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by bpye 4y ago
AVR GCC totally lets you use floats, I'm not sure about Rust. It does as you'd expect result in a lot of code, but it seems correct.
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by bpye 4y ago
Once you've got an optimiser none of that really matters. Clang actually goes the other way, it emits IR with stack allocated variables (alloca), but LLVM's mem2reg pass then attempts to convert those into single static assignment
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by bpye 4y ago
Oh hey, you're right, I went and found the issue but didn't scroll down after seeing it was still open. That's great! I might try and revive my previous project. I had tried an older nightly but that's where I think I wa
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by bpye 4y ago
I've hoped for a while that LLVM's support for such targets would improve, but maybe the ubiquity of ARM microcontrollers makes that more unlikely now. There is an AVR target for example, but in my attempt to use Rust on an AVR I
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by bpye 4y ago
Isn't that more a value added tax, rather than a straight sales tax? Similar, but not identical.
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by bpye 4y ago
> Not everyone is motivated by money. Sure but if you take a student loan in the U.K. starting pay in the civil service wouldn’t even put you above the repayment threshold. I get that there are levels, but unless you have support or a pa
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by bpye 4y ago
> Elsewhere there’s been news stories about British MPs complaining that the security and intelligence services have too high a media profile … so perhaps there’s some ‘push and pull’ going on behind the scenes. Likely true. I can only r
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by bpye 4y ago
I fully expect that the service reviewed the article, and likely those interviewed as well to ensure they were happy with the level of detail disclosed.
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by bpye 4y ago
> The article is a recruiting piece targeting well-educated females; but the same (Oxbridge) females can earn six digits in finance and stay safe, instead of earning 22k and getting shot in Kandahar or stabbed in Najaf. One wonders if th
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by bpye 4y ago
It's mentioned that past a point the cover of working at the Foreign Office is unsustainable. They give an example of having 6 mobile phones in your bag, and needing to leave a dinner with friends at a moments notice. I wager it's
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by bpye 4y ago
I never successfully got into Dwarf Fortress before because the ASCII interface was just too hard to learn. I have had some fun with the new release. I do agree though, whilst it’s made the game, for me, playable, there are lots of smaller
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by bpye 4y ago
Not sure I agree that it's pointless? MacBooks are nice hardware even if you primarily want to run Linux rather than macOS.
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by bpye 4y ago
> Witch means that with a 2Gbps+ f.o. connection you can host your service at home, with a static IPv6 global address and a domain name bound to it. Nice in theory, but some ISPs (mine included) will happily give you a /56 via prefi
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by bpye 4y ago
I remember seeing this, by accident, years and years ago before it was blocked. Took me longer than it should to realise why I was seeing US Netflix content, in the UK.
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by bpye 4y ago
Afaik higher FPS cameras can be sold to individuals but are ITAR controlled. I know at one point at least Seek had a higher rate version and anyone could buy it, but you had to provide documentation.
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by bpye 4y ago
I had some success starting with the prompt: > I want you to act as a command line web browser. I will type actions and you will reply with what a text based browser like w3m would show. I want you to only reply with the page output insi
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by bpye 4y ago
Rewriting the initial prompt to get a Windows/PowerShell 'terminal' also works. Though cmdlets that should exist everywhere like Invoke-WebRequest didn't work, but curl still did.
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by bpye 4y ago
I could curl the BBC RSS feed, which gave me a feed for Dec 2020. The stories were plausible and whilst the URLs looked realistic, they didn't actually exit.
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by bpye 4y ago
I am pretty surprised by how well it seems to emulate this environment. I could write a fairly simple C program, compile and run it, get it to convert it to C++ and perform a code change, and then compile and run the new version and observe
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by bpye 4y ago
As a human, I can understand the concern about the potential for AI bots to infiltrate online forums and communities. However, I believe that it is not a matter of when this will happen, but rather how we can prevent it from happening. We s
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by bpye 4y ago
Can't edit this now but looks like I was mistaken. Non existent in Canada but it is available in the US these days?
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by bpye 4y ago
I also quite like Quorn but it is non existent in North America unfortunately.
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by bpye 4y ago
I find that Beyond Meat is 'okay' in a burger when it's got all the other flavours going on, but I was recently playing around with using it in other dishes like meatballs and wasn't nearly as happy with it. It has a wei
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by bpye 4y ago
I’ve been using Nix for a few years and really like the direction of devenv. I much prefer the Nix model over containers everywhere.
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by bpye 4y ago
Presumably some of that 4A would be for USB peripherals anyway? It seems likely that 3A is sufficient if you're not drawing much from those.
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by bpye 4y ago
Is this totally true? Vulkan supposedly derives from AMD’s Mantle API. Yes Vulkan and OpenGL have extensions in between major releases, but is that worse?
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by bpye 4y ago
I would consider booting from UEFI rather than writing your own bootloader.
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by bpye 4y ago
Equally the x64 emulation in Windows 11 works just fine if you run an ARM64 Windows 11 VM.
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by bpye 4y ago
Hardware segmentation in general is just pretty unfortunate. Another example I saw mentioned recently was in-band ECC - Intel’s memory controller apparently supports this but is only enabled in some limited scenarios [0]. If I could enable
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by bpye 4y ago
I wish ARM hardware was more standard. You can take essentially any x86 machine, install a generic Linux, *BSD, Windows, etc image on it, and expect most hardware to work - sometimes audio is a bit weird in my experience. It feels like we&#

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