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by avian 6y ago
You might be interested in SDCC, a C compiler that supports Z80, among other small architectures. I'm happy to see it's still actively developed. http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
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by avian 6y ago
In some stupid meeting somewhere: A: ...and in conclusion, it's a win-win situation. Users will benefit from ads and our revenue will go up. B: People don't like ads on their TV. A: But they do. I refer you to slides 18 through 25
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by avian 6y ago
> There will be no way to shut them down. Most people already don't care and happily connect everything to their Wi-Fi. Those that do care and now setup firewalls/piholes/etc. on their Wi-Fi will learn to snip the coax&#x2
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by avian 6y ago
You will be disappointed to find out that SIMs that you get with IoT devices these days often only connect you to a private network without access to the wider Internet. At least if the point of the SIM was to just distribute firmware updat
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by avian 6y ago
> capture it in Earth orbit as a lower moon. If it's below geostationary orbit, tidal forces will eventually bring it down. This is happening with Mars' moons for example, which are probably (naturally) captured asteroids. You
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by avian 6y ago
Had a similar experience. Also, the guy with the desk closest to the machine quickly got fed up of everyone asking “how do I just get a normal coffee out of this?”
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by avian 6y ago
Does anyone have any experience how reliable is such modern USB attached storage when run 24/7? Some years back I made a box (x86, not RPi) with a bunch of USB connected drives (from Western Digital, if I remember correctly). After a f
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by avian 6y ago
Because eventually the last black hole will evaporate into Hawking’s radiation and there will be no way to further increase entropy to run Facebook’s servers.
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by avian 6y ago
> ReCaptcha Why do some stores have a captcha as part of their checkout process? I'm noticing that recently and I can't figure it out. I understand it for registering an account, or even just browsing the store (i.e. prevent
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by avian 6y ago
1. Various topics, most often about electronics and software. I'm currently writing about a system for RF vector measurements I'm making. 2. Around 1 post every 1 to 2 weeks. 3. A self-hosted static-site generator I made myself 15
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by avian 6y ago
Often having everything in one compilation unit results in a smaller and/or faster binary. I’ve seen this happen even when using LTO. It’s a common practice when developing firmware for small micros.
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by avian 6y ago
These things can be completely irrational in my experience. One part I was working with had a driver upstreamed in the Linux kernel, you could buy off-the-shelf devices for cheap that had it on the PCB and I even found a company that was ap
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by avian 6y ago
> Arguments that Broadcom is forcing their hand on this simply don't add up. I have worked with much more mundane integrated circuits where the manufacturer required you to sign an NDA before getting any kind of design support from
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by avian 6y ago
The Atom standard tried to support commenting directly in the content feed. There was a threading extension to incorporate comments in the feed file itself and a publishing protocol so that you can post a comment in standard way from, say,
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by avian 6y ago
Sounds like just a vanilla sshd filter with bantime cranked up to 1 month instead of the default (and possibly maxretry=1 or something low like that)
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by avian 6y ago
What is Imgur’s business model these days? The app doesn’t have any (obvious) ads. There’s a small banner on the bottom, but for me it’s always just advertising Imgur’s own features. There was a time when they were pushing ads heavily on th
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by avian 6y ago
Also that the article has a pop up that distracts you from reading after the first few paragraphs.
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by avian 6y ago
My guess is they give artists exposure in exchange for a share of the profits through their channels. I don't know if they can monetize the free stream on YouTube, but they also stream on payable streaming services and sell albums on B
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by avian 6y ago
Would be interesting to see some analysis from a public relations point of view why that was the case. From a technical standpoint, both Cassini and Galileo did Earth gravity assists. The argument was that an error in navigation could cause
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by avian 6y ago
Lot's of unproven technologies in the proposed missions: thermal nuclear propulsion (a big can of worms by itself), zero-boil-off hydrogen tanks, microsat swarms, ... One point that I haven't seen discussed in similar papers was t
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by avian 6y ago
This is fascinating. It reminds me of an art display I saw years ago that looked similar. However I was disappointed to learn that in that case the mechanical stuff was only for show and the algorithm was driven by an Arduino hidden behind
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by avian 6y ago
Electronics are still more likely I think. Some sources claim [1] that even in the 1980s the Venera program had developed circuits capable of working outside of the probe's pressure hull, at Venus temperatures. I don't remember ev
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by avian 6y ago
> We couldn’t build anything We could, but we didn’t. https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03155
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by avian 6y ago
RSS is basically a synonym for Atom at this point.
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by avian 6y ago
The first book is certainly very different from the rest. If not for other reasons then simply because it is a self-standing short novel while later books tell a continuous story spanning three books, with each book being about 2-3 times lo
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by avian 6y ago
Not the parent, but my homebrew backup script first makes the backup and then attempts to restore a canary file. If that fails it raises the alarm. It's not perfect. I can imagine a scenario where the canary is restorable, but some oth
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by avian 6y ago
I found a discussion from March 2009 which suggests this issue was known back then [1]. Maybe the same feature was re-introduced later in some other part of the code? The link to source repo in the post is dead, but the file it references (
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by avian 6y ago
I can't replicate this with current Thunderbird 68.11.0 on Debian. It honors parameters such as subject= and body=, but attach= seems to be ignored. After a quick search through the paper [1] it seems that authors forgot to mention the
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by avian 6y ago
I second the advice to keep the routine. I don't have a separate office at home. What I do after work however is clean up my desk and stash away the company laptop and any other work-related things somewhere out of sight.
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by avian 6y ago
Cost is more of a spoiler than radioactivity. At "one quadrillion dollars per ounce" you might as well do isotope separation and only collect stable gold 197. The additional cost of the separation would probably be just a rounding

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