Scuds

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by Scuds 7y ago
Monolithic kernel means the changelist includes everything from file systems to GPU drivers.
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by Scuds 7y ago
If you want to code a large app in C with X Athena Widgets or Win32 you're welcome to do so.
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by Scuds 7y ago
Cargo compiles dependencies in parallel so if you have lots of cores you'll hear your fans spin up. I see a lot of difference between my i5 laptop and i9 desktop.
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by Scuds 7y ago
You'd be doing something similar with the task library in C# or Promises in Javascript (or in ES5-land, callback hell). I'd recommend just opening up an IDE in any of these and seeing the types and parameters that come in and out
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by Scuds 7y ago
There's 'no trouble paying a mortgage' money and then there's "oh that's one of Bill or Jeff's 'toy' companies" kind of money
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by Scuds 7y ago
Lol, yes this is ZDnet. There are several azure services running at least some Rust and job descriptions for IOT stuff have mentioned it for months.
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by Scuds 7y ago
It's not. You may as well be comparing C++ to Swift. Chrome has had a lot more time and resources put into it anyway while Quantum has only seen release for two years. That said, you're better off comparing CVE counts for Firefox
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by Scuds 7y ago
You don't want to have to rely on people being competent all the time. You want people to 'fall into the pit of success' instead of opting into several safety mechanisms that'll get you something that's 'pretty
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by Scuds 7y ago
They still tend to get worked pretty hard, have no job security and don't get paid anywhere near as well.
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by Scuds 7y ago
that's funny because the Pi Zero was given away with a magazine subscription https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/40/ Almost cheap enough to come at the bottom of a Crackerjack box. Can't blame
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by Scuds 7y ago
They're both based on a Rockchip SOC and any copyrights around "Pi" and "Rock" or "Orange Pi" don't seem to be enforced. There's a whole parade of micro-computers that don't differentiate ea
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by Scuds 7y ago
Odroid, Latte Panda, Pine, and others went with dedicated tried and true barrel jacks. I appreciate re-using the same microusb cables and chargers for my iPhone and headset charger for my Pi3, and not having to handle Yet Another Wall Wart,
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by Scuds 7y ago
A raspberry pi will replace a P4 system, no problem. It's a waste of space and energy keeping a loud dusty P4 around.
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by Scuds 7y ago
> Office for Linux would be easy, but that’s not going to happen. They're rewriting Office in React Native so Windows, OSX, and mobile ports will have a lot more in common. But "Desktop Linux" will always be a million supp
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by Scuds 7y ago
I've always loved the Danny Elfman-esque soundtrack
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by Scuds 7y ago
I don't know about the safety record stuff - but I've been told stories from people who've seen it first hand about the waste and red tape and fiefdom defense and a staff counting the days to retirement and all the gross coun
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by Scuds 8y ago
A union can protect against scenarios where a studio hires a bunch of people, the publisher pulls funding, and they're all laid off several months later with no severance or healthcare or assistance. Movie crews are constantly rolling
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by Scuds 8y ago
Seattle has smaller scale of the same problems combined with the same resistance to upzoning and "changing the character of the neighborhood". They bought a house on a sleepy street of Capitol Hill in 1996 and somehow expect to be
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by Scuds 8y ago
``` Apparently, if you follow the arguments, not having a kernel debugger leads to various maladies: - you crash when something goes wrong, and you fsck and it takes forever and you get frustrated. - people have given up on Linux kerne
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by Scuds 8y ago
Does this mean wasm is effectively just another ISA to compile to and emscripten is no longer needed?
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by Scuds 8y ago
AOL, an industry behemoth with 14 million subscribers, will acquire Netscape's Navigator and Communicator software, its e-commerce software, and its Netcenter Internet "portal" site, one of the 10 most-visited s
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by Scuds 8y ago
That's nothing compared to what he's doing now. https://www.wired.com/story/palmer-luckey-anduril-border-wal...
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by Scuds 8y ago
looking at some of the the bugs that have been worked on over the past: https://www.nethack.org/v330/spoiler.html I'm wondering if these types of categorical errors like 'BUGFIX: kicking cockatrice meat while
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by Scuds 9y ago
ouuuuuuch. I'd interviewed there and had to pull out of their (lengthy) process, but this was one of their selling points that was mentioned by the recruiter and interviewers.
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by Scuds 9y ago
Alllllll that tooling had to be built in-house. Sprite editors, level editors, debug and test tools. Doing it well requires multiple people working across multiple games. I guess smaller studios were left having to roll their own stuff, wh
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by Scuds 9y ago
Woah! I knew you from sigmil ACM@UIUC best of luck in the future
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by Scuds 9y ago
This is the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, WA vs. the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA (which has the crudely cut wooden case with Apple on it). There's a little bit of 'History as told by Redmond' vs. 'H
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by Scuds 9y ago
If everything gets cracked to micro-ops anyway, how much effect does your general instruction(not SIMD/Altivec/Thumb etc) set _really_ have on performance and power consumption?
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by Scuds 9y ago
> So what are you doing here? HN is a nice stream of links with comments, not a community with a revolving cast of characters like SA. Totally different use case.
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by Scuds 9y ago
I have all sorts of conflicted feelings about my time with SA during the Bush years when I was a college student. It was fun, but I think the time I spent there cost me a point or two off my GPA. The people I knew of that went off to the M

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