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by 0xTJ 6y ago
This seems more like a failing of education systems/parents encouragement (and recursively on that second one, I'm not just saying blame parents). Not everyone is going to be interested in STEM, but building intuition about the wo
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
I was really impressed with the Dell WD19TB dock I was issued from work for COVID. I had never used a dock before, but having all my external displays (I used 2 DP, but I think it could handle 3 at once if using HDMI too), Ethernet, all the
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
I love Zig, and I'm looking forward to it continuing to mature. I've been waiting for a specific compiler TODO to be resolved (something like initializing union bitfields) that (at least as of 0.7.0) wasn't yet implemented, b
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
I very strongly disagree. Even in a physical workplace, quick text messaging has a place. Saying that the video services are more valuable than chat is comparing apples to oranges. And I don't know of a mainstream video conferencing se
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
Those Epson ink tank ones seem pretty cool, though I've never used one.
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
Is the HN title limited by length here? I read it, and my initial reaction is "compared to what?", since it leaves out the "Compared to Natural Sunlight" part.
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
Having no idea what you're talking about, this is a satirical news site.
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
I'm really looking forward to Zig becoming more refined. I started writing an x86 kernel, but put that on pause because of known compiler bugs.
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
If old.reddit.com ever does go away, I'll stop using it. Even on a modern computer, with a decent internet connection, the "improved" one is sluggish and slow to load, almost as bad as Facebook. It's effectively the oppo
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
Calling that "technically UB" is putting it lightly.
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
I'm looking forward to Zig getting better. I tried writing an x86 OS in it, but some 0.6.0 known compiler bugs (I think it was some union-related stuff) broke what I was trying to do. I think it's supposed to be fixed in 0.7.0, so
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
Part of the decision was that there aren't as many good tools available to compile/assemble/disassemble. Also, the length of some instructions depends on the current state of flags in the processor, which is a pain for disass
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
It's not segmented, it's banked. And due to instructions that can use far pointers, you can directly access the entire memory. The main annoying part for me is that the stack and zero page are stuck within the first bank, limiting
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
If you can find a suitable graphics chip, please let me know, but I've been casually looking for the past few years for a chip that can connect to a parallel bus, and output VGA and/or composite. There http://www.vlsi.f
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
Without knowing what they actually do, Palantir is a terrifying name.
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
For personal projects I prefer running things directly on my computer, but I love Overleaf for collaborating. In the last year of my undergrad, there was a big switch in my year/discipline from using Word to LaTeX.
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
I really wish it was common for manufacturers to fully document features like that. Even if they "DON'T USE THIS, IT WON'T DE WHAT YOU WANT, WE'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING YOU DO!", it might open interesting opp
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
What you've said makes no sense. Why shouldn't new tech be required? You're not even comparing similar science topics to modern physics. When you're pushing the boundaries of our knowledge of the universe, there's n
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
I can't wait for there to be affordable MMU-equipped RISC-V dev boards.
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
I'm very much in support of this. One thing I like about Zig[1] s that integers are explicitly given sizes. I've been playing recently with it, but I'm waiting for a specific "TODO" in the compiler to be fixed. [1]
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by 0xTJ 6y ago
By itself no. But you can run an X Server just like you have on Linux machines, and start graphical applications that use it.
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by 0xTJ 7y ago
I've tried writing an OS purely in assembly before, but gave up while writing the virtual file system.
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by 0xTJ 7y ago
Just a comment on the site, why is the text so big? I had to zoom out to 60% to make reading comfortable on a laptop.
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by 0xTJ 7y ago
This is just my personal experience, in Canada, but I've never encountered rude and unhelpful employees at Costco like I have at many other stores.
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by 0xTJ 7y ago
It's a fun sci-fi idea, but it's completely detached from reality.
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by 0xTJ 7y ago
Doing that would be a massive overcompensation. This virus is bad, and it's awful for the people that have it and their families, but it's not shut-down-the-world bad.
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by 0xTJ 7y ago
Assuming that there's even 1% as much atmosphere up there, 20km is like 200m, making some very rough assumptions that I'm not sure are substantiated. If you've got a big camera, you can make out a huge amount of detail. At 20
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by 0xTJ 7y ago
Based on what they said, I'm assuming that it would have been triggered at some point before it started coming down, but they were expecting that it would be destroyed before that happened.
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by 0xTJ 7y ago
I'm actually a bit surprised at how little data they have on me. They've associated my main email with an old junk email, they've got my first and last name, and know that I'm male, but there's little more.
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by 0xTJ 7y ago
I use VS Code as my main IDE for both business and pleasure, but I have to mistrust just how developer-friendly Microsoft has been. VS Code is a great, extendable, developer-friendly tool. WSL has made it so that it's less of a shame t

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