> if you’re not educated in the Soviet Union you will know it
My grandparents and parents and siblings all learned Ukrainian in school during Soviet times. This is in what now would be considered a predominantly Russian-speaking part of Ukraine btw.
Perhaps, but presumably code that is meant to have an external interface will be in a module and will have an *.mli file to it, and that is an excellent place to constrain your types explicitly if you must.
What does it mean that Arm is headquartered in the UK, practically speaking? What kind of a change would need to happen for, say, the Austin office to become the headquarter?
If I remember one of the original conditions put on the acquisition of ARM by the UK gov was that HQ stays in the UK. So I doubt that will change. Can't say I'm familiar with the tangible benefits, but I assume is exposes ARM to UK law and regulation more than if the HQ was in another country. And retains some jobs in the UK.
There must be some benefit for governments to make such a request.
> Unfortunately these things are reportedly happening, the sentiment should be anti-Putin but ends up being anti-Russian, mostly thanks to Russians like these: https://t.me/glavredinfo/61841
If you don't mind me asking, why should the sentiment be anti-Putin? What makes you think that the war is not being supported by a significant fraction (if not majority) of the Russian population?
There is no question there is broad support for senseless violence, as evidenced by the video. But I know my friend for example, and he considers Putin and his enablers to be fascists. But of course there are also many people privately against this while publically showing support.
The point of my post was that it is not enough to help anti-Putin (and by that I mean anti-current-power-system-of-russia) leave Russia. They are as much victims here as Ukrainians who fled the war, but are sometimes treated badly.
You are making it sound like a burden, but I do not understand why it would be. Surely you are interested in safety checks giving you more confidence that you are positioning yourself to take advantage of the Arm ecosystem (instead of releasing something that is not supportable by compilers and OS experts)?.. Or am I misunderstanding the nature of the compliance tests?
I think the compliance tests were making sure that your add instruction or memory load instruction followed the spec.
You mention ARM ecosystem and that is precisely the point. Apple controls their ecosystems. How do you write apps for the iPhone? You use Apple's development environment with Apple's compiler. If Apple decided NOT to implement an instruction for some reason they could simply make their compiler never output that instruction.
I worked on chips that ran embedded applications with no ability for ordinary users to change the software. What is the value of meeting an external ARM controlled spec for that?
I also worked on chips that only ran Android and nothing else. If you are also the company porting Android and writing all drivers for your own platform then people may argue whether it is worth only being 99% compatible.
Later I worked on chips where people may run Android, Windows Mobile, or plain Linux on this chip using GCC, Clang, Microsoft's compiler, or whatever. For that you definitely wanted to comply with specs.
> Is learning any sort of Assembly language a good investment of time?
Learning to understand Arm architecture specifically or computer architecture in general can be invaluable. A particular Assembly syntax is just a way of expressing what you want to do.
I would suggest reading a book about computer architecture or taking a course. And if you are like me and are interested in what complicated things hardware does to fulfil the needs of software, you might want to first read a book on operating systems (like OSTEP by Arpaci-Dusseaus, which is marvel of accessibility and challenge for students), because it will make you ask relevant question.
> It has nothing to do with multiple large ethnic groups that tend to cause tension in the long run, see Israel and Donbas for example.
Please elaborate. As somebody from the East of Ukraine (and, incidentally, as someone who lived in Israel for some years too), I am curious what I am supposed to learn about ethnic tensions from these two examples.
According to what I am reading on Russian-in-exile liberal media with persistent anti-war agenda [1], just several months ago polls (both state-backed and "independent" ones) suggested that more than half of the Russians were in favour of the war. The article I am citing suggests that there has been a change in opinions recently, but still.
My grandparents and parents and siblings all learned Ukrainian in school during Soviet times. This is in what now would be considered a predominantly Russian-speaking part of Ukraine btw.