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571.
by alxlaz 8y ago
Note, however, that MEMS oscillators (which modern iPhones use) and quartz oscillators are not the same thing. SiTime's MEMS oscillator is made of silicon, not quartz.
572.
by alxlaz 8y ago
I don't think there was. It's not like people figured out today that bad quantities of helium can be bad, and that big tanks have big quantities of helium, so MRI rooms are routinely equipped with oxygen sensors (see e.g. https
573.
by alxlaz 8y ago
As far as I know, C99 makes no requirements about the byte width of int8_t, only about its bit width. The relevant bits are in section 7.18.1.1 . There are few architectures and runtimes where this is relevant anymore, and the answer is r
574.
by alxlaz 8y ago
Nope, the C standard requires that sizeof char = 1, regardless of the width of a byte :-).
575.
by alxlaz 8y ago
That is quite obviously a misquote done in haste, because the article includes the correct form (buf[offset] * 256 + buf[offset + 1]) :-).
576.
by alxlaz 8y ago
uint8_t is guaranteed to always be an octet, and stdint types (uint8_t, int32_t, uint32_t etc.) are also the recommended types to use when you want to make the size and signedness of the data clear. An array of uint8_t is definitely correct
577.
by alxlaz 8y ago
To also play devil's advocate: Flash was a great authorship environment, certainly far easier to write games with, and with better results, than C could give you twenty years before. Developing JS/HTML5 games is far more painful a
578.
by alxlaz 8y ago
For bonus points, Arcan & Durden are a lot more hackable than Xorg & Beryl :-)
579.
by alxlaz 8y ago
I also liked Windows 2000, very much. I used it on-and-off (though mostly on...) while I was learning Linux. I switched around 2003 or so, I think. After that... up until Windows Vista or so I was just being a l33t h4x03 hipster kid. After
580.
by alxlaz 8y ago
Hey, do you accept congratulations from someone who's used nothing but Unices for ages now? The stuff you and your (now former) colleagues have put up lately is remarkable. The last version of Windows I used on my home machine was Wind
581.
by alxlaz 8y ago
Well, it's not like that's a thoroughly unknown problem. eBPF ( https://lwn.net/Articles/740157/ ), for example, which effectively relies on running user-supplied bytecode in kernelspace, attempts to solve
582.
by alxlaz 8y ago
Yeah, after sixteen years of this stuff, I definitely needed someone to tell me that there are other DEs than Gnome :-). How are things in XFCE land, do you have a sane "Open file" dialog, or do its (so, so few...) applications us
583.
by alxlaz 8y ago
I've been using FreeBSD, then Linux since 2002 and I'm seriously considering moving to Windows, which I haven't ran on any of my machines since back when Windows XP was fresh. If you think all the stuff you listed is bad, wai
584.
by alxlaz 8y ago
> This could have been written by a person with a grudge for all I am concerned. Or by a person who does not wish to be on a no-hire list. The job market for Linux developers working on this sort of stuff is not exactly enormous.
585.
by alxlaz 8y ago
I see comments like that every once in a while, and I always come back to something that one of my professors told me a long time ago. If it took you like five minutes of thinking about it to come up with it, it's a safe bet that a) fo
586.
by alxlaz 8y ago
How is it so different from Gnome 3's design? The parent's complaints were about wasted space estate, inadequate font choice and bland colors; Adwaita, Gnome 3's default theme, suffers from the exact same problems -- in fact,
587.
by alxlaz 8y ago
Not necessarily for that, but it does routinely happen that an ODM uses the same PCB design for multiple projects. This results in various chips remaining unpopulated, 0-ohm resistors used here and there to route pins to the right periphera
588.
by alxlaz 8y ago
This is more common than one would think. I've done something like this several times before, too -- not taking photographs, but reviewing the actual board against the layout and specs. I found unspecced parts twice; the first time it
589.
by alxlaz 8y ago
I used this several years ago (five or six, I think? Maybe more) with some of Ettus Research's USRPs. It's quite amazing. We used it for prototyping -- the gear wasn't (or we couldn't get it to be) fast enough to replace
590.
by alxlaz 8y ago
Oh, wow, GEOS is a name I haven't heard in a long time! I never got the chance to use it on a real C64, but I played with it a lot under CCS64 ( http://ccs64.com/ ). I had a very slow computer at the time, too slow to
591.
by alxlaz 8y ago
I'm not an "old-school lisper", but I have done some Lisp development related to embedded systems. The phrasing may be somewhat unfortunate but it ultimately does describe how hardware works: you need to write something at
592.
by alxlaz 8y ago
The word you're looking for is meteoroid . ( Not meteorite. It's not a meteorite until it has fallen on solid ground or water :-) ). They're objects whose size is smaller than that of an asteroid, but larger than that of a
593.
by alxlaz 8y ago
Rolling-release distributions (Gentoo, Arch) are very hard to use in a work environment. When it's the last day before release and I have two bugs to squash and eight hours for it, the last thing I want to do is babysit my computer thr
594.
by alxlaz 8y ago
This doesn't excuse many of the other things they do, like (often badly) patching upstream code and not sending the patches upstream. It's one thing when you simply don't have the resources or the manpower to respond to all t
595.
by alxlaz 8y ago
> 2) a good model for Canonical to support (non-corporate?) users What on Earth made you think Canonical cares about supporting non-corporate users :-)?
596.
by alxlaz 8y ago
They don't, and it doesn't. First, you'd think that, if adjusting learning styles actually made people more interested, or if it made the whole experience feel more inclusive, and make people more drawn to it, the outcomes wo
597.
by alxlaz 8y ago
> Skimming, that paper says there's no support for it, rather than there being evidence to falsify the idea that different people learn better in different ways. There is also no evidence to falsify the idea that there is a magical
598.
by alxlaz 8y ago
See e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5366351/ , which cites several of the papers that put the last few nails in the coffin. It also inventories the somewhat depressing situation we're c
599.
by alxlaz 8y ago
> I have had a middle manager tell me that they where not cutting down the team, because he wanted to be a manager of 5 people, just like that. Better yet: there are companies where a team needs to have at least N people in order for it
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I had a few idle moments today and I did the following uncanny experiment: https://imgur.com/a/Va52eFQ A modern, clean theme, basically the epitome of modern design (I could have chosen a better color scheme but trust

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