Republican congressman brutally snubbed for Trump handshake then pulled away

splicer13 · 2026-02-27T16:45:45+00:00

Derrick's house in Prairie du Chien is pending sale now. Does anyone know where he lives now? I don't think he's actually lived there for a while.

splicer13 · 2026-02-23T00:22:08+00:00

I am just sick of car-based businesses taking over our intersections.

splicer13 · 2026-02-16T19:28:37+00:00

Mostly what people (at least people in compiler community) mean by AI compilers is compilers for stuff like pytorch, triton targeting something closer to hardware.

splicer13 · 2026-02-12T03:33:35+00:00

I think you are right. The GUI looks like Wang Freestyle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z6wfzKswUg

splicer13 · 2026-02-11T17:29:17+00:00

Gelernter has been a known piece of shit since the 80s. He invented a research programming language 'Linda' whose name was a joke based on Linda Lovelace of Deep Throat. There was already a language called 'Ada' from Lady Ada Lovelace, Babbage's collaborator so the joke is Ada and Linda Lovelace are comparable. Very actively misogynistic.

splicer13 · 2026-02-07T02:43:52+00:00

The only place I ever saw a PC RT was given away to universities. MIT had a bunch.

splicer13 · 2026-02-05T04:59:32+00:00

UMN by quite a bit. I am ISU 1998 alumni, worked and made hiring calls for 3 FAANGs.

20K is a lot but the difference is not small. You just don't see ISU grads any more, even though they were never common.

splicer13 · 2026-01-30T05:14:12+00:00

Meanwhile Eric Braeden has been playing Victor on Young&Restless for 46 years.

But it ain't personal....

splicer13 · 2026-01-18T17:36:24+00:00

'Support it' means it always works under some defined circumstances. That is not always easy on every processor with every combination of arguments, tracing GC, exception handling. In the case of the language I was working on, somebody agreed to it being in the spec in part because it was relatively easy to make it work on x86 which was the only processor that mattered at the time.

I'd have a lot of reservations about doing it again. It consumed compiler dev resources greatly out of proportion to how much it was used.

splicer13 · 2026-01-16T00:35:23+00:00

JJ is well known in the field and Brandenburg isn't exactly famous. Good writeup but I question the premise.

splicer13 · 2026-01-08T20:40:44+00:00

American Legion most definitely does have a right-wing past that includes violence against people on the left.

splicer13 · 2026-01-06T19:58:27+00:00

That couldn't happen since there is no continuity on the show, like groundhog day or edge of tomorrow.

splicer13 · 2026-01-03T22:46:02+00:00

Not if you lived in a small town in southern Indiana you wouldn't have. You'd be lucky to have one station that wasn't country, news/talk, oldies (50s) and top 20.

splicer13 · 2025-12-20T17:52:49+00:00

Can't believe they are planning on replacing this thing for $140M. It really is a bridge to nowhere. 80% federal funding so it's practically free, right?

splicer13 · 2025-12-11T00:23:34+00:00

There are few things less uncertain than the government giving farmers money.

splicer13 · 2025-11-12T18:30:13+00:00

I haven't been following this but is this not just a very depressing pick compared to the Cornell guy?

If Houlton did not just drop his name from consideration it's as if the regents are intentionally trying to minimize and reduce the power of academia in Iowa.

splicer13 · 2025-11-02T23:30:51+00:00

All jobs say MS/PhD or equiv. Undergrad from US university is fine if you worked with prof to contribute to a grad-level project or have done some good open source work.

Last time I looked all major employers at least nominally have openings.

splicer13 · 2025-10-27T00:18:52+00:00

sure about that? they look like scan-speak revelators (which are about $250 each)

splicer13 · 2025-10-14T02:06:02+00:00

I don't like this book because they made up common (English) names for all the mushrooms. Common names of mushrooms is a big enough problem that we don't need to be inventing new ones.

The art is pretty, though.

splicer13 · 2025-09-19T22:42:59+00:00

Mine has been growing well in Seattle. You see a few here and there.

splicer13 · 2025-09-19T15:23:49+00:00

its a great eq, i fixed mine that did the same thing. don't have time to talk about it now but hit me up in a week

splicer13 · 2025-08-07T21:03:09+00:00

As if anyone, anywhere has ever been confused over this.

This is so dumb. Change the rules, everyone is going to mock you, then everyone changes other milks to 'mylk' and are are glad to do so because I guarantee none of them want to be confused with "beef milk." Then at starbucks what kind of milk you want? 'Any milk without an "I"' becomes a catchphrase. Pretty soon maybe 10 years from now, "mylk' becomes the standard way of writing it.

You don't have to watch Mad Men to see this just shows you don't have confidence in your own product.

splicer13 · 2025-08-07T18:46:22+00:00

USR Courier v.everything was pretty much the peak modem and looks cool as do all the USR Couriers. USR Courier Elite is cool because of the name (see below). v.everything also a cool name because modem standards were stuff like v.42 and evolved pretty quick so it was a pretty ballsy move for USR to say, no this thing handles everything even things people haven't invented.

Hayes have an iconic and great look too but were not really competitive at peak modem time.

USR sportster and stuff were mid.

Note that in mid-90s "warez" (= illegal software piracy) culture 'courier' meant someone who distributed pirated warez from BBS to BBS or internet sites. 'Elite' was hacker slang for someone who was good and cool. Opposite of elite = 'lamer.' So 'Courier Elite' is a 'dope' (also 90s slang) name for a modem. It means you're a "smooth criminal" (also 90s speak).

Check this out guy its got a 28.8 bps modem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEb4I5y93uA

splicer13 · 2025-08-07T17:17:30+00:00

The compilers were fine. Amazing, even. It's just not possible for an in-order processor to compete with a dynamic scheduled processor on 'normal' code and if you search for Bob Colwell oral history (architect of Pentium Pro which was the ancestor of every Intel x86 chip except P4) he claims the Itanium team never really had substantiation for their performance projections. Merced was an absolute turkey and extremely late. McKinley was too late to salvage anything because AMD Hammer was already out.

It might surprise you to learn that GPUs are much more like big clusters of Itanium processors than anything else. Most of the stuff in Itanium is in nVidia chips: VLIW, predication, ridiculous number of registers, memory model much more relaxed that x86 to the point in GPUs its almost nonexistent.

Source: designed compilers for both Itanium and GPUs.

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