Stories by luu

Are volatile reads really free?

AMD's Jaguar Microarchitecture

Stopping a Shortcut to In-State Tuition

The next revolution after Git

How Finance Gutted Manufacturing

Rote learning and programming

Risk compensation

The workspace-based, image-oriented programming paradigm

IBM PC Model 5150 JavaScript emulator

IBM Watson: Overprovisioned “Big Iron”?

Goodbye, Google

DRM Helmets: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (2002)

How many 32-bit RISC CPUs fit in an FPGA? Now vs. 1995?

Google, EBay, and the Roots of Collusion

Leex And Yecc

VR: Palmer Luckey's Quest to Change the World

The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang

Measuring humidity with a Raspberry Pi

My Programming Reboot

Shift Instructions, x86 vs. ARM