bjackman

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   by bjackman 11y ago

   This is the only unikernel I know of that supports "raw" applications - OSv applications run in a JVM and MirageOS applications are in OCaml. Edit: looks like there's a direct alternative called Rumprun: https://gi
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   by bjackman 11y ago

   Nice! Couple of things: - Firefox on Ubuntu yields "TypeError: t.srcElement is undefined" when I try to change the colour. - I don't have any fonts for some of the icons in the buttons (e.g. the arrow). Seeing as you're
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   by bjackman 11y ago

   What does it do?
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   by bjackman 11y ago

   I like it. Unfortunately after running nicely for the first 6 levels, the framerate dropped to unplayable on level 7 :( I'm on the open source (Nouveau) drivers with a "NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [Quadro NVS 4200M]" which I be
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   by bjackman 11y ago

   Quick question: why do you think AMD decided canonical addresses had to be sign-extended rather than just lead with zeroes? Wouldn't an access to 0xffff800000000000 also break if the address space was extended?
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   by bjackman 11y ago

   I guess the important thing is to be consistent with whatever mood you choose.
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   by bjackman 11y ago

   He's referring to the fact that systemd was (is) very controversial when it was announced as a replacement for SystemV init. There were _lots_ of flamewars and hyperbole and when Debian announced they were making systemd their only ini
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   by bjackman 11y ago

   I do indeed. We have a problem in this country; there is a shortage of homes, so being a landlord is extremely profitable, so house prices are astronomical and its very difficult to get on the ladder.. leading to all the homes being concent
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   by bjackman 11y ago

   Here in the U.K. our right-wing government are planning re-introduce a scheme whereby those in government-owned social housing have the right to buy the property cheaply after a set period. This has always been a very controversial idea: it
10. 850.▲
    by bjackman 11y ago

    Good point, but remember Apple license the ARM architecture from ARM (the company), and they probably aren't allowed to deliberately ship partially-compliant ARM hardware.
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    by bjackman 11y ago

    The writer is probably one of the games many purists! I love Twenty20 but I have to agree with whoever said "it's not cricket, it's a form of entertainment performed using cricket equipment".
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    by bjackman 11y ago

    I think it's important that we recognise the distinction between targeted surveillance and mass surveillance. Within a legal framework that recognises the right to privacy as the default, surveillance is a necessary law enforcement too
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    by bjackman 11y ago

    Sorry to go meta but I love how concise this post is. "I did a clever thing, it solves problem X. Here's the code."
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    by bjackman 11y ago

    I believe the Xilinx tools are actually free of cost. Still, though, open source FPGA tools are desperately needed. edit: even if they just opened up the bitfile format. I believe it's a similar situation as GPU instructions sets thoug
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    by bjackman 11y ago

    Wrote a mandelbrot generator for uni that performs at several fps on a 25MHz clock using 8 multipliers. Definitely not possible on a CPU! https://instagram.com/p/2Y4CMtP95Q/?taken-by=yawn_brendan But yeah pretty m
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    by bjackman 11y ago

    What are the advantages of the curved one? I've never worked on an application that would care about this kind of thing, so I'm struggling to imagine the implications.
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    by bjackman 11y ago

    I had to ban myself from Reddit due to the addiction and timewasting. I'm pretty sure I'm happier and more productive for doing so. I still allow myself HN and Slashdot; they're lower volume so you can only waste so much time
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    by bjackman 11y ago

    I've found this stuff fascinating ever since I saw the stromatolites [1] at Shark Bay in Australia. They evolved 3.5 thousand million years ago. That's closer to the formation of the earth (4.5Gya) than now. It was thousands of mi
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    by bjackman 12y ago

    Cool! Why? (I have also spent the last year working on a homebrew OS kernel, so please trust that my "why" isn't intended as an attack! For me, the answer was simply "to see if I can", and I really enjoyed the proje
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    by bjackman 12y ago

    Not totally related but here's a fun thing to think about: In Greg Egan's "Permutation City", an alternative set of physical rules is devised that is designed to produce a universe resembling ours, but that is computatio
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    by bjackman 12y ago

    This is surely more of a Mediatek/BQ issue than an Ubuntu one. Regardless, Canonical are supposed to be on the side of software Freedom, and it's on their shoulders to make Mediatek sort this out.
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    by bjackman 12y ago

    Cool. Does anyone have any insight into why T-Mobile Poland in particular might be interested in accepting Bitcoin?
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    by bjackman 12y ago

    This is besides the point of the article, but I really struggle with wallets. Here in the EU you often have not-insignificant amounts of money in coins, but there's a dearth of decent wallets with durable coin pouches. Not one of the d
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    by bjackman 12y ago

    Nope, you can only input numbers.
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    by bjackman 12y ago

    Wow, 400-500ms pauses? Is that the case in newer Go versions as well? Seems like that would wipe out viability for a whole load of applications.
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    by bjackman 12y ago

    Same here TypeError: $S.global_conf is undefined blog_editor-8c9dc8f38e8dff53f0a4430e9075aaca.js:35040 "Invalid App Id: Must be a number or numeric string representing the application id." all.js:61 "FB.getLoginStatus() calle
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    by bjackman 12y ago

    Offer Drive looks interesting. You should either internationalise it (right now the salary field only accepts numbers and doesn't specify what currency, and there's no "country" field) or clarify that it's only for
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    by bjackman 12y ago

    Same here. Also, if nut allergies were unheard of in the EU.. why would nut-allergy news be on the BBC's front page?
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    by bjackman 12y ago

    Love the comment about water evacuation through holes reducing hydroplaning. I'd love to know what's holding these back. Perhaps it's just a higher cost:MTBF ratio, and one day it will surpass regular tyres. Perhaps they&#x27
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    by bjackman 12y ago

    This is super badass! I guess a lot of Proper Security People might say "whatever.. this requires physical access and once you have physical access you can compromise anything", but to truly say you can compromise any physically a