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by bcrl 4y ago
The value of knowledge has not decreased, and I would say that knowledge is more valuable than ever. What has decreased is the quality of much of the information that is widely available. For certain searches or websites people are likely
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by bcrl 4y ago
I miss the 68000 series. It was such a pleasant platform to program on. I spent many hours disassembling the ROM on my Amiga with a debugger, and learned so very much. x86 really doesn't compare, although the x86-64 extension by AMD
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by bcrl 4y ago
I've had good success with the ASRock X470D4U and X570D4U server boards that accept AMD Ryzen CPUs and have ECC support. Just make sure to use the dedicated IPMI ethernet port rather than the shared ethernet port. The shared ethernet
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by bcrl 4y ago
I was lucky enough to get exposed to QuickBASIC and AmigaBASIC in the latter part of the 1980s which introduced me to much more structured programming than the old style line numbered based BASIC implementations. That was quite the step fo
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by bcrl 5y ago
Electric companies tend to be regulated monopolies, and suffer from the same perverse incentives with models like being allowed a 10% profit. The more they spend replacing poles and building new pole lines, the bigger the profit the regula
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by bcrl 5y ago
It's the nature of developers that don't value other developers' time and effort. Somehow the Linux kernel manages not to break userspace every release.
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by bcrl 5y ago
Personally, the hardest thing I had to deal with in school were English classes. Had I been in a technical writing course instead I might have actually been able to engage with the material in a way that just didn't work for me in sch
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by bcrl 5y ago
Most recently I've played around with the Polarfire FPGAs from Microsemi^H^H^H^Hchip, and previously with the Xilinx Kintex series on the KC705 eval board. The SERDES interface on the Polarfire is way easier to deal with than the mo
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by bcrl 5y ago
And if he'd applied the same optimizations to the C version, it would have trounced the optimized Python version. I really don't like it when authors unfairly penalize their "not preferred" solution -- it makes me feel
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by bcrl 5y ago
Can someone please explain why this is? It looks like black magic to me.
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by bcrl 5y ago
I am actually in Ontario, which is a very pro-tenant jurisdiction.
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by bcrl 5y ago
To that I would add the following: trust no one, including yourself. I might think I know what the code is doing, but in the real world I know that I can, have been and will be wrong from time to time. But nothing beats the satisfaction of
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by bcrl 5y ago
As a landlord, I would never, ever rent to a tenant that had a previous eviction. The risk is just too high. A bad tenant can take 6+ months to evict plus tens of thousands of dollars in repairs. Once the eviction process starts, the ten
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by bcrl 5y ago
Geeze, I should go into banking. This is nuts.
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by bcrl 5y ago
We had great fun with Lode Runner in grade school. I ended up hacking our copy by modifying one of the sectors on disk to let us start at the higher levels, as we had at most about an hour over lunch to play the game. I had a handy plasti
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by bcrl 5y ago
A number of companies invested in doing the software development to take advantage of TSX (as the performance improvements helped databases by companies like Oracle), so Intel certainly lost a lot of credibility. And Intel is jerking softw
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by bcrl 5y ago
Most recently I got an email that was clearly spam (had a link to a website with a .zip file that was clearly malware) that was a reply from an order I placed with a supplier a few months ago ($8,800 worth of 105Ah rackmount SLA batteries)
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by bcrl 5y ago
Or he'll trade TSLA shares for TWTR. I can imagine that some investors in TWTR would be happy to take him up on such an offer.
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by bcrl 5y ago
It worked great until Apple decided that they wanted to be a streaming music provider a few years ago. I hate the new music app. Back when the iPod Touch was still a separate product, the music app was far better. Then an update broke
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by bcrl 5y ago
Yes, when I migrated from one phone to another when the screen died. The listing for several tracks is still in the library, but the listing is greyed out and tapping on them pops up a dialog box stating "This song is not currently av
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by bcrl 5y ago
I live in a rural area with a small local town about an hour outside of Ottawa. Lots of rural houses are going up, as the hour drive is okay for the occasional commute. Nothing is being built in the town (which currently has about 350 dwe
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by bcrl 5y ago
My (sadly passed now) brother in law ran a convenience store in a small town that also rented out videos. The big difference between a video store and a streaming service is that the video store doesn't have its content clawed back by
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by bcrl 5y ago
Compared to 6+ years ago, it's getting harder and harder to find specific content on services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+. There comes a point when the content pie is split up into so many pieces that there just isn't eno
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by bcrl 5y ago
Ah, new superfund sites. Just what the world needs.
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by bcrl 5y ago
You can already block people on Twitter. The problem arises with shared blocklists. How is a shared blocklist identified? Well, the odds are that it will probably need to have a name. You now have the following problem: the name can be
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by bcrl 5y ago
The only problem with that idea is that the blocklists will inevitably end up being used to slander and malign other groups as people will use them to assign unpleasant labels to others. In the end, someone will need to moderate the lists,
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by bcrl 5y ago
Even if it's just a performance anomaly, these are good reports for kernel developers to have. If nothing else, it helps expand developers' understanding of the sorts of workloads people have had problems with. In the case of re
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by bcrl 5y ago
So you didn't report the bug? Kernel developers absolutely LOVE those kinds of bugs, especially with such a trivial reproducer!
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by bcrl 5y ago
Personally, I prefer the choice of simply using a language that doesn't have GC. No GC, no GC tuning problem. Seems ideal! That said, I've worked on several embedded systems, and the never allocate memory rule that most of them
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by bcrl 5y ago
Maybe Google should pay the copyright usage fee rather than just accept the takedown. I would imagine that a lot of these videos uploaded to YouTube are one-offs put up by people for the public good who don't have channels and are bel

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