> From what I understand the UK allowed it because ...
I'd say "severe post-WWII money shortage". After wartime expansion, the global copper industry could physically meet peacetime demands. But the UK was very close to national bankruptcy. And the Luftwaffe had turned an awful lot of their prewar housing into rubble. So - any cost that could be cut, was.
But to do it literally - I'm not a low-level motherboard EE, but I'd bet you're looking at 5 to 7 figures (US $) of engineering work, to get around all the ways in which that would violate assumptions baked into the designs of the CPU, support chips, firmwares, etc.
Make a fake ram which offers write through guarantee and returns bus no matter what address is referenced. You could possibly short circuit any "is ram there" test if it just says yes for whatever size and stride got configured.
Agree. The article's 2nd para notes "AMD relies on its driver software to make sure that software that benefits from the extra cache is run on the V-Cache-enabled CPU cores, which usually works well but is occasionally error-prone." - in regard to the older, mixed-cache-size chips.
> I'm curious to see...
Yeah - though I don't expect current-day Ars Technica will bother digging that deep. It could take some very specialized benchmarks to show such large gains.
Some of their writers, who are quite excellent, still do. Others just seem to regurgitate press releases with very little useful investigation.
How critical of the lazy writers I am may seem outsized, but I grew up reading and learning from the much better version of Ars -one I used to subscribe to.
Maybe? The article only seems to note buoyancy assistance for the mother whale - not that whales have prehensile tails or anything, to do a lot more.
Vs. elephants have trunks. They normally use those to handle their young. The action barrier for an elephant matriarch, observing that another elephant is having problems in the final stages of delivering her calf, is very low.
Maybe you're right, and it just doesn't happen? But it seems like you'd need a lot of closely observed elephant births to establish that fact.
While factually wrong, "spectrum" descriptions are extremely useful in a couple situations:
- Easing people who view autism as a T/F boolean into viewing autism as a more complex, case-by-case thing.
- Describing how well various autistic people handle a given situation. (And "situation" may refer to broader circumstances - such as jobs, or independent daily living.)
I often do to, so this reply is not a criticism of your general point, however in this case your would have been better informed to read the actual thing and not the comment you replied to!
Yeah. But with a finite lifetime, and an effectively infinite supply of content on the internet - quick & dirty attention-rationing algorithms are unavoidable.
I'd read "Microsoft lost their way" as a description of how the speaker's worldview has changed, as they've gained experience and perspective.
Microsoft is often good to their customers. Generally in situations where badness has a poor RoI, or they're trying to lure you deeper into their clutches.
tl;dr; Nobody actually knows... but 60 = 2 * 2 * 3 * 5. Making it very easy to sub-divide into halves, quarters, thirds, etc. In a low-tech society with minimal education standards - yeah. Measurement and monetary systems have to be convenient for everyday use, otherwise they'll die out.
I'd say "severe post-WWII money shortage". After wartime expansion, the global copper industry could physically meet peacetime demands. But the UK was very close to national bankruptcy. And the Luftwaffe had turned an awful lot of their prewar housing into rubble. So - any cost that could be cut, was.
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