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Re:Pico Cray – Small scale distributed computing on Friday April 21, 2023 @10:19AM (#35654153)
A Raspberry Pi 4B has 13.5 GFLOPS[0] while a Cray-1 has 160 MFLOPS[1] so you need about 85 Cray-1s :)

Couldn't find any numbers for a Pi Pico.

0: https://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/group/green_machines.htm... 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1

Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust on Monday August 31, 2020 @05:38PM (#24336199)
Also it would be kind of funny. Where the rust parts can only be compiled by the llvm based rust compiler, but clang(llvm) can't build the C parts. And gcc can only build the C parts but not the rust parts :)
Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust on Monday August 31, 2020 @05:18PM (#24336066)
There is the mrustc compiler https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

It's not fully complete. But there is no reason why it couldn't be.

Re:Airbus Beluga XL on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:15PM (#21806717)
Seems like the production of the 737-MAX is going to be stopped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HVnhrCM4Pk
Re:How to Draw Animals (1930) on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @11:19PM (#20111279)
As per usual there is a subreddit for this /r/restofthefuckingowl
Re:Show HN: Simple but Powerful IDE for Databases on Thursday April 18, 2019 @11:49AM (#19691983)
What is the open source alternative?
Re:Anker PowerPort PD 1 USB-C Wall Charger Teardown on Monday January 07, 2019 @02:37PM (#18849117)
There are two different sizes of cigarette lighter sockets, maybe that's why it fit badly?