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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
That depends on the CPU. In RISC-V's case, you cannot jump to an arbitrary address conditionally at all, you have to use a branch instruction. B-type instructions have only a 12-bit immediate value (technically 13 bits with an implied
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
This seems very similar to Easy2Boot[0] which I’ve used for several years with mixed success. Some systems don’t like booting from weird embedded GRUB variants. Some systems don’t boot it at all. I would assume Ventoy is based on a similar
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
Ahh, seems you are correct, I believe the 400k number was old. 5M cells is indeed a lot. Having an exporter that could generate an SQL schema + API that replicates what the user's formulas did would be a cool feature, but probably very
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
One thing I wonder -- Google Sheets has relatively restrictive limits on the amount of data you can have per sheet. I think something like 400k cells? What happens when a customer scales up to the point that their data doesn't fit anym
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
TIL, thank you for sharing!
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I wish there were more laptops that did batteries this way, rather than each device having it's own separate type of battery pack/cell/whatever. I know that will reduce battery performance, since they can't be tailored t
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
FWIW I completed my undergraduate degree in 2019, and I was required to take library science specifically. It was a half-semester course that taught students how to use the library. I guess the value is it means the students have no excuse
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
TCL is an often overlooked language. It has a lot of weirdness, but that's a symptom of it's age I think. I really like it as a language for interactive command-shell type use cases, as opposed to languages like Lua. It feels much
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
All of the languages I want to write software in work the same or better on Linux compared to windows. All of my administrative and user experience is with Linux. Linux seems to have better performance for almost every possible use case, an
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I wonder if there would be a market for something that presented the user with a food-deliver-app type interface, but in actual fact is just interfacing with an API on the restaurant's behalf (in lieu of the restaurant having a custom
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
This sounds really cool! However, I wonder about the reliability aspects of it? Many sites are pretty hostile to Selenium and robot-like behaviors. Also, software can change it's layout, colors, icons, etc. I've seen this with a t
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I think a lot of the commenters are missing the point. Golang is less expressive than other languages, like Rust or Haskell. You can't create fancy custom types and things like that. Of course there are drawbacks. The benefit howeve
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
Can confirm that Tektronix is using Windows also, though I think they had been for quite some time. Seems like a really odd design decision for an appliance. I would probably tend towards like FreeRTOS (or at least some variation of an RTOS
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I get the feeling that there are many small to medium businesses where production systems do run on Windows. Maybe not the type of "production" that we on HN would think of, but nevertheless important systems without which busines
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
> It’s cheap. Until you cannot use your system at a critical time because MS decided you needed an update. Then the cost may be anything between what you paid, and the total value of your entire business. > Not buying any electricity
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I suppose like it or not, this is the real answer to the question. I do wonder why companies continue to write new software for the Windows platform. I guess more and more is moving to the web, but it seems like I still see relatively new p
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
As an outsider (someone who doesn't use any MS products) looking in... why would anyone build a production system around this platform? Why would anyone use this platform? Windows 10 has, since it's inception, been a privacy night
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I don't much care for it. It seems to make much less efficient use of screen real-estate. Information that used to be clustered tightly together is now spread all over. It seems to me like someone who doesn't actually use git prof
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
Back in Highschool I used a similar program to leach myself digital logic, Logisim[0]. Although it's no longer maintained by it's original author, it does still run, and I don't remember any outstanding trouble with it. I thi
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I actually checked after I wrote that comment -- Haiku does ship numpy in their repos. That seems to be one of the harder Python libraries to get working, so they must be doing something right.
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
That's one of the reasons why I switched from i3 to CWM. I find that I more often than not prefer floating windows to tiling.
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
Who wants to use GNOME applications on a touchscreen? On what hardware? Aside from that, I think it’s a pipe dream for anything but the simplest applications to have one single UI implementation that works well for both touch and non touch.
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
That, and a custom set of applications which might have been written in Motif. There have definitely been better UIs since then, but for it’s time I it seems pretty impressive.
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
* AWK - I read "The Awk Programming Language"[0] cover to cover. It's a very well written text, and it not all that long. The examples are very impressive. In terms of bang-for-the-buck of learning tools, AWK has definitely g
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
This sounds like a cool idea. My feedback would be: add a demo or something. Let me see what you're pitching before I go to the trouble of creating an account. Just a video of clicking around in the UI for a few minutes would do the tr
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
Sadly for my work I need various proprietary programs like Matlab, Quartus, and Vivado. Not a chance of those ever being ported to Haiku. I know it has Python, but I would suspect it probably has some limitations which respect to Python lib
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
Huh, I didn't realize it could do that. That's an incredibly cool feature, much better than the window "collisions" that some other UIs have. The most similar idea I can think of would be i3 with it's container wind
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
While we're talking about cool old UIs, I'll also point out IRIX 4dwm[0] (google image search "IRIX 4dwm" for more examples). It's far before my time, but based on the screenshots out there on the 'net it seems
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I agree with the general sentiment of what you're saying. If I had to narrow it down to something more specific: * The UI seems very compact, the buttons/widgets are no larger than they need to be, as compared to Windows 10 and GN
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by charlesdaniels 6y ago
I'm glad to see Haiku is still making progress! I really enjoy the visual style of Haiku. The look-n-feel of it seems better to me than any other UI I've seen, and I say that as someone who never used BeOS, so it's not the no

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