@timbray As I hinted before, the problem isn't the character it's the 2**n-1 rule. Change how they work to make them more manageable and the choice of character is far less important.
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1/4 Reminder: The use of “\” as a regex escape character is causing me problems in a particular programming scenario, explained here: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/09/22/Unbackslashing -
Oh wow holy shit I take it back Royal Mail, I got a notification of delivery this morning, and ebay just followed up to let me know it was delivered _to Vancouver_, after departing Sheffield maybe 36 hours ago. That's pretty damn slick.@danderson Told ya
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It's so odd getting my Atari STs shipped from the UK, they're going through ebay's brokerage thing but because I provided an email, I'm also getting tracking updates from the intermediate carriers along the way.@danderson When I lived in California, if I ordered something from the UK it always arrived within two working days. If I ordered it from elsewhere in the state, it would take a week.
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I was there at the time and could say a lot of things about the CRISP, but will restrict myself to three observations:I was there at the time and could say a lot of things about the CRISP, but will restrict myself to three observations:
1. There was this thinking that the architecture meant the compiler could do a better job, but that was putting the cart before the horse. Better compilers were a better idea.
2. The stack architecture put too many gates on the performance-critical traces in the CPU.
3. I am the photographer of those photos at the bottom of the die.AT&T’s CRISP Hobbits
An unexpected journey for AT&T with it's own low power processor
(thechipletter.substack.com)
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Friend of mine who's a lawyer was wondering about setting up a chatbot to provide advice to nonprofits on the governing law in the local jurisdiction. I had opinions, and then I thought “why not” and asked ChatGPT what it thought about the idea general...@timbray Chatbots can't think. It didn't tell you what it "thought". It just did some stochastic pattern matching. This anthropomorphizing is at the heart of the problem with them.
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Reposting a link to my blog about role models from a few years ago.Reposting a link to my blog about role models from a few years ago. It is as relevant as ever. Things aren't improving, and the tech bros (ever hear the term "tech sis"?) rise to ever greater, unstoppable power and influence.
The power of role models
I spent a few days a while back in a board meeting for a national astronomy organization and noticed a property of the population in that ro...
(commandcenter.blogspot.com)
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No matter what citation graph I explore, IEEE is without fail the most broken part of the graph.@danderson Many years ago I wrote for an IEEE journal a long and detailed referee's report for a deeply flawed paper, asking for significant changes. I later learned that another, more venerable researcher had done the same. They published it unchanged, and I vowed never again to write or referee for the IEEE.
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1/2 Hey folks, to welcome September, a pair of ultrageek blog posts on representing 64-bit IEEE 754 floats in the minimum possible number of UTF-8 bytes.@timbray This is lovely.
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I see concerning amounts of posting and now sub-posting about linux, rust, and people being shit at each other.