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by dfox 2y ago
I somehow suspect that the reason why Quake2 does this lies in the legacy of Quake1 written in DJGPP. DJGPP supports dynamicaly loaded libraries (although the API is technically unsupported and internal-only), but does not have any kind of
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by dfox 2y ago
Mostly because that format is not strictly speaking Windows-specific but comes from Unix System V release 4. Also various oddball embedded platforms use the full NT-style PE COFF as their native object/image format (but these usually e
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by dfox 2y ago
This seems to be meant as pretty much 8051 replacement. 8051 cores are duct-tape of the modern computing and in almost anything, while 8051 is not exactly C-friendly architecture.
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by dfox 2y ago
That was long after MSP430 were widely used, that pricing was part of the launch of the "value line" G-series (And it's associated MSP430 LaunchPad eval board, which is what was priced at $4.30).
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by dfox 2y ago
-? should be lowest common denominator, because that is exactly equivalent to passing incorrect argument list when using getopt(). Whether that should produce concise help of the kind "usage: foo -abcdeEf <file>" or full hel
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by dfox 2y ago
During the relevant time there were two predominant layouts for the number key row: “typewriter-paired”, which is more or less same as the one used today and “bit-paired” where the symbols had the same order as they have in ASCII (ie. press
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by dfox 2y ago
Espressif ships the wifi driver also as an .o file that takes huge struct of function pointers to OS-provided functions that works with other RTOSes. But you need some kind of RTOS.
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by dfox 2y ago
Primary user of 5GHz band is weather radar service. Operators of that are universally fed up with interference caused by misconfigured wifi devices, so you should do everything you can as to not interfere with that if you do not want to get
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by dfox 2y ago
Originally it was more or less one for POTS, one Rx, one Tx and one spare (used for power in ISDN S/T interface, which otherwise shares the same pinout). Then came 1000-base-T, where the “base” is kind of misnomer and it is actually re
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by dfox 2y ago
Technically it is an hardware limitation, amd64 in long mode has only vestigal support for memory segmentation (enough to implement Win32/ELF i386 TLS ABI and that's it), so you cannot reasonably run either 16b protected mode or v
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by dfox 2y ago
3210 did not support MMS, but EMS with some semi-proprietary extensions. Sending images and ringtones over EMS was generally not interoperable between different vendors. MMS is much later technology where the user data go over HTTP, which i
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by dfox 2y ago
The specification does not explicitly say that, but the clear intention is that REP with CX=0 should be no-op (you get exactly that situation when REP gets interrupted during the last iteration, in that case CX is zero and IP points to the
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by dfox 2y ago
Bit-serial but multi-conductor cable. The 6 pairs, ground and if I count correctly two single-ended status lines make more sense than 30-pair Cisco serial cables or 34-pair HSSI of the 90's…
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by dfox 2y ago
> parallel hardware interface The physical layer as described in report 1822 is bit-serial, but uses synchronous clocking scheme without fixed baud-rate reminiscent of parallel SCSI's REQ/ACK. It is a weird scheme for serial li
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by dfox 2y ago
IIRC there never was any kind of shareware version of TTD much less at any kind of stable URL that OpenTTD could automaticaly download. Also OpenTTD needed assets from particular version of TTD (different one than what I have as a boxed cop
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by dfox 2y ago
It is implemented in dedicated small CPLD that cannot be flashed by any software means. My understanding of relation to T2/SEP is that this CPLD serves as a kind of "IO expander" for T2/SEP which also hardwires logic lik
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by dfox 2y ago
If there is a discrete PA in the speaker path, then not. But I would not be that surprised if there is a single chip codec + PA combination that can conect an internal ADC to pins that are primarily meant as PA outputs of the integrated PA.
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by dfox 2y ago
Input pin pad structure usually contains two reverse biased diodes for ESD protection which should remove the antenna issue.
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by dfox 2y ago
In general the power to the amplifiers is series connected and the ocean does not come into the question at all. If it did you would have huge issues with corrosion even ignoring the effects on the ocean itself. So, along the cable there is
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by dfox 2y ago
ThinkPads of that era used some kind of rubbery coating material, that over the time absorbed something from the environment that caused it to became this weird goo. I would not be that surprised that this weird icky goo also emits some kin
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by dfox 2y ago
Ha, apparently the N2310 working draft is not the last one :)
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by dfox 2y ago
The code asumes that C17 has C++-style auto ( https://github.com/aartaka/pretty.c/blob/master/pretty.h#L11... ), it does not (in C auto is storage specifier that is equivalent to no storage specifier).
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by dfox 2y ago
It does not make sense to dedicate full read port for reading PC. Just run a bus directly from the register cells, which is exactly how it is done in ARM7TDMI in question.
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by dfox 2y ago
This is one of the features of early ARM cores that show that the thing is not a classical RISC design, but traditional CISC core with RISC-like ISA and optimized internal buses.
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by dfox 2y ago
As for the overall X.509 ecosystem (not limited to name constraints), the certification validation logic of common clients accepts various subtly, but completely, invalid certificates because CAs used to sign (or even use as root certificat
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by dfox 2y ago
I assume that the mentioned “some setup” involve not only distributing the new root CA, but also somehow prepopulating the old cross-signed certificate, as the services know nothing about that and thus will not send it in their cert chain.
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by dfox 2y ago
Making FPS game with Electron client and PHP server is an interesting choice of technologies to say the least.
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by dfox 2y ago
This is done by a lot of customer support and helpdesk systems that one would almost consider “legacy” that are certainly not related to AI in any way. So I would assume that the uptick is caused by you moving somewhat up in you career so y
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by dfox 2y ago
From the PQ protocol PoV the way how this works is pretty much irrelevant, but the actual implementation of PostgreSQL contains ridiculous amount of places that depend on the “backward” MVCC implementation of the tuple heaps.
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by dfox 2y ago
pg_repack is an hack-ish solution to do what VACUUM FULL does without completely locking the relation in question. But well, when you care about either of these things, your workload has significant issues, with the typical case being using

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