Sloogs

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[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Just about any place I know that uses C++ also does that with C++ so that's nothing unusual for C++ specifically. It's too big of a language to reason about very well if you don't, so you've gotta find a subset that works.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

How does scrying work in the game actually? I'm kinda curious and I don't have the game yet :<

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It will prefetch the instructions and put into the pipeline the branch it thinks is mostly likely. It may do ahead-of-time speculative execution on certain instructions but not always. If it missed the correct branch it will flush the pipeline and start the pipeline over again from the correct branch. Afaik it doesn't execute or prefetch both branches. The other guy is saying it does but that doesn't really gel with my own recollection or the Wikipedia article he cited. You can see some further discussion that suggests only one branch gets prefetched here here and here. Reasons cited for only predicting one branch are: 1) Two pipelines with all the associated circuitry to look ahead, decode, and speculatively execute is incredibly expensive in terms of both processing requirements and die real estate. 2) Caching both would thrash your caches with new data constantly. 3) Modern branch prediction is already so accurate, there's really no need for two pipelines anyways.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think it's right around how much they were selling brand new Decks for during the summer sale, so it would make me want to wait for a future sale probably. Or rather I think it was 10, 15, and 20 percent reduction for the low, mid, and high end options respectively. I wonder if they'll reduce the costs of the refurbs during future sales.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lol not a fan of Facebook or Meta but forcing any entity to provide a service they don't want to provide especially if it's not being done in a discriminatory way seems dubious. Legacy media are reaping what hath been sown.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah. Or just use a password wallet.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I was just thinking, streamers might have to be careful actually — you can often both see and hear when they're typing, so if you correlated the two you could train a key audio → key press mapping model. And then if they type a password for something, even if it's off-screen from their stream, the audio might clue you in on what they're typing.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Agreed, and Rome wasn't built in a day. Any more crises with any of the major social networks will just continue to build this place up more. I think it's too big now to fade into obscurity and is just going to continue to grow, even if it's not as large as the mainstream stuff.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The cost of living and housing crises are happening across the entire country so I would say, yes, it very much does become a question of federal policy at that point and existing federal mandates (immigration) are one of the biggest sources of high demand putting stress on housing.

Even if that federal policy is working with provinces to figure their shit out on housing.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

True although in Canada we tend to refer to the colleges in collegiate universities as faculties, and so the word college remains dedicated to the separate kind of post secondary institution the other dude described.

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

Mozilla has been bullied exactly this way in the past into implementing DRM measures I believe.

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