What's the advantage of standardizing through ISO/IEC? Better adoption in industry?
Seems like this would take away a lot of power from RISC-V International. But I don't know much about this process.
Readit NewsCredit where it’s due: doing live demos is hard. Yesterday didn’t feel staged—it looked like the classic “last-minute tweak, unexpected break.” Most builders have been there. I certainly have (I once spent 6 hours at a hackathon and broke the Flask server keying in a last minute change on the steps of the stage before going on).
Live demos are especially hard when you're selling snake oil.
Does some interesting things if you up the ball speed to 20. The boundary breaks down.
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"When in doubt, use brute force." --Ken Thompson
axblount commented on A candidate giant planet imaged in the habitable zone of α Cen A arxiv.org/abs/2508.03814... · Posted by u/pinewurst
I was curious about the acceleration due to gravity at the surface:
G * (120 Earth masses) / (radius of Jupiter ^ 2)
That sounds horrible. What are better resources?
Lisp In Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec
It takes a very thoughtful approach to introducing an increasingly complex Scheme implementation. I doesn't shy away from the complexity that many LISP implementation tutorials try to push under the rug.
axblount commented on 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results survey.stackoverflow.co/2... · Posted by u/colingw
I'm sorry but committing genocide is wrong without scare quotes. There is no justification.
Someone from the Texas state government wanted to buy a $75 licence for my event planning software. Fine. Then they told me I had to sign an agreement that I wouldn't boycot Israel. Ridiculous. It's none of their business. I refused to sign it and didn't get the sale.
Arizona has a similar law regarding the Uyghurs. Every contact needs a clause that says no Uyghur "forced labor" was used.
- distraction free (except doodling)
- lower power consumption
- expressive in a way that typing can never be
- tends to discourage editing as you write
edit: and less eye strain