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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Not always... pretty sure even for the brief time I was in a public primary school here in Australia my parents had to contribute for textbooks. I suspect they had some kind of aid available for families who really couldn't afford it,
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Trying to think over my 5.5 year degree in Comp Sci and Politics... I think my AI and Algorithms classes may have used some preprepared slides for Russell and Norvig / CLRS. My Theory of Computation lecturer set assignments based on qu
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
App Academy charges its tuition as a proportion of first year salary.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I'm involved with an organisation that recently tried to get an Advance Queensland grant for non-profit outreach/education events relating to startups/entrepreneurship (Young Starters' Fund). We were considered ineligibl
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I'd like to know what a hardware program costing ~US$38 billion in 2016 dollars would look like.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
If you're not limited to the standard library, https://github.com/hynek/attrs is also worth taking a look at.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I know that there is some work on porting Rust to ppc64le which is gradually coming together.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Use this subscriber link: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/698042/7333e685450f7676/ If you find the article useful, consider subscribing to LWN - they do great work :)
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
That sounds like an... interesting accounting challenge. Are they actually paying sales tax on behalf of the vendor, or are they paying sales tax in their own name and acting as the legal retail seller?
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Argh, yes, I meant POWER9. Thanks.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
More importantly, the system architecture is different.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
"IBM has a well-known disdain for vowels, and basically refuses to use them for mnemonics (they were called on this, and did "eieio" as an instruction just to try to make up for it)." - Linus Torvalds, 2009 ( http:/
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
As much as I think the Wii, the Wii U and the Xbox 360 are all the equal-best gaming consoles ever (yes, I judge my gaming consoles purely by their CPU architecture), each of those consoles uses a custom chip developed under a specific IBM-
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
It's a new revision of an existing ISA. POWER8 implements Power ISA 2.07, POWER8 is 3.0. The Freescale part of NXP was formed out of Motorola's semiconductor division - Motorola, in turn, was part of the original AIM Alliance with
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IBM’s 24-core Power9 chip(nextplatform.com)
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
"The amount of dev time that a company will save from removing technical debt will likely be more than the extra sales the company will get from a new feature." Not always true (though it often is!), but particularly not always tr
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Related: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ Coccinelle is used extensively by Linux kernel developers for a whole tonne of things like this.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Not a debootstrap or any sort of Debian developer, but I assume minbase is expected to be strictly a subset of the packages one would find on a regular Debian system, which would imply having bash, dash, util-linux and so on, rather than at
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
If you're an engineer who's working on branch predictors, or a developer working on compiler optimisations, then such a test isn't exactly pointless...
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
In Australia, we recently had a case over whether a "Ripstick" was a "skateboard", "snakeboard" or "caster board": http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/aat/2013&#
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
There was a lawsuit: "U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) uses the “Specification for Identification of Bolts and Screws,” ANSI - ASME B18.2.1 1981 (the “Specification”) to distinguish bolts from screws.1 In Rocknel Fastener, Inc.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
The average number of legs per human, worldwide, is slightly under 2. However, the vast majority of people have 2 legs.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Debian is currently switched to using gpg2 by default.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
All those, uuuuuh, positive and happy memories of editing modelines in XF86Config...
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
~13 years ago, I picked up a KNOPPIX 3.3 CD on the front cover of Australian Personal Computer and experienced the wonders of a Debian-based distro for the first time. 13 years later, and here I am, still using Debian on my home desktop, my
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Legal obligation being the only possible meaning of "obligation", obviously.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
All the fake keys that I've seen mentioned are from the data set at https://evil32.com . It appears a couple of researchers decided, back in 2014, to demonstrate this issue by cloning the entire strong set of the PGP web of
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Does anyone on earth not have an obligation to be ethical? (Yes, I know there is no universally accepted definition of "ethical".)
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I'm a driver developer at IBM. We're the hardware vendor. We maintain the drivers. Simple.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
http://pastebin.com/JBcipKBL

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