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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
Swapping to blocks allocated to a file is relatively straightforward; people routinely overthink how hard this has to be. Existence proof: Mach / NextStep / Darwin (macOS/iOS/etc).
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
Teaching people to distrust experts is what got us COVID. Do not recommend.
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
It's predicated on the assumption that a random discovery from a zero-comprehension state is more likely to get you to a goal than an evolution from a state that has at least some correctness. More generally, it disingenuously disregar
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
First: congratulations, you've done the hard part (accepting there's a challenge that you need to overcome). Seriously, you probably feel like you're at the bottom of a very deep hole, but that acceptance gives you the opport
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
I took it for a brief spin, but pitched it as soon as I realized it doesn’t have a “project” concept (or any documentation worth mentioning). It’s a pity, because some of the other features seemed interesting, but not actually usable as an
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
This disregards the fact that most of the interesting peripherals in the VAX were also computers running firmware. The distinctions are almost entirely arbitrary, and this is really just another "no true Scotsman" argument, with s
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
No. ZRAM is a compressed ramdisk. Darwin “compressed memory” is an intermediate state for pages as they age out of the working set, but before they are written out to a swapfile. Incidentally, Darwin creates, defragments and reclaims swapfi
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
This is perhaps the first time I've heard "USB" and "correctly" in a clause without a negative. I encourage you to spend more time with it. Meet your hero. Get to know it. Understanding will surely follow. 8)
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
> I like the x86 model, where you have a one size fits all boot disk which just loads different drivers. This is not "the x86 model". This is the "Microsoft refuses to support anything" model. It is dead, and good f*i
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
> The ethics that Christianity teach What "ethics"? And as a precondition, what "christianity"? Neither are unitary nor singular, and further irrelevant to the topic at hand.
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
This is another (interesting) spin on the language workbench / program as datastructure concept. Honestly, the problem is that people think they want faster horses. You see the usual banal comments here "what if the database crash
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
There is one; you drag the app into /Applications to install it, and you drag it into the Trash to uninstall it. The "problem" is that 3p developers don't want to get with the program, and insist that the only possible w
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
I can't necessarily speak for anyone else, but for me; at the back end of my career I find myself contributing financially to FOSS projects. This is possible courtesy of more success than I have deserved, facilitated in no small part b
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
It reads weird because it's a roughly equal mix of opinion and wrong, possibly informed by some historical understanding of how HFS+ used to work. Granted, in 2018 HFS+ was still kind of relevant, but even at that point the listed asse
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
See earlier comments about saying outrageous things and getting creative when called on it. 8) Many of us mis-remember the past fondly. It’s not always a bad thing…
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
TBH, this sounds a great deal like the visible division of professionalism in a lot of tech capacities. I wonder if the A/B divide isn’t at least partly due to the relatively binary nature of the perceived attributes of decisions, or t
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
You are making this claim with no evidence, as you’d have cited it otherwise. Which begs the question - why? What is so important to you that you need to accuse “the other” of lying, in such a public forum, in such a transparently unsubstan
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
The Multimax was NS16k/NS32k-based. After the Gould acquisition they switched to the 88K, but never (AFAIK) built anything on the 68K family. Kind of a pity, really; nice hardware, but terrible luck with processor families.
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
That’s not what virtual memory is. That’s not what a bus is. That’s enough.
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
Aluminium is recyclable. Carbon fibre is a recycling disaster. Magnesium alloys somewhat less so, but there is very little demand for them.
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
Possibly worth disclosing your own stake in this issue... FWIW, Corellium was garbage. Can't speak for its current state, but not spending money on the tech - or the people - was the right call at the time.
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
I'll be that guy, then, and note that your response demonstrates that you've never worked on a nontrivial safety-critical project. It's clear from the OP's question that the org is already C-centric. Language support in
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
Speaking from experience, there is no "full documentation" to release.
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by 95014_refugee 4y ago
The challenge with doing this with an aftermarket headunit is that you need to cover a meaningful number of different vehicles in order for the feature to be useful to your customer base. With that said, yes, if you happen to have a suitabl
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by 95014_refugee 5y ago
The cycle count is largely irrelevant in a speculative, pipelined core, as long as it can speculate far enough ahead that the delay is masked by other activity. 4-5 cycles is nothing in the scheme of things.
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by 95014_refugee 5y ago
And "everywhere" as in "user-facing systems".
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by 95014_refugee 5y ago
I have a reasonable amount of respect for Terry's technical competence, but a ... quirk of his personality is that he doesn't really respect the bounds around the truth. If you know those bounds, you can filter him, but in general
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by 95014_refugee 5y ago
You can use the cleanup attribute and a flag to detect early exit.
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by 95014_refugee 5y ago
> "I think that a massive deficiency in religious literacy is causing confusion." In an article about selective anti-mimeticism, worship at the altar of self-oppressive mimicry. Too serious to be a joke, but the irony...

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