Some of my hand operated ten keys printing calculators found their (definitive?) place on the shelves. Six different brands, six beautiful designs. It's fun to follow the evolution of standardization in key placement, look at the Astra on the bottom shelf!
@BCarrez The are mechanical considerations of course; on direct adders for example, pushing the keys do the actuation and a 9 key does a lot more work than a 1 key. And on keyboards, there was the risk of jamming the keys if typed in too quick a succession.
A good advice: Don't try to parallelize slow code. Especially if the code is slow because of cache misses (OOP pointer chains). Make the code fast on a single thread first. Then parallelize it. Hammering the L3 cache from 16+ threads at once is not going to make the CPU happy.
Reorganizing my collection, now all my electromechanical 10 key calculators are next to each other. The center two on the bottom shelves do division, they also weight a ton.
Alright snail, now this one looks like an "L", so you've spelled "thegatesofhel" so far, that still doesn't mean anything. Are you trying to tell me something? Stop messing around and get down my wall.
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If you're trying to figure out whether a branchless version of something is worthwhile or not, _never_ benchmark branchy vs branchless on small inputs with lots of repeats. If you keep making the same few hundred branches repeatedly, conditional branch predictors will notice.
2 euros for Regency Solitaire is a steal, such a charming and highly polished solitaire card game. It has a nice progression, stays fresh all the way through, and doesn't turn into a grind. Highly recommended!
It's FIVE years since we released Regency Solitaire on Steam. We were pleasantly surprised at the positive reaction it got from players and press. Anyway, it's on sale this week on Steam along with the prequel, Shadowhand.
https://t.co/1PTdu7o92C
16 years? oh my, still feels like yesterday... working on this one was so much fun though, I still remember you completing a beta build of the game using a frying pan for only weapon
Some intense lubrication finally allowed my 70 years old Italian made Atares P3 to almost compute a square. The counters are not easy to read, make sure you turn CC on. https://t.co/9JeKOU78Pk
This machine is as simple as it gets, not a single register transfer feature in there.