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by a-priori 5y ago
The goal of MISRA C mostly isn't to prevent problems in your code. It's to make the code more amenable to static analysis, which _can_ detect problems.
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by a-priori 5y ago
That’s great, thanks for the letting me know!
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by a-priori 5y ago
Yes. I don’t know about Windows but I know that for OSX you need to implement the NSAccessibility protocol in AppKit. This gives you a way to describe the hierarchy of the UI and to notify the system of important changes.
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by a-priori 5y ago
Before you start picking up a library like this, keep in mind that no immediate-mode GUI library I'm aware of (including this one from what I can see in the source code) has support for assistive technologies such as screen readers. To
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by a-priori 5y ago
First off I don't recommend implementing the specification from scratch. It is big, and there are implementations already in various languages: for C you can use GNU-UEFI, for example, Rust has uefi-rs, and Zig has support in its stand
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by a-priori 5y ago
Yes of course. If your goals are retro computing, yes by all means go ahead and use retro technology. That's my point though: today, BIOS is retro technology.
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by a-priori 5y ago
I suppose it depends what you're going for, but in general I don't think being able to fully support some very old PCI devices should be the determining factor.
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by a-priori 5y ago
Nowadays, I would recommend not using BIOS booting. Modern machines with UEFI firmware only emulate BIOS anyway, for backwards compatibility with old bootloaders. UEFI gives you a much nicer initial environment — it's already in 64-bit
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by a-priori 5y ago
What this could be saying is that it’s very inefficient to buy the parts in units. If you were to buy a thousand of these parts, as a manufacturer might, I doubt they’d each cost £100.
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by a-priori 5y ago
They're not 'our version of martial law' because the term 'martial law' has a specific meaning, about suspending civil rights and putting the military in charge of civil security. The Emergencies Act does neither, a
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by a-priori 5y ago
Let me just say that, as someone who lives in Ottawa, that his takes on the convoy occupation are complete bullshit. The fact that he describes it as "just three weeks of honking, blocked streets and bridges, bouncy castles and flag wa
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by a-priori 5y ago
I have a cousin with Down’s syndrome, and he thrived in a Montessori school. So there’s my anecdote.
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by a-priori 5y ago
I don't know enough about what a "balloon mortgage" is to comment on that, other than to say that the 2008 mortgage crisis was not as severe in Canada as it was in the United States. So, to the extent that mortgage terms were
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by a-priori 5y ago
I don't know about Australia, but in Canada mortgages are amortized over (usually) 30 years at first issuance, but they are on (usually) 5 year terms. This means you'll renew your mortgage roughly five times before it is repaid, a
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by a-priori 5y ago
The factors I came up with, 1200x and 3500x, leave plenty of margin for including more actors if that's the comparison you want to make, while still ending up with more or less the same result.
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by a-priori 5y ago
You don't have to imagine, because VISA is a public company. According to their 2021 financial report (year end Sept 30, 2020), VISA logged $8.3B in operating expenses. The majority of this is "personnel" at $4.2B (covering t
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by a-priori 5y ago
My wild guess is that the “fly across the room” comes from a spasm in the leg muscles, so it’s more that you involuntarily jump across the room.
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by a-priori 5y ago
I say this as a web developer: there's far more to programming than the web.
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by a-priori 5y ago
I have a family, local connections, etc. In the past year I've changed jobs twice, for a 45% raise in the last 12 months. But because all three jobs over this period have been remote, I haven't had to disrupt my family at all. Sin
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by a-priori 5y ago
On the contrary, this could scale much better. If the GraphQL server is a separate component, then a GraphQL query needs to do its own query planning, then the resolvers turn that into SQL queries to the database, then the database does its
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by a-priori 5y ago
The problem is that the search space grows (exponentially?) as you increase the fuzzer’s limit. So there’s a cost, and likely diminishing returns, to raising that limit.
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by a-priori 5y ago
First step: Do nothing. You've got two working, independent products, and that's okay. You can keep running like this indefinitely so there's no need to rush. Second step: Figure out what the future combined product/comp
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by a-priori 5y ago
The assembly you’ve listed there assumes it runs in real mode and ring 0. You’d need to use virtualization of some kind to execute that.
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by a-priori 5y ago
Ah, here we see the car maker’s version of fizz buzz and whiteboard coding.
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by a-priori 5y ago
They’re just not assuming that all their workers are fluent in English nor French, which 1.8% of Canadian residents are not (according to the 2016 census).
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by a-priori 5y ago
Yes, I recently planned out how to transition a company to a continuous delivery release model, and this was part of the plan. One thing I insisted on was on building and running playbooks, rather than jumping to full automation from merge
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by a-priori 5y ago
For my own perspective, I am Canadian and that article is absolutely correct that the term is considered "racially charged" here. It's also correct that "Inuit" doesn't encompass all Indigenous peoples of the A
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by a-priori 5y ago
I know the term is in that Pullum essay, but please stop using the term "Eskimo". I know Americans still use it, but it's a racist epithet that really needs to go away. The people are the Inuit, an individual Inuit person i
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by a-priori 5y ago
And likely far more by now, had it become the PC instruction set architecture. The x86 instruction set was also simpler back in the late 70s, in the 8086 era when the Motorola 68000 was first released, than it is now. Back then it only had
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by a-priori 5y ago
It’s not much of an “outing” to reveal that I believe the Canada they want is antithetical to my belief system, and that I find the party thoroughly disgusting and worthy of mockery.

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