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by cesaref 3y ago
I think they made lots of the SPARC processors for Sun? They were definitely big news in the 90s. They also made very impressive HDs in the 80s, they are definitely one of the great tech companies that maybe don't get the recognition t
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by cesaref 3y ago
The examples are weird in this article. Paint isn't applied to most structures to give the structure a colour, but to achieve some other effect, such as weatherproofing, or to make the surface more uniform. It just so happens that putt
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by cesaref 4y ago
I was just saying the same thing :)
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by cesaref 4y ago
Not sure where you are located, but if you have ceiling halogens to replace, there are two options - to use a low voltage bulb + separate PSU or the 'all in one' bulbs. Here in the UK they are designated GU10 for mains voltage and
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by cesaref 4y ago
Meanwhile I replaced around 40 halogen bulbs with Philips branded bulbs around 5 years ago, and have not had a single failure. It's possible the quality has changed, but i'm also wondering whether the mains voltage might be a fact
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by cesaref 4y ago
You can write web servers in gawk: https://github.com/crossbowerbt/awk-webserver I know, just because you can doesn't mean you should.
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by cesaref 4y ago
The same is also true if you drop down to a single dimension - audio data is a discrete sampling of a continuous signal, and again, it is commonly misrepresented as a step function (a staircase) which is very misleading and leads to many mi
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by cesaref 4y ago
Yeah, 645 is a great format. I prefer my Mamiya 645AF, but the Pentax is a very capable system, although a bit chunky by comparison to the mamiya/contax equivalents. These were all well thought out professional camera systems, and you
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by cesaref 4y ago
I seem to remember you could alter how well done the toast was done in the preferences for flying toasters. I'm also remembering the fish tank slowing down as more fish appeared on screen on my rather underpowered Mac IIcx back in the
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by cesaref 4y ago
Although it has been discontinued by Intel in their latest 12th gen desktop processors.
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by cesaref 4y ago
I was interested to see that asymmetric distortion is achieved by using different numbers or types of diode in the feedback path. I was expecting this to be achieved by adding a DC offset - i'm wondering why this isn't how it&#x27
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by cesaref 4y ago
> The advice I have for my kid is to not give a damn what the teacher says, to grab the nearest long durable object and smash out the windows and run away. Meanwhile, here in the UK, the advice I gave my son was to look both ways when cr
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by cesaref 4y ago
If i'm reading this right, the author is blaming POSIX (and by implication unix) for the size of their code? Given POSIX is a system programming interface, aimed at no specific use case whatsoever, maybe the issue is that they are usin
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by cesaref 4y ago
I'm not so sure. It's a fact that he was involved in the development of this new feature, and it's his opinion that he originated the idea. Whether he did or not is for a court to decide, but he's not committing perjury
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by cesaref 4y ago
I don't think you're quite right. There are budgets and projections here - https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-... If we take 2016 and compare against 2023 for NHS budget, we see
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by cesaref 4y ago
I'm not so sure. I've a feeling it's easier to write decent Rust than decent C++. The post contains comments about how difficult they found it to keep coding style consistent and language feature use consistent. This suggests
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by cesaref 4y ago
From my perspective, there is a certain truth to this. I started out as an assembler programmer in the early 80s, just a kid messing about with the machines of the time (Z80, 6510 based). There was BASIC on various machines, but it was slow
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by cesaref 4y ago
I seem to remember Alpha had some very weird memory coherency behaviour on multi-processor machines, but apart from that it was excellent.
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by cesaref 4y ago
Back in the 80s, writing 6502 with some other peeps one of the fun windups was when someone was away from their desk was to slip a SED instruction into their source in an obscure function that wasn't called that often. If you get it ri
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by cesaref 4y ago
There is no control of not doing the 20 sec sprints, so i'm not sure how I can conclude that the sprints give the benefit vs the low intensity work surrounding it.
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by cesaref 4y ago
What a depressing self centred list. I was hoping for philanthropic stuff - how to find above board charitable trusts to fund.
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by cesaref 4y ago
> When the system began having problems Tuesday night, technicians switched to a backup. But because the backup was attempting to access the same damaged data, it also didn’t work, the person said. That's not a backup. Sounds like t
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by cesaref 4y ago
`When the system began having problems Tuesday night, technicians switched to a backup. But because the backup was attempting to access the same damaged data, it also didn’t work, the person said. ` That's not a backup. Sounds like the
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by cesaref 4y ago
I think what you've done here is document the pain introduced by using TypeScript, but you've not documented the (unknown) pain from not using it. The question should really be, are the development pains you have more or less than
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by cesaref 4y ago
I've never seen leading underscores in classes. I've seen trailing underscores, and the old m_ prefix, but never a plain _. I was surprised by C++11 having additional prefixes it has reserved. I'm now also wondering whether t
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by cesaref 4y ago
How about 'Living the life of riley on a hawaiian island having embezzled funds from the company'?
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by cesaref 4y ago
As you say, not a blind test. It's very easy to convince yourself that something is helping. It's very common in audio production circles to have had the experience of working on, say, a snare track, tweaking EQ or whatever, and t
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by cesaref 4y ago
The thing is, that exact approach was tried in the 80s with the transputer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer ) and it's a very compelling computation model, as you've pointed out. However, what was dis
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by cesaref 4y ago
I think maybe an example would be easiest. Let's say the client asked 'can your system respond within 10ms to requests?'. I'd say 'no it can't guarantee this'. I'd then discuss how the system architec
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by cesaref 4y ago
Negotiations is a complex subject, and certainly one that us engineer types normally don't get directly involved with. I had some exposure to this world early in my career, as an engineer for a small software house, getting involved in

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