halcyon days in the late 80s/90s when the PC emerged from dumb as rocks beige business box to premier gaming platform, he is a key figure.
I was too young and grew up too remote to have access to his writings as they were written but as an older engineer going back over his Graphics Black Book, the Zen of Assembly books and his Dr Dobbs articles, there's a lot of lessons that you can learn that still have a lot of value today.
Actually one of the best lessons - and most easily accessible - is in the first chapter of his graphics black book, he talks about the human element of optimisation, and that it is critical to optimise the right thing. He uses an example of a engineer he knew that in the era of early electronic calculators (still clunky and and slow, but getting faster all the time) honed his slide rule skills to wipe the floor with any desktop calculator operator. But he was spitting into the wind, it was clear calculators were getting faster and there was no more road with slide rules.
Ultimately he wasted effort on a legacy technology rather than leveraging what was up and coming.
In many ways this mirrored the PC, in its early days, it was slow, dumb and unwieldy, but it was improving at a rate of knots and eventually came to dominate.
Both Michael's Black Book and Zen of Assembly are on Github and maintained as PDF, Epub and other formats. They aren't terribly applicable technologically to computing today but they are very readable and contain a lot of general purpose problem solving and optimisation tips that are as applicable today as they were then.
https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book
There have been few technical writers emerge that match Michael Abrash and it makes me so happy he's still hacking away at interesting problems today. Shame he doesn't write as much as he did, but I'm sure he's busy trying to usher in the metaverse (snowcrash had a big influence on him)!
But as a parent, it is YOUR 3 year old so you want the absolute best for them. The end result, I believe, would have been exactly the same had it happened here or in the US. Just I had a lot more confidence (at the time) seeing just how much was being done to ensure there was no scarring.
End result would be roughly the same.
In some parts of the country it may be a longer wait than others. The NHS generally though are very good when you visit with very young children.
She had 5 stitches and was in and out in about 90 minutes. A plastic surgeon did the stitches and at one point there were 8 folks in the room.
She has no scar and the experience was very good.
We had full insurance, and when the bill came, it was ~$4500 of which we had to pay roughly $990 ourselves.
Still not sure how to feel about it - that's a high price for a few stitches, but if I had a choice of going to a UK hospital for free, or paying a grand to know my daughter will be perfectly cared for, assuming I had that grand, I'd rather pay.
Not everyone has that option though and that's the problem.
Not sure when, but I'm certain it will.
It is one of those strange things, the more closed things become, the greater the incentive is to open them back up again.
The hacker ethic is still out there, just this recent boom has dulled it a bit. A steady diet of locked down computing will fix that.
It was very pretty and _very_ broken then, but e-term, which required a tonne of E libs, was the terminal everyone used to show off their desktop so you kind of lived with it.
I've become something of CPU collector in recent years, and I have a nice line of p6 cpus from thePentium Pro -> Pentium 2 -> Pentium 3 -> Pentium M -> Core 2 that conveniently sidesteps those awful Netburst p4 CPUs.
It feels like this (p6+) microarch has finally run out of road and needs a rethink. What 'saved' intel was a change in philosophy rather than chasing MHz they chased power savings. And with Apple's new chips that history is repeating itself (and appears to be with a similar outcome).
It's an exciting time for hardware again because Intel and AMD are going to have to react to this and I think there's still legs to x86, it's survived everything thats been thrown at it so far...
Apple is going to lose developers.
Games and applications were evolving at break-neck speed and the pace of change really made you feel anything was possible. Encarta was really a product of that time.
If you were doing primary / secondary school during the 90s, you'd have had to do projects where paper encyclopaedias were your primary resource. For me in a rural school it wasn't until the mid 90s we had 486PCs with CDROM drives and going from Britannica to the searchable rich media database that was Encarta was a massive force multiplier. It was a remarkable demonstration of how positive an effect technology could have on the learning experience.
I unfortunately agree with a lot of what he says (this after using linux either a primary or secondary desktop OS for over 23 years) have kind of the same fatigue.
It really saddens, this current state of the linux desktop.
Now compared to the US (and I'm sure there are areas where you can be well served) it is a desert for bread. You may get the odd 'artisanal sour dough loaf', but the very fact it's shipped from california and will last 2 weeks makes you wonder!
2020, I'm done.
That such incredible, well produced content like this is 'free' and so easily accessible is mind boggling compared to the efforts I had to go through in the late 80s learning computing independently.
Ultimately MS over between 2010-2020 lost developer mindshare and they weren't going to get it back. So pivot time and now we have Linux all the things.
Once they have developers back..., well, who knows what they'll start doing then.
I mean, I know it's happening, I (sadly) expect it to happen now. But seeing all the bits whizzing over the wire brought home just how much your machine is reporting about what you're up to.