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by cesaref 3y ago
I think you can do better than this void* type this equivalent - if you consider what is happening with FILE* when you use stdio.h, you have basically a class interface, and i'd follow this pattern. There is no reason to use void*, cre
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by cesaref 3y ago
Absolutely! But thats for management to work through, the engineers just want more :)
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by cesaref 3y ago
I don't think this is quite right. What I believe is going on is that different generations have different battles they are fighting, different tech that they are comfortable with. How i'm reading it is the author is fighting agai
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by cesaref 3y ago
Having worked with Quants before, the reality is that however big your compute farm, they will want more. I think this is what is going on with these large AI companies - they are simply utilising all of the resource they have. Of course th
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by cesaref 3y ago
Given how much music is available via streaming services, for little money (or none if you can deal with adverts) i'd have thought the impact of a pirate music site would be very limited. I wonder what the impact of this site is on Son
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by cesaref 3y ago
Well, if it isn't covered, then you can take it out, and see what breaks (nothing) and then discover in production why it was there :) But yes, it's basically what the job comes down to - having a strategy for managing complexity
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by cesaref 3y ago
Well, let's say you are working on a well engineered and tested product, and you look at the code coverage, and there's a whole lump of functionality that has no coverage. You could conclude that the code is unnecessary and remove
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by cesaref 3y ago
Instruments like this normally boot from a read only image, so even if you have root access to the box you can't do anything bad to it, well, nothing that won't disappear on reboot. On my Siglent scope (an SDS2104X plus) you can e
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by cesaref 3y ago
Back in the 90s I remember a work colleague asking 'can you rollback a drop table?', to which I replied 'no', and all the blood drained from his face in seconds. It's one of those things you've heard happens to
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by cesaref 3y ago
I rather liked the MZ-80K, having spent a bit of time with it as a kid in the early 80s. I was attending a prep boarding school, for kids from 8 through 13 (can't imagine anyone sending their kids to boarding school aged 8 any more! Ho
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by cesaref 3y ago
The prioritisation has changed. Opening apps is slower, starting new documents/views within the apps is fast. With enough RAM you just keep all the apps you are using running and switch between them. I've not started an app so far
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by cesaref 3y ago
I think it would be informative to draw a comparison with the option of Linux. The Top 500 supercomputer OS mix is maybe the easiest example to use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix#/media/File:Op
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by cesaref 3y ago
Agreed, logging in config retrieval code should log all this stuff, requests, where they are filled from, that sort of thing. The problems with this approach when it's enabled is that log aggregators (e.g splunk) can end up including s
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by cesaref 3y ago
I've used kodak selenium toner, this stuff: https://www.ag-photolab.co.uk/product/kodak-rapid-selenium-t... I've also used tetenal for sepia style prints, their sulphide toner. Not a metal toner, but produces
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by cesaref 3y ago
I think selinium toning is like this, and that's definitely in the dubious stuff you really don't want to get on your skin category. The prints do look gorgeous after selinium toning though! And I agree, fibre paper is awesome but
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by cesaref 3y ago
You don't need a darkroom for film development. A changing bag and some light proof tanks allow for this. To develop 5 4 or larger large format film (for contact printing) you need light proof trays, or you can use a 5 4 adapter for a
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by cesaref 3y ago
I had a problem with a bass driver on a pair of PMC studio speakers. I asked PMC directly whether I should replace one or both drivers in the pair, and they said to only replace one, that there would be no issues. So, in response to replaci
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by cesaref 3y ago
The exception is for old housing stock which isn't well enough insulated to be heated by a heat pump, and there's huge amounts of single glazed, poorly insulated (by modern standards) housing around in the UK
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by cesaref 3y ago
I've always found it interesting that addictive behaviour is often seen as a virtue by our society if it's about the 'right sort of thing' (as far as society is concerned). We end up considering people as 'dedicated
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by cesaref 3y ago
I'm not convinced this is the right criteria to compare these processors (core count and purchase cost). When looking at these high core count processors, the typical use case is for a server in a data centre, and these sorts of applic
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by cesaref 3y ago
Right, the 68k was the most logical step up from the early 8 bit processors in typical home computers (except for the TI99/4a which went in another direction). They were easy to design for, and easy to program (68k assembler is pretty
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by cesaref 3y ago
As a general rule, if you find yourself comparing floating point numbers, that's probably not what you want. I'm wondering what they are going to do with other operators, >=, <= etc
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by cesaref 3y ago
Exactly - if you take too broad a view, then the protesters having arms and fingers could be considered devices for 'locking on' to something. Personally I think this has generated renewed interest and publicity for the republican
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by cesaref 3y ago
I took this as meaning that it should be obvious from the layout that it was a LaTeX document, but I agree, this is not something that i've ever considered when filtering CVs.
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by cesaref 3y ago
I just hope that they don't wake up one morning and realise they've wasted years of their life on some trivial crusade. Actually, that could apply to a lot of us on HN I guess :)
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by cesaref 3y ago
I stream lots of music, but am aware that the artist receives a very small payment from this, certainly not enough to make a living. I tend to therefore view purchasing vinyl as a way of funding the artist as they get a decent cut from this
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by cesaref 3y ago
That Z9 will be yesterdays tech in a year or two, and you'll be able to pick it up for a fraction of its current price. It'll still perform exactly as well as it does today, but the gear heads will be onto the next new thing.
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by cesaref 3y ago
It sounds to me very much like some of the guiding principles behind the agile movement, or maybe more specifically XP. Building stuff to be simple, and to be engineered so as to embrace change as requirements appear is very much part of th
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by cesaref 3y ago
Well I never knew this. I guess the shop had an Atari 800 on the table and the game playing on the monitor and I put them together!
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by cesaref 3y ago
Yes indeed! I remember a store near me having B-17 bomber on the original 800, with it's synthesised voices and that was a glimpse into the future. I'll gloss over the ethics of a game about bombing cities, sold to children, but i

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