chris_j

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by chris_j 4y ago
Around ten years ago, I worked for IBM as a software engineer. The dress code at work was pretty casual, so I tended to wear jeans and a t-shirt in the office. One day, I was asked to speak at an event that would be attended by a lot of our
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by chris_j 4y ago
For me, those two points make it clear that it would be possible for Apple to port to RISC-V. But it's still not clear what advantages they would gain from doing so, given that their ARM license appears to let them do whatever they w
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by chris_j 4y ago
Thanks for expanding. I hadn't considered that Google are a competitor to Twitter at this point (at least, not since Google+ went away). And I guess they are happy to host some of their infrastructure on GCP as well...
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by chris_j 4y ago
What's the reason you're amazed by that? Is there something else you'd expect them to use?
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by chris_j 4y ago
Apologies, I was assuming that lproven was talking about baremetalling it but apparently not. Re endianness, I confess I hadn't even thought of that aspect of it. (I understand that Cortex-A processors can run in big-endian mode but I
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by chris_j 4y ago
Got it. Thanks for explaining; I was definitely assuming running natively. I quite like the idea of running Aranym without a full OS but with something like Ultibo or Circle (neither of which I'd heard of before you mentioned them so t
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by chris_j 4y ago
I confess I would really like to see EmuTOS and/or FreeMiNT running directly on the Raspberry Pi, though I suspect it would be a huge amount of work. Right now, if you want Atari compatible hardware, you can either pay $$$$ for a vinta
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by chris_j 4y ago
I assume you refer to BeePi, which is a fantastic thing but it doesn't run FreeMiNT as the _only_ OS on a Raspberry Pi. It basically packages up a Raspbian OS with the Hatari and Aranym emulators running on top of it, with EmuTOS/
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by chris_j 4y ago
Re [7] and the MiNT kernel/OS: If you're interested in running MiNT on your old Atari hardware (or emulator) then https://freemint.github.io/ is the project website. And if you want to run it on the Aranym emulato
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by chris_j 4y ago
The reason I noticed it is that the two cities, though very close geographically, have an intense and not entirely friendly rivalry that goes back hundreds of years and continues to this day. See for example the History section of [0]. Alth
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by chris_j 4y ago
Why "ran" in the past tense? The plant is still running. And why the reference to Geordies - natives of Newcastle - when the plant is in Sunderland? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motor_Manufacturing_U
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by chris_j 4y ago
Ditto the Welsh language (also a Celtic language spoken in the UK), where there traditionally weren't words for yes and no and where the words used instead depend upon tense, person and the verb being responded to.
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by chris_j 4y ago
What is it that makes people with heart issues feel bad when they drink coffee?
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by chris_j 5y ago
It must be frustrating for RMS that his dream of a free software OS was realised in the form of "Linux", but I'm pretty sure that one of the freedoms that flow from a free software license like the GPL is the freedom to call
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by chris_j 5y ago
Your comment brings back long buried memories of the time that my ST mouse broke and I had to save up for a new one. Hearing the ST keypress sound repeating as the mouse slowly moved across the screen, 8 pixels at a time, and then having to
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by chris_j 5y ago
Growing Object Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman and Natt Pryce. It taught me an awful lot of lessons about object oriented design and London-school TDD. It was published back in 2009 and things have moved on a bit since t
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by chris_j 5y ago
I have an org-mode file open in Emacs pretty much all the time that I can write stuff down in. Emacs used to have a reputation for being bloated and resource intensive but it's one of the lightest tools that I use these days and I just
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by chris_j 5y ago
The f**ing article. A piece of internet slang that goes back many years, possibly originating on Slashdot and referring to the article that we're discussing here.
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by chris_j 5y ago
One advantage that an Oyster card has over a contactless payment card is that I still feel uncomfortable getting my wallet out and finding a payment card in a crowded tube station. Even using Apple/Google Pay requires me to get my phon
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by chris_j 5y ago
One of the things that made Quentin Tarantino's early films, particularly Pulp Fiction, such a breath of fresh air is that they did this with abandon. John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson would chat away about McDonald's in France o
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by chris_j 5y ago
It was a success in the sense that it got the Western allies ashore, leading to the liberation of France a few months later and the end of the war in Europe the following spring. More importantly than that, it meant that Nazi Germany's
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by chris_j 5y ago
What was it about the emergency landing that made you surprised that lap only belts are still the norm? (Apologies if I'm asking about something blindingly obvious but I've not been in an aircraft-damaging emergency landing and I&
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by chris_j 5y ago
Thanks very much for writing this article and for describing very eloquently something that I to have observed but hadn't been able to articulate. The really scary thing, from my perspective at least, is that I have, in a few different
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by chris_j 5y ago
Define "computer scientist". Computer science is a big field but those parts of computer science that I have learned have been heavily underpinned by mathematics, especially those parts concerned with analysing the correctness and
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by chris_j 5y ago
Being pedantic, wouldn't oil prices have risen by <some negative number> percent since that record low?
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by chris_j 5y ago
Got it, sounds like I misunderstood the point you were making there. Makes sense (and tbh that's a problem that afflicts most of the personal computer operating systems from that era).
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by chris_j 5y ago
Using an OS with memory protection between processes doesn't make it impossible to use shared memory regions to pass messages between processes efficiently. Around twenty years ago, I worked on a project that built support for various
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by chris_j 5y ago
Do you mind if I ask where you're from in the UK? I find that there's an awful lot of variation between different regions. For a few years now, I've lived and/or worked in London, where chatting to strangers is not the d
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by chris_j 5y ago
Who is that by and what is the precise title? A quick search didn't reveal a book called "learning microservices" but I may be missing something obvious.
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by chris_j 5y ago
Microservices Patterns by Chris Richardson is a great read. It takes the idea of design patterns and applies it to designing and implementing a microservice architecture. The idea is that you may already be doing some of the things that the

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