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by ajxs 5y ago
In many cases this isn't the behavior you as the consumer would want. For an example, if your bank's certificate expires it's not ideal for the end user to be unwittingly redirected to http, and inadvertently access their acc
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I don't work in the industry this OS is marketed towards. I do however have some experience in embedded development and synthesiser programming. Can someone more familiar with the field answer a few questions for me? - The website says
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Depending on what kind of audio programming you intend to do, it should be possible to use Rust or other alternative programming languages. Your mileage may vary, depending on the dependencies of what you intend to build. If you want to i
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In this case I wasn't offered a position. The company in question is well known within a certain field, and has a reputation for having a difficult recruitment process. They were offering a very competitive salary, and I was admittedly
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There's a lot of truth in this comment. Being able to gauge the interest of the people you're presenting to, and adjusting accordingly, is obviously going to benefit you in any situation too. It's a good idea to focus on keep
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> Few things are farther away from day-to-day programming that a white-board problem, but kernel development might just be one of them. This is true. I'd counter that though by saying that I don't think there's any other p
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That's very cool! I should probably have added to the original comment that in the cases where it's been my role to interview potential candidates for a position, these kind of projects are the first thing I look for. I'd muc
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I definitely identify with the author. A big mistake I made in the past was to assume that other software engineers are equally enthusiastic about these kind of projects, or the least bit impressed by them. I was asked for a job interview t
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by ajxs 6y ago
The resource that got me started on this topic was: https://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page There's some decent tutorials available on here that provide a good introduction to the topic.
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You've presented a conscientious criterion for what can be classified as an operating system. I think it's clever, I'm not sure I agree though. It's very broad: By this same definition any processor is an operating syste
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What's a reasonable alternative that an individual can make today ? The economic pressures that compel individuals to purchase or rent expensive property are ever-present. I agree with you that some kind of systemic regulation is prob
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> "...so that it will become more inconvenient for her (or for the rest of Youtube) to do more things that interfere with free speech." This is a good theory, I don't think it reflects the situation though. She used her &#
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What's a reasonable alternative, just pay someone else's mortgage instead? Go live in the woods and opt out of the economy entirely? A mortgage is debt, yes. However the money you put into the mortgage is wealth that you're s
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I was conscious of this when I wrote that. It's a shame that the Mozilla of today serves as the thin line separating us from an effective Google monopoly on web-standards. I know that Brave's userbase has grown recently, however I
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This article is patently ridiculous. As if the article's central claim was not dubious enough, it opens with this: > "Linus Torvalds is perhaps best known as the creator of Linux, but he has arguably had a bigger impact as the
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One important question that's missing from the article is: "Why do the FBI think that the author would be a valuable informant?" . Other people have commented in this thread with their own experiences of having been threaten
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Unfortunately, it really does. There's so many people who are unable or unwilling to turn a critical eye to the actions of these companies. This applies doubly to social and political issues. Amazon and ilk carefully weigh the options
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A while ago I created a simple website using an XML file as a storage technology and XSLT to render it to HTML. The data stored would be updated infrequently and suited a consistent format, making XML suitable for the job. Originally the si
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Truly that entire section of the game with inverted gravity is some of the best game design ever. The palpable frustration when you come across the inverted medbay really left an impression on me.
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All of my academic computer science instruction was done in C. I was going to mention this in a response to one of the above comments regarding the pedagogical value of Python: I don't feel that taking onboard the concerns that come wi
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You're absolutely right. Pardon me. I should have written the more specific 'use-after-free'.
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Regarding `repr(packed)`: Thank you for posting this. I really like Rust's official documentation on the subject. I stand corrected regarding Rust's support of structure packing. The following statement is a little troubling howev
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One area where I think Ada has the edge is providing language constructs that make bare metal programming safer. Concepts like 'dangling pointers' and 'memory leaks' aren't relevant in a programming environment wi
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Author here. Thank you for pointing this out! I actually did not know that this phrase had such a specific meaning. I had incorrectly inferred from other usage that the phrase meant that the fact in question was supported by evidence to a d
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Coincidentally I just embarked on learning about the 6809 architecture. I became interested in the architecture after discovering a generation of synthesizers, such as Yamaha's DX line or Ensoniq's ESQ-1/SQ-80, in the mid 198
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Other people have already pointed out how common these techniques are. Here's my personal favorite video about the construction of a sample based track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ndtwj1byII
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I went to a state run (public in local parlance) high school in Australia in the 2000s. The school was in an area that was beginning to gentrify. It had students from a variety of backgrounds, with the majority being working class. The scho
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These effects scale. If every single laptop uses a small amount more power than is necessary, the relatively minor increase in energy use for one computer totals up to a significant increase in overall energy usage. Not to mention the unnec
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I see a lot of people in the tech industry deeply concerned with human impact on the environment and our diminishing prospects of repairing it without drastically altering our lifestyles. At the same time the general consensus in the tech i
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As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Ultima VII has the Exult project ( http://exult.sourceforge.net ) which makes playing Ultima VII on modern platforms extremely simple. I'm guessing the earlier games are much easier to e

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