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limsup··on 16-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes
No, there is a 16-bit version https://content.riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/riscv-s... See chapter 12, “C” Standard Extension for Compressed Instructions

> This chapter describes the current draft proposal for the RISC-V standard compressed instruction set extension, named “C”, which reduces static and dynamic code size by adding short 16-bit instruction encodings for common operations.

limsup··on Async-std: an async port of the Rust standard library
It looks great.

But it's odd that they do not cite Tokio. I know this isn't an academic paper, but come on have some professional curtesy and discuss the contributions made in prior art.

limsup··on Investigating the Galileo Satellite Navigation System Outage with a LimeSDR
I've got a LimeSDR-mini (which is more economical). If you're only interested in RX, you should definitely consider the cheaper RTL-SDR. I'm just starting to learn about SDR, and am far from sending anything. I wish I had gone with an entry-level device first.
limsup··on A Secure Runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript Built with V8, Rust, and Tokio
https://crates.io/crates/deno
limsup··on Show HN: Catj – A new way to display JSON files
Try it with deno:

deno install catj https://deno.land/std/examples/catjson.ts --allow-read

limsup··on Websocketd
It's not so much the fork but the memory cost. Each of those subprocesses has at least one call stack = 2 megabytes of memory. 2 megabytes per connection is many many orders of magnitude more that you would use in an asynchronous server.
limsup··on We Should Teach Music History Backwards
Not for science history. It's very hard to grasp what the hell the LHC is about. First tell me why how they figured out water wasn't an element but a combination of two.
limsup··on Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter
I exclusively program on a small laptop and don't have great eyesight. Formatting code such that it only looks good on huge displays makes my life more difficult.
limsup··on Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter
80 columns is very standard.
limsup··on Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter
88 column wrap? Yeah - no thanks.
limsup··on US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
Wow. The fact that they can just get this with "oral approval" (relayed by them to your carrier) is shocking to me. This is ridiculous.
limsup··on Artificial Neural Nets Grow Brainlike Navigation Cells
Link to pdf: https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-01...
limsup··on Show HN: Quickfix, the best stupid idea for fixing problems in Node modules
Check in your node_modules. You are badly correcting the wrong problem. npm repo should not be hit for every checkout, deploy, and CI test. Just commit your dependencies - and if you need to hack them, you can float a patch with git.
limsup··on Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js
http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/ http://tinyclouds.org/residency/
limsup··on Toyota Research Institute head says full autonomous driving is “not even close”
Consider the proportion of the cost of an Uber ride that goes to the driver compared with the proportion of the cost of an airplane ticket that goes to the pilot. A driverless car has the potential to be much cheaper, but a pilotless plane would not be much different. Many new train systems are automated. The cost of retrofitting older systems is just too great.
limsup··on Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
His low point was when Yahoo offered to buy FB for a billion dollars. Dark times.
limsup··on Go Proposal: first-class support for sorting slices
https://golang.org/LICENSE
limsup··on Hello, Tensorflow
clearly you haven't tried to install caffe
limsup··on Three ideas about text messages
iMessage is the standard messaging app in the US... or at least in my life.
limsup··on Neural Networks Demystified
people are mostly interested in what is successful and backprop/gradient descent (with certain specific architectures) is what has been dropping error rates on all sorts of tasks in recent years.
limsup··on GCC has built in support for compiling Go
anyone know recent performance numbers of gccgo vs the go compiler?
limsup··on Chrome for Mac 64-bit Support
Can someone explain why this wasn't done long ago? What are the difficulties of putting out a 64 bit build?
limsup··on Tell HN: Wear a Helmet
I think there's something to say about it being safer to bike in general in Netherlands vs in the US. Often in the US you are riding next to busy traffic, while in NE the bikes are better protected. Along with other things too: like a car driving population that is careful about bicyclists.

So, it's not exactly like saying I don't wear a seatbelt because I drive the speed limit. Rather it's like saying I don't wear a seat belt because I live in a different country where accidents are less probable.

limsup··on React v0.12
Can someone explain what the "spread operator" is and how to use it?
limsup··on Why Not Eat Octopus?
We can live perfectly healthy lives without meat. That said, I have no problem killing an animal that lived a full non-tortured life for food. I do think we owe more than buying the expensive whole foods meat. I think we should all go through the experience of killing a cow, pig, lamb, and chicken. Killing animals shouldn't be completely abstracted away from society - we need to understand what we are doing in a hands on way.
limsup··on Show HN: Firebasic – Input a JSON file, get static Firebase-compatible output
I see that this didn't get much attention on HN, but I think it's a great idea. A step towards a purely client-side static blog - which would be cool.
limsup··on How Times Square Works
Times Square generates 11% of NYC's economic output? 385k jobs? I find these numbers difficult to believe.
limsup··on First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos
time is kind of an essential component to music...
limsup··on Atlantropa
Dude, it's totally fucked. Like removing the sea from seaside towns. i'm sure if you're a mediterranean fisherman you would not be happy having the sea forcibly moved away from your home... The environmental impact is probably immeasurable.
limsup··on Curiosity Finds Iron Meteorite on Mars
I'm offended you assumed the commenter is male.
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