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by dom0 9y ago
Going through eight phones in ten years is an interesting choice for someone being disgusted by Appleconomics...?
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by dom0 9y ago
> Innocent until proven guilty is an American ethical precept. B-7, miss! This concept predates Americans by a number of years; it certainly wasn't invented there. The idea can be traced to ancient Greek and was already applied by t
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by dom0 9y ago
Because this site is clearly in need of 250 KB surveillance JavaScript. So even this "plain text" site still transfers ~98 % bloat and just ~2 % content.
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by dom0 9y ago
Stress relief. Thermal / moisture expansion of the PC board (and this looks like shoddy phenolic paper) bends the leads a tiny bit and the bending forces go through the component. By making the leads longer, they are less stiff and req
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by dom0 9y ago
Not any more, of course. It also deserves to be mentioned that lots of higher-end equipment used a lot of custom parts, and not always out of necessity (like custom µPs in HP multimeters, or stuffing solenoid drivers into unrelated hybrids
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by dom0 9y ago
I've failed to track down who invented it; but a 1993 patent by Schlumberger describes this already as prior art (US5237540). Very clever...
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by dom0 9y ago
Things like the Carlo Verre hack (also a thing you can't change —any more— in Python: builtins), editing objects during their construction (via e.g. gc)... generally, the gc module allows other ways as well to crash your interpreter.
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by dom0 9y ago
> "Python is inherently harder to optimize than JS since it has <very dynamic features>" Python is not a very dynamic language in the sense that you actually can't change a lot of stuff (and a number of the things
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by dom0 9y ago
You seem to assume that a comprehensive test suite exists...
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by dom0 9y ago
Congratulations, your "white hats" just earned five years prison each.
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by dom0 9y ago
With a fixed n, GCC does get it right as well (kinda has to, because that's the only portable way to do fixed rotations in C). I'd sort it under range analysis.
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by dom0 9y ago
Formal parsers do without indexing, but those rolled by hand often do, for simplicity's sake. I think these cases can still be serviced by permitting indexes, but backing them by a lazily computed index table.
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by dom0 9y ago
Delete cartridge, fill in paint directly, and voila we are talking about a high throughput ink printer. These don't have, or at least didn't use to, cartridges, they draw ink from tanks and wet an ink sponge with it.
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by dom0 9y ago
There are multiple projects providing user-space file systems for Windows, dokany and WinFSP for example. > That said, isn't it true that Windows drivers are userspace-based, anyway? No.
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by dom0 9y ago
> * Newer languages expose strings as an array of Unicode code points, which is cleaner because it's independent of any particular encoding. Don't do that (the array part). Guaranteeing O(1) indexing isn't very useful but
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by dom0 9y ago
> the only downside [is] that there is no good option to enforce HTTPS You also have to use GitLab.
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by dom0 9y ago
LE doesn't work here. As the fine article points out, GitHub Pages does not support TLS on custom domains. With CF, this works. For the sort of thing that you'd host on GHP, this is totally fine in my opinion. In fact, because CF
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by dom0 9y ago
POSIX and Linux are generally believed to be different entities.
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by dom0 9y ago
Doesn't matter, the stable interface in Linux is the syscalls, not the libc. Same goes for WSL.
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by dom0 9y ago
llpp, depending on your definition of "fully formed". And there is/was a tiling window manager, but everyone I know who used it at some point migrated away because the configuration was Haskell as well.
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by dom0 9y ago
So far they only announced to go with a heavily modified ARM ISA for their next-gen supercomputer (forgot the name), while saying yadda yadda remain committed to SPARC yadda yadda . At least as far as I know. Probably still means life-supp
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by dom0 9y ago
As far as I know Oracle stopped developing SPARC systems, it is all Fujitsu now, including the chips.
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by dom0 9y ago
Since OMP Tasks it is kinda useful for non-numerical non-trivial applications as well, though still kinda... odd. Odd but neat.
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by dom0 9y ago
> fewer features My two 0.02 € on this: Features have external and internal complexity. External complexity is documentation, usage, support while internal complexity is time spent on maintenance and development, increased complexity of
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by dom0 9y ago
Somewhat related household tip: When something wooden cracks or breaks and needs gluing, but you don't have any wood glue at home, you don't need to buy any. Just dissolve a sheet of gelatine (which you do have, no? :) in a bit of
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by dom0 9y ago
Well that's stretching the meaning of second sourcing quite a lot . Normally it means that you can get an exact replacement part from someone else. For example, industry standard things like nuts, bolts, ball bearings, SRAM and DRAM (
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by dom0 9y ago
The memory ECC is a tiny bit of logic right next to all other memory logic in the MC, it seems very far fetched to me that there would be a binning process for specifically the instance of that logic being broke but the data logic next do
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by dom0 9y ago
I own two SPARC servers (a 2003ish V245 and a 2007 T5120) and both are rather ridiculous ... idle power draw for a V245 is like 240 W and just 150-180 W of that are the fans. [1] A T5120 draws some 180 W idle as well. Especially the latter
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by dom0 9y ago
No, if you try this with the various optimization levels you can see that it's not a bug; without optimization it doesn't happen. Instead what seems plausible to me is that some optimization pass analyses the possible values for &
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by dom0 9y ago
Gasoline engines can be plenty reliable. I think the main reason why a lot of cars from the 80s and 90s are able to go to 400k and more is (1) cheaper and easier maintenance, so more inclined to do it regularly (2) no fancy shit going on, n

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