33 points by signa11 4 hours ago | 5 comments
devkakadiya 5 minutes ago
i am more interrestd in the CPU cycle so what about that
a_t48 2 hours ago
I remember this person's blog from before she went on haitus. The drawings attached used to be cute and the header (hero?) image semi-relevant. I hope she brings them back, they had charm!
kg 2 hours ago
The little pull-quotes marked by illustrations feel chosen at random and not particularly worthy of being so, i.e.

> characteristic times of electronic signals are restricted by so-called parasitic capacitances, and parasitic capacitances in general are proportional to the length of the connection

> modern CPUs use so-called “dynamic branch prediction”

These two mostly served to distract me and break up the reading flow of the page, and I initially thought they had been erroneously truncated.

This next one is straight-up nonsensical because it's missing context:

> Overall, these effects seem to compensate each other, and main memory access latencies of an x64 desktop box, and an M4 Apple SoC happen to be in the same ballpark of about 200-300 CPU cycles.

Which effects?

If the author is reading this, I would advise you to either remove these, or try to be more careful about what sentences you decide to pull out in this way to make sure that they communicate something useful by themselves. Ideally something that reflects the overall theme of the surrounding paragraphs.

The illustrations attached also seem to have nothing to do with the text but that's probably not a big deal.

account58382 2 hours ago
ai slop?
a_t48 2 hours ago
I think it's just the images.
sph 47 minutes ago
Fresh from the slop factory.
rahadbhuiya 3 hours ago
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