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by deng 7y ago
> The big downside of Make, alas, is Windows compatibility. GNU Make works fine on Windows. The sources come with a vcproj to build it natively, or you get it from ezwinports. At my dayjob, we have a pretty complicated build with GNU Mak
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by deng 7y ago
> One of the worst problems with using windows (in my opinion) is that there’s no native GNU make. GNU Make even comes with a vcproj file for building a native binary with Visual Studio. Worked fine for me. Building it with Guile suppor
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by deng 7y ago
> Not sure if that's the case in historic Germanic regions It wasn't (aside from food and other common needs). > it's a crutch to take the principle "women are universally oppressed by men" I did not say that.
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by deng 7y ago
> Why "for men". You think men are happier than women in arranged marriages?! As long as they have all the money and can have lovers, how is that even a question?
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by deng 7y ago
> for many centuries (at least in Germany), arranged marriages were quite a success story For men, yes.
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by deng 7y ago
> Never thought the ternary operator required high expertise for associativity/precedence reasons If you chain or nest them. > Funny :-) I'm glad I could brighten your day a little bit.
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by deng 7y ago
> Combinations of if/else can seriously damage readability and maintainability. Yes, that's why for selections we usually use switch/case. But of course every programmer worth his money just knows that ?: is right associat
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by deng 7y ago
> return a < b ? -1 : a > b ? 1 : 0; This depends on the right-to-left associativity of the ternary operator, so this definitely counts as 'clever'.
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by deng 7y ago
Same here. I've restarted Firefox several times and even manually checked for add-on updates and they are still working. Same on Android. However, I'm not able to install new Add-Ons (I get the "download failed" error).
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by deng 8y ago
Since the site mentions "An Introduction to Statistical Learning": The first book on statistical learning by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman, which is absolutely terrific, is freely available for download: The Elements of Statisti
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by deng 8y ago
> I asked about the JRE autoupdater, and got this answer: Thank you for asking! It all depends on the warning that is displayed, of course. I still think that our IT has a good point in blocking the update completely.
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by deng 8y ago
Dude, this is not about applets. This is about the Java Updater possibly updating to a version requiring a commercial license. It may be that the updater does not do this by default, but I've not yet seen any official statement about t
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by deng 8y ago
You might not like it, but java.com/download is still the first result when searching for Java. I am aware what OpenJDK is and who develops it, and I can handle the changes to our systems just fine, but I'm an engineer, not a mana
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by deng 8y ago
Just one data point: our IT has now blocked the whole java.com domain. Oracle Java is now primarily seen as an infection you get through the Java Updater. Yes, I know of OpenJDK and I'm currently in the process of migrating machines to
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by deng 8y ago
For 200 EUR you should be able to get a decent T440. Then invest another 15EUR and buy a T450 trackpad.
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by deng 8y ago
> I don’t know of any x86 processors that can compete with the Arm processors that are in use, on power consumption to performance ratio Not anymore, but there was a time when x86 was (barely) able to compete in that area and there were
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by deng 8y ago
Well, it's difficult to not get grumpy when you hear the same promises for many years. It's not like "ARM for servers" is something new. The exact same things were already promised over a decade ago, and somehow, it neve
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by deng 8y ago
> but with smartphones you don't have a choice. so it's different. Exactly. Linus' point is that Arm has no real advantage in the server space to compensate for the problems with cross-development. That's completely
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by deng 8y ago
He is right. I'm still waiting for that ARM-based laptop with awesome battery life, which can run a proper OS with good speed and hence is not just a toy. Apple switching to ARM won't make much difference since I gather it will on
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by deng 8y ago
> However, I think that Windows on ARM will soon become a real thing, this could bring the developers, it will also help the ARM devices spread among Linux users. Windows an ARM has been a real thing for years, and it is horrible. Nobody
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by deng 8y ago
Yes, Windows used to be terrible when it comes to audio, but that was a long time ago. Of course, any badly written driver can still destroy everything, that is why you have to choose hardware carefully. But with a good ASIO driver you will
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by deng 8y ago
I find it truly bizarre that there are people who actually still buy a Mac Pro. Just look at the shop page. They sell that thing for 4k$ with 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. It's completely bonkers. If you need a high-powered audio machine w
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by deng 8y ago
This glitch is just another nail in the coffin for using Macs in professional audio setups. Another serious issue is the massively outdated Mac Pro. Yes, a new one will come this year, but many people have switched already. See for instance
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Adventures in Netflix(lars.ingebrigtsen.no)
2 points by deng 8y ago|0 comments
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by deng 8y ago
I think the main point nowadays is how to write Makefiles for highly parallel builds. It's surely the thing that gave me the most headaches. In the end such a talk will probably mostly be about how to avoid calling Make recursively. An
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by deng 8y ago
When discussing UU one has to mention that it had simply insane system requirements at the time. If I remember correctly it required a 386DX with at least 2MB RAM, which at the time of release meant a PC worth several thousand bucks. To boo
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by deng 8y ago
Your book is awesome, thanks for writing it! I converted our whole build at $DAYJOB from recursive to non-recursive, and your book helped immensely. It was a lot of work, but in the end it was worth it.
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by deng 8y ago
> I'd say that printf, with its own DSL, is actually pretty slow. Yes, of course it is. That's why I took it as an example. Since I work on RealTime systems I usually have to use plain 'write' instead. But that is bec
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by deng 8y ago
I'm pretty sure I could make a faster 'printf' but which only supports '%d'. Does that mean 'C is slow'?
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by deng 8y ago
> ccache does not cache the result of preprocessing Only if you explicitly disable 'direct mode'.

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