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by G4E 6y ago
One of my favorite example of this kind of oversight is the audi "e-tron" : in french, an "étron" is literally a turd... (it seems that this website doesn't catch it yet though)
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by G4E 6y ago
I don't know if it is common, but that's exactly what my engineering school did : no graphical calculator allowed through all the cursus. They would provide a "basic+ calculator" (a basic calculator with square, square r
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by G4E 6y ago
You might want to update your fdroid database or turn on "show beta versions" in the settings, as I see and have the v0.19.5 installed from fdroid.
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by G4E 6y ago
I used Sandboxie 10 years ago, when I was still using Windows. It is a really neat piece of software. I'm glad it went open-source instead of simply dying because of lack time and/or interest. I had a surprising hard time to find
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by G4E 6y ago
Your projects look amazing, contragulation ! You could fade the led to depict the train distance to the station ? Like that, you would have a nice transition between stations, and if there are multiples train incoming/going from it you
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by G4E 6y ago
So basically you expect to keep your job by staying out of touch for two whole months ? I perfectly understand that he feared the precautions in his workplace were not enough, so did they apparently as stated in the article, but when you&#x
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by G4E 6y ago
I posted it here a few days ago, as I found the news quite interesting ! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23440907
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by G4E 6y ago
There is a legal slowdown for emulating x86 (and x86_64 I beleive), because of Intel patents. That's why Microsoft's first attempt to ARM was such a disaster, with no compatibility with Windows' huge ecosystem. That's wh
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by G4E 6y ago
I think it is a really interesting turn of events, as the Lattice bitstream (for FPGA) has been the first to be successfully reverse-engineered, and to have a trully opensource toolchain. The fact that the company is cool with this is unpre
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Lattice Reverse Its Anti-ReverseEngineering EULA Clause(linkedin.com)
5 points by G4E 6y ago|1 comments
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by G4E 6y ago
It's described as crashing in loop, even on restart. For people who don't know how to reflash/wipe from recovery, it render their phone useless, so as well as bricked. I'm curious to see the post-mortem on this one, i&#x
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by G4E 6y ago
Python's list sum are funny like that. x+=y is equivalent to x.append(y) x = x + y creates a new list, then assign it to x (highly inefficient in a loop)
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by G4E 6y ago
I like how there is the comment "you can't forget \0" for r[12] in the first example... but he forget it in the second haha. You should use calloc in that case !
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by G4E 7y ago
I think it is an amazing news personnally. Apple make really good hardware, with raisonnable sized phone. they are overpriced yes, but you can find those older generations at descent prices, refurbished or second hand. I really like to tin
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by G4E 7y ago
No, not everyone is a QWERTY user. French are AZERTY[1], we are 70 millions. There is a really small fraction of the population able to type on QWERTY. Germans are QWERTZ, they are 86 millions. Scandinavians have their own QWERTY variation,
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by G4E 7y ago
I don't know about 4k60Hz screens actually. I'm not sure they are in the low/mid range price point (yet) ? I was responding more generally about HDMI and it's usefulness.
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by G4E 7y ago
I'm always confused by those statements, that it's rare to find a monitor without DP. I live in France, and actually HDMI is the norm here. All low-range and mid-range screens are HDMI only, and it's rare to find a DP actual
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by G4E 7y ago
You should check the project gadgetbridge[1]. Its aim is close to what you want to achieve : an opensource app to retrieve data and monitor without sending it god know where. I have used it for 2 years now with an amazfit bip, which was nev
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by G4E 7y ago
For those who want a TLDR : The trade off is 0.8% increase of package size for 1300% increase in decompression speed. Those numbers come from a sample of 542 packages.
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by G4E 7y ago
Why a torrent client would be sketchier than any other software ? There are plethora of good open source clients like qbittorrent, transmission ... even aria2 ! At that rate, are you suspicious of wget too ? Even more of Chrome ? There are
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by G4E 7y ago
Relevant xkcd : https://xkcd.com/1738/
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by G4E 7y ago
I'm not so sure about that : take the banana for exemple. We decided that the best species was a sterile one, which can't reproduce without us. It's actually a pretty common story. And it's worth with GMO (steril crops a
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by G4E 7y ago
As a fellow embedded software engineer, I made the migration from Windows to Linux some time ago. You'll see that except for old targets (or highly proprietary ones like fpga) most if not all tools used today are actually open source o
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by G4E 7y ago
Afaik your second statement is sadly impossible. The system needs a blob "shsh" signed with an 1024 bits rsa key by Apple's server to install an upgrade or a downgrade. If this key is in the bootrom, you can't override i
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by G4E 7y ago
So keeping an old broken watch your grandfather gave you because you have sentiments attached to it is also religious ? I think you're mixing up sentiment and respect to something that use to have value to you with religion.
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by G4E 7y ago
Exactly. I had high hopes for the sharp r2 compact, which has current high performance specs in a small form factor, but sadly it won't be available in western market. It looks like there is also a demand for small size smartphone on t