Baal

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by Baal 8y ago
Well, it seems you consider a “personal attack” any comment directed to another person, even if it is meaningful for the discussion and in-context. Your own guidelines ask for maintaining an identity (“On HN, users should have an identity t
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by Baal 8y ago
I see you have never had to desl with radioactive material and activated tools in private companies. It is not a pretty sight. But hey, keep advertising nuclear. How much do they pay you?
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by Baal 8y ago
What could possibly go wrong? Radioactive material everywhere in private hands.
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by Baal 8y ago
No need for the ‘z’ :)
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by Baal 8y ago
I don’t see any personal attack. Can you quote? I don’t even know nor care about the identity of people here. As for flamewars, what are you even talking about? I have not said a single thing in favour of any language. Have you read the thr
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by Baal 8y ago
Happy to hear that, since I am not exactly in joy of using ancient languages. However, from plans to actual usage takes years; specially for completely new projects using new languages, compilers, libraries, etc. in safety-critical stuff, t
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by Baal 8y ago
Sorry but that company/product looks like it is a Linux distro and framework tuned/supported for satellite hardware. That does not mean it controls the satellite nor that it is certified. If you think “download numbers” (or open s
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by Baal 8y ago
Putting things on satellites might mean very different things. There is close to zero chance of anything critical being in Rust. One company I worked on has not even move from (a subset of) C90 for critical components. No C99, no C11, no C+
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by Baal 8y ago
Not a chance. By the time you get there, GPUs would do it (much) faster. Not to mention that GPUs are likely going to get specialized cores for raytracing (see RTX).
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by Baal 8y ago
Most development software in general: debugging tools like Valgrind, niche compilers, servers, libraries not-so-well-tested on macOS, etc. In general, macOS is currently in a sad state of affairs; when it could have been the best developmen
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by Baal 8y ago
Please, don’t spread misinformation. macOS has not supported latest OpenGL for quite some years. Linux is not supported either, by the way. On top of that, if I buy a “Pro” machine, I want everything available and as much choices as possibl
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by Baal 8y ago
Meanwhile, no OpenGL, no DirectX, no Vulkan. Indeed, they are “Pro” machines.