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by abricq 3y ago
Thank you, I got it: "Protocol extension, a technique for structuring large extensible software systems" [0] ! Hoping to find time to read it soon, and also to look at your ruby compiler ! [0]: https://www.research-coll
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by abricq 3y ago
I'm curious if you have some references about this, if you have read good blog posts or something ! I can think of Rust that does not have exception, but it's not because they didn't address the problem of error handling: exc
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by abricq 3y ago
> Franz was one of the people who around that time wrote a report on a proposal that'd enable runtime-loadable interface-based extension You seem to know a lot about this time. Would you have a reference on this report ? I am quite
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by abricq 3y ago
Every now and then I look at this site, I hope the project keeps growing !
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by abricq 3y ago
About the what, I can't tell you too much unfortunately. We do realtime OS for autonomous robots in Oberon. About the why, it's a question of heritage from the past. The code works, so why taking the risk to migrate it. It's
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by abricq 3y ago
Interesting to see that Oberon-2 tried to go where Java succeeded. I guess java worked better because of language limitation. From my experiences in Oberon-2 (I work with it), I find the following limitations enough to explain it. - No gene
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by abricq 3y ago
Of course code coverage should not be seen as the only way to measure testing. But should it be systematically disregarded ? I rather see it as one of the tool for QAs to know where they stand at : 5% code coverage vs 85% is still an intere
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by abricq 3y ago
Totally agree that code coverage is not a sufficient metric for quality, but it's still an interesting one. At my company we have this language that is not mainstream (Oberon) and therefore there was no code-coverage reporting at all.
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Code Coverage for Arbitrary Languages Made Easy [pdf](semdesigns.com)
23 points by abricq 3y ago|20 comments
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by abricq 3y ago
This looks really cool, for sure I will to try this out ! I will look into it for Italian. I'm not sure how much work is it for you guys to add a language, maybe it's easier for you to add languages than for other mainstream platf
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Dry January affecting Galaxus sales(galaxus.ch)
1 points by abricq 3y ago|1 comments
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by abricq 3y ago
When working in a team, having a lightweight shared git remote for sources is super handy. For instance Gerrit, or what uses Google (Critique I think it’s called). For sure these services have a little bit of JS for things such as code revi
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by abricq 3y ago
For sure as of today GitHub is a web app, but it's questionable whether it should forces you to use it as one. In essence, GitHub is just a remote server for a .git folder. This does not need any JS. I see that GitHub now tries to beco
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by abricq 3y ago
If someone is interested, here is the Reference and Implementation Guide of the latest NTP version (2006, was revised in 2010), written by Dave Mills: https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/database/reports/ntp4&#x
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by abricq 3y ago
I don’t think there is any advantage to start a new code base in Oberon. The language itself is just like any OOP language, with very pronounced limitations. Typically, you’ll often have to fix problems with the compiler, or with the OS. I
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by abricq 3y ago
I happen to work in Oberon pretty much every week. At my company, we program OS for mobile robots and have been carrying Oberon code since 25 years. The code base is huge, and it works really well. It’s been under production for all these y
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I just tried it on my work project, 100 MB of sources. It's insanely fast !
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by abricq 3y ago
Not quite the same application, but in computer vision and visual SLAM algorithms (to construct a map of your surrounding using a camera) embeddings have become a de-facto method to perform place-recognition ! And it's very similar to
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by abricq 3y ago
Of course, I agree that taxing kerosene is what makes the more sense. There are so many great uses of airplanes ! I also really hope that one day, net-zero aviation will work, and for that to happen we must not discourage the research. I w
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by abricq 3y ago
> Focusing on "solutions" that address less than a percent of a percent of emissions is a distraction A "percent of a percent" is of the order of scale of 0.01%. Airplanes account for 2.5% to 3.5% of all global emissi
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by abricq 3y ago
"only the 1% fly" is not true, but "only the 11% fly" is a fact [1]. About the 1%: "1% of the population emits 50% of the commercial aviation's emission". You can keep going like that to show that it is in
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DevSeeds's CO2 flight calculator to optimize footprint of company meetings(devseed.com)
2 points by abricq 3y ago|0 comments
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by abricq 3y ago
I consider myself very much an ecologist, and also struggle to understand anti-nuclear ecologists. However there is one anti argument that I think is worth sharing, one friend exposed to me and that I think it is very pertinent: "One s
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by abricq 3y ago
I had a course named `Deep Learning` by François Fleure at EPFL, and he is a really an amazing professor, able to share his passion alongside explaining very advanced topics. It does not surprise me to see that his books are of very high qu
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by abricq 4y ago
That's not completely false though. These radars have been used lately in Robotics as ways to provide speed measures in localization and Mapping algorithms (SLAM, or lower-level algorithms like VIO + radar). Providing a speed measure o
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by abricq 4y ago
This news literally makes me so happy. I can't wait to see it propagating around the world ! Riding a bike it better for your health, for the environment, makes cities much safer places, better for your mood as well & even better f
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by abricq 4y ago
This concerns me and saddens me a lot. Major changes are required in the near future, and the more I look at the news the less it seems like any of these changes are happening. If at some point I actually get to the conclusion that "it
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by abricq 4y ago
Yes that's what I meant, it could be taken from it. But it's not taken from the movie, it's actually happening (that's what I meant)
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by abricq 4y ago
> The process outlined in the study — known scientifically as eutrophication — is remarkably similar to modern, albeit smaller-scale, phenomenon currently fueling broad “dead zones” in the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, as excess nu
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by abricq 4y ago
Thanks for sharing that, it's super cool ! Loving to see that there is this effort done. I will definitely try it out.

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