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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
Well, "cutting-edge" in enterprise technology. Another interesting failed prototype on the JVM was the language "Pizza" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_%28programming_language%...
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
One case where C# is far superior to Java is generics. Generics were a cutting-edge feature in 2005. Microsoft took the opportunity to start from scratch, and released the .Net Framework 2.0 without backwards-compatibility, and with full su
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
I thought Jane Street used OCaml! (I know the two are similar.) Why did they need to target the CLR?
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
>Consider what would happen if instead of using taxes to pay SS in the US we just printed that much each year. It would be a disaster. Would it? In the eight years since 2008, the Federal Reserve's balance sheet has grown by nearly
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
> Liberty literally means "freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control" According to who? The definition of liberty is still a matter of philosophical debate, as far as I understand it.
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
Hyperinflation is not a foregone conclusion of printing new money; it depends on how fast it is printed. >Hyperinflations are usually caused by large persistent government deficits financed primarily by money creation (rather than taxati
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
> it used to speculate that the supposed linux distro would be MIT licensed That doesn't sound very credible of them. The kernel is stuck as GPL; that won't change anytime soon.
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
'Course there's a market. Just because you can't afford to visit space doesn't mean there aren't commercial buyers. NASA awards contracts, as does the US military. Plus there's huge interest in telecommunicatio
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
I still use this, and authored a tool to inject the .Net runtime and run arbitrary C# code! https://github.com/ChadSki/SharpNeedle
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
The 5c doesn't have a secure enclave. That came with 6.
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
I think that's just the default EULA. I also found this page where you can apply for commercialization https://www.windowsforiotdevices.com/ Here's an excerpt from the commercial terms of use for the non-Pro SKU:
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
You might find this helpful: https://github.com/t0x0/random It seems to convert the ffu format to a dd-able img format. I haven't tried using it, however.
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
There are two licensing models for Windows 10 IoT Core https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/windows-i... > There is a SKU ‘Windows 10 IoT Core’ available at no royalty cost for all our device make
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
Oh, good to know!
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
GOAL and GOOL were both used by that studio: "Game Oriented Action Lisp" and "Game Oriented Object Lisp". They switched to C++ because it was too hard to find good lisp devs.
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
> That requires a 100% open phone (hard- and software) I am eagerly awaiting the http://neo900.org/ Unfortunately the baseband modem is still unfree, but at least it's isolated over the USB bus, versus having direct
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
~900MHz is pretty common for this sort of thing. I have a friend who uses the 900MHz spectrum for communicating with a hobby weather balloon.
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
I have gotten it to run in Wine before, after struggles with `lsans.fot`.
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
> You might do well to look at https://puri.sm if you're a Linux user, they seem to make pretty good machines with free software down to the BIOS. Purism must have great marketing, because I keep seeing this fiction repe
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
Interestingly, the Soviets planned to take Siberian rivers that drain "uselessly" into the Arctic sea and divert them southwards towards Kazakhstan and into the Aral sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
When it's become so obvious that everyone is asking the question.
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
I don't interpret this shift as money being transferred anywhere, so much as a systematic de-leveraging of investments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deleveraging
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
> Go was originally described as a systems language (which it never was according to the usual meaning of the term) Fun fact! Go has roots in the Limbo[0] programming language, which runs in a VM, is garbage collected, has communication
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
> Stuxnet was Israeli with US cooperation, iirc. Yes, and they targeted the Iranian computers that control their cetrifuges, to sabotage them.
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
Possibly... but you have to trust that the software is doing what you told it to. A hardware killswitch would be far more trustable.
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
Powershell is a shell that runs on the .Net virtual machine. Scott is showing off command-line tools for creating and compiling C# projects.
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
Yes, the OpenBSD folks have forked it as LibreSSL.
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
Sorry to pick nits, and maybe this is a tired chord, but Purism does not make "laptops built entirely with non-proprietary hardware and software, or as much as can be done at this point". The only big difference between a Purism l
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
The CPU is fused to allow running unsigned binaries, but they’re "still working on" creating FOSS firmware for the chip. They’ve done some good breakdown and analysis of the different pieces, but nothing concrete has shipped so fa
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by chadzawistowski 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_detector_detector

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