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by ekr 11y ago
I'm not at all familiar with the Apple development ecosystem, but since Swift has been open-source, why not run the swift version on all platforms? There are vast differences in the implementations of C++ and Swift, even if both are co
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by ekr 11y ago
I got a Lenovo L520 with a sandy bridge i5-2410m, 4GB RAM about 1 year ago refurbished from Germany. I paid 97 Euros for it, great value for money I would say. It's been rocking Arch Linux with i3wm ever since, and never had any proble
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by ekr 11y ago
After going through your timeblock app, I still don't know what exactly it is for, or why people would pay for that. I get that it is a sort of calendar with time tracking features. What makes it different from the thousands of other s
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by ekr 11y ago
I wonder how it stacks up against Microsoft's SAL annotations. So far I've only used SAL annotation, with the compiler's /Analyze flag, but the amount of checking done is limited, and the system itself is far from perfec
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by ekr 11y ago
http://mindingourway.com/there-are-no/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/i0/are_your_enemies_innately_evil/ As others in this thread, I don't assign a goodness index to people around me, my m
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by ekr 11y ago
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology - Robert Wright. After reading this, you will understand (and be able to predict) a lot of patterns of human behavior.
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by ekr 11y ago
Why do you say that? I think the technological progress will continue to grow exponentially. There are more researchers now than at any point in human history. The economic incentives are still at least as big (relatively speaking). At the
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by ekr 11y ago
I also don't think a C preprocessor is at all confusing, it's quite a simple program, both to write and to program. Including less used features such as concatenation or stringification.
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by ekr 11y ago
That's exactly my problem, I can't work for more than 5-6 hours because of exhaustion. But in my case, I'm still in school and work full time, so that may be part of the problem.
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by ekr 11y ago
Jacques, may I ask what brought you to Romania (are you still there)?
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by ekr 11y ago
Any tips on profiling windows device drivers? I've tried xperf, but it doesn't allow you (or I haven't seen how) to change the frequency of the sampling, and can only do a system-wide profile. I've also tried vtune, but
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by ekr 11y ago
I don't know about this Purism ideology thing. Having watched the video, they keep saying things about people losing privacy through the use of various websites, that's the main point of the video. You can't solve that with b
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by ekr 11y ago
Has anyone used Ctries in any real scenario (has anyone implemented them in a language like C)? How do they fare as opposed to other data structures? Is the latency of CAS instructions insignificant? I'm thinking of using it in our cod
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by ekr 11y ago
If you're interested in learning about exploit writing, you might want to check this page : https://www.corelan.be/index.php/articles/ .
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by ekr 11y ago
Does this mean that it will no longer be possible to do things like return-oriented programming? LE: indeed, it's quite clear from the mentioned article ( http://dslab.epfl.ch/pubs/cpi.pdf ). So this provides great
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by ekr 11y ago
I'm still using a 2009 HP 6910p (Core 2 Duo T7300 CPU) bought used for 120E in 2012 or thereabouts. I use it for C (mostly, but also py, haskell etc) programming, Arch Linux + i3 WM, it has a great keyboard, everything works out of the
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by ekr 11y ago
Well, maybe it's about taste. But I personally can't stand these kind of books. Take this paragraph for example: > What's this? There are two types of Internet sockets? Yes. Well, no. I'm lying. There are more, but I
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by ekr 12y ago
So that's why Google created the Chrome browser.
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by ekr 12y ago
I've been (still am to a degree) in a very similar position. I also self-diagnosed myself with generalized anxiety. I've starting working at a job about a year ago, a job that theoretically would be very close to what I would be d
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by ekr 12y ago
Obviously, the market value of such a result is in the order of billions, if not trillions.
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by ekr 12y ago
At this point in time, the technology required for autonomously producing food has already been available for some time. At the moment, there are still a significant portion of the population employed in architecture, but by applying the te
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by ekr 12y ago
No, Microsoft has this Windows Research Kernel they offer to universities and other organizations under a certain strict agreement. This particular site probably has no idea of what access control, or directory access rights mean, so it&#x2
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by ekr 12y ago
Now, while legally, you are perfectly right, Windows is as close as ever, it's not actually that hard to look under the hood. I work as a Windows device driver developer, and sometimes I need to reverse engineer some of the internals,
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by ekr 12y ago
I seriously doubt that 'millions of dollars a month to run' price-tag. There are alternative, even superior open source software solutions. The only cost are the servers, but certainly, even with facebook's traffic, a well bu
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by ekr 12y ago
Same thing happened to me, despite living a few hours' drive away from this Nebra archaeological site.
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by ekr 12y ago
I don't understand programmers who say that Linux has so and so unsolvable problem. A certain program running on Linux has a problem on your particular hardware? You wanted a Unix environment, so surely you've investigated the mar
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by ekr 12y ago
This doesn't change the fact that the title is misleading.
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by ekr 12y ago
This is in no way an operating system. An operating system (by most definitions) is supposed to abstract the hardware, to provide things such as processes, a scheduler, a file system, a framework for device drivers.
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by ekr 12y ago
This would make a great subject for a book, along the lines of NAND2Tetris, starting at the transistor level or below.
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by ekr 12y ago
12 minutes by bike, 40 min by bus at rush hour (yeah that's a case of terribly inefficient public transportation, an tge reason why 99% of the time i cycle).

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