AMD Zen 5’s 2-Ahead Branch Predictor Unit: How a 30 Year Old Idea Allows for New Tricks
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The Facebook Messenger Android app user experience:
- App fails to update, so you have to reinstall it.
- You login and have to accept all the bullish terms of service again.
- The loading wheel gets stuck so you have to restart the app and do it all a second time.
- It tries to download your language and fails, so you have to click “download again” and wait for the app to slowly crunch everything together.
- Now you can finally use the fucking webapp.
Fun Friday: What’s the most surprising CS topic you’ve used at work?
By “most surprising”, I mean the thing you’d least expect would apply to your work. It would be very surprising if I used exotic pathfinding algorithms in my software, but it wouldn’t be if a gamedev used them! ⌘ Read more
What are you doing this weekend?
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback.
Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too! ⌘ Read more
Monthly News – April 2024 – Fastly powered repositories, partnership with Datadog, XApp should be independent, Flatpak verification
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Radxa X4 with Intel Alder Lake-N Processor and 2.5GbE LAN Now Available for Preorder
Radxa X4 with Intel Alder Lake-N Processor and 2.5GbE LAN Now Available for Preorder ⌘ Read more
PEP 751 – A file format to list Python dependencies for installation reproducibility
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