Why not arxiv?

The author works at a French university. Some French researchers do choose to cross-post to arXiv (and Zimmermann may have too, I haven’t checked), but HAL is the default.

> HAL is the default.

HAL is an institutional requirement, I believe.

I was always wondering - are there alternative lists like this?

Maybe not in english or smth

Erlang is about reliability, hpc is about performance (literally in the name)

Erlang is also about orchestration - which HPC tends to need a fair bit of once you are out of the realm of embarrassingly parallel problems

Most HPC job queue cluster partition batching I saw was stone-age primitive by comparison. =3

> The 1.58-bit approach

can we stop already with these decimals and just call it "1 trit" which it exactly is?

Yeah because THAT won’t confuse the average reader.

just be glad that ants are ambiturners

Did website break?

I only see "MOMENT" and "All systems nominal"

Incredible low contrast font color in use there. Looks like about 0x002000 on pure black (per Mk-1 eyeball).

What possesses people to go for these barely perceptible color schemes?

.. a few minutes later ..

Ok, the crazy low contrast was on the initial landing page. Things have somewhat improved after prodding somewhat blindly at it.

I'll let the question stand though, bc why do that for what's going to be people's first impression?

try pressing any key or clicking around :)

Emoji look isn't standardized for the same reason letters look isn't - because it is font detail

Imagine outlawing comic sans because "letters must be serious" or smth

But the font design typically doesn't influence or change the meaning of the text. With emojis it does.

…and that's precisely why I complained that emojis have been standardized as Unicode code points, with their design being left to font designers. You just re-iterated that this is a consequence of using (abusing) the charset, which I had already acknowledged.

I mean... What's wrong with youtube tab consuming power "as if it's on screen" if it plays video?

As an avid idle game player, I'm tired of opening games in different window and having main window not-fullscreen just for the game to play normally

This "tab unloading" is great and all, but not giving us users any control to turn it off is awful

At least it's not SERN, with their time machine hackable by a microwave :)

"Board games" here means go (and only it?)

I honestly was hoping for some tabletop eurogames or smth...

Having also inferred "board games" to mean something I'd play on an average game night these days, it did cause me to reflect on making sure I think a bit before jumping to conclusions. The modern world has certainly trained me to think "pfft, call me when this can play a _real_ board game" as my first response, and that's pretty pathetic of me IMHO. The technology in use here makes it a really interesting topic.

... 8-bit microprocessor launched by Motorola in 1978

...reached a playing strength on par with GNU Go

MC6809 was actually launched in 1979, like MC68000, about one year after the launch of 8086 in 1978 by Intel.

What Motorola did in 1978 was to publish some articles in the specialized magazines, announcing MC6809 as the future better replacement for their existing MC6800 derivatives. This is the same like Intel describing during last year how great will be their Panther Lake CPU, but Panther Lake has really been launched only a couple of days ago.