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by ajxs 7y ago
I was just looking at this recently, funnily enough, while looking for other examples of x86 Operating-System development in Ada. Here are a few other examples of Operating-System development in Ada, in various levels of completion. - http
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by ajxs 7y ago
I was always under the impression that microwave radiation, being non-ionizing, does not increase cancer-risk with exposure.
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by ajxs 7y ago
I find it hard to justify why, but I'm always so curious about those legacy systems still running in enterprise-scale companies. I doubt that working on them is anything short of terrifying, but I find it so interesting to hear about w
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by ajxs 7y ago
Nearly all of the front-end developers I've suffered the misfortune of working with over the years have been aghast at the notion that their UI code might be responsible for anything less than the fate of all mankind. Ironically, this
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by ajxs 7y ago
People all over the world are mentioning his name right now, discussing his life and achievements, after his death. For many people lasting notoriety and posterity is a very large motivating factor behind their pursuits. If this is true of
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by ajxs 7y ago
People really have an unhealthy fascination with SIGINT. It's really not the disproportionate threat people think it is, or should be most concerned with. Tools such as encryption, privacy-focused messaging mediums, VPNs, etc might ser
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by ajxs 7y ago
This was a terrible article. The fact that Mozilla endorses this content is extremely disappointing.
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by ajxs 7y ago
Why should it be the least bit difficult to imagine that the average Chinese citizen is not remarkably concerned about their government's curtailment of civil liberties? Cultural differences between China and the Western world are not
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by ajxs 7y ago
Referring to Australia's offshore immigration detention facilities as "concentration camps" in this context is incredibly misleading. There is absolutely no fair comparison to be made between Australia's detention of ill
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by ajxs 7y ago
I'm interested in more information regarding the Safe Systems Programming Languages team's work. Did they assess other languages other than Rust? I'm scanning through their blog entries, without having read every single one i
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by ajxs 7y ago
I'm very interested in seeing where this leads. I've had so many problems creating Ada capable GCC cross-compilers from the FSF source, and it looks like I'm not alone in this area. This might open up new and better possibili
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by ajxs 7y ago
This quote from the opening paragraph "I recommend in particular Selam G’s original articles on this topic for background" doesn't do much to endear it to me. I'd hardly call the original article a very accurate represen
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by ajxs 7y ago
That is a compelling narrative I guess. I had always associated that period of Viennese art with that of Gustav Klimt, who seems to have been reasonably successful in that period. He probably didn't represent the conservative views of
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by ajxs 7y ago
Interesting! Maybe I've been misinformed. I might have my timeline a bit confused, I had always thought this was the case.
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by ajxs 7y ago
When you bring up contemporary critique of Hitler's paintings it's worth noting that Hitler's ill-fated aspirations as a painter came in a time and place where art was moving in leaps and bounds towards much more abstract sty
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by ajxs 7y ago
That's exactly what I mean. It would allow for a more organic looking promotion of paid content. If you were able to see all engagement metrics, you may wonder why your favorite off-beat content, with much higher engagement is de-prior
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by ajxs 7y ago
I'd like to see your original comment. I don't presume to know the full story of how this feature came to be inside your company, I'm assuming from your comment that this initiative was created organically by employees for no
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by ajxs 7y ago
At the risk of sounding conspiratorial, I suspect that the recent trend of social media platforms hiding engagement metrics has less to do with fighting 'envy' than simply allowing for more authentic looking proliferation of promo
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by ajxs 7y ago
As I posted in another comment, here's my initial implementation: https://github.com/ajxs/cxos Apologies for the double post. I just wanted to ensure that you would see the reply.
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by ajxs 7y ago
Here's my initial implementation: https://github.com/ajxs/cxos I'm going to continue to work on it for some time, but this is the minimal working example that I had enough time to properly document.
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by ajxs 7y ago
That's honestly outrageous to the point of scandal. Aside from the point that these are expensive devices, these are devices that you own. You, the owner, should be able to control them to a complete degree.
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by ajxs 7y ago
You're going to have a hard time convincing anyone that women would have sex with RMS, let alone have sex with him on a mattress on the floor of his office. Jokes aside, this sounds downright unprofessional. I would have expected the i
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by ajxs 7y ago
I agree with you here. Stallman's comments on this topic are characteristically appalling, insensitive and pedantic, but I think the headlines printed about him are inaccurate and malicious. These publications have no stake in the matt
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by ajxs 7y ago
Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about these comments. It's taking me a little longer than expected due to a few other commitments. I'm just in the process of cleaning the code up and doing the documentation, so I'l
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by ajxs 7y ago
Anyone who knows who Richard Stallman is, much less cares about his opinions, could probably be classified as 'neuroatypical' in some regard. I don't think there's any point to discussing the utility of 'neurodiverg
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by ajxs 7y ago
Speaking of JOVIAL: I found this great talk by Jules Schwartz on the development of JOVIAL. https://youtu.be/sXjCqa4W4iQ It's a great, quite humorous watch.
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by ajxs 7y ago
I actually laughed at this comment. I was wondering the same thing. Although this is a cheap shot, how could I resist mentioning that Ada's FFI functionality is updated every 20 years on average and is still ahead of the curve.
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by ajxs 7y ago
You could have condensed your entire post to just "This exception was uncaught". Your last point is just outright ridiculous: > "Rust improves upon this situation by panicking in debug mode and wrapping in release mode, wh
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by ajxs 7y ago
Ada is miles ahead of Rust when it comes to C interoperability. I posted this before in one of the other Rust threads, but you can't get more than two paragraphs through the official Rust FFI documentation ( https://doc.rust
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by ajxs 7y ago
If I could upvote this twice, I would.

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